CPMurphy's Blog (6)

I've featured a few great writers on my blog, Julie Shapiro, Nelson Pahl, and now Shiela Stewart. The excerpts she has sent me have been wonderful, too wonderful to hand out to my readers all at once. To keep readers wanting more, I'm going to be posting her excerpts every other week until all 3 have been posted.

So be sure to head over to my blog, found on my website, www.booksbycpmurphy.com and read the first excerpt from Shiela's…

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For the past two days, I've been writing until my fingers turned numb just to say that I'm participating in this years National Novel Writing Month. So far, my word count is just shy of 4 thousand. I suppose I'm doing ok but yet to me it doesn't seem like much; maybe because I'm just starting. Anyone else taking part this year? What are your thoughts? What are you writing about? Curious minds want to know!

I've never had a problem figuring blogs out for my everyday life; blog quite a bit on myspace for my family and friends, even had one on blogger.com for a while there. But then I wanted to set one up that is professional, about writing, about books, publishing in general. My website comes with WordPress which seems ok but I'm definately not high tech enough to figure this stuff out on my own and could use a little help if there are any angels viewing this.

What am I looking for? A…

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About a year ago I received one of those infamous chain letters in the snail mail. You know the kind, send me a dollar and remove the top person off the list so that you can add your address and within weeks you'll be a millionaire! Yeah right! I knew right away that I wouldn't be sending anyone any money or sending out hundreds of the same letter out again. But, I had a thought. There were 6 names and addresses on the letter. Who these people are, I had no idea. What they do for recreation,…

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I've decided to start a newsletter to keep my readers, or anyone else for that matter, updated on what is going on with my writing career or my book. Of course I'll still hang out here, cause its such a cool place for writers! LOL Anyway, if you are one of the interested, please head over to my website and subscribe to the newsletter. www.booksbycpmurphy.com

Well I've been telling myself that once school starts I would have time to sit and write another book. My youngest starts preschool and that gives me 2 1/2 hours a day to myself. Not a lot of time, I know, but much more than I had before. So I was all set...until now. School begins in my town tomorrow and instead of being anxious to write, I'm a ball of nerves. Its a mixture of knowing the time has come to start another project and the fact that my 'baby' is off to school. I'm on the edge…

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