Episodes

  • [DD] Birthdays and Gail Carriger 2, Electric Boogaloo

    [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

    [DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger
    Jul 20 2023

    Streamed live, July 10, 2023
    Below are some affiliate links that support indie bookstores and may benefit me financially with no cost to you.

    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

    [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
  • [DD] Matt's Book Launch: Savage Crowns

    [DD] Matt's Book Launch: Savage Crowns
    Jun 20 2023

    Streamed live, June 13, 2023
    Below are some affiliate links that support indie bookstores and may benefit me financially with no cost to you.

    S9 Ep6
    It's our 1001st episode (not really) and Matt is here to launch the final book in the Savage Rebellion trilogy, and it's a very honest episode. Serious Ditch Digging here, y'all. He doesn't hold back. It's publishing, warts and all. Links to Savage Crowns and other books below!
    Full transcript available!

    Matt Wallace: I was like, what if I did 'the Wire' as an epic fantasy? That was my other thought when I started it. So my mother says there are strong women characters, there are, Thank you, mom. And I was raised, but I was raised by a strong woman who's definitely a character.

    Transcript
    (I wanted to do an annotated transcript like the other two podcasts, but frankly, the others are already taking up so much time I can't do three transcripts, annotate all three, record the podcasts, AND write books.)

    Links

    • 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 book links)

    June 13 2023 | Season 9 Ep 6 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • [DD] Premee Mohamed and our 1000th Episode (?)

    [DD] Premee Mohamed and our 1000th Episode (?)
    May 22 2023

    Matt and Mur welcome Premee Mohamed, multiple award winning author of No One Will Come Back for Us. We talk about chickens, sea cucumbers, conventions and anxiety, and there's a hair flip in there, but you can only see it if you get the video on Patreon.

    Links

    • Premee Mohamed
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    May 15, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 5 | murverse.com | Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • [DD] OG Ditch Digger Fonda Lee Is Back!

    [DD] OG Ditch Digger Fonda Lee Is Back!
    Apr 11 2023

    Streamed live, April 3, 2023

    S9 Ep4

    Matt and Mur welcome Fonda Lee, multiple award winning author of Untethered Sky. Fonda talks Patreon, starting something new after a very successful series, and more!

    Links

    • Fonda Lee
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    April 3, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 4 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • [DD] Debut Author Advice from Mary Robinette Kowal

    [DD] Debut Author Advice from Mary Robinette Kowal
    Mar 23 2023

    S9 Ep3

    Matt and Mur welcome Mary Robinette Kowal, podcaster, puppeteer, former SFWA president, audiobook narrator, and Hugo Award winning writer. Mary Robinette has had blog posts helping out debut authors, so we decided to pick her brain for a few more pieces of advice, from how to run a kaffeklatch to how to write something cute into your book that isn't insufferable.

    Links

    • Mary Robinette Kowal
    • Writing Excuses
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    March 13, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 3 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • [DD] AI Submissions with Valerie Valdes

    [DD] AI Submissions with Valerie Valdes
    Mar 7 2023

    Streamed live, February 27, 2022

    S.9 Ep.2
    I'm joined at the last minute by Valerie Valdes, my co-editor at Escape Pod! We talk about the whole AI thing and look to shed some light on the current kerfuffle.

    Links

    • Valerie Valdes
    • Fault Tolerance
    • Escape Pod
    • Matt's site
    • Mur on Focusmate!
    • Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
    • Newsletter, The Hot Mic
    • Support via Patreon!
    • Theme song by Devo Spice

    February 27, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 2 | murverse.com
    Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
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    1 hr and 2 mins