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"Tow" in "The Furry Future"
11 years ago
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FurPlanet will be premiering a new science fiction anthology at Further Confusion 2015, The Furry Future, and I'll have a story in there: "Tow." It introduces the world of The River and a new heroine, Gail Simmons, a rat totemic.
Gail does have a bigger adventure planned ahead of her: a novel called Kismet I'm working on. Earlier this year, Kyell Gold and I were accepted to a by-invitation intensive novel writing workshop at KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction, led by Kij Johnson. (If you're not familiar with Kij, she wrote a terrific kitsune novel called The Fox Woman years ago, has done some amazing short stories that often have animals -- anthropomorphic and otherwise -- and has won every major genre award at least once. Seriously.) This is the novel I workshopped. And after the workshop I started over, but that's kind of what the point of the workshop was. :)
And, as a nice footnote: "Indigo Rain" won the Cóyotl Award for best novella of 2013.
Gail does have a bigger adventure planned ahead of her: a novel called Kismet I'm working on. Earlier this year, Kyell Gold and I were accepted to a by-invitation intensive novel writing workshop at KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction, led by Kij Johnson. (If you're not familiar with Kij, she wrote a terrific kitsune novel called The Fox Woman years ago, has done some amazing short stories that often have animals -- anthropomorphic and otherwise -- and has won every major genre award at least once. Seriously.) This is the novel I workshopped. And after the workshop I started over, but that's kind of what the point of the workshop was. :)
And, as a nice footnote: "Indigo Rain" won the Cóyotl Award for best novella of 2013.
And awesome! Congrats on the award. You deserve the praise.
Something new in the book, and I'll have something old--a rewrite of one of my Chelisse stories from YARF! all those years ago. Sounds like it'll be quite the collection!
Mike