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Congrats to Mur!

Last week, I was having Korean BBQ for lunch with some friends from work. We started talking about superpowers, and whatever happens to the people with extremely minor powers. Like, say, the ability to instantly eliminate smells from your clothes and hair, so that you wouldn't come back from lunch smelling like spicy pork for the rest of the day.

Or, I said, like a waitress who could tap a customer on the shoulder and remove the effects of drunkenness?

Yeah! my friends said. How come nobody tells stories about those people?

Oh, have I got a book for you! I said.

At Viable Paradise, I was privileged enough to see an early draft of Mur Lafferty's Playing For Keeps, and right away it was clear that this manuscript was a winner. If you can't wait for the release date in August, you can still get the whole book for free, in PDF or podcast form. As for Mur -- I couldn't be prouder of you and all the hard work you've put in to make this happen. You rock.

In tangentially related news: all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ is one of the truly great gastronomic experiences, but having Korean BBQ twice in the span of seven days is... inadvisable.

Posted by Evan Goer on May. 31, 2008 at 9:28 PM | Comments (7)

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You know, it's bad enough that Mur just delivered Playing for Keeps in a killer podcast, then sold the manuscript. But then she goes and podcasts the zombie/office sitcom The Takeover on top of that. Will she ever let me catch my breath?

I hope not. Well done, Mur. Go Eagle Go.

Posted by Dave on Jun. 04, 2008 at 1:30 PM
You know, as if it wasn't bad enough that Mur Lafferty delivered Playing for Keeps as a killer podcast, then sold it to Swarm, now she's podcasting the zombie/office Takeover. Will she ever let us catch our breath?

I hope not. Go Eagle Go, Mur!

Posted by Dave on Jun. 04, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Hey, you're not doing too shabby yerself. :)

Posted by Evan on Jun. 04, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Aw man, you nearly made me cry. You know your support was instrumental for me to keep going on this book. Thanks so much.

Posted by Mur on Jun. 06, 2008 at 6:37 AM
Sorry to interrupt this blog, but what's this about Takeover? I hadn't heard about this one...

I still miss Geek Fu Action Grip, I hope Mur finds time to revive that at some point.

Posted by Pete S on Jun. 06, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Well, Mur's superpower is the ability to extract 28 hours from the day, where the rest of us only get 24. So if she can't fit in Geek Fu Action Grip again in addition to all her other projects, it must be physically impossible.

Posted by Evan on Jun. 06, 2008 at 7:34 AM
Pete- The Takeover is an audio drama I just launched about zombies in corporate America. www.zombinc.net

Posted by Mur on Jun. 06, 2008 at 8:04 AM

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