Ditch Diggers

Ursula joins me and we talk about body organs and just how important they are to a writing career.

Just search kidney and writer and NYT. You'll find it.

HEY check out my Speakeasy class on NaNoWriMo coming up on October 12, 8pm EDT!

Twitch schedule for week of Oct 10

Mon: 1pm Gaming (Dream Daddy)

Tues: 3pm- I Should Be Writing

Wed: 5pm Gaming (TBD)

Thurs: 3pm- I Should Be Writing

Yup, we're talking, a little late, about the YA Ratings debacle, but through the lens of dead white guy John Milton.

Yeah, he was a cranky old man, writer of super long Bible fanfic, and helped with regicide a little bit, but he also was a strong anti-censorship advocate. Which, considering you could lose your head for writing something offensive, was pretty damn brave.

Mur and Matt welcome back the Godmother of Ditch Diggers herself, Gail Carriger! Gail wanted to talk about what happens when you're a pro and your books don't sell. What avenues do we have?

I had some last minute changes come up, but the awesome authors Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland ended up calling in and hanging out to talk about the tools we use in our careers, from Scrivener to assistants.

Matt and Mur return to Discord instead of Twitch, since we were taking a day off Twitch in solidarity with the streamers getting harassed on the platform.

The day was kind of a perfect storm for crap, so it ended up with me and the dogs and my phone, streaming from the basement.

To quote Stuart Smalley, "This was not my best show." But I did it!

Another scam publisher has reared its ugly head, so we talk about that, and exactly how you can tell if someone is scamming you. (Hint- it has to do with the flow of cash.)

Welcome back, Matt!

New Twitch schedule for our live episodes! Tune in on Wednesdays at 11am Eastern Time!

Alasdair comes by to help out, wearing his Matt Wallace t-shirt and changing the name of the show to Dirt Butlers!

I'm taking a break from Twitch- my week has gotten incredibly stressful, and then I'm going on vacation on Thursday, so it's best if I don't force it and stress myself out more. I'll return on Wednesday, August 4!

 

Mike Underwood, writer and marketer extraordinaire, returns to talk about post-pandemic publishing and where we find ourselves now.

Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher (the winner of the Andre Norton Nebula for YA and the Locus Award for YA) joins us to talk Ditch Digging, and, uh, a lot of other things. Awards. Cover Art. Juggling many projects for hybrid publishing.