Writing

Her Side Part 3, Personal Effects, and personal news

Hey everyone! I have posted the latest part of my collaboration with JR Blackwell: Her Side Part 3. I do the words, she does the photos, and we hopefully tell a compelling and twisted little story.
And remember, if you like these amazing photographs and (hopefully pretty good) writing, you can enter a drawing to win [...]

23Jun2009 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued

New Collaboration Project: HER SIDE

I have been in cahoots with the amazingly talented JR Blackwell for a while to launch a new project. It’s called “Her Side”, a multimedia storytelling experiment. Over ten weeks, we will release a new puzzle piece of the story every Tuesday – a written story and a photograph that illuminate the twisted coming of [...]

11Jun2009 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued

New Suicide Girls, and Mur Endorses Personal Effects: Dark Art

My new Suicide Girls column is live, it’s about getting into Alternate Reality Games.
I finally heard about ARGs in 2007 and became fascinated by the idea. See, an alternate reality game is a game that claims it is not a game, but has a central narrative, often on a website or within a novel, with [...]

Personal Effects: Dark Art vlurb: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (678)

8Jun2009 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued

Fingertips: Wreck My Car

Fingertips: A Flash Experiment, is a project where I’m writing a different flash story for each bit of the They Might Be Giants’ “Fingertips” songs from Apollo 18. See info here.
This story is dedicated to my friend Doc Blue. And I’m attempting something closer to chick lit than science fiction. Don’t hate me.
Come On [...]

29Apr2009 | Mur Lafferty | 16 comments | Continued

New Short Story: Mother Sponge

I recently had another short story published through Hub magazine: “Mother Sponge.” It’s a futuristic take on food, rituals, religion, and the deaths of loved ones.
Hub is FREE and weekly and I highly recommend it. They’re a paying market, so donate if you can. They’ve allowed me to put the PDF in my feed to [...]

Hub Magazine #83: Download (1719)

15Apr2009 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued

Fingertips: I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow

Yikes! Over a month since I posted the last Fingertips! Bad Mur! Fingertips: A Flash Experiment, is a project where I’m writing a different flash story for each bit of the They Might Be Giants’ “Fingertips” songs from Apollo 18. See info here.
I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow
Eric had had dates end [...]

15Apr2009 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued

Latest Mur-around-the-web news

New Suicide Girls article is out! I throw the gauntlet down to Peter Sagal of NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
I co-narrated with Shaun Farrell the fabulous story from Clarkesworld, Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story written by Jay Lake and Shannon Page. (Link directly to MP3, for when the story slides off the front [...]

6Apr2009 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued

Heaven Season Five: War – Get the Inside Story!

Long-time listeners of Heaven will know that the promised final season of the series, War, has been pushed back about six months. I’m currently writing it, after outlining, and it’s going well. I have some awesome things planned, including custom art by Natalie Metzger! I have it slated for a June 1 release.
(And hey, if [...]

16Mar2009 | Mur Lafferty | 10 comments | Continued

Fingertips: Who Is That Standing At My Window?

Fingertips: A Flash Experiment, is a project where I’m writing a different flash story for each bit of the They Might Be Giants’ “Fingertips” songs from Apollo 18. See info here.
Who Is That Standing At My Window?
Princess Penelope Peppermint was the softest, prettiest, most delicate princess in the land. Knights flocked to the land [...]

11Mar2009 | Mur Lafferty | 5 comments | Continued

Mur on Drabblecast!

Readers of the Fingertips blog posts will know I do like dabbling in flash. I recently sold two pieces to the podcast market Drabblecast! Both stories are about pie, and those who hunt them.