All Episodes
New Author Podcast — 327 episodes
Plot Surgery, Promo Stacks, and a Very Productive Short Week
Ep 353 | May the Fourth, Murder Mysteries, and an Encyclopedia Brown Midlife Crisis
Episode 352 - A+ Content, AI Tools, and Other Ways Writers Make Life Harder
Episode 351 - Action Beats, Deadlines, and Other Ways Writers Torture Themselves
Episode 350 - Find a Girl Scout and Roll Her for her Cookies
Book Launch Prep Is Going Great, If You Ignore the Panic - Episode 349
Writers Club, Treasure Hunts & the Revision Z Grind | Ep 347
From 867-5309 to Substack: Another Week in the Author Rabbit Hole | Ep 346
Substack, BookFunnel & the API Problem We're Trying to Solve | Ep 345
Two Hosts Again, One Deep in a Revision - Ep 344
Episode 343 - New Author Podcast Quick Hit #2
Episode 342 - A New Author Podcast Quick Hit
Outlines, Editors, AI Tools & Why We Love Schedules | Ep 341
Writing Goals, Editor Reality Checks & End-of-Year Chaos | Ep 340
Episode 339: 2025 Writing Recap — Wins, Misses, and What Comes Next
Episode 338: Cold Medicine, Chicken Coops & 3,331 Words Before Lunch
Editing, Bowling, QR Panic & A 17-Hour Drive From Hell | Ep 337
Episode 336: Editing Panic, Climax Problems & One Very Creepy Window
Episode 335 – The Stage of Writing Where You Hate Your Book
Editing Push, Soft-Boiled Scandal, and QR-Code Swag | Ep 334
Role Reversal, Halfway Through Edits, and a Plotting App That Clicks | Ep 333
Cutting 1,356 Words & Starting in the Action (Plus a DIY Writing App) | Ep 332
Editing Momentum, Cross-Country Golf & A New “Secret” Writing App | Ep 331
Editing Wins, Chili Brags & AI Book Discovery | Ep 330
Writing Wins, Stream Deck Experiments & a Dumpster Dive | Ep 328
Mystery Writing Tips & a Weird Al Night | Episode #327
Episode 326 - Breathing Cement
Episode 325 - Don't Expect Any Forward Momentum
Episode 324 - Absolutely Buried in Cucumbers
Episode 323 - Cookies. They Are Now Gone
Episode 322 - Picking Up Heavy Things and Putting Them Back Down
Episode 321 - Jerry is not Very Well Read
Episode 320 - We Talk About Mysteries and Working out that Final Clue
Episode 319 - An Absolutely Massive Week of Writing
Episode 318 - Who Was it that Wrote Pride and Prejudice ?
Episode 317 - We Talk about NotebookLM
Episode #316 - Hold That Thought, I Have to go to the Bathroom
Episode #315 - Sometimes Doing Nothing Really is Doing Something!
Episode 314 - The Pie Episode Except There's No Pie
Episode 313 - Don't Lie to Me, It's Still Garbage!
Episode #312 - The Gnome, the Kerosene Cucumber and the Frat Boy Douchebag
Episode #311 - Except for the Occasional Booty Call...
Episode #310 - It's Always Strange When You're Married
New Author Podcast - Episode #309 - Building a Story Bible
New Author Podcast - Episode #308 - Writing in Short Bursts
Episode #307 - Should I Use an AI Model to Query my Series
Episode #306 - Buying People's Loyalties with Sugar
Episode #305 - It's Pretty Much Soft Core
Episode #304 - Plotting, Chatting with ChatGPT AI and Heaps of Chips Ahoy Cookies!
Episode #303 - The Word is....Nothingburger
Episode #302 - Little Demon Teenager Chickens
Episode #301 - We Have Back Problems
Episode #300 - Skibidi and Stan and Skeet and Rizz
Episode #299 - I Just Licked my Pop Filter
Episode #298 - Am I plotting? Am I pansing? I have no idea.
Episode #297 - 20% of the way to my yearly goal...after one month!
Episode #296 - Any Words at all Makes you feel Good
Episode #295 - Fancy Harris Tweed
Episode #294 - Weeding out the Bots
Episode #293 - 2025 Goals Preview
Episode #292 - 2024 Goals Review
New Author Podcast - Episode #291 - I Like to Push Teenagers Around
New Author Podcast - Episode #290 - It's Time To Think About That Spring Garden
Episode #289 - The One Where We Talk about Brandon Sanderson (and have technical difficulties)
Episode #288 - What's All That Black Stuff All Over Your Head?
