[DD] What Do You Do When Your Books Don't Sell?

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[DD] What Do You Do When Your Books Don't Sell?

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Sep 23, 2021

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Mur and Matt welcome back the Godmother of Ditch Diggers herself, Gail Carriger! Gail wanted to talk about what happens when you're a pro and your books don't sell. What avenues do we have? Gail's books Mur's GODMAKER race No streaming the week of September 20

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Sep 23, 2021

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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.

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