Category: CEMurphy

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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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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Looking Back: 2025

January 1, 2026

I did more creatively in 2025 than I expected, if for no other reason than I started drawing again, which just kind of happened rather than being A Plan. And also 450,000 words written, and as one of my Patreons pointed out (and I’d have forgotten!), making foam armor for my son’s Halloween costume, and…the smallest bit of knitting, too. It was a very creative year, all things told! Novellas written: PEACOCK ON PARADE, OUTFOXING FATE, GORILLA IN THE GROOVE, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS CHIMERA Novels written: THE…

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Release Day: Owl Be Home for Christmas

December 8, 2025

My Virtue Shifters Christmas novella, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is available now! FURTHERMORE, for four days only – Monday, December 8th through Thursday, Dec 11th – all the Virtue box sets are ON SALE! This sale is the perfect opportunity to introduce yourself (or someone else!) to the Virtue Shifters, or indulge yourself in a cozy holiday re-read of a dozen* happily-ever-after romcoms! Whoo-ooo says you can’t go home? Owl shifter and romcom-film-star Kayla Walsh never intended to come home to Virtue, but it’s the perfect small town for…

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