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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 75

Anything Goes Sundays:
Imagine an alternate Playing For Keeps (released August 25! ) universe where there are no heroes, just people with really lame superpowers. As the most powerful people in town, they form factions/gangs. The city falls into a somewhat lame, yet terrifying, gang-driven world.
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring [...]

13Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Buy Brave Men Run, Support Small Press and Podiobook Authors (It’s a good book, too)

Today Matthew Wayne Selznick releases Brave Men Run on Amazon via my publisher, Swarm Press. We’re working on driving the book up the charts big time on Amazon (latest check it was #111 in Books), and Matt’s been busting his ass all day on Ustream reading original fiction by me, JC Hutchins, Matt F’n Wallace, [...]

13Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 74

First Sentence Saturdays:
The meeting of the Young Ladies’ Baking and World Domination Club came to order as usual, but because Miss Peabody was out sick, this time the meeting had to be chaperoned by Coach Wilkins.
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring an idea for you to take and do with what [...]

12Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 73

General Stuff Fridays
People think that there’s one Sandman who puts people to sleep and gives them dreams. Nope. Dreams are fabricated by humans; but once they’re dreamed, if they’re not harvested by the dream keepers, terrible things can happen. They make songs about how your dreams can come true, but do your really want that?
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11Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 72

Scenes Thursdays:
I went out to visit the prayer grove yesterday. It used to be a prayer tree, a holy yew where we hung our wishes to the gods. But ever since the local youth were conscripted to go to battle, the tree has expanded to the grove that surrounds it. I saw the shaman there, [...]

10Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Is NfP a challenge?

Some people think so. Jeff Hite contacted me and said he’s doing a story a day for 30 days based on the News From Poughkeepsie - today is the first day he’s doing this. Considering I have a bad habit of posting late, he’ll be a day behind me, but be sure to check it [...]

10Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 70

Settings Tuesdays:
The world of My Pretty Pony is one beset by war and strife. Their society started innocently enough, with the branding of the young ones with cute icons, but later those brands became akin to gang signs, and the ponies would group together based on nothing more than signs. Astronomical signs vs water signs [...]

9Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 69

I should have come up with a better post for today, it being 69, dudes, but it’s late and i’m frustrated at audio. This time it’s totally my fault, not Audacity. So it’s a new frustration. Fresh.
Character Sketch Mondays
Percy is a man who wears turtlenecks with his business suits and always has his hair [...]

7Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s my mantra in ISBW?

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SUCK. Ira Glass says so:

Course, he says it in a more eloquent way. Cause I still suck in some ways. But that’s OK. I’m working through it.

7Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 7 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie Returns! - Day 68

Anything Goes Sundays:
Some of my favorite ideas have come from my inability to type. There’s the whole “superherpes” thing that came up time and again during the writing of Playing For Keeps, as “p” and “o” are right next to each other. I was chatting with someone about queries the other day and accidentally typed [...]

6Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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