a cool half mil

October 14, 2026

I’ve always wondered if I could, if I really buckled down and focused, write five hundred thousand words in a year. Turns out I can. O_O Last calendar year I did about 450K, which was by several tens of thousands my best writing year ever. But from November 2025 through April 2026, I was insanely busy, and while the months since have been less insane, they’ve still been busy enough that…well, I just cracked half a million words written since November last year. In twelve months. Under twelve months. In…

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feh.

October 8, 2026

For those of you who have the blog posts sent directly to you, sorry: I didn’t mean to announce my return to blogging by publishing the updated Murphy Lawless reading order, which was not finished and was not what I intended to say “Hi, I’m alive!” with. I’ve unpublished it and it’ll go live again in a few days when I’m actually finished, but, uh, hi! I’m alive! o.o

Theodore "Teddy" Logan, my Call of Cthulhu character, as depicted by Keanu Reeves in A Walk In The Clouds.

Call of Cthulhu: An Enemy Falls – But At What Cost?

March 31, 2026

We’re back for our Call of Cthulhu game, and the shitteth hath hitteth the fan. Eth. If you will recall, in our last adventure, we finally found Jack Brady, source of (we hope) many answers – and then our loyal young local bodyguard, Li, SHOT HIM. Somerset, attempting to heal him, rolled a critical success – only Somerset is in truth the evil bastard Edward Gavigan, who unbeknownst to us, has shapeshifted into Somerset – and VERY NEARLY SUCCEEDS IN KILLING BRADY! Only Caliope‘s magical interference saves him, at great…

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A green banner for Octocon 2026, featuring pictures of the guests of hono(u)r, CE Murphy and Adrian Tchaikovsky. October 3 & 4, 2026

EVENT: Reading & Interview tonight!

March 26, 2026

GUYS! EVERYBODY! I ALMOST FORGOT TO SAY! Tonight, Thursday 26 March, at 8pm Irish time (4pm Eastern/noon Pacific), I’m doing a THING! A live reading from BONE & BLOOD along with an interview and a Q&A! It’ll be livestreamed here at YouTube! This is part of my GoH activities for Octocon, the Irish national SF convention, which is the first weekend of October in Cork, Ireland this year. The reading and interview are open to all, with the following Q&A being for Octocon members – but online members count, and…

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A banner featuring a forest background, with the cover of CE Murphy's upcoming BONE & BLOOD to one side. The text reads, "There is a story of a widow woman and her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, who were the most perfect and darling little girls who had ever lived. This is not—quite—that story."

Release Day: BONE & BLOOD

March 12, 2026

There is a story of a widow woman and her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, who were the most perfect and darling little girls who had ever lived. This is not—quite—that story. BONE & BLOOD, my newest retold fairy tale, is out on Amazon Kindle today! (The print edition is on its way! I’ll make another big fuss about that! :D) This is my first proper CE Murphy book out in ages, and I’m really excited and hopeful about this one. I think it’s good! I mean not…

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