CE Murphy.net Newsletter: September 2009
C.E. Murphy
WALKING DEAD, book four of the Walker Papers, has been released!
Seattle’s a great place to live…if it weren’t for the undead.
For once, Joanne Walker’s not out to save the world. She’s come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she’s been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she’s got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.
But it’s Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne’s party. Now she has to figure out how to break the spell that lets ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there’s no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead.
And if they have anything to say about it–which they do–
No one’s getting out of there alive.
It's available at all fine bookstores, Audible.com, Amazon, and lots of other places as well! Go forth & get your copy!
To go along with WALKING DEAD’s release, my web guru, Laura Denson, recently did a recording of “Rabbit Tricks”, the Walker Papers short story that fits chronologically between COYOTE DREAMS and WALKING DEAD. Check it out here: http://cemurphy.net/voice/rabbittricks.mp3
My longtime friend and writing partner Sarah Palmero also did a two-minute voice recording from THE QUEEN’S BASTARD: http://cemurphy.net/voice/TQB.mp3
I think both of these are pretty damned cool (if utterly bizarre, because wow, really weird to hear someone else reading my words!), and would like to thank them both profusely for doing these and letting me post them publicly!
“Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, the Old Races novella I wrote for the people who commissioned it, has been sent out. If you were one of the commissioning members and haven't received your copy of the story, please contact me immediately (cemurph...@gmail.com).
For those who didn’t join the fundable commission the first time through, the novella will be available to purchase in February 2010, after which it’ll go off the market permanently until it finds a traditional publisher.
And I just noticed several of my books have been nominated as contenders for 101 Best Fantasy novels. I have to admit that given some of the company (which ranges from Lloyd Alexander to Diana Wynne Jones with all points between), I feel my presence there is a bit ludicrous, but also quite wonderful and I wouldn’t mind making it onto somebody’s top 100 list, so if you wanted, you could go vote: http://101fantasybooks.wordpress.com/vote-for-101-fantasy/ (And my thanks to whomever nominated me, how cool!)
Until next month--
-Catie