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Playing For Keeps Launch Day results
As of 11:00pm Eastern Time, Playing For Keeps reached:
#1 in Hot New Releases
#1 in Movers and Shakers
#1 in Science Fiction
#1 in Action/Adventure
#2 in Science Fiction & Fantasy
#2 in Genre Fiction
#3 in Literature & Fiction
#16 in Books
To say I’m stunned, humbled and grateful is an understatement. I expected to break the top 100. I hoped to [...]
Launch Day video 2
No, I’m not keeping up with Amazon. blame final cut. Blame it too for the dropped frames. BLAME EVERYONE BUT ME.
And it’s not Fidgert introducing the podcast (which is what the credits say), it’s Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit. Sorry, guys. the Fidgert video died.
Wheee. This is a rush. Latest Amazon rank- #20 in books.
My attempts to saturate the Internet with Mur continue…
New Suicide Girls column! A lot of people have asked me how I like my new Kindle that my mom got me for my birthday. Well, I’ll tell you… (standard caveat- possibly NSFW ads, SG is, pictorially, an adult site, but my column is clean)
I love tea, and I love podiobooks, not to mention a [...]
New Ink!
I’ve been wanting a new tattoo for a while now, and got the fabulous Ursula Vernon to design one for me last spring. It’s taken some saving up, and some finding the right time, but I finally got it done this past weekend. I’m thrilled with it, couldn’t be happier. Well. After it heals [...]
12Aug2008 | Mur Lafferty | 13 comments | Continued
Did you get your dose of awesome today?
Friday I had a fabulous birthday. I was joined in festivities by Jim and the Pink Tornado, who showered me with green jewelry and the promise of a subversive crafty kit to arrive in the mail, good friends CMAR and Laura, my nemesis Matt Fucking Wallace (also a child of the 25th), and Jason [...]
27Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 8 comments | Continued
More links links links
Maybe just two links.
Yeah, I went on and on about being part of 7th Son OBSIDIAN (heck, it was cool, what can I say?) and in the early days, back when I knew I was writing a story but no one else did, JC made a call for listeners to record videos during the blackout [...]
20Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued
Help promote PFK!
People have asked me how they can help with Playing For Keeps promotion. I was more than happy to comply with some art from some very helpful friends, JC Hutchins and Tee Morris. Feel free to take the ads, put them on your site, and link back either here or playingforkeepsnovel.com! (And if you want [...]
19Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
More Interviews
I was interviewed 7/16 by Hollywood Jesus - it was an IM interview, so if some of my answers seem a little stream-of-consciousness, that’s how I am in chat…
My interview with Gem from Time Well Wasted went live this morning.
More coming soon!
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 78
Macguffin Wednesdays:
Dump trucks have fascinated me - they’re huge, powerful, spraying rocks dirt on the road, destroying windshields and blocking vision. They’re usually too dirty to identify where they’re working, and most don’t even have license plates.
Is it just me, or is a dump truck the best spy/convict vehicle?
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily [...]
Latest SG column is live!
I went more for a straight feature with the latest column, pushing music (mostly comedic) that you can find online.
Stories about the RIAA bullying music fans are so ubiquitous it’s nearly becoming white noise. The association has been trying to kill ants with a hammer; when the blow strikes true, it’s devastating, but even as [...]
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Mur,
I suffer through the same thing and, while the trigger may be different, the result is the same... muscle spasms ...
Jason, yeah, mine are pretty mild, relatively, and sorry for your wife. I can get headaches that have me nauseated ...
I'm glad you've been able to find and kick some of the causes of your migraine headaches. There are ...
Gratefully, it sounds like you suffer from relatively mild migraines where you are still able to function even at a ...
It never ceases to amaze me how willing the podcast community is to help one of their own. I was ...
I just finished reading this last night (stayed up till 1:30 to do it) and i just wanted to ...
Hi Mur,
Just found your work this past week and love it.
Like some here I am from the North (Minnesota). ...
Thanks Mur and keep up the amazing writing. 
Hi. First, your cool.
Second, I agree on the tea issue and the mustard vineger barbecue. 2nd loop in Florance ...
When I sit down with my boss for my annual review, we go over the things I did and talk ...