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2022 Award Eligibility Post + Goodreads Choice Awards

Station Eternity is nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction! If you’re a Goodreads user, please consider voting! My publisher is also giving away a copy of the book on Goodreads.

Since Nebula Award nominations are open, I am making my award eligibility post. It always feels awkward, but if you don’t know what I’ve done, then let this guide you.

  • Novel: Station Eternity: Agatha Christie meets Babylon 5. Starred review from Library Journal, and Goodreads Choice Award nomination for best science fiction.
  • Novella: “The Ophelia Network”: Blues Clues meets 1984 as a resistance effort uses children’s television to send secret codes. Audible-only.
  • Podcast: I Should Be Writing: helping fledgling writers and interviewing authors since 2005, this podcast focuses on craft, emotional hangups, and speculative fiction.
  • Podcast: Ditch Diggers: With a group of rotating co-hosts, I discuss the business of writing, from handling social media to knowing when to leave an agent. Winner of the 2018 Hugo for Best Fancast. 
Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] Jule Selbo and Inspiration for Different Genres

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ISBW Logo, blue and purple, illustrated tiny mur in foreground with giant fountain pen“Jule Selbo and Inspiration for Different Genres” 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!

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S18 Ep69
Livestreamed October 28, 2022
ISBW PSAs
  • Brainstorming for NaNoWriMo Project
Good News Good News
  • Team Rejection count: 355
Main Topic: Inspiration for Different Story Genres

Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Go get your copy from your favorite bookseller!

Links
Twitch schedule Oct. 31-Nov 3(Eastern time):
  • M 4:30pm: Ditch Diggers with Kameron Hurley
  • T 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing NaNoWriMo Launch!
  • W – Canceled for time being until I restructure
  • Th 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing – Live write? Chat? Who knows?

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).
October 27, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 69 | murverse.com
“Jule Selbo and Inspiration for Different Genres” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[ISBW] Eden Robins: Death and Humor

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ISBW Logo, blue and purple, illustrated tiny mur in foreground with giant fountain pen” Eden Robins: Death and Humor” 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 for October 2022 only! 

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S18 Ep67
Livestreamed October 26, 2022

ISBW PSAs

  • Brainstorming for NaNoWriMo Project

Good News Good News

  • Team Rejection count: 353

Main Topic: Humor, with a little Death

Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Go get your copy from your favorite bookseller!

Links
Twitch schedule Oct. 31-Nov 3(Eastern time):
  • M 4:30pm: Ditch Diggers with Kameron Hurley
  • T 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing NaNoWriMo Launch!
  • W – Canceled for time being until I restructure
  • Th 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing – Live write? Chat? Who knows?

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).
October 25, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 67 | murverse.com
” Eden Robins: Death and Humor” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] Last minute frantic NaNoWriMo Prep!

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 31, 2022

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October 31, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 73 | murverse.com
“Prep Time!” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] NaNoWriMo Prep Time!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:57 — 10.7MB)

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 30, 2022

What are you going to do to make your day go smoother? Set up coffee, tea, rewards, snacks, get it all in place!

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October 30, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 72 | murverse.com
“Prep Time!” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] “I could do that if I wanted to…”

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 29, 2022

When we avoid taking a chance on something, we tell ourselves that we could have succeeded if we had made the choice to do so. I could have done that — if I’d wanted to. It saves us from realizing that sometimes things don’t work out when we take the chance. 
But it also means we don’t accomplish some things we may have otherwise, had we taken the chance. And I’m not entirely talking about y’all…

Where to find me!

October 29, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 71 | murverse.com
“”I could do that if I wanted to…”” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] Great Artists Steal

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 28, 2022
 ISBW S18 Ep 70

When doing your outline, don’t be afraid to consider books you’ve already read. Remember, great artists steal.

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October 28, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 70  | murverse.com
“Great Artists Steal” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Podcasts, Projects

[DD] Veronica Roth and Messages to Your Past Self

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Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch 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 get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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S8 Ep20

Streamed live, October 24, 2022.

Book Cover, Poster GIrl by Veronica RothI was thrilled to have Veronica Roth of Divergent and Chosen Ones fame to come talk about her new book, Poster Girl, and what the business has taught her in her career!
Links
Twitch schedule Oct. 31-Nov 3 (Eastern time):
  • M 4:30pm: Halloween Ditch Diggers After Dark with Kameron Hurley
  • T 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing NaNoWriMo Launch Day!
  • W Gaming streams canceled for November until I get my schedule sorted out 
  • Th 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing – live write? Chat? Who knows? 

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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
October 24, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 20 | murverse.com
“Veronica Roth and Messages to Your Past Self” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] Creativity is Cyclical

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 26, 2022

Capitalism says today must earn/be better than yesterday! But how feasible is that? A look at the stock market says… not very much.

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October 26, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 68 | murverse.com
“Creativity is Cyclical” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] Comic Sans Trick??

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I’m producing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

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Recorded October 24, 2022

So apparently there’s a Comic Sans Trick that is good at helping productivity. I’m testing this today. (I kind of fear this will be the author’s form of Rickroll.)

Also I hate recording on the weekend. I will have to take this into account when planning for daily NaNo show next month.

Comic Sans trick article at Lifehacker

Where to find me!

October 24, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 66 | murverse.com
“Comic Sans Trick??” by Mur Lafferty
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0