Episode #287 - A Milkshake from Chick Fil-A
Episode #286 - Long Lazy Chapters
Episode #285 - The Word for Today is Irony
Episode #284 - I Just Didn't Feel Like It
Episode #283 - A Day of Piece
Episode #282 - A Little Bit of Extortion Going on
Episode #281 - All They Want is your Money
Episode #280 - I Have to be a Dummy for a While
Episode #279 - Rolling Around in the Mud
Episode #278 - We Are Writers. Seriously. We Are. I Promise We Are.
Episode #277 - I'm Better than Agatha Christie
Episode #276 - Fruity Pebbles, Shredded Wheat and Jeffrey Epstein
Episode #275 - We Went a Little Long
Episode #274 - I Did Some Writing Adjacent Things
Episode #273 - Murder Shouldn't be what holds you back
New Author Podcast #272 - The Red and Green Episode
Episode #271 - Binge Watching Hallmark Mysteries
Episode #270 - Livin' the Stevie Windwood Lifestyle
Episode #269 - What Exactly is an Eggplant?
Episode #268 - It was Just a Network Blip.
Episode #267 - Revealed Preference
Episode #266 - Adult Education
Episode #265 - One out of Three Ain't Bad
Episode #264 - Still Watchin' Northern Exposure
Episode #263 - Flying Solo
Episode #262 - Picking dice football over Agatha Chrisite???
Episode #261 - 4:50 from Paddington
Episode #260 - A Podcaster Murder Mystery
Episode #259 - That's a Lot of Potatoes
Episode #258 - I Was Practically a Bookie!
Episode #257 - Does Anyone Want a Craps Lesson?
Episode #256 - I Looked Like a Crime Scene
Episode #255 - Dancing with Myself
Episode #254 - Completing Goals. Well, kinda.
Episode #253 - It's Feptember Already?
Episode #252 - My Mother the Hologram...what's up with that?
Episode #251 - Use My February Paychecks for Gambling
Episode #250 - I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
Episode #249 - This Year's Word Is FINISH
Episode #248 - Flying Solo in the New Year
Episode #247 - Babble for a Bit
Episode #246 - Rich Has Made a Horrible Mistake
Episode #245 - Debone and Cook a Turkey
Episode #244 - Goes Slow and Takes Too Long
Episode #243 - Explosion of Airborne Leaves
Episode #242 - I Plan on Filling That Thing up with Turkeys
Baby Episode #6 - New Author Podcast
Episode #241 - Posted Nothing. Wrote Nothing. Just a Garbage Week Overall
Episode #240 - Agatha Christie-Like
Episode #239 (v2.0) - This Time With the Correct Audio
Episode #238 - Leaf Peeping
Episode #237 - In the Hopper
Episode #236 - It Wasn't a Football Day
Episode #235 - Four Fried Chickens
Episode #234 - Pipped at the Post
Episode #233 - I Swear I Saw Rod Serling
Episode #232 - It's a Short Week
Episode #231 - That's a Lot of Cornbread!
Baby Episode #5 - New Author Podcast
Episode #230 - The Bad Author Podcast
Episode #229 - The State of the Podcast
Episode 228.5
#228 – Strange Sense of Ennui
#227 – We Talk about the Amish
#226 – I Didn’t Want to Exercise
#225 – I Got Up Late as a Matter of Principal
#224 – Pour Some Sugar On Me
#223 – Getting Into Our First Revisions
New Author Podcast Short – Episode 4
#222 – I’m Only Pan-Fried Today
#221 – Were They Talking about El Niño?
New Author Podcast Short – Episode 3 (The ChatGPT Episode)
#220 – The Shiny Things Podcast
#219 – Total Goof-Off Mode
New Author Podcast Short – Episode 2
#218 – Closer to the Mountain
#217 – Let’s Talk about Compost
#216 – Spoiler Alert: That Didn’t Happen
#215 – Big Cable is Plotting Against Us!
#214 – Doom Scrolling
New Author Podcast Short – Episode 1
#213 – Covered in Sawdust
#212 – Happy Easter!
#211 – The Urban Subsistance Garden
#210 – We Have Sound Effects!
#209 – Cough Drops and Nap
#208 – The More You Kill
207 – I’m Still Alive So That’s Good.
206 – Han…..Solo
205 – The ChatGPT Episode
Short NAP vs. a Long NAP
203 – Somedays I Did a Lot and Somedays I Did Nothing.
