The Murverse Mothership

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• Mur in September apologizes for Mur and Matt back in July when this episode was recorded. There are reasons, and lots more new episodes are coming soon!
• Matt and Mur come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Thirst Fountain.
• Matt explains Jeff Goldblum thirst tweets to Mur.
• Before segueing masterfully into the topic of the show, Matt and Mur catch up.
• Mur’s stressful day, deadlines, daughters, dogs, and teaching at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing where Mur once earned her own MFA.
• Matt talks about being a professional tagline writer (or, as he puts it, “one of those assholes”), coming full circle, balancing a full-time marketing job with fiction writing, and all-day dogs.
• The topic of the show emerges! People ask us questions! Often! And thus do we dedicate the rest of the episode to answering those questions!
• If you befoul Jeff Goldblum’s thirst fountain with lies it runs with blood.
• Matt and Mur answer Twitter questions (thanks to everyone who uses the #DitchDiggers hashtag). Topics include whether to continue revising a work or move on and examples of resources and advantages of working with a traditional publisher over self-publishing.
• Matt and Mur have the same birthday (it’s July 25th. Send belated presents) and what they’re doing for it this year.
• Email questions! Topics include whether it’s easier to sell novels or novellas, publishers and sensitivity editors, whether getting a copy of an author’s book from the library helps the author, and money.
• Mur wrote the SOLO movie novelization and in July it was coming out in September which means it’s out now!
• The customary end-of-episode shilling.