Virginia · Est. 2026
Come in.Look around.
Books, songs, art, and whatever else earned a place here.
Books · Stories · Oddments · Good Trouble
Come in.
Look around.
Books, songs, art, and whatever else earned a place here.
NO HOUSE GENRE.
JUST HOUSE TASTE.
JUST HOUSE TASTE.
BLUE MURPHY PRESSVIRGINIA · EST. 2026
On the shelves
A lifetime ends upin the books.
No single influence gets the credit. The stories are made from all of it — family, work, games, movies, strange little objects, old obsessions, new ones, and whatever refuses to leave.
Rooms · backgrounds
Change the view.
The window controls choose the room behind the site. Or leave it where it is and sit a while.
From the notice board
Latest from the shop.
OUT NOW
Little Helpers
Little Helpers is officially out now from Blue Murphy Press.
OUT NOW
Clearance Art
Clearance Art is out now. Listen to the album on your favorite service.
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A little farther in
The back
counter.
Not everything fits on the front shelves. There's a little more around here.
Everything has a place. Sometimes we just haven't found it yet.
01 / AFTER DARKAfter Hours Ambient places to disappear into for a while.
02 / COMING SOONArcadeComing soon.
03 / THE HOUSEHouse collection The people, dogs, and things that ended up here.
04 / LEFT ON THE DESKBroken Bulbs Notes that haven't quite learned when to stop.
05 / SAY HELLOFront counter Questions, review copies, odd requests, or hello.
After dark
After Hours.
Four ambient places to disappear into for a while. Pick a window and leave the shop open behind you.
Night CircuitFeatured drive
Still Connected1-bit transmission
Beneath the Ice1-bit transmission
Midnight Drift1-bit transmission
Each opens in a new tab.
And then there are the dogs
Blue Murphy Press is named for Blitz Murphy, but he is part of a much longer line. Every dog I have ever loved belongs somewhere in this place. Dozer, our family dog now, is part of the current chapter.
They’ve all contributed in the traditional canine ways: companionship, interruption, destruction, comfort, comedy, and occasionally forcing everyone to stop what they are doing and go outside.
There is no house genre here because there was never one influence.
Just house taste.
But we do have a trash palate.
On the wall
House collection.
Fingerprints included.
Blue Murphy Press is a family collection of the things we make, keep, care about, and occasionally refuse to throw away.
Right now that mostly means books. Over time it may mean music, games, strange little projects, and whatever else earns a place on the shelf.
Most of what ends up here starts somewhere in family life: conversations that stick around, old jobs and hobbies, movies and games, half-finished ideas, and objects with no practical reason to survive.
My wife has listened to ideas before they were really ideas, questioned things that needed questioning, laughed at things that weren’t actually funny, and did not laugh at the funniest things I’ve done.
My son has changed what I notice. Dragons, games, impossible questions, weird projects, and the absolute certainty that something can be awesome simply because it is awesome have all found their way into the work.
The shelf on this site is basically the same idea made visible: family, old technology, books, games, movies, work, music, things my kid made, things the dogs probably shouldn’t have had, and decades of interests that never stayed in their assigned lanes.
Left on the desk
Broken Bulbs.
Notes from the desk.
Not a column. A page left out, if you want to sit with it.
Broken Bulbs
9/22/26
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Front counter
Say hello.
Andrew Callahan is usually the one behind the counter — writer, publisher, stockroom employee, and the person currently pretending this old shop has a staff.
Questions, review copies, rights, books, odd requests, or something we forgot to put on the shelf.
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