The Murverse Mothership

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Matt and Mur are back!

• It is a new year, the new Ditch Diggers mansion HQ that is definitely not imaginary has been finished, and it is a house warming party in quarantine!
• Mur tells an amusing anecdote about missing many of the US Capitol insurrection news (the day after which this episode was recorded) because she was with her dog at the vet.
• Matt and Mur talk about their hiatus from Ditch Diggers over the holidays, during which Matt had heavy book deadlines, the unique circumstances of which he explains, and Mur’s NaNoWriMo goals went off the rails.
• Mur talks about suddenly finding herself agentless before the holidays through no fault of her own or her former agent’s, and announces on the podcast for the first time that she has signed with a new agent, the great Seth Fishman!
• Matt and Mur discuss how to approach the situation Mur found herself in, seeking a new agent while not currently having a new manuscript to pitch, and being as deep into a career as Mur is.
• How Mur compiled her list of agents to which to reach out, and what about an author and their career incentivizes or should incentivize a prospective agent.
• What questions did Mur ask prospective new agents, what did they ask her, how did those conversations play out, and ultimate how did Mur decide on signing with Seth?
• What the Ditch Diggers have coming up in 2021, including a (hopefully) new release schedule, format changes, increased accessibility, and live-streamed events.
• The first end-of-episode shilling of the year! Mur pumps the Ditch Diggers Patreon and she also writes books, including the Escape Pod 15^th Anniversary anthology. Matt’s first middle-grade novel, BUMP, in which Matt could not and did not use curse words, releases on Tuesday, January 26^th!

Mentioned in this Episode…

• Seth Fishman, Agent Extraordinaire
• Jennifer Udden’s newsletter, A Faster No
• DongWon Song’s newsletter, Publishing is Hard

Coming next, livestream via Twitch!