Today I turn 44, and I’m returning to one of my most enduring birthday traditions: posting god-awful birthday selfies designed to worry my Mother about the kinds of content that gets put up on the internet. It’s the first of these that I’ve done in a log while, largely because 2019 and 2020 where incredibly […]
Brain Jar Press launched issue 2 in The Kaleidoscope’s Children earlier this week. It’s shiny, in a LoFi kind of way; a 14,000 word novelette about unlicensed bootlegs, murder-happy fans, and family legacies being discovered. All in all, this is a very different beast to Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We […]
The second Keith Murphy Urban Fantasy Thriller hit the shelves yesterday. Revised and revamped since the 2015 release, Frost is a sleeker and tighter short novel than it once was. If you’re on the fence about giving Keith a try, I’ll direct you to my favourite review of the first edition over on Goodreads: This […]
Print copies of The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta landed in my mailbox today, and they’ve come up rather beautifully for a thirty-page chapbook. About half the very short print run are already spoken for, heading off to various friends and authors I’m courting for future projects who wanted to see how the chapbooks […]
I just did the Brain Jar Press newsletter and realised I’d put together four new releases across January: Exile, a new short story collection, a new chapbook in the Short Fiction Lab line, and the chapbook edition of The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta. Amid the chaos of January, some of these didn’t even […]
As you may have surmised from the posts of the past few days, EXILE is out today. It also ends my first real experiment with a planned, structured series of content heading into the launch cycle. It’s been an experience, and one that I’m glad to have attempted, but I’m glad to be reaching the […]
…and I’m slightly geeked out about getting Exile out there. The Admiral, of course, is reacting to my excitement with her customary savoir faire. That said, it’s possible she hasn’t yet made the correlation between book sales and the ability to buy her crunchy food. Keep this in mind when you decide where to put […]
The ebook files have all been uploaded and the print proofs have been approved, which means the re-release of Exile is on track for Wednesay. I talked about the secret emotions and work that hides behind the word “re-released” in relation to this book over on the twitters. I won’t repeat the entire thing here, […]
A year ago, around Xmas time, I released Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Black Dog: A Biography as reader magnets for Brain Jar Press. For those not immersed in indie pub terminology, reader magnet is short-hand for books/stories I give away for free, so as to entice readers into paying for other work/signing […]
And lo, my urban fantasy thrillers about an occult hit-man running home to the Gold Coast in order to duck the start of Ragnarok will hit digital shelves once more in January 2020. Keith Murphy is back, yo, in a shiny new edition you can pre-order now. Keith Murphy’s coming home to a city full […]
What do you do when your date tells you Ragnarök starts next Tuesday? Logan expected his date with Stina Lorne to be a disaster, quickly ending after dinner when they acknowledged she was out of his league. Instead they went for a long drive, then a walk along a familiar beach. In fact, everything seems […]
Preorders for One Last First Date Before The End of the World are now live on the usual retail sites, and its on sale at the shiny, dedicated fan price of .99 cents (US) for the next thirty days. What do you do when your date tells you Ragnarök starts next Tuesday? Logan expected his […]
