Hi.

I am catching up after some months away, given the state of affairs, so please be prepared for a small backlog of art!

While I have been gone, I have completed two books, and a third is nearly finished. Cheers to all of those who helped out on the Marsh/Motes Played[/url Kickstarter. Keep an eye out for another to help fund [url=https://idumea.post-self.ink]Idumea! In celebration of Pride Month and these projects coming to fruition, all ebooks are on sale on Itch until july:

https://itch.io/s/124161/pride-month-books
https://itch.io/s/124161/pride-month-books
https://itch.io/s/124161/pride-month-books

The Post-Self community has really taken off, with contributors from all over bringing more of the world to life with stories and art, a MUCK, a Wiki, and a Discord server/Telegram group. You can even come play with us on Wolfery and hopefully soon Space Station 14. It has been lovely seeing a project not only blossom but move beyond just myself. I have been loving my role as custodian of canon.

Other than that, life is not great, gotta be honest. My (now ex, divorce pending) husband has moved out. One issue is that I may wind up losing the house and winding up, at worst, homeless. Until I can find a job, I am shit out of luck, as despite having sizeable savings, as I do not have any income for the refinance. The market for software engineers is flooded now with so many layoffs. Thankfully, I own the car outright, I guess.

This has led to large portions of my life either falling apart or being heavily restructured. I am incredibly lucky to have my partner  samsterious in my life to move in with me and help keep what remains together.

Anyhow, I hope that the world is treating you all well, and that life is boring in the best possible way.

~Madison Rye Progress

Finally getting back to the afternoon sabering~ https://twitch.tv/ephahvix

B...beatsaber??? https://twitch.tv/ephahvix

Beat saber stream over at https://twitch.tv/ephahvix

Come join me at the top of the hour (noon Pacific) for the launch of Mitzvot! There will be readings! There will be sales! There will be a strange fennec speaking to you from VR! It'll be grand~

https://twitch.tv/ephahvix

Heading to Further Confusion next week? Yay! Interested in writing? Double-yay! I'll be running a three-day writing workshop on critical reading and writing critique open to all! 11:00AM to 12:30PM Fri/Sat/Sun in Marriott: Guadalupe.

I'll also be running a panel on Braiding Plot Structures, where we'll outline a story together. Sun 1:00PM to 2:30PM in Marriott: Almaden

Also, learn about Writing and Mental Health, including how to avoid burnout and deal with blocks. Sun 5:00-6:30PM in Marriott: Guadalupe

Finally, there will be a Mitzvot book launch party! Meetup spot A Saturday at 4PM! Heck yeah, I'm excited!

Regardless of convention, convention center, San Jose, or national guidelines, I will be REQUIRING masks at all five panels. I will have spares!

Eyyy I hit Affiliate on Twitch! Honestly wasn't really expecting that (and until recently, didn't actually know what that meant c.c) so it was a pleasant surprise to get that email.

So I guess if you like VR rhythm games and the occasional venture outside that realm (I snagged Death Stranding which sounds very much not my type of thing to play, which may make for an entertaining type of stream on its own — watch Ephah bumble through something she's kinda bad at!), you can check out my channel here!

https://twitch.tv/ephahvix

Part one of my story "Unseeing" is up on The Voice of Dog podcast today! I think part 2 comes out next week. https://thevoice.dog/episode/unseei.....author-herself

"Unseeing" also appears in When the World Was Young, which is available for preorder now!

Eyyy, my spooktober story went up on the VoD podcast, https://www.thevoice.dog/episode/pl.....on-scott-clary read by the inestimable Rob MacWolf.

For #FurryBookMonth please enjoy 25% Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, Qoheleth, Toledot, Nevi'im and...oh gosh, look at that, Mitzvot pre-orders!

https://itch.io/s/78133/furry-book-month-2022

So far we've hit stretch goals for additional diegetic writing, an appendix, a novella acting as an extended epilogue for the series, and hardcover editions! Only $208 away from a limited edition set of the Post-Self books in a slip-case. Exciting! After that, who knows, maybe I'll think up additional stretch goals :O This has already blown my expectations out of the water! Thank you all so much <3

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....vot?ref=dkbtjw

Nevi'im is up for sale today! Holding a little premiere on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMlaPJkm7Oc

10% off everything all month. Consider picking some stuff up if you can, or sharing if you can't!

