Time is growing short to buy Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight“, the Janx and Daisani novella of the Old Races. It’ll go off the market at the end of February, and it’ll be years before it’s seen again. Surely you want to be one of a mere hundred or so people who’ve read it, right? I’ll even post the teaser again (behind the cut), just to whet your whistle a bit. :)
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confidence, fear, knowing what you’re doing…
A friend of mine posted a few days ago about her constant struggle with confidence and fear. Her post was mostly just an “argh, this is hard” vent sort of thing rather than being something in search of deep profound commentary, but it happened to cross with a rather terrific article entitled “Nobody Knows What the F*** They’re Doing” that another friend posted via Facebook, and it’s all apparently inspired me to write something about, well, confidence and fear and the appearance of knowing what you’re doing. I’m not sure…
thud.
‘k. Have gotten through WAYFINDER and written all over the manuscript. Making the edits almost certainly won’t take more than the weekend. Found one distinct problem which I think I can take care of relatively easily, and another one which…may not be exactly a problem. Not sure. I’ll let my agent and editor tell me if it needs work (and I’m suuuure they will :)). I’m at the stage where, as I said to Ted last night, “Well, either this is a reasonably decent little book or it’s utter crap.…
someone asked…
Someone asked if I could create a page for my blogs which lists the year’s upcoming releases and what I’m working on now. The former, especially, is probably a good idea, particularly for cemurphy.net, but experience tells me that I simply never, ever remember to update a “what I’m working on now” page. There are three reasons for this. One is that I talk about whatever I’m currently working on on mizkit.com, which is where all the daily grind for life as a working writer gets posted. I mean, it’s…
small triumphs
I turned out to lack the enthusiasm to watch a movie (how is that even /possible/?) and have spent a while dorking around with Photoshop and working to convert a few more pictures into kitsnaps format. In so doing, I managed to finally find the right combination of PS tools to turn a couple of old photos into what I always thought they /should/ look like, or much closer to it, so behind the cut are two photographs from Athy, Ireland, in January 2006, immediately after I got my Nikon…