The Ursa Major Awards opened for nominations today, and I have six eligible stories from last year. You can read them all for free online:

The Mouse Who Was Born a Bear
Sheeperfly's Lullaby
Marge the Barge
Questor's Gambit
Of Cakes and Robots
High School Dogs

If you enjoy any of these stories, please consider nominating them. Nominations are open through February 28th.

ROAR Volume 8 is now open for submissions! Here are the guidelines: http://marylowd.com/ROAR-8-Submission-Call.html

Last night, I finished writing a complete draft of Otters In Space 3: Octopus Uprising. In celebration, Tembroke threw together a playlist of relevant songs to listen to. It was a really fun way to celebrate. Anyway, for anyone else out there who would like to celebrate Otters In Space 3 musically, here's the complete track listing:

Paperback Writer (Beatles)
Defying Gravity (Glee, Chris Colfer)
Experimental Film (TMBG)
I Have A Dream (ABBA)
Number Three (TMBG)
There Are No Cats In America (An American Tale)
Alligator Sky (Owl City)
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (closing credits music)
Octopus's Garden (Beatles)
Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Adam Young)
Firework (Glee)
Rocket Man (William Shatner)
Yellow Submarine (Beatles)
Dream Big (James Darren)
Make it Big (Beach Boys)
King of Spain (Moxy Fruvous)
Three Cool Cats (Beatles)
I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog (Monkees)
Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
Jupiter's Child (Steppenwolf)
Hound Dog (Elvis)
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy)
I Could Write A Book (Harry Connick, Jr.)
We're Doing A Sequel (the Muppets)
I'd Like To Visit The Moon (Sesame St.)
Vincent (Vonda Shepherd)
This Will Be Our Year (Zombies)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon)
Star Trek Original Series Main Title
Rocket Man (Elton John)
Rocketman (Red Elvises)
Starships (Pentatonix)
Major Tom (Pomona Men's Blue and White)
Teddy Bear (Elvis)
Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)

ROAR Volume 7 is now available for pre-order from the FurPlanet site!

https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=877

Here's the synopsis:

Welcome to a LEGENDARY volume of ROAR! That’s right, the theme for the seventh volume is legend, and it will take you on a journey from a fortune teller’s bamboo hut to the end of the world in the coils of a dead snake god, back in time to the Cretaceous and then up to the stars. You’ll meet tigers and cranes practicing Kung Fu, a singing frog, a gambling pigeon, a rap-star bearded dragon, a rhinoceros who’s friends with a goat, and several creatures you’ve probably never seen before.

And the table of contents...

Crouching Tiger, Standing Crane by Kyla Chapek
The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon by Renee Carter Hall
The Torch by Chris “Sparf” Williams
A Rock Among Millions by Skunkbomb
The Pigeon Who Wished For Golden Feathers by Corgi W.
Unbalanced Scales by Bill Kieffer
Reason by Heidi C. Vlach
Old-Dry-Snakeskin by Ross Whitlock
Kitsune Tea by E.A. Lawrence
A Touch of Magic by John B. Rosenman
Long Time I Hunt by Erin Lale
The Butterfly Effect by Jay “Shirou” Coughlan
The Roar by John Giezentanner
Trust by TJ
The Golden Flowers by Priya Sridhar
A Thousand Dreams by Amy Fontaine
Puppets by Ellis Aen

As the editor of this volume, I can personally guarantee that each of these stories is excellent. Buy it, read it, love it. Also, review it!

The ballot for the 2015 Ursa Major Awards was posted today, and thank you so much to everyone who helped nominate my works! I had four works nominated, spread across three categories:

Novel
In a Dog's World (Coupon Code: CJ98M)

Short Story
Lunar Cavity

Other Literary Work
ROAR Volume 6
The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats (Coupon Code: JW97Y)

I'm really proud of all four of my works that got nominated, and it's wonderful to know that other people out there liked them too. While voting is open, I'm making In a Dog's World and The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats available for free as e-books through Smashwords. And of course, "Lunar Cavity" is still available to read for free on Deep Sky Anchor. Unfortunately, I can't offer ROAR Volume 6 for free; I don't have the rights for that. However, if you do buy a copy, you'll be getting a book that's filled with a broad cross-section of furry stories, each of which was excellent enough that I was happy to read them three or four times carefully. And I don't usually re-read things.

Voting is open through April 15th, and if you enjoyed any of nominated works, then I hope you'll consider voting for them!

