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Pat Murphy's Home Page

Pat also represents:
The Brazen Hussies

[Cybling] Folks...let's welcome Pat Murphy
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] Welcometh!
[RedRaptor] welcome pat
[Pat_Murphy] Thanks!
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus vanishes due to her earlier comment and idles away, whisteling innocently
[Pam_M] hi, Pat
[Pat_Murphy] Great to be here.
[Pat_Murphy] I've been wandering the halls with the Brazen Hussies blimp
[Cybling] Folks...fyi, Pat is a "Brazen Hussie" and has won numerous awards for her SF and fantasy writing.
[Cybling] You can learn more about her later by going to her link page at http://www.cybling.com/chicon/guests/Murphy_Pat.html
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] wow
[Pat_Murphy] I'm happy to answer questions about writing, brazen hussies, or my books.
[Pat_Murphy] Or just about anything else...
[Cybling] lolol. Brazen Hussie Blimp?
[Pat_Murphy] It's a remote controlled indoor airship
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] heh
[Pat_Murphy] emblazoned with www.brazenhussies.net
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus chuckles
[Pat_Murphy] our web site.
[Pat_Murphy] The brazen hussies are myself, LIsa Goldstein, and Michaela Roessner.
[Pat_Murphy] We've banded together to promote our books like the Brazen Hussies we want to be.
[Cybling] There are a lot of "events" like this going on at the convention by the way. Folks doing demonstrations in the lobby, folks in costume. So you're promoting your website via the blimp around the hotel?
[Pat_Murphy] You bet. and flying it around panels.
[Pat_Murphy] answering questions about the Brazen Hussies and about my books.
[Cybling] LOLOL, I'm sure that helps everyone's concentration. Pat, just what is your definition of a Brazen Hussie?
[Pat_Murphy] A woman who knows what she wants and goes after it with audacity, attitude, and a sense of humor.
[Cybling] Good definition!
[Pam_M] Life attitude?
[Pat_Murphy] Any body here read my work?
[Pam_M] Me
[Pat_Murphy] Great! What have you read?
[Cybling] In '87 you won the Nebula for both her second novel, The Falling Woman, and her novelette, "Rachel in Love."
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus feels sweat drops forming on her forehead... meep, i haven't read a thing. I must, though...
[Cybling] I think most of us can't imagine the thrill of being nominated twice. What was it like to win twice.
[Cybling] In the same year.
[Pat_Murphy] No problem if you haven'[t read my work.
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus CAN imagine very well, thank you
[Pat_Murphy] About the Nebula--it was a thrill. A little overwhelming and intimidating.
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] I hope I get around to it somehow, though
[Pat_Murphy] But a great vote of encouragement, too.
[Pat_Murphy] Winning the award has allowed me to try things that I wouldn't have been able to otherwise, I think.
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus smiles
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] Congrats again, pat
[Pat_Murphy] EAch of my books is very different from the others. If people tell me what sort of things you like to read....
* Pam_M has read The Fallen Woman and Rachel in Love
[Pat_Murphy] I can recommend a book to try. ;-)
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] please do!
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus smiles
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus likes anything!"
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] 'xcept for romance, heh
[Pat_Murphy] Tell me, did reading the Falling Woman encourage you to travel in the Yucatan? For me...
[Pat_Murphy] eorking on that book was a great excuse to travel in Mexico and visit archjeaological digs.
[Pam_M] what was your favorite book you have read during the past few months?
[Pat_Murphy] For those who haven't read it, The Falling Woman is set in the Yucatan at an arcehological dig. It's about...
[Pat_Murphy] a mother, a daughther , and an ancient Mayan priestess.
[Pat_Murphy] As for what books I've read, I'm working hard on a novel, so all I'm reading is nonfiction for research.
[Pam_M] Do you travel to other places you would like to write about?
[Pat_Murphy] The last book I read as a treat was Dark Cities Underground, by Lisa Goldstein, one of my
[Pat_Murphy] fellow Brazen Hussies. Wonderful book!
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] ^_^
[Pat_Murphy] Yes, I love to travel--and sometimes writing gives me an excuse to do it!
[Cybling] There and Back Again came out in 1999. Is that hard back, tradepaper or paperback?
