Yes, it's been a long time.

Very sorry, Everybody. It's been a long time since I posted on this blog and I apologize. Or, maybe I'm just apologizing to myself because I really don't know if anybody is reading any of this. In any event, I have published a new book on Amazon's Kindle and I think it is good. It is a book of short stories and I found while writing them that I seem to enjoy writing shorts more than I do writing novels. I'm not sure why that is, but the shorts seemed to have an energy to them that I missed in writing novels. maybe it was that I was able to address and utilize ideas that I had more quickly. Perhaps I'm not a patient writer. I really don't know. What I do know is that these shorts gave me more enjoyment while writing them than I experienced while writing novels. I like for the action to move fast and leave me feeling as though the story I just read was gone too soon. Whatever it is, I think the readers will like them.

Thank you,
Derek A. Murphy
Author of The Empty Heart: A Collection
Available on Kindle