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Ditch Diggers

Written by: Mur Lafferty
  • Summary

  • Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don't get doctor block and ditch diggers don't get ditch digger block, and working writers can't get writer's block. Business and humor.
    Copyright 2023 Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Episodes
  • [DD] Birthdays and Gail Carriger 2, Electric Boogaloo
    Sep 5 2023

    This was recorded back in July, but time and things and travel got away with me. 

    Actually what happened was the fact that I can't spread podcast production across more than one day. If I do, I will forget it needs to be finished. It's not great spending 4+ hours to produce and upload 2 shows, but if I don't, one will fall by the wayside. ADHD brain for the win. 

    We will be back in september, hopefully with lots of amazing ditch digging. 

    August 10, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 9 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • [DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger
    Jul 20 2023

    Streamed live, July 10, 2023
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    S9 Ep8
    Horny chaotic god energy is what we're all about in today's Ditch Diggers, "Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger" where Gail joins us to talk about sifting through data in self publishing. It is some heady stuff, and we discuss tying your self worth to "bad" data and more!

    Gail Carriger: 30:30 (ish): My sense of failure will kick in when a reader says I love Gail Carriger. And I didn't know she had a new book out, that's when I feel like I failed at my job. I am an author, that's the one job I had is to make sure that people who liked me can read my new books, right? That's it.

    Transcript

    • Let's Get Weedy
    • Twitter doesn't kiss well
    • When you have a new book out, your main job is to make sure your existing fans know.
    • We <3 librarians!

    Links

    • Gail's blog
    • Gail's books
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon! Or Substack!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    (check here for all mentioned books)

    July 20, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 8 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    59 mins
  • [DD] Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions
    Jun 26 2023

    S9 Ep7

    Recorded live on Twitch!

    Mur's agent Seth Fishman joins us to take your questions, and we fill up an hour FAST. Full transcript available!

    Seth Fishman: ...the industry is right now, where editors are just, they just have, they're just too busy. There's just not enough people working in publishing. So it's harder for agents to do to sell books is really what we're saying. There's a number of times that were like, were you passing because of this, you don't want to put that like, work into it or whatever. But you know, what the people pass for all sorts of reasons, we get the books into pretty great shape, before we send them out. And I mean, we try to, and if an editor is passing, for those reasons, they're what they're really probably saying is more along the lines of developing of an author versus, like editing an author.

    Transcript Links

    • Seth's books
    • Seth's agency, The Gernert Company
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    (check here for all mentioned books)

    June 21, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 7 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    53 mins

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