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Brad Listi
March 04, 2025

Hi there,

Welcome to DeepDive’s official newsletter!

Our first course, How to Write a Novel, is now in post-production and will be available later this year. We can’t wait to share it with you.

The course will feature more than 50 hours of never-before-heard conversations with dozens of today’s leading writers — plus dozens of hours of bonus content.

If you’re serious about writing and publishing your work, this course is made for you.

Writing a novel is a notoriously difficult process—nuanced and demanding, labor-intensive and deeply personal.

There isn’t one way to do it. There are only infinite ways.

And it takes time.

Every writer who succeeds in the endeavor does so by building her own process and forging her own individual path.

But individual paths are always built from the paths of others.

However solitary the writing process may be, the truth is that nobody does it alone.

Books are made from other books. Writers are made from other writers.

Nobody can write your novel for you, but the right teachers can help you get there more quickly, and in better form.

How to Write a Novel will deliver extraordinary access to an all-star line-up of contemporary authors, including:

  • Emily St. John Mandel

  • Melissa Broder

  • V.V. Ganeshananthan

  • Stephen Graham Jones

  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras

  • Steve Almond

  • Matt Bell

  • Tiffany Clarke Harrison

  • Kimberly King Parsons

  • Matthew Salesses

  • Madelaine Lucas

  • Antoine Wilson

  • Porochista Khakpour

…just to name a few.

Our mission at DeepDive is to help you learn and to deliver an educational experience commensurate to the task at hand.

DeepDive courses combine the rigor of academia with the vitality and entertainment value of a great podcast—because learning should never be boring.

If you have thoughts on How to Write a Novel—topics you’d like us to cover, questions you want answered—we’d love to hear from you. Please send us an email here.

And don’t forget to follow DeepDive on Instagram and BlueSky.

Thanks so much for reading, and more soon!

All the best,
Brad

Brad Listi
Founder | DeepDive
www.deepdive.audio

Quote of the day:

Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate—with the best teachers—the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accompany us everywhere. Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. 

—Carl Sagan