Jennie Nash, BLUEPRINT FOR A BOOK: Build Your Novel from the Inside Out
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Book coach and founder of Author Accelerator Jennie Nash joins Zibby to discuss her latest book, Blueprint for a Book: Build Your Novel from the Inside Out, which offers writers a number of tools for literary success. The two talk about the advice Jennie offered Zibby for her own memoir, how Jennie is using her company to empower those who have been marginalized by the publishing industry, and what many writers get wrong when they try to write a book. Jennie also shares how she went from being a writer to a teacher to a coach, and why this position is the most fulfilling of the three.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:31.3 | books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. |
| 0:38.5 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.9 | Jenny Nash is the author of Blueprint for a book. Build your novel from the inside out. |
| 0:46.0 | Jenny is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to lead the |
| 0:50.2 | emerging book coaching industry. |
| 0:52.1 | Author Accelerator has trained 100 book coaches in both fiction and nonfiction through their |
| 0:56.8 | book coach certification program. |
| 0:58.9 | Jenny's own book coaching clients have landed top New York agents and six-figure book deals |
| 1:02.9 | and earned spots on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. |
| 1:07.0 | Jenny is the author of 10 books in three genres. |
| 1:09.7 | The most recent is Blueprint for a Book. |
| 1:11.7 | Build Your Novel from the Inside Out. Welcome, Jenny. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss Blueprint for a Book. Build Your novel from the Inside Out. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I was just saying before we started, this is such a full circle moment for me because you helped me when I was trying to write a book, which is now being published in one form or another as bookends, but then it was in a completely different iteration or pretty different. |
| 1:36.7 | And I remember so much, I think about these questions that you have in here as part of the 14 questions, particularly what would you put on the jacket flap? |
| 1:44.3 | Because I remember at the time, you asked me to write the jacket flap for one novel or something |
| 1:49.7 | that I was working on. And I was like, oh, I wouldn't want to read that book. So I was like, |
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