Mur Lafferty writes:

I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract to release Playing For Keeps with Swarm Press! Swarm is an imprint of Permuted, the small horror press, and is launching this summer with three superhero titles, PFK being one. (For podcast fans, Matthew Wayne Selznick's Brave Men Run is another title coming out from Swarm.)

This is fantastic news for Mur and for everyone that's followed PFK via I Should Be Writing since its inception.

Congratulations Mur! I'd raise a glass of gin in your honour, except I can't stand the stuff, frankly. Oh well. There's a bottle of single malt somewhere that'll do as a substitute.

Slightly behind the times, I thought I should spread the word of the News from Poughkeepsie, a new project from the Mighty Mur Lafferty.

To quote the Murster herself:

I’m going to blog an idea a day for 1 year. It will usually be in the form of a blog post, but it may be in the form of an audio or video podcast, delivered to you if you’re subscribed to the Murverse feed.

You can find said feed through the Murverse site. Go, read, enjoy, make use of (the ideas are under a Creative Commons attribution license). They've already got my idea cogs turning. Now all I need to do is find the time to put them to use (and also to stop my developer mind from using the brainjuice first; that bit's a real battle).

Mur Lafferty, podcasting goddess, has created a site for her new free podcasted novel Playing For Keeps, the first instalment of which is set to go live on November 1st.

Based on the quality of her previous work it's sure to be a blinder, so I suggest that you all go and subscribe and wait, breath baited, for pearls of auditory goodness to rain from your speakers. 

Mur Lafferty, writer, podcaster and tiara-wearing queen of wannabe writers is putting Geek Fu Action Grip on indefinite hiatus for reasons which I have no business repeating here (go there, use ears, understand).

I first came across Mur and her work when, Googling for writing resources, I found I Should Be Writing. I subscribed to Geek Fu some time after that. Mur's great gift is in making one feel like an equal, no matter the subject matter. Geek Fu will be missed, though I'm glad that ISBW will continue since it gives me a great deal of motivation (and also acts as an archive of those bits of advice that I need to have repeated to me constantly).

For more of Mur's work, such as the highly acclaimed Heaven and Hell podiobooks and their successor, Earth, take a look at geekfuactiongrip.com and ishouldbewriting.com.