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Okay, so, realistically, I had way too many stories come out in 2018 for anyone to keep track of them all — 26 stories total, and almost all of them are furry.  So, I’m going to list them all here, but I’m also going to filter them out a bit — putting a few of my favorites at the top of the list, and then arranging them by how easy they are to read online.

First, my novel The Snake’s Song: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel came out in 2018 and is eligible for awards!  I’ve received permission from the publisher, ShadowSpinners Press, to reprint the first chapter here on Deep Sky Anchor!  So, here ya go, The Snake’s Song:  Chapter One. Continue reading “Awards Eligibility Post for 2018 — a.k.a. Tons of Free Furry Fiction”

Editing an anthology is like doing a puzzle by asking people to send their best random puzzle pieces to you and then trying to assemble a pile of mismatched, differently shaped and colored pieces into one aesthetically pleasing whole.

How to spend the last day of the year? Apparently sending out queries to agents…

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Researching agent webpages is frustrating in the same way that I used to find cruising Petfinder frustrating… lots of promising leads to get your hopes up about… with very little likelihood of anything coming from any of it. Continue reading “Querying Agents at the Turn of the Year”

I’m re-watching Stargate — the original 1994 movie — for the first time since having watched all the ensuing TV series, and it is soooooo trippy seeing Daniel Jackson and Jack O’Neil played by James Spader and Kurt Russell.‬

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‪I like the 1994 movie Stargate, but it is entirely unclear from watching it that it would work being spun out into 17 years of TV shows.‬

You’ve been visited by the Christmas Sheltie who brings order and structure to all the good sheep. And the less good sheep. Really, just all the sheep.‬

Continue reading “Christmas Quinn”

If I’d been asked — without watching either The Santa Clause or The Christmas Chronicles — whether Tim Allen or Kurt Russell would make a better Santa, I’d have definitely guessed wrong. Continue reading “The Christmas Chronicles vs. The Santa Clause”

I’m on my third time through watching #CrazyExGirlfriend (once with my husband, then my mom, now my daughter), and I think I’ve had a revelation about how to go about constructing a complex romantic comedy… I’ll have to try outlining a novel to see if it works out.

I just made it up to S1E20 of Andromeda (“Star-Crossed”) and it is reeeeeeaaaaaaally similar to Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice.”‬

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The stuff about a living spaceship that has consciousness distributed across multiple different avatars that come to have slightly different loyalties is all there. Continue reading “Possible Source of Inspiration?”

I’ve re-watched all of George’s bits in the previous seasons, and he’s the only logical choice for a guy for Rebecca to end up dating. #CrazyExGirlfriend #TeamGeorge

This is a conclusion I’ve come to both from a fannish shipping which-guy-do-I-like-best? direction and also as a writer analyzing the show’s story structure. And if my theory is right, the creators have planned all along that Rebecca will end up dating George. Continue reading “Team George”

The kids convinced us to play Apples to Apples, and the highlight was an argument about what thing is the speediest that led to picturing a game of musical chairs played by a zebra and a ghost with cherries being thrown at them.‬