beginning of the end

One of several billion work projects down: I have written & turned in the proposal for the final Walker Papers book. Working on the synopsis gave me some heart palpitations as I considered who I was going to have to kill. #gulp Now to pare down the very long list of things to do and choose one that seems Most Important Now, to accomplish over the next 3 days.

impatient!

Now that I have learned to make e-books I want to do ALL the Old Races stuff RIGHT NOW and get them up for people to buy! NOW! NOW NOW NOW! …except I haven’t edited “YoM”, I need cover art for it and ORIGINS, and I need to write one or two stories for AFTERMATH. Curses. :) Been thinking and examining the whole self-pubbed e-book pricing and stuff. In retrospect, it’s possible Faith Hunter & I should’ve set “Easy Pickings” at a $3.99 price point. Wondering whether wordcount or story…

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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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*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,…

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And one go alone…

I have just submitted the 2nd to last Walker Papers to my editor. I feel faintly sick now. I’m on the last leg of a 12 year journey now, and…wow. Just wow. Holy crap. I realized a few minutes ago that there’s one mistake in SPIRIT DANCES: the last lines should be “to be continued in RAVEN CALLS”, rather than whatever it says (tune in next time, I think). RAVEN CALLS does say “to be continued”, and MOUNTAIN ECHOES’s last words are “to be concluded in the final book of…

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