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New Author Podcast
by Jerry Evanoff
First time authors Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy take you through their writing, publishing and marketing strategies. You'll get to hear every success and every mistake along the way.
Episodes
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Eliminating “Just” From My Novel (And Other Banned Words) | Ep 372
Jerry’s deep in his final revision of book three — up to chapter 10 of 43, hunting down “band words” like just, actually, and glanced that sneak into his prose without him noticing, then running each chapter through a layered process of text-to-speech listening, AI grammar review, and ElevenLabs...
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I Let Claude Build My Website While I Watched TV | Ep 371
Big milestone episode: Jerry officially finishes the latest revision of book three at 61,718 words and 43 chapters, then dives straight into his final draft pass. He also hands Claude Code a five-file plan for his reader-engagement mystery puzzle website and literally just... watches it build the...
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Raccoons, a Blown-Out Knee, and a Table Saw Bought With Inheritance Money | Ep 370
Good news to open: last week's missing-chapter cliffhanger resolves itself, as Jerry's backup-hunting with Claude paid off and book three is back intact, now sitting at 57,381 words and over 70% through its second edit. He also gets real numbers back from his contractor on that long-gutted…
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We Found a Taser at the Library (And No One Will Claim It) | Ep 369
This one opens with a genuine cliffhanger: right before recording, Jerry discovers chapter one has vanished from his writing app, and spends the whole episode with Claude in another tab hunting through backup files to recover it (you'll have to listen to find out if it worked). From there, Jerry...
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Free Promo Results: 4,900 New Readers and What It Actually Means | Ep 368
Jerry hits a huge milestone this episode: the full second revision of book three is officially done, powered by an absurd ten-day stretch off work that also included two high school football games, a Top Golf outing in the rain, a casino stop that reminded him why he quit going, and roughly a…
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Free Book Giveaway Results: #1 in Multiple Categories with 4,600+ Downloads | Ep 367
Big marketing episode this week. Jerry runs a full free Kindle promo for book one and shares the play-by-play numbers as they happen: 187 downloads day one, then an explosive 2,500-plus after hitting FreeBooksy's massive email list, eventually landing him at #1 in Private Investigators, #1 in...
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A Dream Inspired My Next Murder Mystery (And It's a Little Soapy) | Ep 366
This episode has a little bit of everything. Jerry keeps grinding through the edit of book three, technically hitting his "chapter 11" goal by splitting oversized chapters into smaller ones (a trick he's fully owning at this point). But the real highlight is a genuinely fun creative tangent: a...
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Buffalo Wild Wings Trivia, Skechers Deals, and a Slow Writing Week | Ep 365
Both hosts admit up front this was a light writing week, and honestly, it makes for one of the more entertaining episodes. Jerry's stuck in his familiar Friday-Saturday-Sunday-writing, rest-of-the-week-nothing rut, though he does get real editing done on a tense "trapped on a mountain" chapter…
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How Do You Make an Amateur Sleuth Believable to the Police? We Debate It | Ep 364
This one starts with a genuinely useful craft conversation: Rich is stuck on how to make his amateur-sleuth protagonist believable when she's embedded with the police, and Jerry walks through how he solved the exact same problem across his own series — building real tension and a slow-earned…
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"Write Your Action Scenes in Reverse": The Best Writing Advice Jerry's Ever Gotten | Ep 363
Two weeks off means twice the stats and twice the news in this one. Jerry closes out the first draft of book three — 45,512 words, 29 chapters, finished just two days after his own deadline — right in the middle of switching jobs and getting his driveway redone. He also shares real numbers from…
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Kindle Daily Countdown Results: Page Reads, Facebook Ads, and What Actually Works | Ep 362
Episode 362 opens with Jerry literally making a fantasy football draft pick mid-recording (Houston Texans defense, sixteenth round, no regrets), a genuinely funny multi-minute detour about Rich's display name blending into his window blinds, and then gets into some real news: as of July 31st,...
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9,000 Words, a Power Outage, and a Trilogy Called "A Series of Fortunate Disasters" | Ep 361
Episode 361 kicks off with Rich recording under the alias Captain Beefheart for reasons nobody fully explains, a Steven Wright joke about the Grateful Dead, and Jerry teasing some mysterious "big news" he can't talk about yet (subscribe if you want to find out when he finally spills it). From…
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Writing a Bunch of Words, Buying/Renewing Domains and Letting AI Hire Magnum P.I.
This week, Jerry finally has the kind of update that makes a writer breathe like a human again: real progress. Book 3 is moving. He adds 13,970 words over the last two weeks, pushes the manuscript past 21,000 words, gets about a third of the way through the rewrite, and starts sounding like...
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Paul Simon, Plot Progress, and Rich’s Full-On Writing Doldrums | Ep 359
This week, Jerry actually has real writing progress to report, which is nice, because lately Book 3 has felt like one long hostage situation involving outlines, rewrites, and editor notes. He adds 5,643 new words to Networking Murder, pushes his yearly total to 15,240, gets the green light from...
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World Cup Reels, Writer Doubt, and a Whole Lot of Plotting | Ep 358
This week, Jerry and Rich start out where all serious writing podcasts should: with World Cup fans losing their minds in America, Buc-ee’s getting the kind of free advertising money can’t buy, and the growing realization that half the internet is now just Europeans discovering that the United...
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Summer Library Chaos, Full Rewrites, and Author Panic | Ep 357
This week, Jerry and Rich both show up looking like they’ve been dragged behind their own projects for a few miles. Rich is getting swarmed at the library now that school’s out and kids are pouring in for summer programs and free lunches, while Jerry is staring down the reality that Book 3 is no...
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Promo Stats, AI Agents, and a Microphone That Needed Viagra | Ep 356
This week, Jerry and Rich show up for what Jerry calls “real podcasting,” which means no editing, a sagging microphone, and two writers trying to sound calm while both of them are standing in the middle of some very specific chaos. Jerry opens with the results of his recent promo run for Book 1…
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Kindle Countdown Chaos and the Michigan Hawk Migration | Ep 355
This week, Jerry is knee-deep in promo-stack numbers, Facebook ad stats, Amazon rankings, and the slow, humbling reality that book marketing rarely arrives like a fireworks show. Book 1 is in a Kindle Countdown deal, the promo sites are rolling, the emails are out, and the results are... fine.…
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Plot Surgery, Promo Stacks, and a Very Productive Short Week
This week’s episode is a shorter one, which in New Author Podcast terms means Jerry only reorganized half a novel instead of the whole publishing industry. He talks about taking a knife to Book 3, cutting scenes, moving key beats around, redefining the midpoint and pinch points, and finally...
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Ep 353 | May the Fourth, Murder Mysteries, and an Encyclopedia Brown Midlife Crisis
This week, Jerry shows up in a Star Wars shirt on May the Fourth, Rich brings the energy of a man enjoying spring fever a little too much, and the episode turns into a mix of writing therapy, publishing strategy, and the sort of side quests that somehow become the whole job. Jerry recaps the...
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Episode 352 - A+ Content, AI Tools, and Other Ways Writers Make Life Harder
This week, Jerry kicks things off on NFL Draft night in full Browns gear, ready to podcast, watch the draft, and somehow still pretend he’s focused. Rich opens with a writer personality quiz that includes Middlemarch, fountain pens, complicated mothers, and being from Ohio “in a very sad way,”...
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Episode 351 - Action Beats, Deadlines, and Other Ways Writers Torture Themselves
This week, Jerry and Rich return under storm clouds, weak internet, and the comforting glow of Jerry trying to watch The A-Team while podcasting like the professional he absolutely claims to be. Rich opens with the joy of spending two hours on the phone with Bank of America while dealing with his...
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Episode 350 - Find a Girl Scout and Roll Her for her Cookies
In this episode, Jerry somehow turns one busy release week into six separate side quests. He finishes revisions on Book 2, gets the covers in, pushes the release back two weeks, works through the final pass on Book 1.5, discovers his big TV has died after only 18 months, survives a rough Columbus...
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Book Launch Prep Is Going Great, If You Ignore the Panic - Episode 349
This week, Jerry is deep in the author bunker, trying to finish approximately seventeen publishing tasks at the same time. Book 1.5 is nearly done, Book 2 is buried under editor notes, Book 3 needs a preorder, covers are still in motion, front matter and back matter still exist to ruin a…
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Writers Club, Treasure Hunts & the Revision Z Grind | Ep 347
This week on the New Author Podcast, Jerry and Rich kick things off with Midwest weather chaos, loud neighbors with louder trucks, and the annual tradition of dressing for four different seasons in a single week. From there, it’s back into the writing trenches. Jerry is deep into what he calls...
