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I’ve been listening to a song by The Beth’s called “Expert in a Dying Field” for months and only now realized that it’s really just a breakup song underneath a clever metaphor… as opposed to, you know, genuinely, literally being about your career becoming obsolete.

I’m a little disappointed… Continue reading “Expert in a Dying Field”

Elder kid explaining to younger kid how it’s okay that we drove to the wrong school for their first soccer game because it’s an adventure:

“Indiana Jones did not want to be chased by a boulder, but it was awesome. So annoyance is sort of part of adventure.”

I love the Buckaroo Banzia theme music. It’s on my Otters In Space playlist. And also, many years ago as a kid at a Star Trek convention, my sister and I got a band to play it for us live by shouting it out as a request. Good memory.

Me: this expensive artisanal plushie will make me perfectly happy and solve all my problems!

Also me: what if this plushie DOESN’T solve all my problems???

Also me: it’s okay; it’ll take months for it to arrive, so that’s months of getting to pretend it will

I’ve been feeling kind of lost and directionless lately… and then a friend said to me tonight with a truly bizarre level of matter-of-fact certainty that I should write twelve Otters In Space books. That twelve is the correct length for that series… Continue reading “The Future of Otters In Space”

After an awesome but long day of selling books and talking furry fiction at Furvana, I’m having cherry garcia ice cream, blackberry kombucha, am surrounded by stuffed animals, and am finally starting the Queen Charlotte Bridgerton spin-off. That’s a good day!

We’d like to announce a limited Kindle release of Mary E. Lowd’s books, Nexus Nine and The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats.  Both of these books are primarily published by FurPlanet, but since the Kindle market was going unserved, we’ve filled in.  Both books are already available in the Kindle store right now.

Each book has a shiny new cover for this limited release, but if you want physical copies, you’ll still need to get the FurPlanet editions.

We may have a few more releases like this coming up, so keep an eye out for them!  Also, don’t forget that Hell Moon (Xeno-Spectre, Book 1) is coming out this Friday (9/8/23)!

Now that the release of Hell Moon (Xeno-Spectre, Book 1) is imminent, we’d like to announce the release of its first sequel, The Ancient Egg (Xeno-Spectre, Book 2) by Mary E. Lowd.

Readers of this series won’t have long to wait between book 1 and 2, as The Ancient Egg will be released on January 1, 2024.  And it’s already available for pre-order on Kindle. Continue reading “Announcing The Ancient Egg, Xeno-Spectre Book 2!”

State of mind: saw a picture of a plush moth on my computer screen and started talking directly to it like, “Hello there little one, who are you? What are you doing here?”

So… probably should stop trying to be useful for today and just focus on not ordering piles of plushies.

I’m working on figuring out the order of the poems in my poetry book and have discovered the underlying truth about the nature of poems.

There are four fundamental kinds of poems: Continue reading “Types of Poem”