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For the last week of Furry Book Month and the week before Halloween, we have two stories for you…

Mice raised from the dead!  Zombie puppies!  Foolish dogs!  And a grumpy cat who’s too clever for his own good!  Read the story that started it all, the very first story about Shreddy the cantankerous tabby cat — The Necromouser.  And then read the story where Shreddy first meets his unwanted companions, Cooper the empty-headed toy Labradoodle and Susie the lovable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel — Shreddy and the Zomb-dogs.

If you enjoy these two stories, there are more tales of Shreddy and his techno-mystical adventures in The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, on-sale from FurPlanet for the rest of the month and also available through Amazon.  It would make a great book to read for the end of Furry Book Month.

Ten-year-old: “Hey, Mom, I have a story idea for you to write: Alligators in NASA.”‬

‪Husband: “National Aeronautics and Space Alligators!”‬

The four-year-old: “I’m the greatest guy in the world! GHOSTBUSTERS!”‬

The four-year-old: “I have to go get my best buddy Winnie-the-Pooh because I left him in the TARDIS.”‬

I went to see Beautiful: The Carole King Musical tonight. It told the stories of the songwriting teams King/Goffin and Mann/Weil. I spent hours as a teen staring at those names on CD liner notes, wondering who they were, how they had written such beauty. It was deeply moving to see their stories played out on stage — these people who wrote so much of the music that I’ve leaned on.

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I always liked “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” by Mann/Weil, but I love it so much more having seen it in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

The more dystopian the real world gets, the brighter, lighter, happier, and more optimistic my space opera will get. Take that, world.

After several years of barking at a blank wall, the Sheltie has finally figured out that we moved the printer to the other side of the room!

Between Halloween, autumn weather, and #FurryBookMonth, October is clearly the best month.‬

Getting closer to a working title for my NaNo novel — Entanglement Dynamic — sounds like a physics text but better than my previous best.‬

It’ll be interesting to see if the rain clears up before the time I plan on biking home…

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