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From 867-5309 to Substack: Another Week in the Author Rabbit Hole | Ep 346
This week’s episode opens with a generational crisis when Rich fails to immediately recognize 867-5309. Jerry is deeply disappointed, though eventually forgiveness is granted after a brief cultural intervention involving Tommy Tutone. Once everyone recovers from that trauma, the conversation...
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Substack, BookFunnel & the API Problem We're Trying to Solve | Ep 345
This week on the New Author Podcast, Jerry and Rich attempt to solve the great modern writer dilemma: Substack vs. MailerLite vs. BookFunnel vs. reality. Jerry dives deep into whether Substack can integrate with BookFunnel, hunts for API roadmaps like a man searching for buried treasure, and...
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Two Hosts Again, One Deep in a Revision - Ep 344
Rich is back after time away handling family matters, and the show settles into that familiar rhythm: a little life, a lot of writing, and the kind of honest “here’s where I’m stuck” talk that makes the work move again. Jerry breaks down the biggest Book 2 overhaul he’s done so far—condensing...
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Episode 343 - New Author Podcast Quick Hit #2
It's another Quick Hit as Jerry is alone again (naturally?). He'll take us through his lack of writing followed by his excitement for writing. He'll complain about the weather and tease some things he wants to talk with Rich about.Jerry EvanoffWebsite: https://jerryevanoff.comEmail:...
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Episode 342 - A New Author Podcast Quick Hit
It's a shorter episode this week, just Jerry as he takes us through his week, his struggles with his book 2 edit and how he's trying to get through it. 📬 Contact Info Jerry EvanoffWebsite: https://jerryevanoff.comEmail: [email protected]Instagram: @JerryEvanoffAuthor Rich KacyEmail:...
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Outlines, Editors, AI Tools & Why We Love Schedules | Ep 341
Jerry and Rich return for Episode 341 of the New Author Podcast, kicking things off with internet gremlins, podcast intros no one listens to, and the universal dream of someday having too many ads. From there, it’s a deep dive into the messy middle of writing life: Jerry walks through rebuilding…
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Writing Goals, Editor Reality Checks & End-of-Year Chaos | Ep 340
It’s the final New Author Podcast episode of 2025, and Jerry and Rich close the year the only way writers know how: exhausted, opinionated, and surrounded by unfinished plans that somehow still count as progress. Jerry breaks down the reality of developmental edits—including why trying to make a...
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Episode 339: 2025 Writing Recap — Wins, Misses, and What Comes Next
In Episode 339 of the New Author Podcast, Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy wrap up the year with a candid 2025 writing recap—what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised them along the way. Jerry breaks down finishing his series, sending Book 2 off for a developmental edit, hitting (and missing)…
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Episode 338: Cold Medicine, Chicken Coops & 3,331 Words Before Lunch
This week, Jerry tries to podcast through a head cold while Rich wrestles a chicken-coop door, dislocates a knuckle, and still writes 3,331 words before most people finish breakfast. Naturally, that derails into a deep dive on Substack, reader newsletters, and whether either of them will ever...
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Editing, Bowling, QR Panic & A 17-Hour Drive From Hell | Ep 337
Jerry opens this one by botching the intro, confessing to eating Cocoa Pebbles for dinner, and then casually announcing he’s trying to enjoy January in Ohio while snow buries his driveway. So yeah, the bar is high. In this episode of The New Author Podcast, Jerry and Rich catch up after 16 days…
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Episode 336: Editing Panic, Climax Problems & One Very Creepy Window
Episode 336 is basically a masterclass in how two writers can have wildly different weeks. Jerry opens the show by spotting something… unsettling… in his Amish neighbor’s window (because of course he does), but quickly shifts into his ongoing battle with the Great Read-Aloud Edit. He missed his...
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Episode 335 – The Stage of Writing Where You Hate Your Book
Jerry has officially entered the “reading out loud to himself in a conference room” stage of editing Book 2—also known as the part where co-workers start to worry. He’s doing a final pass, adding words he swears he’s cutting, and preparing to hand it to his editor like a child presenting macaroni...
