Podcast: Ditch Diggers

Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don’t get doctor block and ditch diggers don’t get ditch digger block, and working writers can’t get writer’s block. Business and humor.

[DD] Elephants in the Room: NaNoWriMo, Burnout, and More

“Sometimes you just need to chase the inspiration, even if it means working on a project nobody asked for.” – Ursula (This post went live for supporters on October 4, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at…

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[DD] Worldcon 2024 Debrief (AKA how have I not released this yet???)

“Networking is just meeting people and having them remember you exist.” – Ursula Vernon (This post went live for supporters on October 2, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at or !) In this episode of Ditch…

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[DD] Recorded back when Mur still had a Gallbladder

“If you, you know, give ten writers an idea, you get eleven different books.” – Ursula (This post went live for supporters on July 30, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at or !) In this episode of…

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[DD] Book Tours, TikTok, and Twitter Tantrums

“Being on BookTok will not give you a career if you don’t have one. Do what makes you happy.” – Ursula (This post went live for supporters on July 3, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at or !) In this…

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[DD] Ursula Vernon Takes Over- New Beginnings and No More Cancer!

“If you want to make money, you have to think about it like a job.”- Mur (This post went live for supporters on June 26, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at or !) Welcome back to Ditch Diggers! In this…

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[DD] Birthdays and Gail Carriger 2, Electric Boogaloo

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…

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[DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

, July 10, 2023 Below are some affiliate links that support indie bookstores and may benefit me financially with no cost to you. S9 Ep8 Horny chaotic god energy is what we’re all about in today’s Ditch Diggers, “Data Wonking with Podmother Gail…

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[DD] Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions

S9 Ep7 Recorded live on ! Mur’s agent Seth Fishman joins us to take your questions, and we fill up an hour FAST. Full transcript available! Seth Fishman: …the industry is right now, where editors are just, they just have, they’re just too busy….

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[DD] Matt’s Book Launch: Savage Crowns

, June 13, 2023 Below are some affiliate links that support indie bookstores and may benefit me financially with no cost to you. S9 Ep6 It’s our 1001st episode (not really) and Matt is here to launch the final book in the Savage Rebellion trilogy, and…

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[DD] Premee Mohamed and our 1000th Episode (?)

Matt and Mur welcome , 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. Links …

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