art project: 70 and counting

Aight, this wraps up my Udemy course, which, weirdly enough, I started one year ago today. Even if I hadn’t started doing this project, I’d still drawn more in the past year than I had in MANY MANY years, so all by itself that’s pretty satisfying, but this project means I’ve finished it, after buying it EIGHT YEARS AGO, and that I still have about thirty hours of practice in front of me. I thought the bricks turned out pretty cool in that one, and I’m informed the skull is…

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banner liberated from twitter user iPokemonGO :)

pissy about pokemon

yeah i know this is very niche and also childish and also by the time this posts i’ll be over it, but i don’t CARE, i’m PISSED at PokémonGo. PoGo is not a well-balanced game. Has not, traditionally been. It started with 40 levels, went to 50 after 4 or 5 years, and the grind to get from 40 to 50 was incredibly difficult, way way way too hard. You needed 5 million XP to get to level 40. You needed 176 million to get to level 50. Plus a…

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cycling: The Ongoing Bicycle Saga

The Ongoing Bicycle Saga has, I hope to GOD, reached its conclusion, she said in the wary tones of one who has been burned before. The goddamn thing was, as previously mentioned, clicking with every half-cycle of the pedals, and the chain went right back to falling off basically any time I shifted out of second gear. So in an act of last-ditch desperation I brought it to the other bike shop, who had been rude to me the first time I went in there so I didn’t want to…

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funny kid :)

Last week I gave Young Indiana the new Pokemon Z-A, which came out the week before. The next morning shortly after he got up, I said, “Have you emptied the dishwasher?” and he said, “I don’t know, have you run it again this morning?” I opened it and it was empty and, as I’d filled it at about 11:30pm the previous night, I said, “Oh! When did you empty this?” Indy, mumbling: right before i went to bed at 5 Me: What did you say? Indy, slightly more clearly but…

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The cover for CE Murphy's urban fantasy (modern romantasy) novel HEART OF STONE depicts a stylized green and gold stained glass window against a deep green brick background. The title, centered in the window, has a faint heart outline behind it, and below it are two stained-glass gargoyles facing one another. Cover art and design by Fakel Barros Studio.

Release Day: HEART OF STONE

HEART OF STONE returns! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome (back) to the world of the Old Races as NYC lawyer Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn’t just wanted for murder – he’s also a gargoyle! HEART OF STONE is available in e-book at Amazon, and will be available in print by the end of the month. (Sorry, dropped the ball on that one.) Very excited to have this back out in the world and very much looking forward to bringing the rest of the series…

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