Category: CEMurphy

Cover for The Queen's Bastard

Inheritors’ Cycle update

February 3, 2014

Further to this post, I have some things to report about the Inheritors’ Cycle. Not irregularly, people ask me if I’ll be doing more of them. I’ve been seriously considering pursuing that, but I just got royalty statements on them, and it’s clear that unless I could be absolutely certain of getting the books into bookstores, it would be a waste of my time. THE QUEEN’S BASTARD has sold about 1800 copies in e-book and THE PRETENDER’S CROWN has sold about 1000. Assuming that at the best I’d match TPC’s…

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The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 13-16

February 2, 2014

Dammit, I knew I was going to be bad at this, which was why my basic intention was to read the books all at once and set up posts ahead of time with my commentary to autopost on the appropriate days. Life, however, hasn’t been enormously accommodating in that regard (February will, I swear, be better), and obviously I haven’t been very good at getting things posted. I did finish *reading* SUMMER TREE, but oi, We’ll be starting THE WANDERING FIRE this week, with chapters 1-4 up on Tuesday. Or…

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Magic & Manners: Chapter Four

January 28, 2014

In celebration of the 201st anniversary of PRIDE & PREJUDICE’s publication, I humbly submit for your reading pleasure the fourth chapter of MAGIC & MANNERS. Yeah, okay, so I was going to do this as a crowdfund, and I got the project page all ready, and I was going to launch it last night and I had a terrible spasm of “maybe this isn’t a good idea.” So I delayed the launch, and this morning I’m more able to interpret the spasm as “push that button and this becomes work,”…

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The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 9-12

January 24, 2014

You know how you have those days where you’re sure that you’ll manage to have time to do that thing so you don’t let people know that you’re not doing it that day because you’re going to have time even if it’s at the last minute, and then it’s three days later and you haven’t done it because you kept being sure you’d have time and Yes, I thought you were familiar with that. This is why the post for chapters 9-12 is so late. I’ve caught up on the…

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Cover reveal! Campaign live! STUFF!!!! :)

January 22, 2014

First off, my sister’s Indiegogo campaign has gone live! It’s actually an insanely awesome project *aside* from some of the reward levels being stuff from me: she’s writing, directing and producing a musical (seriously, my sister is amazing). The campaign page is here! Ah, but what’s it about? Let me quote the page: Anti-Captialism: The Musical! is large scale theatrical narrative using circus and music. It a fairytale, set in a near future political reality similar to our own. It uses aerial acrobatics, plot twists, assassinations, and intrigue to tell…

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