The Murverse Mothership

2021 was an editing year for me. This year I’m excited to publish a novel (Station Eternity out in October) and novella (“The Ophelia Network” out May 26), but I didn’t have any fiction out last year. I did, however, do plenty of work on Escape Pod and my podcasts, I Should Be Writing and Ditch Diggers.

Escape Pod is eligible for Best Semiprozine. Last year we had over 2,000,000 downloads of our weekly science fiction stories. In the past the magazine has been nominated for 2020, 2019, and 2017 Hugo Awards.

SB Divya and I are eligible (together) for Best Editor (Short Form). We have been co-editors in chief at Escape Pod for over …five? years now? In addition we did an anthology for Escape Pod’s 15th anniversary in 2020. We were finalists on the ballot for the first time for the 2020 Hugos.

I Should Be Writing is still going strong at season 18, and is eligible for Best Fancast. I took the show to Twitch to record it live, which has changed up the show’s energy considerably. In 2021 I released 85 episodes and download numbers reached half a million (that’s 500,000 if you like the zeroes). It has never been nominated.

Ditch Diggers is also eligible for Best Fancast. The show had some hiatus time last year, but Matt Wallace, several guest hosts, and I still managed 23 episodes with around 50,000 downloads. It was a finalist for 2016 and 2017 Fancast Hugo Awards, winning for 2017.