The Murverse
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All creative works from Mur Lafferty
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| 1 | VideoNew Project: Mad Science with Princess Scientist | Some may remember me posting my letter to my daughter where i posted this awesome picture of her, but I didn't say the context of the picture.We're starting a monthly video podcast for kids, called Mad Science with Princess Scientist!We're having fun with it, even with various green screen hiccups, dogs barking, and the like. Still, our premier episode guest stars the utterly awesome Grant Baciocco of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and Throwing Toasters. Since Grant lives in California, he obviously won't be a regular, but we were thrilled to be able to film with him.We had various glitches, but overall this was a lot of fun. We're filming Episode 2 this weekend, and it will be a SPACE episode, and will also have a guest star. (Guest stars won't be a regular thing, but when we have the chance, we will grab it!)Theme song by Devo Spice, logo by JC Hutchins. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #249 – Convention questions answered/Peter V. Brett interview pt 2 | I answer a great deal of questions about conventions, as it's nearly that season! And if you're a fabulist, then let's have breakfast at Balticon! Drop me a line. | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW 248 – Feedback | Another feedbacky type show.ISBW #24800:28 State of the Mur: remember to check out Mur on Twitter & Facebookfor contemporaneous notices when she records feedback shows. 00:55 Parsec Awardspromo featuring Good Cop / Bad Cop 02:38FEEDBACK: when to reveal information in a story; promoting self-published novellas (recommended: The Creative Penn); connecting with new readers; giving yourself permission to suck (and then getting good); on success & feeling like a phony (see also First Million Words podcast, WorldCon); child protagonists in novels for non-youth audiences; finding good characters to fill out good plots; working with ideas that start out as only single scenes/vignettes; writing & world-building during one's commute; next steps after editing / when to query; comments still closed until ISBW moves to new host / frequency of blogging / Mur's currently available novels/stories/writing; why Mur writes; health & fitness for writers (see Fit 2 Write podcast & also the Tee Morris interview on Being Healthy for Busy People).Credits: Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: Famous Patrick | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #247 – Peter V. Brett Interview / Unrequited Love | Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo!Pick up the ebook for only $2.99 until May 8th!This week I run part 1 of the Peter V. Brett interview from World Fantasy Con, and talk about how to handle unrequited love. (In a story, I mean; I can't help you handle it in real life.) Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange other world around him. With help from the ghost, an enigmatic White Woman, a Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque gathers the tools to confront the ghost of his dead father. But sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous - and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW 246 – Feedback | It's another feedback show!Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo!Pick up the ebook sale for only $2.99 until May 8th!Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange other world around him. With help from the ghost, an enigmatic White Woman, a Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque gathers the tools to confront the ghost of his dead father. But sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous - and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him.ISBW #24600:28 State of the Mur: still fried, but hopeful. Keep tweeting/blogging about #ISBW to be entered into contest with prizes by Surly Amy. SF Signal received two Hugo nominations for Best Fanzine & Best Fancast (produced by ISBW's Patrick Hester!) 03:06 Sponsor: Picking Up the Ghost -- read up to 4 chapters free by solving puzzles on author Tone Milazzo's website 04:35 FEEDBACK: bundles of resources on Writer's Digest; deciding how much cutting is enough; looking for new fiction in niche sub-genres; picking battles when asked to modify story for publication; pacing for discovery writers; identifying & solving plot holes; Kurt Vonnegut quote -- " No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them, in order that the reader may see what they are made of."(emphasis added); listener asks why Playing for Keeps didn't count as a "pro sale" for Campbell nomination purposes; writing short stories to specific word counts; researching novel locations via Google Earth; switching from discovery writing to plotting mid-project / writing advice from Holly Lisle; conventions re: who a 1st person narrator should be addressing; struggling to get words down at the start of a project; BookLife now under new management; introverted vs extroverted writers.Credits: Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: Famous Patrick | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #244 – Feedback | Another feedback show, including a special talk with James Patrick Kelly about workshop etiquette! | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #243 – Andrew Mayer and Jon Sprunk interviews | Hey everyone! We have a double interview for you, two Pyr authors Andrew Mayer and Jon Sprunk! And we're doing a contest for Andrew's book! Tweet about I Should Be Writing during the week of 4/12-4/20 and get a chance to win in a random drawing! (US only, please. Sorry, international shipping kills more people than cigarettes do.)Tag your post #ISBW so I will be sure to see it, and say what you get out of ISBW! (And follow me, if you like, @mightymur) | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #242 – Feedback | Feedback wants YOU for the US Army!Also, you folks really hate it when one of your own gets beaten up in a workshop. