2016 in under the wire

A couple days ago my writer friend Tim Pratt said he couldn’t do his year-end round-up of what he’d written yet because he might still get that last short story finished. I was working on a comic script and felt similarly. I managed to get the script done, in fact, just now. It’s for my artist nephew whose birthday is tomorrow, and I genuinely don’t know if he’ll draw it, but I promised him I’d write him something and now I have, so mission accomplished. I got a huge amount…

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The Numbers Game

I gotta get “Easy Pickings” onto Smashwords. We’re at about 1200 sales via Amazon now, and a couple hundred on BN, plus around 500 (maybe more) from our combined websites, so we’re doing not too badly, I’d say. But I should get it on to that last platform and, er, well, see if it’s *worth* it. Which leads into the blog about numbers post I’ve been meaning to do, so lemme hit that real quick: Readers often ask me where they should buy books from, whether I get the same…

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most awesome friends

My friend Mary Anne sent me a photo of THE PRETENDER’S CROWN in the wild at a Borders in DC. I have the most awesome friends. :) Look at it there with all its C.E. Murphy friends! *wriggle* :)