Andrew Najberg + The Working Publisher News Digest

About this episode

Chad Prevost interviews Andrew Najberg about his writing process and insights into the publishing industry.

This week, two things in one episode. I sit down with Andrew Najberg, novelist, poet, editor at Symposium Magazine, co-owner and co-editor-in-chief of Aethon Books: Wicked House, college teacher, husband, father, and my Chattanooga neighbor. Andrew has five novels out, including The Mobius Door , Golotok , The Neverborn Thief , and Eat the Light , which dropped last month from Wicked House. He has two poetry collections out, with Paradise Falls forthcoming. What I wanted from this conversation was to understand how Andrew actually does the work. Day to day. Hour to hour. We talk about: * The book Andrew is writing right now, a horror comedy about a cottage and a Bugaboo, with themes about AI and user-generated material running underneath * The day he scrapped 125 to 150 pages of The Mobius Door because the structure wasn’t working * The voice memos he records while driving his kids to school, then refines into prose in his office between teaching and editing * The daily wordcount rhythm that gets him 2,000 words a day while running a press publishing 40 titles a year * His reading recommendations for horror sci-fi * And his clear-eyed read of Amazon’s algorithm, including the…

People in this episode

Host: Chad Prevost

Guest: Andrew Najberg

Topics covered

• writing process
• publishing
• horror comedy
• AI in literature
• author insights
• book recommendations

Keywords

• Andrew Najberg
• writing process
• publishing
• horror comedy
• Amazon algorithm
• book recommendations
• Symposium Magazine
• Aethon Books

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Symposium Magazine, Aethon Books, Amazon

Books & works: The Mobius Door, Golotok, The Neverborn Thief, Eat the Light, Paradise Falls

Places: Chattanooga

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