Mur Lafferty

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Mur Lafferty

Mur Lafferty (born July 25, 1973 ) is an American podcaster and writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy .

Life

Lafferty studied English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . 2014, it acquired as part of the Stone Coast -Programms for Creative Writing the Master of the University of Southern Maine popular in the field of literature.

Lafferty with a live episode of Ditch Diggers at Worldcon 2017

Lafferty got into podcasting after listening to shows like Adam Curry's Source Code and discovering a new way of expression for herself. Her first podcast series Geek Fu Action Grip started in December 2004 and was about her love for geek culture and ended in 2007 after 103 episodes. In 2005 she started I Should Be Writing , a podcast about the difficulties of budding writers, for which she received the 2007 Parsec Award , which she founded in 2006 with Tracy Hickman and Michael R. Mennenga. In 2015 she started the podcast Ditch Diggers together with Matt Wallace , which is also devoted to literary problems, albeit more bluntly and directly and less related to creative difficulties, but to how one is paid as well as possible and on time for one's work. Nominated in 2017, Ditch Diggers won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2018 .

Lafferty has edited several podcast magazines and podcasts including Pseudopod (2006-2007), Soundproof Digest (2012) and Mothership Zeta (2015-2017). From 2010 to 2012 she was editor of Escape Pod , since 2017 again together with SB Divya aka Divya Breed. From 2010 to 2013 she edited The Soundproof Escape Pod .

Lafferty published his first short stories via Escape Pod in 2005, and I Look Forward to Remembering You appeared as the first story in print in June 2007 in Hub Magazine . The first novel Playing for Keeps was published in audio form in 2007 and in book form in 2008. In 2013 the urban fantasy novel The Shambling Guide to New York City was published . Zoe Norris is a young travel writer who wants to gain a foothold in New York and finds the perfect job - almost perfect, because it's about travel guides for monsters and similar creatures, and unfortunately Zoe is just an ordinary person. In 2014 the sequel Ghost Train to New Orleans followed , in which Zoe Norris comes to New Orleans not only to write another monster travel guide, but also to save her brother from becoming a zombie . Both novels won the Manly Wade Wellman Award in 2014 and 2015 . In 2018 she wrote the Solo , the novel version of Solo: A Star Wars Story .

She lives in Durham , North Carolina with her husband and a daughter .

Awards

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Afterlife (short stories)
  • 1 Heaven (2011)
  • 2 Hell (2011)
  • 3 Earth (2011)
  • 4 Wasteland (2011)
  • 5 War (2011)
  • 6 Stones (2015)
  • The Afterlife Series (2014, collection)
The Shambling Guides
  • 1 The Shambling Guide to New York City (2013)
  • 2 Ghost Train to New Orleans (2014)
Bookburners
  • Bookburners Season 1, Episode 4: A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Part 4 of 16) (2015)
  • Bookburners Season 1, Episode 8: Under My Skin (Part 8 of 16) (2015)
  • Bookburners Season 1, Episode 10: Shore Leave (Part 10 of 16) (2015)
  • Bookburners Season 1, Episode 13: Keeping Friends Close (Part 13 of 16) (2015)
  • Bookburners Season 2, Episode 5: Debtor's Prison (Part 5 of 13) (2016)
Novels
Short stories
  • Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers (2005)
  • Santa In My Pocket (2005)
  • I Look Forward to Remembering You (2006)
  • Citytalkers (2007)
  • Rex the Dog (2008)
  • Parasite Awakens (2008)
  • As Dry Leaves That Before the Wild Hurricane Fly (2008)
  • The Blueberry Pie (2009)
  • The Last of the Pie Hunters (2009)
  • Solitary as an Oyster (2009)
  • Zuzu's Bell (2010)
  • 750,000 of Your Friends Like This (2011)
  • 1963: The Argument Against Louis Pasteur (2011, Thackery T. Lambshead )
  • The Reporter (2012, Galactic Football League , with Scott Sigler)
  • PRODUCE 1: 1-10 (2014)
  • Save the Photophobic Hemoglobivores with the Sanguine Reserve! (2014)
  • In the Walls (2015)
  • The Crate Warrior, the Doppelganger, and the Idea Woman (2015)
  • Not for Nothing (2017, Star Wars)
Non-fiction
  • Tricks of the Podcasting Masters (2006, with Robert Walch)
  • Lessons From a Geek Fu Master (2006)
Role play
  • D20 Fright Night Haunted School (2004)

Web links

Commons : Mur Lafferty  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parsec Awards - About , accessed November 25, 2018.
  2. ^ Hall of Famers: Meet the Men and Women Who Changed Podcasting , posted by Christopher Hutton on June 19, 2015, accessed November 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ 2007 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists , accessed November 24, 2018
  4. ↑ 2008 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists , accessed November 24, 2018
  5. ^ Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame , accessed November 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lafferty, Mur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American podcaster and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1973