First Novel Blues: MFA Edition

So you finally sit down to write the book that’s been living in your bones—but the words won’t stay still. The story keeps shifting. The voice gets stuck. And don’t even get me started on the doubt. First Novel Blues is a podcast for every writer walking that long, aching road between inspiration and completion.Hosted by author Cynthia Jean Brown—Black Southern writer, spiritual seeker, and literary cartographer—this show is part creative process diary, part altar call. Each episode, I invite you