Ted and I went into Dublin today to see Paul Cornell, who was in to Dublin for the day to do a signing at Sub City Comics. Getting off the train, we discovered we were walking alongside Brian S. from P-Con, to whom I said, “Brian. Brian! Briiiiaaaan!” He ignored me entirely until Ted nudged him (later he said, “I did hear you, but I couldn’t imagine anybody would be talking to me! I mean, who would I know in the train station getting off the train from Sligo?”), and…
Tag: walker papers
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. :)
oh right
Right. If it wasn’t obvious from that last post, I got copies of WALKING DEAD, book 4 of the Walker Papers, in the mail today. Throw your name in the hat (ie, leave a comment) and I’ll draw 3 numbers & send the corresponding commenters a copy of the book. :)
officially impressed with myself
Periodically people (, particularly) want to know what it takes for me to be satisfied/impressed/pleased with myself/my accomplishments. Here is the answer: My first book came out 4 years, 6 weeks ago. Including the comics as one unit, what you see there are 15 books with my name on ’em. Today, I am officially impressed with myself.
I have been experimented upon!
Yesterday I got an interview request email from someone who’d just read URBAN SHAMAN, which isn’t all that unusual. They mentioned that picking it up was the result of an experiment they were running, which is entirely unusual. It was all very mysterious, with no explanation of what the experiment *was*, just a promise that it would be explained in the review post. So I answered the questions, and a report and interview is now up at GeekTreasure.com. It’s actually a pretty damned interesting experiment, I think, and not just…