The Murverse Mothership

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• Mur and Matt come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Douglas Adams Appreciation Center with special guest co-host, Brooke Bolander!
• Mur explains the location of the show and how it relates to the Ditch Diggers’ struggles to book Brooke on the show (hurricanes, travel, and sick animals were involved).
• Everyone catches everyone else up on what’s been going on in their lives and careers, including NaNoWriMo and other novel finishing efforts.
• Mur masterfully segues into the main topic of the show, which is how to handle being nominated for multiple awards and not winning any of them.
• Mur and Brooke talk about that feeling of almost getting there, but not, and Brooke talks about her many multi-award-nominated short stories.
• The shenanigan engine thresholds of all three hosts are discussed, as is Robert Silverberg and dealing with the treatment of the less accepting older members of the SFF community.
• dink jokes!
• Public speaking for authors, and the many un-taught skills authors need to possess.
• More dink jokes!
• The perpetually premature onset on awards season, and everyone’s awards-eligible works.

Brooke on Twitter
Brooke’s website
Brooke’s 2018 Awards Eligibility Post