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Ditch Diggers #96: Rebranding
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[Note- this is the correct file. I had an episode numbering problem. Check episode 95 if this is a repeat for you.]
Mur and Matt come to you live from Ditch Diggers Island Pear Farm on Animal Crossing.
- The fruit-based economy of Animal Crossing is discussed, with a focus on the disdain for pears and Matt’s belief that AC pear hatred is coded fatphobia.
- Props are given to Escape Pod, the first and longest-running fiction podcast celebrating its 15th anniversary, and Matt predictably rants about how podcast fiction is “invented” every year, erasing the originators of it.
- Mur has discovered South Korean baseball, and is very excited about it.
- Cooking and curries, or how “curry” isn’t actually a thing.
- An anonymous publishing source emails Matt and Mur to address a previous episode about the lack of book publisher’s leaning into ebook and other digital marketing in the time of COVID.
- How, despite general book sales staying steady or even rising right now, the sales of kids books are falling alarmingly.
- Yoga mat/block scarcity is real, as is puzzle scarcity.
- Matt and Mur discuss the issue of whether or not authors should ask a prospective agent’s clients about that agent before querying them, and the fallout/varied opinions that flooded Twitter after an agent threatened to blacklist authors for doing so.
- Q&A! Alternative options for selling books, freelance writers to follow on Twitter for smart freelance writing talk, and more.
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