The Murverse Mothership

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• Matt and Mur come to you from Morgan Freeman’s hyperbaric negotiation chamber with very special guest co-hosts and their very own book agents, DongWon Song of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency and Jennifer Udden of Barry Goldblatt Literary!
• This episode is dedicated to Allie Wade, who asked the Ditch Diggers about contracts last June and is just not receiving the answer (Matt insists this was an elaborate training simulation to teach authors about the lengthy waiting process in publishing).
• The Ditch Diggers and their agents discuss publishing contract clauses for which to watch out, standard clauses, and the nature of clauses themselves.
• Matt asks DongWon and Jennifer to do a “Know Your Rights” Rundown and go over the major rights often requested by publishers in contracts, what those rights mean, and how to approach which rights to sell and which to retain as an author.
• DongWon and Jennifer attempt to tackle the eternal question (their version of “Where do you get your ideas?” for authors) posed to agents, “What are you looking for?”
• Our guest agents discuss the changing marketplace and economic culture of fiction, Amazon, and the vanishing book blogger.
• Twitter Q&A! Topics include authors needing multiple agents.
• The customary end-of-episode shilling!
• DongWon Song on Twitter!
  https://twitter.com/dongwon
• DongWon Song’s website!
  http://www.dongwonsong.com/
• Jennifer Udden on Twitter!
  https://twitter.com/suddenlyjen
• Jennifer Udden’s website!
  http://www.jenniferudden.com/
• The Shipping & Handling Podcast!
  http://www.shippingandhandlingpodcast.com

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