An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Writers let themselves get tricked into believing two wrong things:
—First Rights are so valuable that you should hide your stuff away until it can be debuted Just Right
—your early works are trash you should be embarrassed by Continue reading “The Over-Valuing of First Rights and Under-Valuing of Early Works”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Gel encrusted eyes flittered open to the wavery sight and watery feel of oxo-agua. Kipper felt cold and icky. Are we there yet? she thought, but she knew better than to try using her lungs. There’s not much point in signing if no one’s looking at you. Given the state of her own gooey eyes, she’d be surprised if anyone was.
A few more groggy minutes and Kipper felt she could risk sitting up. She was alone in the barracks, but that wasn’t surprising. She was the only crewmember who’d never been cryo-gelatinated before. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 12: Jupiter System”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Only two hours until Alistair planned to storm the senate assembly, and Trudith was completely lost. She didn’t get lost easily. She’d been all over the back streets and alleys of New LA. In her old life, as a thug, she’d tailed many a cat through every unsavory part of the city.
She could only assume Petra was going somewhere incredibly top secret. Or she knew Trudith was following her. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 11: Earth”
Now that our first book as a publishing press has been released (You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station) and is receiving good reviews, we have two very exciting announcements to make about future releases…
First of all, we will be releasing a fantasy novella by Mary E. Lowd this December called Queen Hazel and Beloved Beverly. This book features a gorgeous, wraparound dust jacket as well as several interior illustrations. It is also the first book of Lowd’s to appear in hard cover. Read the blurb below:
What if your favorite childhood video transported you to a real magical kingdom — and an old friend who never forgot you? Continue reading “Double Announcement: new fantasy novella & partnership with Zoocape!”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Kipper recorded the video. It took a few takes to get just right. She wasn’t much for public speaking. At least, she wouldn’t have to be there in the senate assembly when Alistair played the video. She hoped it would give him what he needed.
She wouldn’t find out until his coup was all over. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 10: The Asteroid Belt”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Petra, Alistair, and Trudith huddled around Petra’s computer, reading the enlarged photo she’d taken of Morrison’s petition. The petition didn’t look good.
“Well,” Alistair said, “that explains why Morrison’s hench-hounds were so withholding with these.”
“Indeed,” Petra agreed, seeming unusually restrained, but her restraint didn’t hold. She spat through her teeth, “Lying canine bully!” Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 9: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Kipper stood among the noisy patrons of the Foghorn, shocked by what she saw on the vid screen. Did this change anything? she wondered. She’d uncovered and visited one hidden cat colony on Mars. She’d spoken with the cats there. She’d made friends with one of them, or so he would have her think from his letters, anyway. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 8: Trailside”
The first book from our new publishing wing, Deep Sky Anchor Press, is out today!
Available now on Kindle or paperback!
You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station is a cozy furry space opera novel that’s an indirect prequel to Mary E. Lowd’s Entangled Universe trilogy.
When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars. Continue reading “You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station – AVAILABLE NOW!”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
There was nothing for it, Trudith decided. She had to find a way to use this little, cat-paw-sized cell phone, because Alistair needed to know what she’d found out. Right now.
Trudith pulled the borrowed phone out of her pocket. She held it lightly between keratinous black claws, and an idea struck her. She couldn’t operate this phone, but a cat could. Any cat. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 7: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Trailside was smaller and more cramped than Deep Sky Anchor, that giant outpost of Otterdom in geosynchronous orbit with Earth, anchored to the land of dogs and dog-oppressed cats by the slender thread of the space elevator.
Kipper had taken the space elevator to Deep Sky Anchor, where she met up with Captain Cod and his ragtag Barracuders. Before Trailside, their only stop had been at the disappointingly exclusive cat colony on Mars. So, Trailside was the second-ever otter outpost that Kipper had set paw on. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 6: Trailside”