C.E. Murphy's Blog, page 48

there’s a million things i haven’t done

– mail voter registration stuff
– finish YoM line edits
– go over AF galleys *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAY*
– shake down the crabapple tree
– process crabapples
– make crabapple jelly
– perhaps make crabapple jam
– but just you wait
– make raspberry jam for octocon/etsy
– make strawberry jam for octocon/etsy
– make hot fudge for octocon/etsy
– make FUDGE for octocon
– order this wig? for octocon because reasons
– order/have made a Stetson Aviatrix (Peggy Carter’s hat)
– email isbn info to isbn lady
–...

we have amazing friends.

this morning i came home from dropping indy off at school and ted, looking very emotional, said, “come into the kitchen and see what our friends have done.”

a little befuddled, i went into the kitchen, and there saw a large box and thought, “oh! yes, one of them said they would send a few–” and somewhere around that point a started to realize that there were two large–*large*–boxes, crammed full, and…

this is…i just…i don’t even know where to start. they organized a care package of Food We C...

hamilton au

There’s a part of me that wants to go check out all the Hamilton fic that I’m sure exists, all the alternate universes where things went…better. And the rest of me is like NO NO NO because that way lies doom.

But there’s also the part of me that keeps thinking of the Neil Gaiman bit where somebody is talking to a late 20th century Earth person & says something to the effect of, “Who’s President? Ah. Clinton? And Bush before him, and Reagan…? Ah. Yes. You live in one of *those* timelines…”

And...

history lesson, via #Hamilton

Me: *sings* My name is Alexander Hamilton!

Indy: Who’s that?

Me: He’s one of the people who fought the Revolutionary War and helped start the United States of America. He built the banks.

Indy: *wide eyes* Revolutionary War?

Me: Yes. You know how in 1916 in Ireland there was a revolution? The United States had one of those in 1776, a very long time ago.

Indy: Did Ireland have any more revolutions?

Me: Yes, in 1921. That’s when they obtained their independence from Britain, which is the same c...

PokemonGo

Indy and I went on a Pokewalk this evening. Won the local gym back (at great cost, half our Pokemon fainted!). We’re *terrible* at Pokebattles but Indy seems to be learning to embrace the “we’re doing it for fun not for winning” thing, which is great.

and OH OH OH DO YOU KNOW WHY #POKEMON’s MAGIKARP IS SO HARD TO EVOLVE THERE’S AN AWESOME REASON!

turns out there’s a Japanese legend abt a fish determined to climb a massive waterfall. keeps trying, keeps trying, keeps trying. all the other fish...

that start-of-school feeling…

I’m suffering from that start-of-school-year feeling that I should run out and Improve Myself! Study Spanish! Learn sign language! Take a photography class! Do yoga! Take an art class! Start swimming! Get an anthropology degree! Find voice classes!

me: instead of trying ALL THE THINGS i should, idk, do one and actually stick with it?
my brain: WHAT A TERRIBLE IDEA

brain: you’re not being creative enuf
me: i’ve pubished 2 books & started a new pseudonym this year
brain: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR...

bras & weight loss

I have, through no particular effort of my own, lost somewhere between 20-25 pounds in the past year. Mostly it’s just that I’ve been eating less. Not well, certainly, just less. Not exercising more, either. Just eating less. Basically for the first time in my life I’ve been stress not-eating instead of stress eating.

Anyway, so I’ve lost a fair amount of weight, and my bras have not been fitting well at all.

So a week or two ago I bought new bras, and people suddenly started saying, “Wow, y...

Attack Kickstarter: Atlantis Fallen print edition!

I’d told everybody I didn’t want to run a Kickstarter for the ATLANTIS FALLEN print edition until I at *least* had REDEEMER off to the editor, to whom it went a couple of weeks ago. Then it turned out that both my cover artist and book designer were free to turn a project around quickly, so I have launched a SUDDEN ATTACK KICKSTARTER!!!

It’s a super low-key Kickstarter by my standards: it’s got one simple goal, which is financing the ATLANTIS FALLEN print edition.

Why Kickstarter? Because I’v...

Deirdre’s 40th, Mark Twain

Yesterday was actually Deirdre’s birthday, so we had a party for her. I’d just arrived in Dublin when Ted got a call saying our wretched escape artist dog was loose, which seemed goddamned impossible because he’d been IN THE HOUSE but no, no, he was loose, he’d figured out how to open the back door ane made his escape, so I had to come tearing back from Dublin to get him and bring him home and lock him in more thoroughly and then go rushing back in to Dublin. I have never made the walk from t...

Launch Day: RAVEN HEART!

I’m completely delighted to announce that my so-fun-to-write little billionaire shapeshifter novella RAVEN HEART launches into the big brave world today!

RAVEN HEART on Amazon!

RAVEN HEART on Barnes & Noble (Nook)!

RAVEN HEART on iTunes!

RAVEN HEART on Kobo!

A curvy woman determined to protect her town, a raven shifter protector with secrets to keep, and a beast out for his own profit add up to an action-packed romance!

Curvy political activist Elena Peratrovitch has only one passion: keepin...