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The 7am Novelist

Michelle Hoover

Join award-winning novelist and writing coach Michelle Hoover and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge. 7amnovelist.substack.com

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37:58

Nicole Graev Lipson: Dealing with Her Literary Forebears

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/11/04

Today, I’m talking to author Nicole Graev Lipson about where fiction ends and truth begins and how she searched for answers about being a mother among her literary forebears, without being too heavy-handed with her allusions or assuming too much from the reader.Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. —Simone WeilWatch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast

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50:52

Roundtable: World Building for Other Worlds

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/10/28

Today we have another of our roundtables and we’re focusing on one of the hardest things for an author to get right: world building. Because this issue is so complex, I’m doing two world building roundtables, one for writers working on historical fiction and today for writers who are trying to establish place in a location that the reader might not know about, either in the real world or in the speculative one. In this case, how complicated does that speculative world need to be to be truly

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40:18

Lisa Borders: Voice, Likability, and the Onerous...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/10/21

Today, we’ve got a very special guest, the person I cofounded the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program with and who is a beloved teacher and writer in the Boston area, Lisa Borders. Lisa’s latest novel, Last Night at the Disco, was released on October 7. We’re talking about using an unreliable narrator, character liability, and how our dear late agent, Esmond Harmsworth, helped her with the novel’s structure. You can catch Lisa at Brooklyn’s Lofty Pigeon Books with Patricia Park tonight, October 21st,

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28:54

Whitney Scharer & Sonya Larson on TBR: There's a New...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/10/14

Today, I’m talking to writers Whitney Scharer and Sonya Larson about an exciting new writing conference they’re starting up in the Boston area, the TBR conference which will be held this coming January 17th.For more info about the conference and to register, click here.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you can support my

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28:45

Lauren Aliza Green: When Rewriting Beats Revision

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/10/07

Today, we’ve got the wonderful Lauren Aliza Green, author of The World AfterAlice, and she’ll be talking to us about practicing rewriting over revision and how to do it while the world seems to be falling apart. Lauren will also be talking about how she continues her writing community even after a big move abroad.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for

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52:45

ROUNDTABLE: WORLD BUILDING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/09/30

Today we have another of our roundtables and we’re focusing on one of the hardest things for an author to get right: world building. Because this issue is complex, I’m going to hold two world building roundtables, one for writers trying to establish place in either a speculative work or a work that takes place in a non-U.S. location, and this one today about world building for historical fiction. What is world building? How do you it without boring the reader to death or brazenly showing all of your

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34:41

Josh Cook of Porter Square Books: Keeping the...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/09/23

Today, I’m talking to author and book-seller Josh Cook about book bans, the beloved community space of bookstores, and what he thinks authors should know about book selling.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you can support my work with with a small donation here.To find Cook’s latest book as well as many other books by our

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27:15

Jyoti Chand: A Graphic Novelist Bounces Between...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/09/16

Today, we’re talking to the wonderful Jyoti Chand who will be discussing the inspiration behind her YA graphic novel, Fitting Indian, why the story needed to be told, and how she built a vibrant online community where she is known as Mamajotes through authenticity and vulnerability.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you can

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31:59

Zee Carlstrom: The Business of Brainstorming

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/09/09

Today, I’m lucky to get a chance to talk to Zee Carlstrom about their debut: Make Sure You Die Screaming. Zee practices a special kind of brainstorming for their projects, bringing together disparate styles, genres, ideas in a way they learned from the advertising world in order to make something fresh and new and avoid the regurgitating effects of AI on all of our creative pursuits.Interested in the PageBreak reading retreats Carlstrom talks about? Click here.Watch a recording here. This

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50:21

Roundtable: Inviting the Reader Into Your Story

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/09/02

In our roundtable today, we’re focusing on the question: How does your book invite a reader’s interest, both intellectually and emotionally? What might that look like? What methods might an author use? And we’ve got four incredible writers joining us for the discussion: Nancy Crochiere, Janet Rich Edwards, Christine Murphy, and Hesse Phillips.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for only a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast

