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CE (Catie) Murphy
@cemurphy.bsky.social
Writer, mostly of novels. She/her. CatieMurphy.com for aaaaalllll the books. Please join my newsletter, too! https://BookHip.com/BZQWLZL
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Hello, new followers! Lovely to have you here!

I write in MANY GENRES as CE Murphy, Catie Murphy, Murphy Lawless, and Zoe Chant. catiemurphy.com for details!

There's usually less knitting & more politics, writing, & anecdotes around here, but I'm mostly on a social media break atm. Still, welcome!
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Me: *eats a lot of junk food tonight after a long spell of not eating much junk food*

Also me: I wonder why I don't feel very good.
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Cover artist Fakel Barros isn't on bisky, but DIDN'T SHE DO AN AMAZING JOB??? 😍😍😍😍
I was reading the Negotiator Trilogy to get them sorted for release later & chapters 17-25 of HOUSE OF CARDS are one of my favorite bits I've ever written 🥰 & I decided I COULDN'T STAND IT & have MADE THEM ALL AVAILABLE NOW!!! #booksky #urbanfantasy #romantasy

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I remember having a UBI. It was called “living with my parents,” and I had all my food/shelter needs covered, plus free access to a (shared) TV, music, books, a library card, cars I could borrow and more.

I still worked drudge jobs, because I wanted to buy lots of comics and take girls to movies.
Always grinds my gears when people say "No one would work drudge jobs if there was a UBI"

But even staying completely capitalist, I disagree. If I received a baseline living-wage UBI, and then I was offered REWARDS for drudge jobs, I'd take it! I want to save up for treats and travel and hobbies!
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Petition to add another 6 weeks to the year, please. I don't know what happened to November, but it gone.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I was reading the Negotiator Trilogy to get them sorted for release later & chapters 17-25 of HOUSE OF CARDS are one of my favorite bits I've ever written 🥰 & I decided I COULDN'T STAND IT & have MADE THEM ALL AVAILABLE NOW!!! #booksky #urbanfantasy #romantasy

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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And if you have to do QE, you give it to ordinary people to pay off their debt rather than feeding it into the ravenous maw of the financial system; that’s better all round, in the end.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The first Tale of the Underdark! From 11/25-12/2, Moon’s Knight is on sale for $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, through these retailers. books2read.com/moonsknight
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
i wonder if i'm too old to retrain as a pilot have a job that lets me travel and have a pension
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

...I'm probably safe, but there's going to be at least one international incident rising out of this...
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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(American) Robins are pretty enough birds, and they often pose nicely in bright sunlight, but every time I get a shot of one that's looking at the camera they always look pissed, or at the very least deeply disappointed.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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No, I'm fine, just something in my eye....
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I need a street team. >.<
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Necessary wordcount, Project 1: 2195
Necessary wordcount, Project 2: 2348

it's fine. it's fine...
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I was reading the Negotiator Trilogy to get them sorted for release later & chapters 17-25 of HOUSE OF CARDS are one of my favorite bits I've ever written 🥰 & I decided I COULDN'T STAND IT & have MADE THEM ALL AVAILABLE NOW!!! #booksky #urbanfantasy #romantasy

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
hands are weird
FORESHORTENING HANDS! To get the FREE monthly How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just tap the link in the bio HERE: @etheringtonbros.bsky.social
#anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #illustration
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
oh my GAWD. #TheDiplomat
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I've been remiss in promoting this, but there are NINE Zoe Chant books free through today!

www.zoechant.com/thankfulfors... for all of 'em

www.amazon.com/dp/B09MGD2DR... for mine, A CHRISTMAS LIKE NO OTTER :)
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I've done, idk, 15 or 20 of these little mannequin style torso drawings, and know what? Annoyingly? I'm much better at them after that few numbers of repeats than I was when I started. How annoying is that? #CatieDraws
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I mean, not to be obvious, but... :)

(no, no, i'm NOT going with amageddon/deep impact, tempting as it may be)
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
...I've now had both @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social's OCTOBER GIRL graphic novel and @elfquest.bsky.social's new edition of the OQ book 4 delayed indefinitely by Amazon Ireland. Absolutely incredible. Not good. Just incredible.

I think I'll go back to using the German site.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Minimum necessary wordcount: 2381, overlooking the fact that I am 100% not finishing this at 80K. But I also don't have the moral fortitude to up the anticipated wordcount to what it probably is, not right now.

In point of fact I've done 3100 words so far today, but 2k was on another project. :p
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The theme for #BirdOfTheDay by @alan678.bsky.social is #warblers, so here's another shot of the yellow warbler I saw in Aruba.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I've been remiss in promoting this, but there are NINE Zoe Chant books free through today!

www.zoechant.com/thankfulfors... for all of 'em

www.amazon.com/dp/B09MGD2DR... for mine, A CHRISTMAS LIKE NO OTTER :)
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'm not entirely sure there is any lore. I planned to be a writer since at least age three. Possibly age two. And now I am. :)
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the inconvenient thing about having blog subscribers to whom new blog posts are emailed is when i screw up and accidentally post something i meant to schedule, they all know about it. 🫣
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM