Reminder, I’m looking for wild fantasy anthropomorphic (furry)/posthumanist adventures for a paying anthology — The Reclamation Project. It’s a fantasy setting of a post-cataclysmic but ultimately optimistic future, drawing elements from solarpunk, sword and sorcery/sword and planet, and super-science adventure tales, The Reclamation Project tells the story of this future world by focusing on the stories of the furs who live in it.

The elevator pitch is “Casablanca Meets Thundarr the Barbarian — With Just a Touch of Studio Ghibli.” And you She-Ra fans I know are out there: you’ll feel right at home. Hop on! (She-Ra was actually my inspiration for creating the setting in the first place.)

We’re just over a month out from the submission deadline, so it’s time to get cracking! :D

The new story collection Tales of the Firebirds is live on Amazon (paper only; e-book coming in July; no audiobook plans) and a shipment has been dispatched to Anthrocon, so you should be able to find it there at the FurPlanet table, where I will also be! And after AC the plan is to sell it through FurPlanet.com as well.

Also! The Demon and the Fox will be at AC. If you have been itching to find out what happens to Kip and his friends, you’ll be very happy. If you haven’t yet started their adventures, you’ll also be able to get the first volume, The Tower and the Fox, at the same time, and I’ll sign them both!

I believe FurPlanet will continue to carry TotF at future conventions, so if they’re going to be at a convention, chances are good that the book will be there. If they’re not, then check what booksellers will be and contact them to ask if they can order a few (they should contact me; please don’t email me to tell me to send them copies). The e-book will be on all the regular e-book sites but the paperback will likely only be on Amazon and FurPlanet.com for the foreseeable future (I will update as I have news).

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Cover art for Mary E. Lowd's new book, "Otters In Space 3: Octopus Ascending"! I love Mary's work and have done cover work for her in the past (See "A Dog's World"!), so I was super stoked to work on this for her and Furplanet!

Little something I’ve been working on for five years is coming soon to that little furcon In Pittsburgh.

Put a foot on the rail, order a drink…

Not counting my own story, The Reclamation Project received over 260,000 words’ worth of submissions.

Dude. Are you kidding me? O.o

I read them all, and loved them all; even the roughest ones of the lot had something awesome about them. But with a wordcount target of 100,000 – 150,000, that meant that at a minimum I would have to say no to 110,000 words written for a world that I spun out of thin air by mashing together some of my favorite tropes.

I gotta tell you, it hasn’t been easy. I still have a double-handful of stories that I just can’t quite decide about, and the clock is ticking. Do all editors go through this?

On the other hand, the stories that I know are definitely in? They are freakin’ amazing. I am proud and astonished to be able to put my name on this book, and I’m ridiculously grateful to FurPlanet for making it possible. Just from my seat in the editor’s chair my own writing has also leveled up from experiencing the different voices and perspectives, and from seeing what worked in each story, what didn’t, and why.

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