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The Upcoming "Bronies" Anthology
13 years ago
Back in November:
I saw a notice over at the Furry Writers' Guild about Kazka Press putting together an anthology to be titled Bronies: For the Love of Ponies. The editor, L. Lambert Lawson, said he was looking for "stories set in a speculative fiction setting" about "a man who likes ponies." By man, he went on, he meant male, female, human, robot or otherwise, and he specified several times that submissions could not be My Little Pony fanfic.
As it happened, I'd just started hammering out the things I've been slapping together every week since February 2011 as part of
poetigress's former Thursday Prompt program to form them into an actual novel I'm calling Neighbors, and the beginning of it, I thought, would fit the anthology's criteria perfectly. So I submitted a short story called "Thoughts on Early Spring" that reworks and combines part 1 and part 2 into a 1,000 word first scene titled Dancing With Crows, has an entirely new 1,000 word second scene titled Domesticity, and concludes with a 1,000 word third scene titled Some Words of Advice: it's an all-new section where Gus recalls how he and El Brujo first met, and it ends with a rewritten version of part 5.
And Sunday morning, I got the acceptance e-mail. More bulletins as events warrant.
Mike
I saw a notice over at the Furry Writers' Guild about Kazka Press putting together an anthology to be titled Bronies: For the Love of Ponies. The editor, L. Lambert Lawson, said he was looking for "stories set in a speculative fiction setting" about "a man who likes ponies." By man, he went on, he meant male, female, human, robot or otherwise, and he specified several times that submissions could not be My Little Pony fanfic.
As it happened, I'd just started hammering out the things I've been slapping together every week since February 2011 as part of
poetigress's former Thursday Prompt program to form them into an actual novel I'm calling Neighbors, and the beginning of it, I thought, would fit the anthology's criteria perfectly. So I submitted a short story called "Thoughts on Early Spring" that reworks and combines part 1 and part 2 into a 1,000 word first scene titled Dancing With Crows, has an entirely new 1,000 word second scene titled Domesticity, and concludes with a 1,000 word third scene titled Some Words of Advice: it's an all-new section where Gus recalls how he and El Brujo first met, and it ends with a rewritten version of part 5.And Sunday morning, I got the acceptance e-mail. More bulletins as events warrant.
Mike
When completely random elements--your Thursday Prompts, my wanting to make a character to go with my FA pseudonym, this idea I've had floating in my brain for decades about a guy in a treatment facility meeting a talking therapy cat--all collide and mix and form something new and different. Synergy! Ya can't beat it!
Mike
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