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New Author Podcast — 344 episodes · page 1 of 4
Eliminating “Just” From My Novel (And Other Banned Words) | Ep 372
I Let Claude Build My Website While I Watched TV | Ep 371
Raccoons, a Blown-Out Knee, and a Table Saw Bought With Inheritance Money | Ep 370
We Found a Taser at the Library (And No One Will Claim It) | Ep 369
Free Promo Results: 4,900 New Readers and What It Actually Means | Ep 368
Free Book Giveaway Results: #1 in Multiple Categories with 4,600+ Downloads | Ep 367
A Dream Inspired My Next Murder Mystery (And It's a Little Soapy) | Ep 366
Buffalo Wild Wings Trivia, Skechers Deals, and a Slow Writing Week | Ep 365
How Do You Make an Amateur Sleuth Believable to the Police? We Debate It | Ep 364
"Write Your Action Scenes in Reverse": The Best Writing Advice Jerry's Ever Gotten | Ep 363
Kindle Daily Countdown Results: Page Reads, Facebook Ads, and What Actually Works | Ep 362
9,000 Words, a Power Outage, and a Trilogy Called "A Series of Fortunate Disasters" | Ep 361
Writing a Bunch of Words, Buying/Renewing Domains and Letting AI Hire Magnum P.I.
Paul Simon, Plot Progress, and Rich’s Full-On Writing Doldrums | Ep 359
World Cup Reels, Writer Doubt, and a Whole Lot of Plotting | Ep 358
Summer Library Chaos, Full Rewrites, and Author Panic | Ep 357
Promo Stats, AI Agents, and a Microphone That Needed Viagra | Ep 356
Kindle Countdown Chaos and the Michigan Hawk Migration | Ep 355
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