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Editing Push, Soft-Boiled Scandal, and QR-Code Swag | Ep 334
Jerry and Rich are back with another jam-packed week of writing talk, fantasy football updates, and a little DIY author branding gone mildly sideways. Jerry kicks things off with his latest fantasy football saga—three leagues, high stakes, and one borrowed draft strategy that’s paying off big.…
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Role Reversal, Halfway Through Edits, and a Plotting App That Clicks | Ep 333
Jerry rushes home for a rare role-reversal Monday and reports a big week: he blew past the halfway mark on Book 2’s edit (now at 24/41 chapters, ~82.3k words), fixed a gnarly continuity slip in Ch. 23, and pushed his custom Story Bible + Plotting app into a usable groove—complete with...
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Cutting 1,356 Words & Starting in the Action (Plus a DIY Writing App) | Ep 332
Jerry and Rich dig into craft and momentum this week. Jerry radically rewrites Chapter 1—cutting 1,356 words to “start in the action” at the will-reading—and shares how he’ll weave those cut beats back in through interviews with conflicting POVs. He also fixes a key scene using spatial sequence...
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Editing Momentum, Cross-Country Golf & A New “Secret” Writing App | Ep 331
In this episode, Jerry’s in a mood—but also on a roll. Book 2 drops 2,208 words to 83,310, he splits a long chapter (now 41 total), and powers through to Chapter 14 (~33%). Rich maps his Novel November thriller with the Snowflake Method (logline locked, 45 scene summaries drafted). They swap…
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Editing Wins, Chili Brags & AI Book Discovery | Ep 330
Jerry and Rich are back! Jerry kicks off a new month with a quick series status: drafts for Books 2–9 are in the can, novellas are mapped, and he’s deep in revisions on Book 1.5 while restarting edits on Book 2. He talks trimming chapters, reading aloud, and tightening prose with the Emotion...
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Writing Wins, Stream Deck Experiments & a Dumpster Dive | Ep 328
Jerry and Rich catch up on a busy writing week and the everyday chaos that comes with it. Jerry logs a huge word count, finishes the draft of his 1.5 short story, trims an overlong opening chapter, and even starts scheduling YouTube Shorts to grow the podcast’s audience. He also celebrates paying...
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Mystery Writing Tips & a Weird Al Night | Episode #327
Looking for mystery writing tips, indie author advice, or the inside scoop on turning a draft into a true whodunit? This week Jerry takes Book 1.5, his free short story, and rebuilds it from an Indiana-Jones-style chase into an Agatha Christie–like murder mystery that fits his Sam Norris series....
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Episode 326 - Breathing Cement
Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of writing and publishing and living their day-to-day lives while trying to do the whole unique journey thing mentioned above. Whether you're an aspiring author, a seasoned writer, or just love a...
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Episode 325 - Don't Expect Any Forward Momentum
In this episode, Jerry returns from Vegas, critiques a classic and writes a whole bunch of words. Rich does the opposite. Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of writing and publishing and living their day-to-day lives while trying…
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Episode 324 - Absolutely Buried in Cucumbers
Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of writing and publishing and living their day-to-day lives while trying to do the whole unique journey thing mentioned above. Whether you're an aspiring author, a seasoned writer, or just love a...
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Episode 323 - Cookies. They Are Now Gone
Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of writing and publishing and living their day-to-day lives while trying to do the whole unique journey thing mentioned above. Whether you're an aspiring author, a seasoned writer, or just love a...
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Episode 322 - Picking Up Heavy Things and Putting Them Back Down
Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of writing and publishing and living their day-to-day lives while trying to do the whole unique journey thing mentioned above. Whether you're an aspiring author, a seasoned writer, or just love a...
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Episode 321 - Jerry is not Very Well Read
In this episode, Jerry and Rich talk about where they are in their writing, but spend some time talking about books and book clubs and books they're reading and books they're not reading Join Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy, two authors in their unique journey through the ever-evolving world of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
First time authors Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy take you through their writing, publishing and marketing strategies. You'll get to hear every success and every mistake along the way.
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First time authors Jerry Evanoff and Rich Kacy take you through their writing, publishing and marketing strategies. You'll get to hear every success and every mistake along the way.
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