Please note, this also includes pre-orders for Nevi'im :D

Ebooks: https://makyo.itch.io/pride22
Paperbacks: https://makyo-ink.square.site?cc=pride22

As folks have seen, it's Trans Day of Visibility today! Do remember to support and boost trans authors as well! If you'd like to help a non-binary trans woman work on improving her writing through (expensive!) school, I've got an ebook sale you might like:

https://itch.io/s/69045/trans-day-o.....isibility-2022

Individuation is born in the decades and centuries, but it is also born in the kilometers and astronomical units. What happens if two copies of yourself, flung in opposite directions, speed away from you at incredible speed? Do you watch yourself diverge? Do you try to control, to maintain a lock on identity? Or do you sit, wait, and watch as you slowly become s̸o̵m̶e̸t̷h̴i̷n̷g̷ ̴n̴e̷████
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Good luck, have fun :3

Heyyyy, got an idea for what drives a character and want it fleshed out? Gonna open up for 1 author's choice commission. $20/1000, 3000 words or less. Your fursona? A random idea? Sky's the limit! That's the stuff I love, and I want to expand my horizons.

Details are on the form, but feel free to ask!

https://forms.gle/X98Rnpbe2gGEXwGR7

That's right, friends! It's Furry Book Month! That means that I've got $1 off ALL ebooks (which means 10-100% off!): https://makyo.gumroad.com - coupon code fbm21 at checkout!

All paperbacks 10% off! https://makyo-ink.square.site?cc=fbm21

This includes pre-orders of A Wildness of the Heart!

If you want to bundle with other furry books, https://furplanet.com is having a sale, as well, and if you are having a hard time and can't really afford the expenditure now, hit me up and I'll make it happen <3

Literally no combination of words could ever do  dwale justice, but I'm made entirely of compulsions, so I don't really have a choice but to try. Miss you, friend.

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Beneath that evening's breeze the sickly sweet
And brazen scent of countless flow'rs
Awoke inside of you a darkened sleep
Of dreams dug deeper than the soil.
Oh, we are waking minds who missed that scent!
What hope have we who wait in life,
Who sit and pray and watch for your next breath?
Our hope can only reach for ends -
To wit, to see you wake and meet a mind
Too keen to weed a garden clean -
For we exhaled when you breathed in that breeze,
And flowers wreathe your sleeping form.

Pleased to announce that Qoheleth has received the Leo Literary Award! The Leos are the furry fandom's juried awards (as opposed to the popular awards, the Ursa Major Awards, and the FWG-bestowed awards, the Cóyotl Awards), so I'm pleased to know that so many of the judges enjoyed the book!

Yay! I got interviewed for SoFurry's author spotlight! https://www.sofurry.com/groups/news.....mp;newsId=2186

My book, Qoheleth, is eligible for the Ursa Major Awards and the Leo Awards this year! If you read and enjoyed my work, please consider nominating it :D

For information on that, please see https://furrybookreview.wixsite.com.....log/leo-awards and https://ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm

(NB: it is not eligible for the Cóyotl Awards, as I'm the chair.)

Three days! Half price! Grab all my ebooks at a steep discount for a flash sale over on itchio

https://itch.io/s/38686/a-whole-boa.....ad-of-words​

Another recording stream! Maybe. We'll see how firework-happy the neighborhood is.

https://picarto.tv/makyo

The ever delightful @khakidoggy@twitter.com read an older story of mine, Milkshakes and Foxes, for today's Voice of Dog podcast. Check it out!

https://anchor.fm/the-voice-of-dog/.....t-Clary-eg3lu4

Smol reminder that I post quite a bit of stuff on Telegram and Discord and there's all sorts of chat to be done there! You can keep up with me on https://t.me/makyo_writes (Telegram) and https://makyo.io/2G (Discord)