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.
New Author Podcast
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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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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2026
Writing a Bunch of Words, Buying/Renewing Domains and Letting AI Hire Magnum P.I.
<p>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 somebody who can actually see the road instead of just the potholes. Which is nice, because for a while there this book sounded like it was trying to kill him in the woods and hide the body under developmental edits. </p><p>A big chunk of the episode is Jerry walking through what that progress actually looked like. He talks about writing Chapters 8 through 11, building out the mountain-top data center setting, working through the locked-room mystery mechanics, and trying to hit his July 31 first-draft target. There’s also some fun process talk about his custom writing app, which he keeps improving while actively using it, because apparently rewriting a novel was not enough of a side quest on its own. </p><p>Then there’s the AI stuff, which is honestly some of the funniest material in the episode. Jerry explains how Claude is now spinning up little helper agents for coding tasks, and instead of giving them boring technical names, he has it naming them after 80s TV characters. So now Higgins, Magnum P.I., Sonny Crockett, and MacGyver are apparently doing software support inside his writing workflow, which feels both deeply ridiculous and weirdly perfect. </p><p>Rich has a quieter update, but not an empty one. He’s still fighting brutal heat, library understaffing, and the general life problem of never quite getting left alone long enough to write. But he does finally start again, putting some words down longhand on Thirteen Days of Madness, a Scotland-set project he describes as a more comedic cousin to Lost in Translation. So while Jerry is sprinting, Rich is at least back on the track, which counts. </p><p>There’s also a lot of classic New Author Podcast life clutter in here: golf, library millage drama, Dairy Queen writing sessions, an ice cream cake victory lap, book club talk, Facebook ads for the next Kindle Countdown, driveway replacement plans, garden suffering, and the eternal mystery of what Substack is actually supposed to do for authors. In other words, a very normal week for two guys who are absolutely not making any of this look calm. </p><p><strong>Contact Us</strong><br /><strong>Jerry Evanoff</strong><br />Email: <a rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jerry@jerryevanoff.com</a><br />Website: <a href="https://jerryevanoff.com%E2%81%A0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://jerryevanoff.com</a><br /><a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://jerryevanoffauthor.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Rich Kacy</strong><br />Email: <a rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rich@richkacy.com</a><br />BlueSky: @RichKacy<br /><a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://richkacy.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Tags</strong><br />writing podcast<br />self-publishing<br />indie author<br />mystery writing<br />book rewriting<br />writing process<br />AI for writers<br />Claude AI<br />writing app<br />Kindle Countdown<br />Facebook ads<br />Substack<br />golf<br />author life<br />The New Author Podcast</p>
June 26, 2026
Paul Simon, Plot Progress, and Rich’s Full-On Writing Doldrums | Ep 359
<p>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 Super Editor Cee, and starts moving through the early chapters for real. So yes, the rewrite is still a monster, but at least now it is a monster with momentum. </p><p>A lot of the episode lives in that weird middle space writers know too well, where progress is happening, but none of it feels clean. Jerry talks about drafting Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, figuring out how to open the story, balancing plotting with actual words on the page, and using his custom writing app to keep everything moving. He also gets into how AI tools inside VS Code are helping him improve the app on the fly, which is either a brilliant productivity move or the kind of side quest that programmers tell themselves is productivity. Probably both. </p><p>Rich, meanwhile, is stuck in the creative mud. He talks about being in the doldrums, not writing, not editing, cleaning fountain pens, getting notebooks ready, and basically circling the runway while waiting for his brain to commit to takeoff. He has some new story ideas, and it sounds like he is close to jumping into something just to get moving again, but right now he is still in that familiar writer state where the work has not stopped existing, it has simply wandered into the fog and refused to answer questions. </p><p>There is also plenty of regular-life chaos in this one. Jerry is running on fumes after a Paul Simon concert, a barking dog, almost no sleep, and three straight days of golf. He talks through the concert in a way