Shows From the Murverse

“Spoilers Club, T. Kingfisher Talks What Moves the Dead” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

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S18 Ep57

NOTE- we had a number of technical difficulties, including a part where the stream drops off and then returns. Please take note. Also I can’t remember if we swore, so just treat this as Explicit if you have little ones wandering around. 

Ursula Vernon came onto Spoiler’s Club to talk about What Moves the Dead, horror, and mushrooms.

T. Kingfisher and What Moves the Dead 

Links

* Mur on Focusmate!

* Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

* Newsletter, The Hot Mic

* Support via Patreon!

* John Anealio on Bandcamp

* I Should Be Writing tea blends

* Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

Twitch schedule for September (Eastern time):

Sept. 23 4:30pm: Ditch Diggers with Kameron Hurley and Margaret Dunlap

Sept. 26 12:00pm: Ditch Diggers with Matt Wallace

Sept 27 4:00pm: I Should Be Writing Barcon/AMA*

Sept 28 3:00pm: Gaming TBD

Sept 29 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing with Desideria Mesa

Oct 1 7:00pm: Station Eternity LIVE! Mini Audio Drama performance on Twitch!

* Barcon AMA is a relaxed chat about writing that will not be going into the general ISBW feed, but will go into the Patreon feed as exclusive content.

And remember, we can’t do this without you. Thanks for your support.

I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,

art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link) (or you can get it via Patreon).

August 29, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 57 | murverse.

Ditch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can also support at Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite service!

S8 Ep14

Streamed live, August 22, 2022.

Kameron and Mur aren’t bitter at all. But we do mention Nick Mamatas’ Starve Better.

Links

Mur on Twitter, Youtube, website 

Matt on Twitter, YouTube, website

Kameron Hurley’s site  

Support via Patreon

Twitch schedule for September (Eastern time):

Sept. 23 4:30pm: Ditch Diggers with Kameron Hurley and Margaret Dunlap

Sept. 26 12:00pm: Ditch Diggers with Matt Wallace

Sept 27 4:00pm: I Should Be Writing Barcon/AMA*

Sept 28 3:00pm: Gaming TBD

Sept 29 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing with 

Oct 1 7:00pm: Station Eternity LIVE! Mini Audio Drama performance on Twitch!

* Barcon AMA is a relaxed chat about writing that will not be going into the general ISBW feed, but will go into the Patreon feed as exclusive content.

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* Savage Legion, Supervillain’s Guide to Being a Fat Kid and more!

Ditch Diggers credits:

theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,

site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

August 22, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 14 | murverse.com

“Kameron and Mur Ask Why We Do This” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“Tanvi Berwah’s Publishing Journey” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

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S18 Ep56

CW: Brief mention of sexual assault.

Good News Good News

Team Rejection count: 328

Main Topic: Tanvi Berwah, “Monsters Born and Made”

Tanvi talks about her new novel, the Indian & Arabic myths her story’s monsters are based on, exploring biases and caste and class discriminations through the characters & the story, and more.

Tanvi also talks about how her writing is influenced by her mental health journey (you don’t have to suffer in order to create, so please take care of yourself and seek help when you can), and the expanded story she wants to explore in Book 2 and beyond.

Links

* Tanvi’s Home Page

* Tanvi on Twitter

* Tanvi on Instagram

* Work with Mur on Focusmate!

* Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

* Newsletter, The Hot Mic

* Support via Patreon!

* John Anealio on Bandcamp

* I Should Be Writing tea blends

* Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

Twitch schedule for September (Eastern time):

Sept. 23 4:30pm: Ditch Diggers with Kameron Hurley and Margaret Dunlap

Sept. 26 12:00pm: Ditch Diggers with Matt Wallace

Sept 27 4:00pm: I Should Be Writing Barcon/AMA*

Sept 28 3:00pm: Gaming TBD

Sept 29 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing with 

Oct 1 7:00pm: Station Eternity LIVE! Mini Audio Drama performance on Twitch!

* Barcon AMA is a relaxed chat about writing that will not be going into the general ISBW feed, but will go into the Patreon feed as exclusive content.

All times EDT

And remember, we can’t do this without you. Thanks for your support.

I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,

“Evil Mur AMA” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite podcast service!

S18 Ep55

Back to Basics

Good News Good News

* Team Rejection count: 313

* STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/station-eternity-1790821

Main Topic: Back to Basics: Ask Me Anything, featuring Evil Mur

* Evil Mur regales the audience with proclamations of self-promotion and awesome writerly advice that you should do everything you can to emulate in order to create your Best Ever Author Life.

* Do not listen to Evil Mur. Just, don’t.

Links

* Mur on Focusmate!

* Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

* Newsletter, The Hot Mic

* Support via Patreon!

* John Anealio on Bandcamp

* I Should Be Writing tea blends

* Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

Twitch schedule for August:

* Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers

* Rest of month CANCELED for WorldCon! See you in September! (And wish me luck at the Hugos!)

Transcript

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

write, book, editors, Mur, Premee, evil, people, rejections, muse, agent, character, questions, famous author, good, talk, plagiarism, con, listen, motivate, author

00:01

We have done our 12 episodes of getting back to basics and now it’s time for return of Evil Mur. Do not listen to evil Mur. It’s I Should Be Writing season 18 Episode 55.

More after the cut!

Hi there, welcome to I Should Be Writing. This is the podcast for wanna-be fiction writers and it tells the absolute truth with absolutely no questions involved. Although I did say AMA, I don’t want you to ask me anything because you should just take in my knowledge and know, you will know that this is the proper way to write the proper way to submit the proper way to deal with other writers and your writing career here. And I should be writing which is the best writing podcast out there. It’s the longest running–it was actually the first podcast and I invented podcasting. So go me.

