I was going to do a post about sustainable funding models and things, but this morning I stubbed the middle 3 toes of my right foot so hard I collapsed in tears and didn’t get up again for 90 minutes because it hurt so much it exhausted me. I was feeling pretty fragile and melodramatic, except I just looked at my middlest toe, which is black with bruising, so apparently I really did stub the holy living shit out of it and am not as pathetic as all that. I…
done & dusted
DEMON HUNTS galleys are finished and submitted. Now the question is whether to toss the manuscript or bring it to P-Con for the auction. (*looks at * :)) That’s officially the end of the Five Year Plan, which was all about getting as many books on the shelves over a five year period as I could. DEMON HUNTS will be out June 1st, five years to the day after URBAN SHAMAN. 10 CE Murphy books, 3 Cate Dermody books, a scattered handful of short stories & novellas, and a five-issue…
“Hot Time” update:
Please note!: You will need to click the “return to merchant” button in order to be brought to the download page, once you’ve bought your copy of “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”! Having not actually bought a copy myself, I didn’t realize that would be part of the process and so I didn’t know to mention it. Sorry for any inconvenience, and if you’ve bought but not received it, please email me (cemurphyauthor@gmail.com) and I’ll email you your copy!
many thinks to do
Couldn’t get comfortable enough to write on the train yesterday, so I haven’t reached 70K on the book, but that’s okay. We had an utterly splendid weekend in Cork and are very glad indeed to have gone. I will no doubt be posting fairly regular reminders over the course of the month about the “Hot Time” sale, but if any of my myriad friends and … well, I was going to say “coworkers”, except my life generally doesn’t work that way, so my myriad friends, then! If any of you…
“Hot Time” novella for sale!
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight a story of the Old Races “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” was and is an experiment in direct-market story sales and sustainable income models for writers. Commissioned in June 2009 by some fifty contributors, the planned 7500 word short story grew to a 23,000 word novella centered around Janx and Daisani, two of the most popular characters from my Negotiator Trilogy. It’s also a sequel to the online short story Five Card Draw, and part of a longer sequence of planned…