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The new home for Mur Lafferty's work

  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    [DD] Birthdays and Gail Carriger 2, Electric Boogaloo

    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
    5 September 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 59 minutes 23 seconds
    [DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

    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

    (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
    20 July 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 53 minutes 1 second
    [DD] Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions

    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

    (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
    26 June 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    [DD] Matt's Book Launch: Savage Crowns

    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

    (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
    20 June 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    [DD] Premee Mohamed and our 1000th Episode (?)

    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

    May 15, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 5 | murverse.com | Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    22 May 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    [DD] OG Ditch Digger Fonda Lee Is Back!

    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

    April 3, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 4 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    11 April 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    [DD] Debut Author Advice from Mary Robinette Kowal

    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

    March 13, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 3 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    23 March 2023, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    [DD] AI Submissions with Valerie Valdes

    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

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

    7 March 2023, 6:09 pm
  • 48 minutes 30 seconds
    [DD] Discussing Ethics in Publishing
    S9 Ep1

    Streamed live, February 6, 2022 - next livestream is Feb 27, 2023

    How do we, the little guys, handle things like strikes and other uncomfortable news?

    Links

    February 6, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 1 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    16 February 2023, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    [DD] Close out 2022 with Matt!
    S8 Ep22

    Streamed live, December 12, 2022

    Matt joins us to close down the year and send seasonal greetings!

    Links   Support Local Book Stores!

    December 12, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 22 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    3 February 2023, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    [DD] Unexpected Solo Cast with Mur

    Yep, I'm still behind in posting the final episodes for 2022! Here you go!

    S8 Ep21

    Streamed live, December 5, 2022

    Matt can't make this episode, so Mur handles it herself! 

      Links   Support Local Book Stores!

    December 5, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 21 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License

    31 January 2023, 4:48 pm
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