Michael Murphy's Blog

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

― Marcel Proust

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.”

― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.”

― Marcel Proust

Sales of Stranger in a Foreign Land have been very strong, so strong that it is now already under contract for audio book production.

44th anniversary of the tragic fire at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans, LA, which claimed 29 lines.

It is always so rewarding to see one of my photographs used on the cover of a novel.  I got a thrill recently when a photo of one of my favorite models was used.

You can find the book at Dreamspinner Press.

I provided the man on the right.  I always adored working with this guy.  He’s not only beautiful, stunning, but also smart and knows how to play to the camera. Here’s another shot of him.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

The cover of another gay pulp novel from decades ago.