The Old Races Short Story Project has been delivered to its patrons complete with a cover, patron acknowledgements, table of contents, all sorts of exciting things, in .epub and .mobi formats. And I did this one ALL BY MYSELF! …so if there are horrible mistakes, there’s no one to blame but me, which may be the down side to doing it myself. :) If you were an ORSSP patron and haven’t gotten your epub/mobi file, or need it as a PDF, email me (cemurphyauthor at gmail dot com) and let…
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Hot good god damn!
Tor Books has just announced it’s going DRM-free on all its e-books. I am so freaking filled with squee over this that I cannot *tell* you. DRM (digital rights management) is one of the things that permits Amazon to have a throttlehold on e-book sales: you can only buy a Kindle book for a Kindle reader, which means if you ever change e-readers you have to either re-buy everything or (realistically) go to the trouble of cracking/converting the DRM, or (even more realistically) pirating the books. But Tor is firing…
Magic & Manners
With apologies to Jane Austen, I present to you MAGIC & MANNERS, which is what happens when I get it into my head to wonder what PRIDE & PREJUDICE would be like if it was not a lack of wealth that beleaguered the Bennet sisters, but rather an excess of magic… (ETA: oh, that’s insane, it actually is Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day, wherein people post free fiction. I’d forgotten that was on Shakespeare’s birthday. How clever of me!) That each and every one of Mrs Dover’s five daughters was afflicted…
*laughs*
*laughs* Possibly the most-fun in a totally silly way thing about Twitter is that one occasionally communicates with people one has no expectation of ever communicating with. To wit: an actor I follow (the guy after whom Morrison was accidentally both named and described, actually) said “thanks for all the birthday wishes”, hence alerting me to it being his birthday. Being a clever wit, I said “Oh hey happy birthday!” to him, and he said “oh hey thank you!” back. This is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things,…
thinks to do today
– sign contract #1 – sign contract #2 – see if there are any other contracts i need to sign >.< - finish boxing up those papers - get deirdre to babysit for 30 minutes - go to post office - don't eat any junk food - start revising "year of miracles" - make bread – do laundry – try to remember the thing i sat down to put on this list initially :p