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Ditch Diggers #14 – Comics and Shawn Pryor Interview!

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Matt and I talk to our friend Shawn Pryor about comics, minorities, and ways to move forward in the industry.

Show notes! For real! Compiled by Matt!

  • Awful direct-to-DVD Morgan Freeman movies
  • How Bang! turns you into the worst town sheriff in the old west
  • How Shawn got into creating indie comics at cons and how those are helpful for networking and getting started
  • Running successful Kickstarters for indie comics
  • Starting an indie comics publisher from the ground up
  • The politics of comic book stores and comic book distribution
  • Race and the lack of writers who are people of color in mainstream comics, particularly Marvel

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Ditch Diggers #13 – Travel

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Matt and I got to see each other for the first time in years a couple weekends back, where we drank, played games, and then recorded in a rather hungover way. Since we had traveled to get there, we figured we would talk travel.

BONUS pics by Bruce Press

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The evil picnic table.
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Told you there was a labyrinth.
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The ditch diggers.

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ISBW #349 – Brain Games // Andrea Phillips Interview

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Today I talk how my brain sabotages my creative process and I talk to Andrea Phillips about transmedia and her new book, Revision.

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Ditch Diggers #12.5 – The return of Hurley and Wendig 2, Electric Boogaloo

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The other half of the drunken evening with Kameron and Chuck!

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Ditch Diggers #12 – The return of Hurley and Wendig

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[NOTE- I’ve fixed the audio problems. If you didn’t like the split channels, please re-download this new file. –ML]

Author powerhouses Kameron Hurley and Chuck Wendig return to Ditch Diggers, this time answering questions from Twitter. We got a lot of questions, so the show ran long, and I cut it into TWO episodes, so you get MORE Hurley and Wendig next week! Whoa!

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ISBW #348 – Stop kicking your own ass // Jen Udden Interview

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[NOTE- I’ve fixed the audio problems. If you didn’t like the split channels, please re-download this new file. –ML]

ISBW returns with an agent interview this time, and my plea to stop kicking your own ass. And by you I mean me.

Jen’s podcast, Shipping and Handling.

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Ditch Diggers #11: When it is NOT OK to suck // Ken Liu Interview

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In I Should Be Writing i’m constantly saying that it’s OK to suck. And that’s solid advice.

For new writers.

Then I talk to award winning author and translator Ken Liu.

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Ditch Diggers #10: Featuring guest co-host Gail Carriger!

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It’s Matt, Mur, Gail Carriger, and some rum as we talk about the business of writing from a bonafide New York Times bestselling author. She gets sent on book tours and shit. She’s also the godmother of Ditch Diggers, and we tell you why.

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Ditch Diggers #9: Writing to the market

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Matt and I discuss writing to the market, writing for money instead of art, and answer your questions. It’s a short one, because the next one is a super-long episode with Gail Carriger! And it drops very very soon!

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