An open question to everyone who reads my stuff: would anyone be interested in a novel-length version of The Bigger Dog?

I ask because honestly I have no new ideas for Tagenar stories, and The Bigger Dog is one of my most favorited, so maybe it deserves more depth. I have resisted the idea for a while because it repeats a lot of tropes set up in Jake's List and is pretty much more of the same, except that it's taken well beyond the realistic. But then I look at many artists and writers and they're pretty much just doing variations on the same theme themselves.

I'm not sure how the story can continue. It's set up to begin and end at 10K words, paced like a short story and the characters are all used up at the end. I took the cockiness to the limit just before it got annoying. Does anyone want to see more of that?

Anyone have ideas for how the story can continue, and what I can do to set it apart from Jake's List? I don't wanna just do the same thing over and over, even though it seems to work for many artists and writers.

If anyone's interested, let me know. If enough people show interest, I'll take the time to make it happen once things calm down with my other books.

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Now, about Anthrocon

Rather than give a full report, I only want to mention a couple points.

I went to M. C. A. Hogarth's panel about alternative methods of publishing, like user-funded serialization and self-publication. She's had much more success doing that than traditional publishing. She gave me quite a bit to think about. I considered serializing one of my ideas to a website many years ago, but I haven't done it because I don't know how to generate interest in it. Turns out she is doing something similar to what I had in mind, and she is making it work.

But I don't know if serialization is my thing. Writing something week to week, month to month... I'm going to make a lot of mistakes in the beginning I'll need to go back and fix, but can't. It's why I couldn't stand the Jake's List short stories; I wrote them one section at time and so much evolved from the start to the finish I had to go back and update it. I don't know if I could serialize like she does. I would have to write the whole thing all at once and post pieces weekly. It is food for thought though.

I also went to the art show. Never gone to see the art show at a con before. There are a lot of great artists in the furry fandom. Many, many great pieces of art. In fact, the clean gallery was better than the adult gallery. I wanted to bid on some of them, but I blew all my money on sheef underwear and books. Maybe a little food, too.

Funny thing about the art show I noticed while walking around: furries react the same way to clean art as adult art. They walk around the gallery like professional art appraisers, not porn addicts, and it's hilarious to see people looking at this stuff as though it were ordinary, everyday fine art hanging in a museum--as though nothing were unusual about the need to have an adult gallery at all. It's so unique to the furry fandom, and yet we're so used to it we don't even stop to think how strange it is. Anthrocon makes adult art look like a refined creation to be proud of! Maybe that's what it's become. Maybe that's what we should start promoting it as, not porn, but fine erotica! Rebranding! It works for everyone else, why not us?

Was a good con. Had a lot of fun, and it was worth the trip.