CE (Catie) Murphy

Yep. It's the right thing to do. And I'd hope everyone will understand.

the inconvenient thing about having blog subscribers to whom new blog posts are emailed is when i screw up and accidentally post something i meant to schedule, they all know about it. 🫣

Explain to everybody who's waiting on anything that your very old cat is lying on your chest and you'll get back to them when you can. <3 :hugs:

*Bless* you for that!

ME TOO! That's the key bit, really!

Download a free story & join the CE Murphy newsletter! The ad had said Do you believe in the SUPERNATURAL!?! in a woo-woo font that would make anybody credible roll their eyes and turn the page. A few years ago that’s exactly what I would have done. But b...

I'm working on my newsletter for the month (yes yes no time like the last minute, i know, i know) & suddenly wonder:

What entices YOU, a potential reader, to newsletters?

(mine's here, free Walker Papers/Greywalker crossover story at the link! bookhip.com/CZZCVNT)

she didn't have to come for me like that

give me my vinyl and my typewriters, man

i mean i don't really want to write books on typewriters, that'd be a real pain in the ass. but also...maaaaaan!

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

This is a lovely article.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I love this line: if we restored the famous tower of Pisa to a fully upright position, "then it wouldn't be itself."

It's simple and true and beautiful. We love it because it leans. It wouldn't be its own special self if it didn't.

oh thanks <3 :)

I wonder who could have written this book. 🤔

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX2V218...

mamy birbs!

Karloff asking to be played by George Clooney here

TIL the humidity bit on the weather app indicates the amount of water the air IS holding relative to the amount of water it CAN hold at the current temperature, which is how it can say 88% humidity while my skin is melding to my bones and my eyeballs are sucking into my skull in search of moisture.

Having finished @beautifulduckweed.bsky.social's MAGNIFICENT "The Tsar’s Indecent Hot Sauerkraut Wrestling Ring: Hot Cabbage Rampage" fic, I am

1. going to read everything else she's ever written, now, &

2. at 87 books for the year. Goal of 104 is SO CLOSE!

archiveofourown.org/works/33342418

Hooray!

you know what, if i ever do a web comic i might have it update just on saturdays and sundays bc all my other stuff updates during the week and there's never any new web comics on the weekends. :)

ohhhh i am paying for my delicious but unwise food choices this week...

I loved The Lost City. What a love letter to Remaining Romancing the Stone. 😍🥰

On my way

IT'S SO GOOD

I'm 70% done with this and it's one of the best things I've read read this year. It's fucking brilliant. I'm in love. I've been reading bits aloud to my beleaguered family. 😍

I love it so much. It's so good-hearted. 🥹

I got back on my bike for the first time in almost all month today (weather & writing retreat were not in cycling's favor) & I was wondering how your swimming was going!

Libtards aren't showing them the civility they desire, is that it?

The man is right.

lemme just take that nasty dark meat away from you, then. i'm HELPING. :)

Turkey is amazing and peoples' inability to cook it well is baffling. It's just not that hard.

I had one day where, for reasons I still don't understand, I listened to it on repeat for an entire 80 minute train ride.