The Murverse Mothership

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Mur and a more than slightly congested Matt come to you live from the reflection pond beside the lonely road of loneliness for the final Ditch Diggers of 2019, and their holiday gift to their listeners is revealing the amazing cover to Matt’s new book, SAVAGE LEGION!

• A brief discourse on the nature and purpose of reflection ponds.
• A brief discourse on the nature and purpose of montages (sweaty or not sweaty).
• Mur is very good at naming superheroes and coming up with powers.
• 2019 was a rebuilding year for Mur, professionally, and Matt misses Armand Assante, who is very much still alive.
• The Ditch Diggers’ year-end review and just kind of spiral into a lament on what success means and what counts as “eventful” within a yearly period, and the events we hold up as benchmarks.
• Matt didn’t have any books come out in 2019, and that’s okay, unless you’re an author (no, it’s still okay).
• Failure is inevitable no matter how successful you are, and that is also okay, though it is hard to accept.
• Matt realizes he’s stopped reviewing 2019 and jumped ahead to reviewing 2020, which hasn’t happened yet (also, Chuck Wendig misses us).
• Good things did happen this year, and the Ditch Diggers mention some of those.
• The Ditch Diggers discuss professional plans and dare they say goals for 2020.
• The difference between how authors writing novels view work vs. how freelance writers writing dozens of smaller projects a year view and approach work.
• Mur wants to write more non-contracted works and needs the discipline to do it.
• We want to win another Hugo, who needs to be wined and dined and taken to a show (Mur explains Hades Town to Matt).
• Matt is doubling down on his goals as a screenwriter in 2020 (because he did okay with 2019 goals).
• Mur talks about making your goals manageable right after Matt said the phrase “doubling down” like, nine hundred times.
• Matt talks about the release of the first novel in his new epic fantasy trilogy, SAVAGE LEGION, dropping next year and revealing the cover to Ditch Diggers listeners!
• Please preorder SAVAGE LEGION by Matt Wallace.
• No, seriously, please preorder the book. It is very important.
• Also, tell many friends and family about the book.
• Seriously, that is also very important.
• Happy New Year, everybody!