The Murverse Mothership

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(I still don’t have the hang of recording and uploading on the road. Apologies.)

• The Ditch Diggers come to you live from Morgan Freeman’s calendar room (featuring an inordinate amount of train calendars).
• Matt and Mur argue about the configuration of a train whose cars are the months of the year and whether or not “hobo” is a pejorative term (yes, this really happens).
• Mur is a bona fide Nebula Award nominee for her novel SIX WAKES! Woohoo!
• Mur talks about being up for the Neblua and the Philip K. Dick Award, and meeting fellow Nebula nominee Annalee Newitz at a late-night con fetish panel.
• The topic of the episode finally emerges: Feast or famine as a freelance writer!

• Matt talks about the realities of balancing a full-time writing “day” job with running the small business of freelance writing (which is what freelance writing is).
• Mur talks about big projects ramping up ahead of her and and staring down that barrel.
• The Ditch Diggers talk coping mechanisms for needing to get more work out of each day, and balancing that with life and self-care.
• The all-important lesson of learning to say “no” to things as a freelance writer, particularly paying work.
• Twitter Q&A! The Spectacle Magazine debacle, and much more!
• Nominate Ditch Diggers for Best Fancast Hugo Award! Nominate Six Wakes for Best Novel Hugo Award! Nominate Gluttony Bay for Best Novella Hugo Award!
• Jason Sanford’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford

Next week: The long-promised double agent interview! Dongwon Song and Jennifer Udden will join us.

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