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    Playing for Keeps was delivered via podcast in audio and PDF form and will be available in print from Swarm Press August 25. It tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

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Playing For Keeps available for print from Swarm Press, Aug. ‘08

Sick of these announcements yet?

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.)

The book will be out late August, just in time for DragonCon. Everyone who has watched the lifespan of this title will know how thrilled I am about this- especially since I had pretty much decided the title was done.

Details: You can still get the PDFs and the audio files from the website and feed, but the POD version of the book has been retired (for obvious reasons.) But if you were an early supporter of my work and purchased PFK in the POD form, and you continue to support with a purchase of the Swarm title, my publisher and I have something cool for you. Stay tuned. We’ll be building the marketing machine back up this summer, things should get interesting.

Thank you to all my listeners, everyone who believed in this book. You made this happen.

Posted by admin in News on May 10th, 2008 ‌  Trackback Link

6 Comments

  1. Shannon wrote on May 11th, 2008 at 7:37 am:

    Mur, that’s just fantastic news. Congrats!!

  2. RobinInSeoul wrote on May 15th, 2008 at 4:29 am:

    This is so fraakin’ awesome! Will Swarm be doing postcards, etc? If so, you’ll have to send a bunch of whatever it is here so I can propagandize the Seoul foreign population.

  3. Rekidk wrote on May 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm:

    Yay! Congrats, Mur; you totally deserve this! :)

  4. PK wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm:

    Hi, Congrats! on the book sale!
    I’m a new listener (trying to be), and enjoying Playing for Keeps audio. I downloaded and listened to chapter 3, but now it all seems to be hung up. Can’t download the rest from your site or from iTunes or from anywhere linked. Can’t get PDF files either. Hope this is just a technical glitch.

  5. Matt Perkins wrote on June 13th, 2008 at 2:51 am:

    Congratulations Mur!

    Your novel was amazing and I enjoyed listening to every minute of it.

    I will be buying one or two copies when it becomes available in August.

    Keep up the great work!!!!!!

  6. fluctus-de wrote on June 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm:

    Podcasts: Mur Lafferty…

    Nach einem kurzen Update von Amarok auf die SVN-Version (durch die API-Änderung bei Amazon funktionierte die Cover-Funktion nicht mehr korrekt) habe ich meine Podcastliste mal wieder ein bißchen aktulisiert. Neben den Weeklys habe ich eine kleinere…

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