From 867-5309 to Substack: Another Week in the Author Rabbit Hole | Ep 346
From New Author Podcast by Jerry Evanoff
March 5, 2026 · 1h 2m · Season 1 · Episode 346
About this episode
The episode discusses writing progress, publishing logistics, and author marketing technology, featuring a cultural reference to 867-5309 and insights on Substack.
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 settles into the usual mix of writing progress, publishing logistics, and the never-ending list of things authors definitely plan to do soon. Jerry shares progress on the latest revision draft of his mystery novel, where chapters continue to shrink, grow, and occasionally get thrown out entirely depending on how cooperative the story decides to be that day. Word counts are tracked, editing passes get renamed with increasingly mysterious letters of the alphabet, and the looming April release date quietly watches from the corner. Meanwhile, Rich works through revisions on his own project, cutting words from early chapters, rewriting sections that refuse to behave, and slowly reshaping the story into something tighter than the original draft. The discussion then wanders into the author-marketing technology maze , including: Whether Substack should be treated as a newsletter platform or simply a…
People in this episode
Host: Jerry Evanoff
Topics covered
- writing progress
- publishing logistics
- author marketing
- Substack
- editing process
- revision techniques
Keywords
- writing
- publishing
- Substack
- editing
- revision
- author marketing
- mystery novel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Substack, BookFunnel
Books & works: 867-5309, mystery novel
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