Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY dear Esmerel, Silkblade, Fahri, Novella, Morgan Freeman, Marilyn Monroe, Superman and MEEEEEEEEEE! Happy BIRTHDAY TO US! For my birthday, I offer you the opportunity to go buy THE OLD RACES: ORIGINS short story collection! (I know, I’m so thoughtful. :)) at Amazon at Barnes & Noble At Smashwords at cemurphy.net (PDF only) Why PDF only at cemurphy.net, you ask? After all, don’t I get basically ALL the money if you buy it direct? Well, yes, I do. But if you…
Author: mizkit
1 jillion things to do
I am considering dying my hair. I know, I know, the excitement! The trouble is to do it properly today would take two go-rounds, and I don’t know if I feel like being that thorough. :) Things that must get done today: – email the writers’ centre – rattle with impatience for Amazon & BN to get ORIGINS online – notify BYD ARC winners that they won: The winners of the BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER ARC give-away are as follows: Mylia Scribe-Jones Elise Julene Tuck B. Ross /Mela_Lyn If all of…
Pride & Prejudice
Having now re-read the book and re-watched both the BBC miniseries and the Kiera Knightley film, I must say… …both productions really did a stupendous job of adapting the novel. Differently, obviously, because the BBC had 6 hours and the film 2, but really, I think they both did really, really well. Huge amounts of side-story were cut for the film, but the basic story came through intact, and I liked Knightley’s Elizabeth as much as I liked Ehle’s. And I’m *awfully* fond of Matthew Macfayden (if Panzer & Davis…
beginning of the end
One of several billion work projects down: I have written & turned in the proposal for the final Walker Papers book. Working on the synopsis gave me some heart palpitations as I considered who I was going to have to kill. #gulp Now to pare down the very long list of things to do and choose one that seems Most Important Now, to accomplish over the next 3 days.
my boring life
Apparently my life is sufficently boring that I can’t think of anything to blog about. I have to draw winners for the BYD contest, but since I already blew my first deadline on that and there’s a long weekend coming up in America, I think I’ll wait until next week. In the meantime, random things: I believe this is very much the sort of thing the phrase “Oh, snap!” was invented for: Back to back questions presented to Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson. *laughs* My wallet died, so I…