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #241 – Scott Sigler Interview | We have a sponsor this week! Check out the Kickstarter for I Am Convicted.ISBW #24100:32 State of the Mur: work, stress, usual; pieces of novel sent to mentor. 02:28 Sponsor: i am convicted: a story of reinvention & the american prison system 03:36 Literary critiques, unconstructive criticism, and Other People's Opinions. References: Christopher Priest on the 2012 Clarke Awards shortlist, the Charles Stross "Internet Puppy" T-shirt, Murakami's 1Q84. 25:18 Sponsor: i am convicted Kickstarter campaign 25:39 Interview: Scott SiglerThe MVP and Nocturnal GFL series to be released in paperback by Diversion Books The Reporter by Scott & Mur Working as an independent author / running the business with A Kovacs The decision to bring on a business partner Upcoming tours Writing advice: it gets better. Reference: Ira Glass on "Taste." | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #240 – Feedback | It's a feedback show where we talk about what happens when your workshop isn't as great as you hoped it would be. In fact, downright unhelpful.ISBW #24000:29 Thoughts on the word "wannabe" as applied to new/fledgling writers 01:45 Promo: Paladin Corps. Book One 02:49 FEEDBACK: recovering from an overly-negative workshop experience; cheap or free word processing programs: consider Scrivener, Celtx, Google Docs, Scribd; conquering fear that time is your enemy in publishing; double-spacing for queried pages/submissions.Credits: Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: Famous Patrick | 4/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #239 – Vylar Kaftan Interview | Hear my World Fantasy talk with Vylar Kaftan, and some discussion on your antagonist's POV.ISBW #23900:33 State of the Mur: hitting deadlines; writing & Kung Fu & regular life; obscenity issues, Neil Gaiman on free speech & the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 07:43 Promo: Functional Nerds Podcast 08:32 Plotting the novel from the antagonist's POV 20:53 Promo: The Twisted Geeks 21:36 Interview: Vylar KaftanAnalyzing submission statistics Tackling uncommon, darker, more challenging & controversial subject matter "Do you write the things you truly want to write? Then you're not a coward." Analyzing diversity statistics On the short story format & using nouns and verbs more effectively (suggested reading: Ken Rand's The 10% Solution) Vylar's writing formula [to be posted shortly] Bibliography, Vylar on Escape Pod Advice for new writers53:12 Promo: All Things TrekCredits: Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: John Anealio | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #238 – Feedback | Feedback likes ice cream. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #237 – Dan Wells Interview / Characterization | Another World Fantasy Con interview- this time with Dan Wells of Partials and Writing Excuses! This episode has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/isbw for a free trial membership*.Audible® Free Trial Details * Get your first 30 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one credit. In almost all cases, one credit equals one audiobook. After your 30 day trial, your membership will automatically renew each month for just $14.95, billed to the credit card you used when you registered with Audible. With your membership, you will receive one credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. If you cancel your membership before your free trial period is up, you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing cycle. See the complete terms and policy applicable to Audible memberships. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #236 – Feedback | Feedback, feedback, tra la la...Here is the link to iTunes U mentioned in the program. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #235 – Step 1- be a pro / Howard Andrew Jones Interview | With all of the angst going on with new writers not knowing what to do, you wonder why they don't use the web more often. After I grump for a bit, I talk to Howard Andrew Jones, and then later, off mic, I discover I used my internal mic, not my good mic, so I swear loudly at how bad it sounds. You don't have to hear that, though. Sorry Howard! | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #234 – Feedback | It's time for another Feedback show! | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #233 – Connie Willis Interview | I got a chance to talk with my idol, Connie Willis, at World Fantasy Con last fall! | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #232 Feedback Show | Catching up on feedback! | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW #231 – Jeff VanderMeer Interview | I'm back onto my schedule, interview with Jeff VanderMeer today, feedback later this week! | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ISBW Special #46 – Stonecoast Writer’s Residency | As I mentioned, I'm going back to school, and this is from the middle of my January residency. I'm tired and loopy and with other students. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Mur Lafferty,First Lady of Pod-Casting
This is IT. The one stop shop for everything MUR! All the stories,All the writing advice, All the Geek Fu you can handle, PUNK! Check out the new installment of the Heaven series "Wasteland" some of her best writing yet!
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I've been listeing to Mur since GeekFu Action Grip, and have always loved her fiction and her essays. I love listeing to everything she puts out, some more then others but I am listing to everything. I own a copy of Playing for Keeps and would love to own a copy of Heaven when some publisher finally comes to their senses and prints it for us. Thank you Mur but I should go now, because I should be writing.