[Pam_M] So where is your new book taking place?
[Pat_Murphy] It's still in hard cover, but it'll be out in paperback in october.
[Pat_Murphy] There and BAck Again is a space opera based on the Hobbit. It's about a norbit named Bailey BEldon
[Cybling] LOL
[Pat_Murphy] who gets swept away on an adventure to the center of the Galaxy.
[Cybling] I'm thinking that wasn't a typo, that you meant norbit.
[Pat_Murphy] I had a wonderful time writing it.. And yes, that's norbit--short for "in orbit"
[Cybling] Ah! lol
[Pat_Murphy] The norbits live in the asteroid belt.
[Pat_Murphy] My very latest book is Wild Angel, just out in hardcover.
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] heh
[Pat_Murphy] It's the story of Sarah McKensie, a young girl who is adopted by wolves in Gold RushCalifornia.
[Pat_Murphy] And In answer to Pam M/s question, this book gave me a great excuse to travel around the Gold Country and visit historic sites.
[Pat_Murphy] Wild Angel is an action adventure book--in the tradition of TArzan, but with a young girl in the starring role!
[Pat_Murphy] Right now, I'm working on Adventures in Time and Space withMax Merriwell, which takes place on a cruise ship.
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo, fancy
[Pat_Murphy] That one gave me an excuse to take a cruise (an interesting anthropological experience.) And it was tax deductible!
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] heh
[Pat_Murphy] Yes, very fancy. I felt quite out of place.
[Pam_M] Does Wild Angel and Rachel in Love contain similiar themes?
[Cybling] Would you call Wild Angel a "juvenille for girls" then in the golden age tradition?
[Pat_Murphy] A lot of my work deals with the similarities and difference between animals and humans--and both Wild Angel...
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus smiles
[Pat_Murphy] and RAchel in Love touch on that. Wild Angel and my book, Nadya--the wolf Chronilces, deal with the nature of wilderness.
[Pat_Murphy] As for whether Wild Angel is a juvenile, I think that teens and preteens would enjoy it.
[Pat_Murphy] But I wrote it for people like me--who want to revisit the adventurous fiction that they enjoyed in their youth.
[Cybling] Okay good. I'm always looking for books to give to my nieces to get them "hooked."
[Pat_Murphy] People tell me it's a good, fun, read. \
[Pat_Murphy] GReat for gift-giving--since you can read it first and then give it!;-)
[Pam_M] Actually, the best YA books do not sound as though they were written for that genre, imho.
[Cybling] LOL...I don't tell them of course.
[Pat_Murphy] I think you're right Pam M. A good YA book is great fun to read.
[Cybling] But yes, I do that. lol
[Pam_M] Or not...thinking about The Giver...
[Cybling] btw folks...I just noticed a shadow and looked up and it was the Brazen Hussie blimp overhead..
[Cybling] Kent Brewster is playing with it now.
[Cybling] Pat just had to give him directions for the remote control.
[Cybling] She's giving him a bb for the balast to get it lower. She'll be right back with us in a moment.
[Cybling] lol
[Pat_Murphy] I'm back!
[Pat_Murphy] Sorry for the delay.
[Cybling] Folks, things are getting a little wild here with the blimp. Pat jumped out of her chair.
[Pam_M] Pat, I have heard of writers promoting one another, is Brazen Hussies a group that does that?
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] Terribly sorry - did I miss anything?
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus frowns, thinking: A lot, probably
[Pat_Murphy] Indeed it is! We are working together to call attention to our books. Check out our website at
[Pat_Murphy] www.brazenhussies.net.
[Pat_Murphy] YOu can read exerpts of our novels.
[Pat_Murphy] Find out about upcoming workand appearances.
[Cybling] Folks...the duct tape gave way a long time ago...and we have a room full of SF Authors playing with Pat's blimp.
[Pam_M] lol
[RedRaptor] LOL
[Cybling] So Follks...let's give Pat a hand so that she can supervise this rather wild blimping.
* Cybling applauds
[Cybling] Thank you for joining us today Pat!
[Pat_Murphy] sounds like its time to go. Thanks for coming to chat!
[Pam_M] Thanks, Pat!
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus grumbles
[Pat_Murphy] Bye now.