C.E. Murphy's Blog, page 93
June 4, 2014
what i did :)
As several people have asked, I confess that the weather was utterly miserable last night and so I stayed home and watched two more episodes of s3 Continuum, which continues to be a show that makes me happy. (It has a female lead in a role that 10 years ago almost certainly would have been a guy. She’s a ‘strong’ character in that yes, she’s kick-ass, but she’s also fragile and scared and determined and angry and loses her temper and makes mistakes and-you know, basically acts like a human be...
June 3, 2014
work night
Tonight is a work night and I have no idea what to work on. I’ve finished revisions on STONE’S THROE, so I don’t have to worry about that. The next major project up on my docket is my nephew’s book, so that would obviously be the smart thing to work on, but I’m in one of those headspaces where I’d like to do something quick and fun just to get something *written* so that I feel all “woo go me look how much I got done!” :)
I have a short story to write that would fit that bill, except I haven’t...
June 2, 2014
Ah! Chance!
Ah!
Fernando Granea, one of my Take A Chance artists, sent me this for my birthday!
*happy dances*! :)
I have got so much comic stuff I want to do. Should be doing. Need to do. In my copious free time. Ai.
(Seriously. A Chance-world prequel. A concurrent-to-Chance story. ElectriCity. That girl-and-her-dragon idea from years ago. I just wish I knew what the hell to do with *Chance*…)
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Oh, Jay.
I was supposed to write a book with Jay Lake.
Back in the day–I think, in fact, that it was the first (and somehow possibly only, but no, that can’t be right) time we met in real life, at World Fantasy in Saratoga Springs–this whole discussion about the speed with which Jay and I wrote came up. We got this idea to do some Stunt Writing: we’d get together someday and write a book together, ideally in the front window of, say, Borderlands in San Francisco, with a giant screen above our heads so...
May 30, 2014
SHAMAN RISES winners!
The winners for the Walker Papers Favourite Moment contest are as follows:
On Facebook:
Melissa Presti
Kat Bonson
Sam Dailey
On Twitter:
@Antiqueight
@amelia_book
@coyotedreams
On mizkit.com:
Kaat Van der Jonckheyd
Julie Fore
Sam Berthiaume
On LJ:
idancewithlife
ikontinct
On G+
Rochelle Herrick
On Goodreads:
Nikki
I tried to pick all-different moments, and I have to say, guys, this was the best contest I’ve ever run. You all remminded me of moments I loved in the books, and many of you chose moments I’d total...
May 29, 2014
almost there!
I’m working on revisions for STONE’S THROE, and have successfully revised the opening chapters into vast improvement. Better yet, though (because I’d always known what I needed to do with those chapter), I’ve figured out what I need to do to fix the other problematic part of the book, and am now proceeding to do that.
I’m all curious how many readers here actually participated in the Kickstarter to get this (it was the Spirit of the Century project 2 years ago, and how many are waiting to buy...
Recent Reads: The Legend of Eli Monpress
Look, the odds were stacked against me ever reading this series. First off, the edition I saw turned out to be an omnibus edition, and I don’t like reading omnibuses (I like a story to finish at the same place the book does, if that makes sense. (Furthermore, while I was putting the books into Goodreads I discovered the odds against me reading them were even greater than I’d imagined, as I didn’t care for the single-book covers at all, so if I’d encountered *them* instead of the omnibus I may...
May 26, 2014
The Hachette Job
For those of you who have not been following along–and frankly, I have no expectation that the larger percentage of my readers will be, because it’s a topic that at best affects them from a distance–Amazon is trying to force publishing house Hachette to agree to more-favorable-to-Amazon contract clauses.
They’re doing this by:
- not listing Hachette titles
- setting Hatchette title prices at (sometimes extraordinarily) high price points to discourage readers from buying them
- setting shipping da...
things make a post
Rogue hoodie. I will obviously be getting one of these. I’m tempted to also get the Captain Marvel one, but as someone on Twitter pointed out, what they really need to make is a reversible Rogue/Carol one. :)
I gotta stop going into Chapters Bookstore. Every time I do, I come out with more research material. :) The last foray netted me A BRIEF HISTORY OF KHUBILAI KHAN for an upcoming project and THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE ARCTIC for the climate change series I’m not writing.
May 24, 2014
Picoreview: Days of Future Past
Picoreview: Days of Future Past: YAY
There was not a moment of completely suspended disbelief the way Nightcrawler’s opening scene in X2 took me in, but that was a thoroughly enjoyable film and had a moment *almost* that good. I want to see it again!
Spoilers right through the end of the movie behind the cut, so don’t click through if you don’t wanna know. :)
The almost-that-good moment was Quicksilver’s big scene, which was laugh-out-loud funny in places and did a beautiful job of showing off h...
