One thing I’d like feedback on–should I reinstate the right column Out Now material? The header banner covers it now, but that only brings up one item at a time, whereas the right column could have all of it. Maybe below the Twitter feed but above the tags?

While converting IMMORTAL BELOVED (the Highlander novel I wrote about 15 years ago, which is now available in PDF, epub, mobi and HTML versions), I also rediscovered CENTENARIAN, the first chapter of a book that doesn’t exist.

You can email me at cemurphyauthor AT gmail DOT net. :)

I have 700 readers on LJ (and no idea how many hit mizkit.com or cemurphy.net). I have 1200 followers on Twitter and a thousand on Facebook (and a couple hundred on G+). I’m sure there’s plenty of crossover amongst those followers, but the point is, there are 300 people on the mailing list.

Clearly something is wrong here. So I am running a drive to get people onto the mailing list. It really is the best, most coherent place to find out what’s up if you’re at all interested in my career. And in order to encourage people, I’m going to send books to one in every ten (chosen at random) people who sign up for the list by the end of July.

In the unlikely event I should reach the heady number of a thousand list subscribers, I will do something nifty like write an Old Races story just for list subscribers.

(yes, yes, you whiny butts who are among the first 300, I will probably do some kind of thing JUST FOR YOU too.)

You can sign up for the mailing list here. :)

I’ll either do two on Saturday the 11th and one on Sunday the 12th, or one on Saturday and two on Sunday. Either way, there will be a session at 1pm Eastern (6pm Irish time, 10am Pacific) on both the Saturday and the Sunday. On one of those days there will also be a 4pm Eastern session. You tell me whether the second session should be on Saturday or Sunday.

I’ll be creating a chat room for which I’ll post a link, probably 15 minutes before the Storytelling Hour begins. Then I’m going to spend an hour each time telling Gryphon Beach stories. I’ll tell at least one. I may tell two or three, depending on time. They’ll be off the cuff, and if you come in late you’ll miss the beginning. There will be no recaps.

I will not be posting the stories after they’re told, so the Storytelling Hours will be your only chance to hear them. I *will* be saving them for some sort of future publication, so eventually you’ll probably get a chance to buy them.

I hope some people show up to hear the stories! :)

IMMORTAL BELOVED: An archaeologist’s claim to have found Atlantis brings five thousand years of memories and missed chances back to Methos’ doorstep.

PDF version || EPub version || Kindle version || HTML version (in progress)

Enjoy. :)

In celebration, I will give one away! Leave a comment here at cemurphy.net (that’ll be a test, I guess, of whether the registration is working–if you have a problem, email me at cemurphyauthor AT gmail DOT com) and I’ll draw a winner early next week!

(eta: Registration should be working now: try going here, where the fine print offers an opportunity to register…)

It’s a pain, and I’m sorry, but the spam is driving me bonkers and my only other option seems to be turning off comments entirely. I don’t want to have to do that, so I’m going to try this first. Bear with me, ok? Thanks…