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. which was a finalist for both a 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award.

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