Playing For Keeps available for print from Swarm Press, Aug. ‘08
Sick of these announcements yet?
I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract to release Playing For Keeps with Swarm Press! Swarm is an imprint of Permuted, the small horror press, and is launching this summer with three superhero titles, PFK being one. (For podcast fans, Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run is another title coming out from Swarm.)
The book will be out late August, just in time for DragonCon. Everyone who has watched the lifespan of this title will know how thrilled I am about this- especially since I had pretty much decided the title was done.
Details: You can still get the PDFs and the audio files from the website and feed, but the POD version of the book has been retired (for obvious reasons.) But if you were an early supporter of my work and purchased PFK in the POD form, and you continue to support with a purchase of the Swarm title, my publisher and I have something cool for you. Stay tuned. We’ll be building the marketing machine back up this summer, things should get interesting.
It’s been a hell of a week. Truly. I’m going to have some gin now.
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Congratulations Mur! I’ll be buying my copy as soon as they become available.
Congratulations! I just love PFK. I’m so glad you and your work are starting to get the recognition it deserves.
Freakin’ awesome Mur. I’m so happy for you!
That… is… freaking awesome. I’m getting mine when August rolls around.
Oh my gawd!! Congrats!!
Wait, this means I have to buy another copy of PfK. Oh hell, why not?
Congratulations oh Mighty One! You certainly deserve this. I’ll promote the hell out of it on the blog soon as release date is known. This is so very cool! Can’t wait to get a copy.
Congratulations! I look forward to buying PFK, and hopefully get it signed at Dragon Con.
Congrats, Mur. You can count on me for continued support.
More awesome news!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congrats, Mur! I was such a slow listener that I didn’t get to buy the POD of PFK, but this latest version… It shall be mine, oh yes, it shall be mine.
You are beyond my hero and well into being… my uberhero…
That is fanTAStic! I can’t wait to pick up copies of both Playing for Keeps and Brave Men Run. w00t! I’ll have something to get signed at D*C!
Congratulations Mur! I’m lifting my Keepsie’s Bar shot glass to you right now!
Fantastic news Mur!! Congratulations. You deserve it! I’m sure it’ll be the first of many published titles from you.
Awesome news! I’d say you definitely earned that gin. I look forward to having another edition of PfK to grace my shelves.
I’ve pretty late to the game as I just listened to the audio version of Playing for Keeps beginning to end yesterday and I thought it was fantastic!
I will be sure to buy your book the moment it is in print!
Congrats Mur!
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That’s fantastic news! You’re going to have to change your intro for ISBW — I don’t think you can keep calling yourself a “wannabe” fiction writer after this.
That’s so awesome! ^_^ Congrats!
Congrats, congrats, congrats!
Woot! It’s about frakking time someone in the publishing industry woke up and saw the glory of the Dark Mistress. All hail the Mur, for she is mighty!
Awesome. When I started listening to ISBW I noticed the book on the sidebar and I thought: Wouldn’t it be great if this book she is talking about writing in these earlier episodes got published? That would make a good story. Congratulations!
Hello Mur! I just read on the Permuted Press/Swarm forums about your book being released by those good folks. Congratulations! I’ll be ordering it ASAP/PDQ/EIEIO.
I’m so happy Jacob is releasing this!
Mike
That’s fantastic Mur, congratulations! I’m looking forward to spreading the word and picking up the book.
-Michell
Awesome, Mur! You’re just chocked full of good news lately, eh? I can’t wait to buy a copy and add it to my bookshelf.
Sooooooo… what’s that mean for Balticon ? POD retired. I’m guessin’ Swarm not quite up to a full head of steam. No bookie on hand ? Drat.
But this is major. Two of my favorite New Media authors on the same imprint. Major kudos !
This is superb news. I’m going to mail it to all the sci-fi worshipers and wannabe writers here in the UK. Can we get copies here in August too?
Gin: If you can find it, “Plymouth Gin” is the best over here, and I recommend it with lime.
‘Kay, I’m done.
Congrats again.
This is such great news! You’ve worked so hard for this and totally deserve it. Congratulations and I’ll definitely be buying!
Congratulations! You’ve totally got my money come August.
Yeah! Congrats.
YAY!!
So very cool.
When I heard the news I felt sick to my stomach. Another “Johnny come lately” bobs up, trading on her looks and obscene wealth to steal a contract from we deserving writers. Honestly, what have you done to deserve this? I have been crafting my manuscript for ten years – ok, only eleven weeks of that has involved actual writing – and ok I don’t have an ending and the middle is a bit thin, but the first line, baby, it’s a killer (you see the story starts out on a night that’s kind of dark and there’s thunder and rain and stuff – yes, you could call it stormy).
Do you know even the first line to your Booker acceptance speech? Do you know the proper welcoming when Royalty attend your book reading? Well some of us do, some of us have been putting in the hard yards.
Let’s just leave it there. I have wasted enough on this – I still have to finish photoshopping the French and German versions of my cover.
(I could not happier Mur – very, very deserving).
Great news…… Does that mean that we might seen Playing for Keeps 2?
Mur, I’m glad to hear this! I can’t wait to get my hands on a
copy. I love your writing style so much! What I like best about
your form of writing is that you are really, really good at establishing the atmosphere of your story. You make all the little
details interesting, which is a rare talent.
I just started listening to Heaven, and so far I’m as hooked as I
was on Playing for Keeps. You’re an awesome artist (and that’s what
your writings are, really), and I wish you all the success and
recognition you deserve. Keep writing and I’ll keep listening and
reading!
By the way, it would be awesome if you’d make a limited number
of autographed copies available for purchase. Just a thought.
Thanks for all the well-wishes, I’m overwhelmed. To answer questions -
Yes, if PFK sells well, I will write PFK 2.
Cameron, I don’t think I’m eligible for the Booker. Isn’t that a UK award?
Gary, I like Plymouth gin very much, but Hendricks is my favorite, and Beefeater Wet is the holy grail of gins that I can’t get in my home state.
Doug- email me.
Thanks everyone!
Suggestion; feel free to ignore it, but instead of Playing For Keeps 2, the title ought to be another pun based on Keepsie’s name.
Of course, I have a soft spot for pun names. My friend Nate’s superhero book is called Less Than Hero, and I thought it hillarious. of course, I myself had pitched to him when he was still thinking up a title that he should call it Holding Out For A Zero, but hey, maybe you could do somehting with that title.
How about ‘Keeps’ Sake?’
“Finders Keepsers”
You Just Keeps Me Hanging On?
OK, that was a bad joke, I’m sorry.