202 – Long Dark Tee-Time of the Soul
#201 – Commenting on His Abs
#200 – Oh What a Tangled Necklace We (Un)Weave
#199 – Snap Your Asparagus
#198 – 2023 Preview
#197 – 2022 Recap
#196 – Your Heating Bill Must be Through the Roof!
#195 – TheRealRichKacySeriouslyAmHimPleaseBelieveMe
#194 – Chunkified!
#193 – I’m Afraid
#192 – Follow Me Follow You
#191 – 20Books Vegas Recap
#190 v2.0 – Uploading the Correct One This Time
#190 – The good news is…she broke her leg!
#189 – Who? Why? Why Now?
#188 – Fruity Pebbles Make Me Nauseous
#187 – All By Myself
#186 – I Still Don’t Get It
#185 – Broken Record, But Man, Martin Short Can Act!
#184 – We Would Pork Out in the Cafeteria
#183 – The Only Thing That Irks Me About Spreadsheets is
#182 – Maybe $4.95 is in play now
#181 – No More Coffee. No More Spicy Foods
#180 – Get Your Kicks on Route 66
#179 – We are Tired
#178 – If this podcast was only around writing, we’d be done by now!
#177 – There’s a Bit of a Lag
#176 – Extemperanous AF
#175 – Better Living Through Modern Chemistry
#174 – I’m All Alone
#173 – I’m a Classic Introvert
#172 – Got to be Something Better to do than Writing!
#171 – What Would I Notice?
#170 – I’m Gonna Sneeze!
#169 – Collapsing into a Food Coma
#168 – Anything on top is Lagniappe
#165 – It’s Like Friends, but Funny
#166 – Using a Developmental Editor
#165 – It’s a Quiet Week Here in Lake Wobegon
#164 – Your Book Is Trash
#163 – Your Week Exhausts Me
#162 – Happy Easter!
#161 – Flying Solo
Episode 160 – Why Does My Book Hate Me?
Episode 159 – How ya doing? Keep it moving
#158 – I’ve Got the Writing Software Blues
Episode 157 – A Case of Spring Fever
Episode 156 – Rich Kacy is Back For Another Round!
Episode 155 – Rich Kacy Joins Me!
Episode 154 – I’ve Made an Executive Decision
Episode 153 – How Do I Eat A Half a Pizza?
Episode 152 – I Still Hate Snow
Episode 151 – I Hate Snow
Episode 150 – A Stand Up Podcast!
New Author Podcast – Fiona Firth Joins Me!
Episode 148 – Let’s Get Back to the Real Jerry Now
Episode 147 – On the Seventh Day, I Podcasted
Episode 146 – I Forgot to Write Down a Title
Episode 145 – I Don’t Want to Say “Strap-on”
Episode 144 – Vegas Baby!
Episode 143 – I’m a Simple Person
Episode 142 – You’ve Really Got Some Wallflowers PTSD!
Episode 141 – 1 Podcaster. 46 minutes. 0 breaths taken.
Episode 140 – Alf and a Cassette Tape
Episode 139 – Is That My Sprite???
Episode 138 – The Great Derek Hough Debate of 2021
Episode 137 – Past Our Bedtime
Episode 136 – We are royalty!
Episode 135 – It’s Bihumpal
Episode 134 – The Golf Course Had a Giant Pimple!
Episode 133 – My Feet Really Hurt!
New Author Podcast – Episode 132
Episode 131 – The Leak Was Not Fixed!
Episode 130 – Is it a Nifty Gifty?
Episode 129 – I Hope It Doesn’t Affect My Christmas Present
New Author Podcast – Flying Solo
New Author Podcast – I Don’t Usually Watch Cartoons Without Children
New Author Podcast – I’ll give y’all a sheets update next week
New Author Podcast – Fat Guys in Shorts
New Author Podcast – I Have No Idea What’s Real and What’s Not
New Author Podcast – Woody Butts
New Author Podcast – Fershimmled: A Podcast Story
New Author Podcast – Spray Poo out of his Butt Hair
New Author Podcast – I’m so Particular About My Cereal
New Author Episode – I Put Ted in my Lap and I Turned Ted on
New Author Episode – You’re Really a Mess!
New Author Episode – Welcome To Tangent Town
New Author Podcast – Don’t Steal My Ted
New Author Podcast – Sisters Don’t Let Brothers Make Decisions in the Chick Fil-a Drive Through
New Author Podcast – There was a lot of Andy Griffith in there.
New Author Podcast – It was a Really Good Day but it Went WAY too Fast!
New Author Podcast – You’re Welcome Steve!
New Author Podcast 111 – That’s a lot of Chicken
Episode 110 – Amazon is Not Our Oof-Bag.
