mostly metrics

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…

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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. :)