The Murverse Mothership

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• The Ditch Diggers come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Free-Range Panther Habitat with special guests, Parvus Press co-founder and publisher, Colin Coyle, and FLOTSAM author RJ Theodore, known conversationally as Rekka!
• Jeff Goldblum’s open-door panther policy is discussed, including panther-proofed biometric panther doors, as well as the definition of “honcho” and how many honchos fit in Jeff Goldblum’s spa/pool.
• Colin discusses the founding of Parvus Press and his personal journey to become an indie publisher.
• Rekka talks about FLOTSAM and the journey of an author choosing to go with an indie publisher for their book.
• Colin announces that Parvus Press has inked a national distribution deal for their books, talks about how that happened, and also discusses indie publishers and distribution deals, the pitfalls and positives, and what warning signs to look for when you suspect you’re dealing with a predatory distributor.
• Everyone agrees to collaborate on Jeff Goldblum panther fiction.
• Colin and Rekka take the Ditch Diggers thru the life of an indie book from the perspectives of both the publisher and the author.
• The customary end-of-episode shilling, including an unprecedented shilling move from Matt!
• Rekka’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/bittybittyzap
• Colin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/cwcoyle
• Parvus Press on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParvusPress
• Parvus Press Website: https://parvuspress.com/
• Buy FLOTSAM: http://a.co/d/1U8b7Us
• Rekka’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rjtheodore
• Hybrid Author Podcast: https://www.rjtheodore.com/hybrid-author-podcast/

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• Matt and Mur come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Seattle-based CPAP Emporium with special returning guest, Hugo-nominated writer, editor, and disability activist, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
• The Ditch Diggers explain the incredibly inside-baseball location of today’s episode.
• Elsa answers a listener’s question about networking as an author with a disability, particularly at conventions, and con accessibility.
• Self-rejecting as an author (or other creative) with a disability, and how to deal with writing disability-forward fiction in the current marketplace.
• Elsa explains ME BEFORE YOU to Matt, who was unfamiliar with both the book and the movie, and her issues with it.
• Elsa and the Ditch Diggers discuss sensitivity editing.
• Matt is still upset Mur looked better in the hats given to winners at this year’s Hugo Losers Party (plus George’s Chicken Hats. You’ll find out.)
• Listener Q&A! Topics include tie-in novelization writing and including LGBTQ characters in your fiction.

• Elsa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/snarkbat
• Elsa’s blog: http://feministsonar.com/elsa/
• Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction: https://uncannymagazine.com/issues/uncanny-magazine-issue-twenty-four/
• Chicago University Dialogue Series on Censorship: https://voices.uchicago.edu/censorship/dialogueseries/