Ditch Diggers

Hosted ByMur Lafferty & Matt Wallace

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.


All Episodes

Ditch Diggers #009: Writing to the market

Matt and I discuss writing to the market, writing for money instead of art, and answer your questions. It’s a short one, because the next one is a super-long episode with Gail Carriger! And it drops very very soon!

Ditch Diggers #008: When NOT to Crowdfund or Self-Pub

Despite what the gurus tell you, crowdfunding and self publishing are not the golden ticket to magical unicorn success. Some people shouldn’t go this route. We discuss those people in this episode.  Also, Matt has robot-saving delusions of…

Ditch Diggers #007: Conventions with Brianna Wu

I was sick when we recorded this. We talk conventions, why to go, why to not go, and your questions. Also, an interview with  that I got at Boskone this year! Obligatory Buy our books please! – also book mentioned in the show – links: (affiliate)

Ditch Diggers #006: Awards

Matt and I discuss awards, the mental game, the worth of awards, and we swear a bit. We answer Twitter and email questions. And… we have a new Morgan Freeman meme: I’m fucking using the Twitter. So go, little meme makers, get on that. Obligatory…

Ditch Diggers #005: First and last sales, and Elizabeth Bear Interview

This episode we discuss the first sales we had, and then compared them to the most recent. Then we have a candid interview with Elizabeth Bear about quitting. It’s OK to do so. 

Ditch Diggers #004: We are two again

Matt and I talk SFWA’s new concept of pro, covers, and your questions. I also forgot to post this one so it’s old, and you can hear Matt mock me for it in DD5, coming soon!

Ditch Diggers #003: A Very Special Episode with Kameron Hurley and Chuck Wendig

There were guest authors, and there was booze. Kameron got silly and Mur lost the hosting thread along the way. But boy howdy did we dig some ditches and talk about down parts of our career and up sides.

Ditch Diggers #002: Supporting other authors

Matt takes the helm with the debate over writers attacking other writers about how they make money. In short, if you don’t support a Kickstarter, don’t fucking support it. Authors who have used kickstarter the way Stacey Jay has: , , and . And…

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