New Author Podcast – Everytime He Goes into the Portal to Hell, He Loses a Toe
New Author Podcast – Aunt Bea, Would you Just Call the Man!
New Author Podcast – #TooSexy
New Author Podcast – The Incredible Journey of Mark Watson
New Author Podcast – Voulez-Vous
New Author Podcast – Oreo-derv-e-a
New Author Podcast – Hell Oh
New Author Podcast – I’m Still Watching Different Strokes!
New Author Podcast – Only Read Books Written by Human Beings.
New Author Podcast – We Shot Off Confetti Cannons
New Author Podcast – We Call Him Destructor
New Author Podcast – Eight Days Until the Quiet Comes
New Author Podcast – Don’t Talk To Us!
New Author Podcast – My Biceps are Killing Me
New Author Podcast – You Totally Have a Runner’s Build
New Author Podcast – Episode 94
New Author Podcast – You Can’t Over Dry and You Can’t Over Die
New Author Podcast – Hi I’m Lindsay, It’s Nice To Meet You All
New Author Podcast – We Were Raised in the Same Home
New Author Podcast – I Had This Pig in my Bedroom for Like Six Days
New Author Podcast – Begging for Death
New Author Podcast – Interview with our mom!
New Author Podcast – I bet you’re curious when we do our laundry
New Author Podcast – As Always…
New Author Podcast – Happiness in Randomness
New Author Podcast – Most People Don’t Think He’s Human Anyway
New Author Podcast – I’m a General, Wheeeee!
New Author Podcast – You’re a Terrible Military Brother-in-Law
New Author Podcast – My Mac Has Never Done That
New Author Podcast – I Don’t Want to have Bacon in my Book
New Author Podcast – I’ve Really Been Jonesing for Anna’s Cookies
New Author Podcast – I Forbade Anna From Making More Cookies
New Author Podcast – We Haven’t Talked About the Office a lot. I’m Gonna Bring it up
New Author Podcast – I Couldn’t Figure Out Why There was a Woman in your House
New Author Podcast – I Don’t Want to Have to Stick Anything Anywhere
New Author Podcast – Anna’s Cookies!
New Author Podcast – Big Internet Is Listening
New Author Podcast – You Talk to Yourself When Nobody is Around
New Author Podcast – Maybe Just Take a Lawn Chair Into the Front Yard
New Author Podcast – There Was a Word in There I Reaaaalllllly Didn’t Want to Use
New Author Podcast – All I Can See is Forehead
New Author Podcast – Come and Watch These Naked People!
New Author Podcast – I NEED You To Move The Clock
New Author Podcast – Take Two!
New Author Podcast – An Abrupt Ending
New Author Podcast – A Lot Like I Wanted Last Week To Be
New Author Podcast – My Stephen King Epiphany
New Author Podcast – Crunchy People Are All Natural
New Author Podcast – We’re Lindsay-less this week (please I beg you, listen anyway!)
New Author Podcast – I Was Writing Garbage Again
New Author Podcast – Have You Ever Seen Dobie Gillis?
New Author Podcast – What Did the Chris Fox Say?
New Author Podcast – There are 12 Very Miserable, Angry People in the World
New Author Podcast – I think I’m Gonna Need Some Expert Advice…No Offense
New Author Podcast – I’m a Terrible Full Time Writer…
New Author Podcast – I’m Not a Mean Person But…
New Author Podcast – Your Birthday is in the Summer, I’m Busy.
New Author Podcast – Killer Ab Workout!
New Author Podcast – What Do Men Taste Like?
New Author Podcast – Glad That Whole October Mess is Over
New Author Podcast – I just write the books, I don’t edit them.
New Author Podcast – I fear nothing…except for failure
New Author Podcast – Alone again, Naturally…
New Author Podcast – Breakin’ Down That Fourth Wall
New Author Podcast – Lindsay’s favorite Lone Star song is “No News”
The New Author Podcast – My First Cover…wait…that’s not my name!
The New Author Podcast – The Testosterone Thesaurus
The New Author Podcast – A Slow Two Weeks
The New Author Podcast – The Most Important Podcast in the History of the World
The New Author Podcast – Their puzzles are outta whack.
The New Author Podcast – Who moved the f%$@ng furniture???
New Author Podcast – Aye, me matey
New Author Podcast – We don’t (ding) have much (ding) writing news (ding) this week.
New Author Podcast – Can Someone Please Kill that Gosh Darn Fly!
New Author Podcast – Milestones!
New Author Podcast – Lindsay is a dreamer too!