Furry Award Eligible Stories

award-ribbon4It’s award season, and so we’re doing a round-up of Mary E. Lowd’s furry short stories published in 2017.  There are a lot of them!  All but one of these stories can be read online for free; four of them can be read right here at Deep Sky Anchor!  If you love any of these stories, please consider taking a moment to nominate them for the Ursa Major Awards, or if you’re a qualified nominator, the Leo Literary Awards. Continue reading “Furry Award Eligible Stories”

Tidbits from the Highest Heights of Word Count

Part of me wants my novel-in-progress to wrap up in the next 4k words, because then I’ll be done sooner; part of me wants it to drag out for another 11k, because I’ve never been this close to hitting 100k words before.


Hit 90k on my space opera novel-in-progress. Too tired for exclamation points. But yay. Continue reading “Tidbits from the Highest Heights of Word Count”

Tidbits from Hanging Out with a Four-Year-Old

GAH! I forgot to have the gravity change appropriately to match the scene change AGAIN. This problem is going to haunt me for as long as I write space opera, isn’t it?


Four-year-old: “We’re on an alien planet!”‬

‪Me: “Are they nice aliens?”‬ Continue reading “Tidbits from Hanging Out with a Four-Year-Old”