The Murverse Mothership

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• Mur and Matt come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Genius Bar, because it is time once again for a Ditch Diggers feedback/Q&A episode!
• Matt is pissed off and Mur is emotionally and physically drained, so they are both ready to do the best episode ever!
• Matt rants for several minutes about Apple and Mac products. (spoiler: they both anger him)
• Mur is tired because they keep stealing her blood. No, seriously. Well, it’s not technically theft, but still. But anyway, Mur is literally too metal for life.
• Mur is behind on listener-submitted I Should Be Writing questions, but that’s not what we’re dealing with right now.
• What lesson did the Ditch Diggers learn from their first published novels that made a big difference?
• In a future episode, Gail Carriger will return to DD to talk about public speaking for writers!
• A drachma is 100 leptas and the plural of “drachma” is “drachmae.”
• Phillip asks Matt about novella series, and low-key calls Matt out for constantly bemoaning the disappointing commercial performance of his novella series.
• ML Moos asks about internet trolls and “agent blacklists” (mostly to hear Matt light up a particular troll who neither Matt nor Mur have ever heard of).
• A listener responds to a previous question about publishing rights and languages in the Finnish market.
• Short story, novellete, novella, and novel lengths are discussed and defined as well as such things can be in this or any genre.
• How typical is it for authors who sell movie rights to retain control over character and story decisions about their work? (spoiler: very rarely if ever)
• How private is your identity when you use a pseudonym? (Matt’s meta erotica fiction pen name is going to be John Smith)
• Scams played on new authors trying to get published (this could obviously be an entire episode of its own, but Matt and Mur give general guidelines to protect yourself).
• Previews of episodes to come, praise for Russian Doll, and the customary end-of-episode shilling (which includes out-of-date Hugo nomination pleas)!

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