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26:08

Beth Castrodale: 'Without Empathy, Horror Fails'

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/08/26

Today, I enjoy talking to Beth Castrodale about her latest: The Inhabitants, an award-winning novel that brings new twists to one of my favorite sub-genre settings—a haunted house. And we discuss her efforts to bring Small Press Books and their authors more attention through her longtime project, the review website known as Small Press Picks. Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast

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30:25

Libby Buck: 'Joining Together in Awe' Or: How Art...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/08/19

Today, I’m talking to author and art historian Libby Buck, whose first novel Port Anna, was released in July from Simon & Schuster. Libby is going to tell us how her art historian background helped her write her novel… and how it might help you. We’re also going to talk about the importance of museums as a vital source of community building and how they allow us to join together “in awe.”Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast

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29:20

Matt Trinetti: Co-Founder of the London Writers Salon

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/08/12

Today, we’ve got an incredible community organizer joining us, the co-founder of the London Writers' Salon, Matt Trinetti, and he’s going to tell us all about it.Want more from LWS, check out Writers' Hour Magazine.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you can support my work with with a small donation here.To find my favorite

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49:34

Roundtable: Reverse Outline? What Is It and Why Do It?

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/08/05

Today we have the first of our roundtables and we’re focusing on the mysterious (or not so mysterious) REVERSE OUTLINE. What is it? Why might you want to do it (or not?) And what methods are the most helpful. And we’ve got four incredible writers joining us to round out our discussion: Desmond Hall, Christine Murphy, Patricia Park, and Hesse PhillipsWatch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for only a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite

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32:42

Karen Dukess: The Importance of Writing Groups,...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/29

Today, I’m talking to Karen Dukess fresh off of hearing that her latest novel, Welcome to Murder Week, has hit the USA Today bestseller list. We discuss how writing groups and writing retreats, including DIY ones, got her there and why the best advice is sometimes: “Just Keep Going.” Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you

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34:54

Nova Ren Suma: Breaking Expectations to Recover Her...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/22

Today, I’m talking to Nova Ren Suma who found herself at a crossroads in her career and her long-chosen genre while working on her latest book Wake the Wild Creatures. Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for only a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.I don’t charge for subscriptions, but if you’d like, you can support my work with with a small donation here.To find Suma’s latest book as well as many other books by

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36:28

Stephanie Elizondo Griest: An Art Monk Finds Her People

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/15

Today, I’m happy to be talking to Stephanie Elizondo Griest about her search for community in the process of writing her latest book: Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. It was released on June 10. It’s a book that sees art as inheritance, dissent, devotion, revenge, celebration, and more. In the end, it asks: Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires?Watch a recording here

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48:54

Roundtable: Going Beyond the Usual Character Development

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/08

Today we’re focusing on the idea of trying to get beyond the usual character development tricks in our writing. What does it really take to get a flesh and blood character who captures our imaginative on the page? And we’ve got four incredible writers joining us for the discussion: Allison Amend, Rachel Barenbaum, Julie Carrick Dalton, and Andrea Meyer.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for only a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your

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49:54

Alison Langley: History Repeats Itself

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/07

Today, we’re talking to Alison Langley whose debut novel, Ilona Gets a Phone, has at last been released in the U.S. Alison and I discuss the methods she used to convey Hungarian history without leaving her characters behind and how that history rings a warning bell for today.Catch Alison and me at the Parkside Bookstore this Wednesday, July 9. Watch a recording of our interview here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your

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37:31

Christine Pride: An Editor's First Solo Effort as a...

The 7am Novelist ·

2025/07/01

Today, I talk to esteemed editor and writer Christine Pride about her experience co-writing with novelist Jo Piazza, going it alone with two tricky timelines, and opening her home to women in need. Her latest book is All the Men I’ve Loved Again.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for only a few weeks. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.Note: If you’ve subscribed to this newsletter hoping to join our July writing challenge,

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