I now have two half-written posts, one about health care reform and the other about representations of characters on book covers sitting in my drafts folder, and apparently I just don’t have the heart to even risk stirring up debate today, because I can’t make myself finish and post them. They’re topics near and dear to my heart, too, so it’s sad that I’m feeling so gun-shy. So this is a mostly metrics post. I’ve only got 80ish miles to go to Minas Tirith, and I keep being appalled that…
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hey!
Apparently Chance #5 is out today! YAY! That’s the last of this story arc! Holy cow. End of an era, there, at least for me. And of course the graphic novel will be the *real* end of the era, I guess, but wow. Wow. Damn, congratulations to me! And to my team! Go us! Also, because there has apparently been a big fat fail on the acknowledgments in this issue, I’m going to say this here: I would like to extend my deepest thanks to my husband, Ted, for having…
Contest winners!
My goodness, what a lot of people threw their names into the hat for an early copy of WALKING DEAD. The winners are Jhada Addams from Facebook, starfallz/ from LJ, and The Other Lisa from mizkit.com! If the three of you will please email me your snailmail addresses with WALKING DEAD WINNER ADDRESS as the subject line, I will get those books out to you this week. My email address is cemurphyauthor@gmail.com. Thanks for participating, everybody. That was fun. :)
oh right
Right. If it wasn’t obvious from that last post, I got copies of WALKING DEAD, book 4 of the Walker Papers, in the mail today. Throw your name in the hat (ie, leave a comment) and I’ll draw 3 numbers & send the corresponding commenters a copy of the book. :)
officially impressed with myself
Periodically people (, particularly) want to know what it takes for me to be satisfied/impressed/pleased with myself/my accomplishments. Here is the answer: My first book came out 4 years, 6 weeks ago. Including the comics as one unit, what you see there are 15 books with my name on ’em. Today, I am officially impressed with myself.