that feels exactly right for an 84-year-old legend: a strange first set, a stronger second half, a fantastic encore, and the kind of traffic leaving the venue that makes you question every decision that brought you there. Rich has the opposite problem at the library, where the heat, the crowds, and a brutal solo day at the desk leave him feeling like he got worked over behind a woodshed. </p><p>They also get into NFL nostalgia, World Cup fan clips, Substack confusion, vacation-property temptation in Myrtle Beach, and the ongoing truth that writer life never stays politely inside the writing lane. This episode feels like one of those honest midseason check-ins where nobody is pretending they have cracked the code, but both guys are still showing up, still thinking, and still trying to build something worth finishing. </p><p><strong>Contact Us</strong><br><strong>Jerry Evanoff</strong><br>Email: <a href="" rel="noopener">jerry@jerryevanoff.com</a><br>Website: <a href="https://jerryevanoff.com%E2%81%A0" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://jerryevanoff.com</a><br><a href="" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://jerryevanoffauthor.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Rich Kacy</strong><br>Email: <a href="" rel="noopener">rich@richkacy.com</a><br>BlueSky: @RichKacy<br><a href="" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://richkacy.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Tags</strong><br>writing podcast<br>self-publishing<br>indie author<br>mystery writing<br>book rewriting<br>writing process<br>AI for writers<br>VS Code<br>author life<br>Paul Simon<br>golf<br>Substack<br>football nostalgia<br>The New Author Podcast</p>
June 19, 2026
World Cup Reels, Writer Doubt, and a Whole Lot of Plotting | Ep 358
<p>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 States is not, in fact, one long action-movie chase scene. So yes, before we get to books, there is a lot of joy, chaos, and international confusion. </p><p>On the writing front, Jerry finally has some real progress to report. After what felt like endless plotting purgatory, he adds 1,744 new words to Book 3, Networking Murder, bringing his yearly total to 10,435. He talks about skipping Chapter 1 for the moment, writing Chapter 2 instead, and slowly getting this full rewrite to feel like an actual book instead of a giant outline glaring at him from across the room. There is still a mountain left to climb, but for the first time in a while, it sounds like forward motion instead of controlled panic. </p><p>A big part of the episode is Jerry walking through the weird middle ground of rewriting Book 3 almost from scratch while also building tools to help himself do it faster. He talks about using AI inside VS Code to improve his writing app in real time, adding plotting features, fixing bugs, and generally trying to make the software match the mess in his head. So if you enjoy hearing an author say, “I’m under deadline, rewriting a novel, and naturally I decided this was also the time to improve my custom writing software,” this one is very on brand. </p><p>Rich brings a very different kind of writing update, and honestly it is one of the more interesting conversations in the episode. He talks about hitting a wall with The Dark We Hide after a conversation with an old girlfriend who asked the most dangerous writer question possible: “Why are you writing this story?” That sends him into a spiral about theme, purpose, AI, literary fiction, and whether he is even working on the right kind of book. Throw in a papal document about artificial intelligence, and suddenly this episode becomes part writing update, part existential ambush. </p><p>There is also plenty of regular-life chaos mixed in: Jerry dealing with dizziness, birthday celebrations, a golf schedule that finally looks normal again, a mystery plant gift called a red hot poker, football replay therapy for old Browns trauma, and Rich battling garden thieves that may or may not be possums eating his cantaloupes. In other words, the usual calm, dignified routine of two writers staying completely focused on their craft. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Contact Us</strong><br><strong>Jerry Evanoff</strong><br>Email: <a href="" rel="noopener">jerry@jerryevanoff.com</a><br>Website: <a href="https://jerryevanoff.com%E2%81%A0" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://jerryevanoff.com</a><br><a href="" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://jerryevanoffauthor.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Rich Kacy</strong><br>Email: <a href="" rel="noopener">rich@richkacy.com</a><br>BlueSky: @RichKacy<br><a href="" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://richkacy.substack.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Tags</strong><br>writing podcast<br>self-publishing<br>indie author<br>mystery writing<br>book rewriting<br>AI for writers<br>VS Code<br>writing app<br>literary fiction<br>World Cup fans<br>author life<br>golf<br>story structure<br>The New Author Podcast</p>
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