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#AmWriting

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  • Entertaining, actionable advice on craft, productivity and creativity for writers and journalists in all genres, with hosts Jessica Lahey, KJ Dell'Antonia and Sarina Bowen.

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  • Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh

    Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh
    May 9 2025
    Joan Fernandez is a former senior marketing executive and general partner of the financial powerhouse Edward Jones. In 2018, she retired from a 30+ year career to be a full-time writer. Since leaving the corporate world, she’s become a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Author’s Guild, and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA). In April 2020, she founded a Historical Fiction affinity group within WFWA that grew from a handful of people to nearly two hundred authors. Her debut novel, Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo van Gogh, has just come out — and I had the great privilege of coaching Joan at two points in her long process of writing this book so I had a front row seat to the deep work she did to bring this story to life. Writing about a real person has some particular challenges, and we get into that here.I’m so excited to share our conversation today.Links from the Pod:Historical Novel Societythe Authors GuildWomen’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA)Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie WareFind Joan at www.joanfernandezauthor.com, or on IG at @joanfernandezauthorWriters and readers! KJ, here. If you love #AmWriting—and I know you do—and especially if you love the regular segment at the end of most episodes where we talk about what we've been reading, you will also love my weekly #AmReading— find it at kjdellantonia.com or kjda.substack.com or by clicking on my name on Substack, if you do that kind of thing. Your #tbr won’t be sorry but also: DID YOU KNOW SARINA BOWEN’s LATEST BOOK IS OUT NEXT WEEK? That means if you preorder NOW—next week you gets to do a happy dance! Rowan Gallagher is a devoted single mother and a talented architect with a high-profile commission restoring an historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, she’s a mess. She knows that stalking her ex’s avatar all over Portland on her phone isn’t the healthiest way to heal from their breakup. But she’s out of ice cream and she’s sick of romcoms. Watching his every move is both fascinating and infuriating. He’s dining out while she’s wallowing on the couch. The last straw comes when he parks in their favorite spot on the waterfront. In a weak moment, she leashes the dog and sets off to see who else is in his car. Instead of catching her ex in a kiss, Rowan becomes the first witness to his murder—and the primary suspect.Digital books at: Amazon | Nook | Apple Books | Kobo | Google Play | Audible Physical books at: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indigo | More paperback links here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Reading a Book Contract

    Reading a Book Contract
    May 2 2025

    Jess here with Sarina Bowen to help simplify and demystify author contracts. Let’s start off with a wonderful resource called The Authors Guild. They have sample contracts on their website

    The Authors Guild Sample Contract

    Sarina made a lovely outline to prepare for the episode (because of course she did) so I’m dropping that here.

    * You’re not “selling” your book. You’re licensing it.

    * Grant of rights

    * Term length

    * Which territories

    * Which formats

    * Territories

    * North American

    * World English

    * World

    * Formats and sub rights

    * Print and digital and audio

    * Sub rights like “first serial”

    * Translation MAYBE

    * Time limits

    * X years

    * The life of the copyright

    * Financial remuneration: advances and royalty rates. WHEN is it paid? What percentages?

    * Advance and payment schedule

    * On signing

    * On acceptance of the work (after an edit)

    * On publication

    * A year after publication

    * Manuscript delivery and acceptance. What happens if people are unhappy.

    * Other clauses

    * Copyright stipulation

    * The Option Clause

    * The Next Published Work Clause

    * Cover approval vs consideration or collaboration

    * Narrator approval vs consideration

    * Indemnification

    * What are reserves against returns?

    * Reversion terms: bankruptcy, failure to publish, failure to pay, and out of print

    * Red flags:

    * Film rights, even if they say “non exclusive”

    * Derivative works

    * Lack of reversion language



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  • Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris

    Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris
    Apr 25 2025

    When a former NYT journo who now writes novels (that would be me, hi) gets together with a current NYT journo now writing novels, they—we!—cannot stop talking about the challenges, advantages, schedules, pros and cons of book leave and what it is about fiction that lights some journalists up, and turns some off. It’s the good, the bad and the overcome-able, and a class in how people who know they can get the work done also flail, and yet still get the work done.

    Mentioned on the pod:

    Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

    Twice in a Full Moon, Christina Lauren

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    Liz: Naked in the Promised Land, Lillian Faderman

    KJ: Didion and Babitz, Lili Anolik

    Follow Liz on Instagram: @lizzyaharris



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