Emily P. W. Murphy
Professional Author and Editor
Emily's exciting new picture book, sure to delight children everywhere, is now available!
You would expect the life of a princess to be full of delight, but for the Princess of Booray, it's not exciting enough. She decides to go out into the world to seek adventure. When she meets an enormous dragon, she is frightened until she sees that he is crying. He is sad because he wants to be good, but he thinks dragons are always fierce and terrible. Booray teaches the dragon how to do good deeds, proving that a princess can be brave and daring while a dragon can be kind and good. They rescue a prince who is held captive in a tower and together they all return to Booray. But do they live happily ever after? Read it and find out!
This lively story, told in flawless verse, is accompanied by whimsical, full-color illustrations with enchanting details that readers to will find captivating.
Emily P. W. Murphy's stories appear in several award-winning anthologies and in the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable literary journal. The most recent publication can be found in An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue, published in September, 2022 by the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC.
Emily was also the editor for Hook, Line, and Sinker: The Seventh Guppy Anthology, published in January 2023 by Wolf's Echo Press.
Winner of TWO
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards!
Emily has a story in the multi-award winning anthology Fur, Feathers, and Scales: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Animal Tales (2020)
Previous publications include stories in each of the "Sweet, Funny, and Strange" Anthologies from the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC
A Christmas Sampler:
Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday Tales
won two awards from
in Anthology and Short Fiction from the
2010 Next Generation
Indie Book Awards
and
An Honorable Mention from the 2010 DIY Book Awards
Once Around the Sun: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Seasons
was a finalist for the 2014
Best Anthology
from the
2014 Next Generation
Indie Book Awards
A Readable Feast:
Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for Every Taste
was a finalist for the 2016
Best Anthology
in the
Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Once Upon a Time:
Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Ages
contains stories for children ages pre-school
through
middle school
Untethered:
Sweet, Funny, and Strange
Tales of the Paranormal
was a finalist for the
2019 Killer Nashville
Silver Falchion Award
Fur, Feathers, and Scales: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Animal Tales
Winner of two
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards