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Guest Profile: Catie Murphy

Catie Murphy was born on the 1st of June 1973 in Kenai, Alaska. Early literary aspirations led to her having a poem published in a school magazine at the tender age of six. She attended University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she studied English and History. She has had the usual assortment of jobs that seems to be the lot of all authors: public library volunteer, cannery worker, web designer, and a stint in a fast food restaurant. She moved to Ireland, along with her husband Ted, in 2005, now living in the lovely southerly seaside town of Cobh in County Cork.

She has been writing fulltime since 2005, both under her own name and as action-adventure romance author Cate Dermody. As CE Murphy she has so far published The Walker Papers, consisting of Urban Shaman (2005), Thunderbird Falls (2006), and Coyote Dreams, which is due to be published in May 2007. (You can read Charles De Lint's review of Thunderbird Falls for Fantasy & Science Fiction here.)

As Cate Dermody, she has so far published the Strongbox Chronicles, consisting of The Cardinal Rule (2005), The Firebird Deception (2006), and The Phoenix Law (2006). On top of all that, Catie is one of the authors in the Winter Moon (2005) anthology, along with Mercedes Lackey and Tanith Lee.

She also has several other books at various levels of readiness, and had been busy writing Take a Chance, a comic series projected to run forty-eight issues, as soon as she places it with a publisher. More information about Catie's published work, on an ongoing basis, can be found on her Bibliography page.

If you're on LiveJournal, or indeed even if you're not, you can read Catie's regular journal there, where she appears under the name of Mizkit. Catie's website is at cemurphy.net.

According to the Biography page on her website, her hobbies include swimming, walking, travelling, drawing, and moose-wrestling. She should also have put attending SF cons, as she has already, in the short time she's been to Ireland, managed to make it along in 2006 to each of the three regular conventions, P-CON in Dublin in March, MeCon in Belfast in August, and Octocon in Maynooth in October, and has every intention of making it to all of them again in 2007, along with various comics events on the side.

P-CON IV, however, will be Catie's first appearance as a guest at an Irish SF convention, and we're exceedingly pleased to have her.

Bio by Pádraig Ó Méalóid