*clears throat*

Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY dear Esmerel, Silkblade, Fahri, Novella, Morgan Freeman, Marilyn Monroe, Superman and MEEEEEEEEEE! Happy BIRTHDAY TO US! For my birthday, I offer you the opportunity to go buy THE OLD RACES: ORIGINS short story collection! (I know, I’m so thoughtful. :)) at Amazon at Barnes & Noble At Smashwords at cemurphy.net (PDF only) Why PDF only at cemurphy.net, you ask? After all, don’t I get basically ALL the money if you buy it direct? Well, yes, I do. But if you…

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ORSSP fwoomp!

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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Old Races short story collection answers

I should have been smart enough to answer these without having to be asked, but somehow I wasn’t. :) There will be 3 Old Races collections coming out in epub this summer. The first, OLD RACES: ORIGINS, will contain five of the Old Races Short Story Project stories, all set long before the Negotiator Trilogy: » Salt Water Stains the Sand, a story of the djinn which is also available as a free read on my website; » The Death of Him, a story of the selkies; » Falling, a…

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Crowdfunding: “ORSSP”

This is the landing page for my second major crowdfunding project of 2011, the Old Races Short Story Project. I’m posting it here and now because The Rose & Bay Crowdfunding Award is open for nominations, but it’s also a really good way to do a year-end round-up and look at what I’ve accomplished in non-traditional publishing methods over the past 12 months. So on to the ORSSP write-up! Project Proposal: I set out with a goal to to write 6 short stories set in my Old Races universe, to…

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