Ditch Diggers

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundco-host: Matt Wallace

Ditch Diggers streams LIVE on Twitch, every other Monday, 2pm* Eastern!

While ISBW is for beginners who are easily intimidated by rejection and self-doubt, Ditch Diggers is the business of writing, when the craft is not as important as the deadline. (Oh the craft is very important. But deadline without craft can be worked with, but craft without deadline will never pay the bills.) We don’t worry about art here, we worry about the business of your writing. Because ditch diggers don’t get ditch digger block, so we refuse to let writer’s block stop us from doing our work. Go straight to the episodes!

Ditch Diggers guest hosts are booked by invite only.

Ditch Diggers is explicit, unsafe for work and kids, so if you listen in public, be warned.

*Occasionally Kameron Hurley will guest host, in that case the show streams at 4:30 Eastern.

Archives can be found by supporting via Patreon or Ko-fi.

Matt Wallace and Mur Lafferty, hosts

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[DD] Gail Carriger returns with more wisdom!

This was recorded back in July, but time and things and travel got away with me.

Actually what happened was the fact that I can’t spread podcast production across more than one day. If I do, I will forget it needs to be finished. It’s not great spending 4+ hours to produce and upload 2 shows, but if I don’t, one will fall by the wayside. ADHD brain for the win.

We will be back in september, hopefully with lots of amazing ditch digging.

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[DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

Ditch Diggers Seasons Nine logo with illustrated tiny Mur and tiny Matt
Ep 8: Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

Ditch Diggers episode 8, “Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger”  is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon or Substack! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, July 10, 2023
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S9 Ep8
Horny chaotic god energy is what we’re all about in today’s Ditch Diggers, “Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger” where Gail joins us to talk about sifting through data in self publishing. It is some heady stuff, and we discuss tying your self worth to “bad” data and more!

Gail Carriger: 30:30 (ish): My sense of failure will kick in when a reader says I love Gail Carriger. And I didn’t know she had a new book out, that’s when I feel like I failed at my job. I am an author, that’s the one job I had is to make sure that people who liked me can read my new books, right? That’s it.

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[DD] Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions

Ditch Diggers episode 7, “Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions”  is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, June 19, 2023
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S9 Ep7

Mur’s agent Seth Fishman joins us to take your questions about agents and children’s publishing, and we fill up an hour FAST.

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[DD] Savage Crowns Book Launch!

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Streamed live, June 13, 2023
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S9 Ep6
It’s our 1001st episode (not really) and Matt is here to launch the final book in the Savage Rebellion trilogy, and it’s a very honest episode. Serious Ditch Digging here, y’all. He doesn’t hold back. It’s publishing, warts and all. Links to Savage Crowns and other books below!
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[DD] Premee Mohamed Joins Us for Episode 1000 (?)

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, May 11, 2023
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S9 Ep5 (*not 1000)
Matt and Mur welcome Premee Mohamed, multiple award winning author of No One Will Come Back for Us. We talk about chickens, sea cucumbers, conventions and anxiety, and there’s a hair flip in there, but you can only see it if you get the video on Patreon.

The George RR Martin gag in Logan Lucky:


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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
May 11, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 5 | murverse.com
“Premee Mohamed Joins Us for Episode 1000 (?)” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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[DD] OG Ditch Digger Fonda Lee Is Back!

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, April 3, 2023
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Untethered Sky CoverS9 Ep4

Matt and Mur welcome Fonda Lee, multiple award winning author of Untethered Sky. Fonda talks Patreon, starting something new after a very successful series, and more!

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theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
April 3, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 4 | murverse.com
“OG Ditch Digger Fonda Lee Is Back!” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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[DD] Debut Author Advice with Mary Robinette Kowal

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, March 13, 2023
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S9 Ep3

The real Gimlet

Matt and Mur welcome Mary Robinette Kowal, podcaster, puppeteer, former SFWA president, audiobook narrator, and Hugo Award winning writer. Mary Robinette has had blog posts helping out debut authors, so we decided to pick her brain for a few more pieces of advice, from how to run a kaffeklatch to how to write something cute into your book that isn’t insufferable.

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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
March 13, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 3 | murverse.com
“Debut Author Advice with Mary Robinette Kowal” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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[DD] Do AIs Dream of Electronic Submissions? With Valerie Valdes

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, February 27, 2023

S9 Ep2
I’m joined at the last minute by Valerie Valdes, my co-editor at Escape Pod! We talk about the whole AI thing and look to shed some light on the current kerfuffle.

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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
February 27, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 2 | murverse.com
“Do AIs Dream of Electronic Submissions?” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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[DD] Ethics in Publishing

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Note- My mic had a lot of problems here, I tried to fix it, but it’s noticeable.

S9 Ep1

Streamed live, February 6, 2022 – next livestream is Feb 27, 2023

How do we, the little guys, handle things like strikes and other uncomfortable news?

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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
February 6, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 1 | murverse.com
“Ethics in Publishing” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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[DD] We close out 2022 with Matt!

Ditch Diggers 2022 logo, orange and blue, illustrated tiny matt and mur in foregroundDitch Diggers is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Yep, I’m still behind in posting the final episodes for 2022! Here you go!

S8 Ep22

Streamed live, December 12, 2022

Matt joins us to close down the year and send seasonal greetings!

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Ditch Diggers credits:
theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja,
site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).
December 12, 2022 | Season 8 Ep 22 | murverse.com
“We close out 2022 with Matt!” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0