The Murverse Mothership

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We welcome Andrea back to the show, talking transmedia, marketing, and her new book, America, Inc.

• Matt and Mur come to you live from the library of witty comebacks in the Ditch Diggers manor with special guest, author and transmedia writer, Andrea Phillips!
• Mur begins the show by depressing everyone immensely with a reminder of fire, ice, and plague, but Andrea is quick to point out it’s all about the friends we made along the way (during Mur’s intro).
• Professional updates! Mur is doing kind of okay (and starting a trend), Matt did his first reading for an audience in five years, and Andrea had a rough week with copy and script writing (NDA’s abound!).
• Andrea talks about the collaborative process of writing transmedia content over Zoom for established IP’s, most of which she can’t mention, supervising other writers, and how it proscribes forming a regular routine.
• The phenomenon that is Blaseball is discussed at length. What it is, how it has evolved, why it is so compelling, how the developers achieved all of that, and how that all relates to what Andrea does with transmedia and game content.
• Andrea talks about her new author-published novel AMERICA INC, what it is, why she decided to self-release it, and her process of transparency with sharing her sales numbers and marketing process publicly.
• How online marketing can affect sales of a self-published novel, and where authors can fall short in marketing their self-published works.On the subject of “the only way you really fail is if you stop putting out work” and Andrea apologizes needlessly for her lack of sunny optimism.

The patented end of episode shilling commences! Spoiler Alert: Buy AMERICA INC by Andrea Phillips (only on Amazon right now, but possibly moving to other platforms soon!). Also, Mur yells at games. And Matt has written a middle-grade novel that may or may not be for people who eat children (it isn’t).

Mentioned In This Episode…

• Andrea’s website
• Andrea on Twitter
• AMERICA INC: A NOVEL OF DEMOCRACY AND DIRTY TRICKS

NOTE- We are changing our formatting around here, and there will be, as the cute similes say, a lot of dust. We are determining each year a season, so the titles of these episodes will be changing — ie, 2020 is our 6th year, and this episode is our 19th. If you have already downloaded this or older episodes, nothing will change. Only new downloads will get the new numbering of old episodes.