Famous Author CE Murphy with Famous Rapper Daveed Diggs

Worldcon 75: Day Three

The astute among you may notice that Worldcon is over but I’m only just posting Day Three. This is due to a combination of things, firstly that in a fit of idiocy (fun, but idiocy) I was out until 3am Friday night/Saturday morning and was not prepared to write a blog post at that time, and secondly and far more annoyingly, that I wrote this whole damn post up last night, telling myself all the while that I needed to C&P it because it wasn’t going to post properly, and…

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cover for Heart of Stone

Recent Reads: HEART OF STONE

I’m re-reading the Negotiator Trilogy, which I haven’t done since (before) they were published. I’m doing this so I can write KISS OF ANGELS, which is set (at least partially) after the trilogy, and in some ways I have only a vague idea of what the books are about. I mean, obviously I know what they’re about, but… Some of you may know that the reason I haven’t written more book-length Old Races stories is that writing the Negotiator Trilogy was…awful. Just awful. Like, I had a small nervous breakdown,…

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2016 work schedule

Want to know what I’m doing this year? Or at least, what I’m trying to do? Here. Let me tell you! Publishing MAGIC & MANNERS I’m in the very last stages of getting MAGIC & MANNERS out into the world–the last bits (the ISBN bar code, mostly) are being generated for the cover, it’ll be handed off to a professional to convert it into e-books, and it’s the first book I’ll be publishing through the Ingram self publishing system, which will theoretically make it order-able in bookstores all around the…

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ad design is hard

But worthwhile in the end. I have spent a significant amount of the last 24 hours working on an ad for my novels which will go in the back of Chance #1, and I’m pretty happy with the result. The result, mind you, is illegible at size, so this clicks through to a GREAT BIG HUGE version of the ad which is legible. :) – create an ad for Chance #1 – email Rich the stuff he asked for – email *more* to FPI – send photo to CI guy…

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