“Back to Basics: Baaaaaad Writing Advice” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite podcast service!

S18 Ep54

Back to Basics

Open

* New short stories being worked on

Good News Good News

* Team Rejection count: 257

* STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/station-eternity-1790821

Main Topic: Back to Basics: Turrible Writing Advice, Just Turrible

* Writing & Self Publishing suggestions found on Wisdom, well, kinda weren’t all that wise

* Old Wives Tale: You can successfully write if you don’t read widely or at all. Um, nope… reading while you’re writing is vital

* (I’m with you… I have no patience for Tolkien, but the first 3 movies are wonderful)

Links

* Mur on Focusmate!

* Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

* Newsletter, The Hot Mic

* Support via Patreon!

* John Anealio on Bandcamp

* I Should Be Writing tea blends

* Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

Twitch schedule for August:

* Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers

* Rest of month CANCELED for WorldCon! See you in September! (And wish me luck at the Hugos!)

Transcript

Download PDF

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

writing, people, book, talking, story, advice, podcast, outline, published, read, character, good, rejections, feel, writer, screenplay, sell, good news, rpg, weird

00:01

I wanted to do 12 Episode themed sections of podcasts and we’re nearing the end of our very first one here on I should be writing season 18 Episode 54.

More after the cut!

00:45

and Hi there. Welcome to I should be writing. This is the podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I’m your host Mur Lafferty. I live stream this show on Tuesday, Thursdays usually 3pm Eastern Time and then later, it gets polished up and updated and all shiny and put into our podcast feed which you can follow at murverse.com So check us out live or you can download the podcast whenever it is convenient for you.

Ditch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can also support at Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite service!

S8 Ep13

Streamed live, August 15, 2022.

Matt returns. This wasn’t supposed to be a “buck up little camper” pep talk for Mur, but it turned out to be. But mostly, we talk about the importance of different things to focus on as a freelancer.

Links

Mur on Twitter, Youtube, website 

Matt on Twitter, YouTube, website

Support via Patreon

Twitch schedule for August:

Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers

Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD

Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

All times EDT

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* Savage Legion, Supervillain’s Guide to Being a Fat Kid and more!

Ditch Diggers credits:

theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,

site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

August 15, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 13 | murverse.com

“Matt Returns with The Way of the Freelancer ” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“Back to Basics: Valerie Valdes and Fault Tolerance! Emotions and Trilogies” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite podcast service!

S18 Ep53

Main Topic: Back to Basics w/Valerie Valdes

* Writing processes: stand alones and series

* Dragon Age games, storytelling and world building

NaNoWriMo, Structure, and storytelling secrets

http://candleinsunshine.com/

https://twitter.com/valerievaldes

https://www.instagram.com/valerievaldesauthor/

Links

* New! Mur on Focusmate!

Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

Newsletter, The Hot Mic

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for August:

* Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers (19th 4:30pm)

* Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD

* Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,

art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link) (or you can get it via Patreon).

July 28, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 53 | murverse.com

“Valerie Valdes and Fault Tolerance!

“Back to Basics: Lessons Learned (Happy 17th Podcast Birthday!)” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite podcast service!

S18 Ep52

Good News Good News

* Team Rejection count: 251

* STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/station-eternity-1790821

Main Topic: Happy Birthday, Oh Podcast, My Podcast!

* The startup history and baby steps of I Should Be Writing

* What Mur has Learned in 17 Years of Pro Podcasting

* The foundation was built for a networking platform

* Timeless Writing Advice: Don’t Stop Writing.

* Updating podcasts to reflect the times and the tech

* Meeting and Knowing other Writers Helps All

* The anxieties of being an author are real, but you’re not alone

Links

* New! Mur on Focusmate!

Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

Newsletter, The Hot Mic

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for August:

* Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers (19th 4:30pm)

* Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD

* Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,

art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link) (or you can get it via

Ditch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can also support at Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite service!

S8 Ep12

Streamed live, August 8, 2022.

Monopolies are bad, we all know that, and yet the “Big Six” publishers have been eating each other, dwindling down, and claiming it’s in the authors’ best interest. We call shenanigans.

Links

Alasdair Stuart, and his Hugo-nominated fanzine, The Full Lid

Mur on Twitter, Youtube, website 

Matt on Twitter, YouTube, website

Support via Patreon

Twitch schedule for August:

Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers

Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD

Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

All times EDT

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* Savage Legion, Supervillain’s Guide to Being a Fat Kid and more!

Ditch Diggers credits:

theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,

site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

August 8, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 12 | murverse.com

“DOJ and PRH and More” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“Back to Basics: Mindy Carlson on Her Dying Day – Characters!” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Follow the show on your favorite podcast service!

S18 Ep51

Good News Good News

Team Rejection count: 233

STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review!

Main Topic: Mindy Carlson and Characters

Mindy’s writing retreat imminent

Building characters needs as much detail as building the world: traits, connections, behaviors

Consistently believable emotional responses help mysteries flow

Yes, Her Dying Day is loosely based on the real life disappearance of Agatha Christie

Advice for new writers: Be brave and do the thing that scares you the most

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781639100125

Mindy on Twitter

Links

* New! Mur on Focusmate!

Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube

Newsletter, The Hot Mic

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for August:

* Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers (19th 4:30pm)

* Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD

* Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

* Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

Support Local Book Stores!

* Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

* OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,

art by Numbers Ninja,