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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Jessica Keener on Night Swim
Description: Jessica Keener discusses the first pages of her debut novel, Night Swim, recently re-released in a new 10th anniversary edition. We talk about how she straddled the genre line of an adult novel with a young protagonist, the way her frame story helped her understand what the book was all about, and her journey to find her own publisher instead of accepting unwanted changes—only to make the book a bestseller in the end.Keener’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Cl...