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Ditch Diggers #91: Q&A Time!
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- Matt and Mur come to you live from the snack tent outside the construction site where the new Ditch Diggers mansion will one day be.
- Everybody loves snacks, and it’s a fun word to say.
- Mur and Matt don’t know if construction workers call it a “snack tent,” but they want their construction worker aspiring writer listeners to popularize it for them.
- Personal lives! They happen, and they must take precedent, and for Matt and Mur personal lives have been an issue recently.
- Tiger Balm is the greatest name for anything ever created.
- It is going to be one of the Ditch Diggers’ infamous, patented, ever popular Q&A/feedback episodes!
A question concerning the need to be “marketable” to agents, and when/if to broach topics like your ability to continue regularly producing books. - A listener reacting to Matt’s previous rant on publisher’s marketing ability asks about the necessity/value of traditional publishing, and the Ditch Diggers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both trad and self-publishing.
- The definition of “debut” author and when and how it’s appropriate to use the label is discussed.
- Children age, and it is hard on those observing it.
- Matt is steadily becoming anti-list, and he apologizes for mispronouncing a listener’s name repeatedly.
- With the questions answered, the Ditch Diggers commit the traditional end of episode shilling.
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