My eligible works this year are:

Novel
* In a Dog's World

Other Literary Work
* The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats
* ROAR 6 (edited by me)

Short Stories
* "Lunar Cavity" (from The Furry Future)
* "Songs of Fish and Flowers" (from Lakeside Circus, Year Two, Issue One)
* "Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon" (from The Dragon's Hoard)
* "Danger in the Lumo-Bay" (from Inhuman Acts)
* "Shreddy and the Carnivorous Plant" (from The Necromouser)
* "Cold Tail and the Eyes" (from The Necromouser)
* "All the Cats of the Rainbow" (from The Necromouser)
* "Frankenstein's Gryphon" (from Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things)
* "Hidden Feelings" (from Daily Science Fiction)

If you'd like to read In a Dog's World or The Necromouser before making your nominations, they're both available for free from Smashwords through the end of February with the following coupon codes: RZ44E for In a Dog's World and NL94G for The Necromouser.

In addition, here are couple of things that I'm likely to nominate:

Novel
* Koa of the Drowned Kingdom by Ryan Campbell (a totally delightful novel about a fruit bat who's been raised by a family of otters)

Short Story
* "Bullet Tooth Claw" by Marshall L. Moseley (from Inhuman Acts)
* "The Analogue Cat" by Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden (from The Furry Future)
* Stories TBD from ROAR 6 (but not the few reprints)

Published Illustration
* Wraparound cover of In a Dog's World by Idess
* Wraparound cover of ROAR 6 by Teagan Gavet

Website
* The Furry Writers' Guild (www.furrywritersguild.com)

Rainfurrest is mere days away! Here's my schedule for the big weekend...

Thursday, September 24th

7:00pm Who Is Mary Sue? (Elliott B)
Come listen to Jess E. Owen, George Squares, and me talk about wish-fulfillment characters -- how to avoid them or if you should.

8:00pm Furry Writers' Guild Meet & Greet (Hospitality Suite/Patron Lounge)
These meetings are a great chance for writers to connect and talk about where the community is heading. If you're new to the furry writing community, you can learn about this essential, central hub. If you're already a member, then I shouldn't have to convince you to come.

9:00pm Cóyotl Awards (Hospitality Suite/Patron Lounge)
A grand celebration of furry fiction! Our Mooster-of-Ceremonies will sing and present certificates whilst wearing antlers and a tux. There will be cookies!

Friday, September 25th

10:00am Safety In Numbers: Writing Groups (Elliott B)
I'm the co-chair of one of the longest running sci-fi/fantasy critique groups in the world. (Possibly the longest running.) Come listen to me talk about critique groups with Yannarra and Voice Spider who are part of a very successful furry group that's structured very differently. It should be interesting!

11:00am I Cast Thee Out! Dealing with Rejection and Critique (Elliott B)
After five years in a critique group that doesn't pull any punches and more than 900 story rejections, I have some experience with handling rejection and critique. Come listen to me talk about it with Phil Geusz and Renee Carter Hall.

2:00pm A Reading with Mary Lowd (Hospitality Suite/Patron Lounge)
I haven't decided what I'll be reading from yet -- possibly part of my novel that came out this summer, In a Dog's World, or a story from my new collection, The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats. Or both? Or something completely different? Seriously, if anyone has requests, I'm open to considering them.

5:00pm Research and Internal Consistency (Elliott B)
Come listen to Kitswulf, George Squares, and me talk about research and internal consistency.

Saturday, September 26th

10:00am Writing 101 #2 (Elliott B)
Anything you want to know about writing? Julianne Reyer, Yannarra, and I will start from the beginning and be happy to take questions.

2:00pm FurPlanet and SofaWolf Book Launch (Hospitality Suite/Patron Lounge)
I'm not actually on this panel, because my new book is a SURPRISE LAST MINUTE addition to the RF releases. Nonetheless, I do have a new book -- The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats -- coming out from FurPlanet, and I also have a story in Ocean's Inhuman Acts: A Collection of Noir. So I plan to be there!

My very first Tri-Galactic Trek story, "Danger in the Lumo-Bay," will be coming out next week in Inhuman Acts: A Collection of Noir! What's a Tri-Galactic Trek story, you ask? Well, here's the teaser line for this story:

Captain Pierre Jacques and Doctor Waverly Keller, a Sphynx cat and an Irish Setter respectively, set out to spend a pleasant afternoon testing their ship's new lumo-bay. But are the safeties working???

I plan to write a lot more Tri-Galactic Trek stories in the future. (Translation: after Otters In Space 3 is done.)

For more information about Inhuman Acts: A Collection of Noir check out the FurPlanet page (where you can also pre-order it!):

http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=811

There are some really good authors listed in the table of contents, and I know for a fact that Marshall Moseley's "Bullet, Tooth, and Claw" is an EXCELLENT story, set in the same world as his story from ROAR 6. I'm very much hoping that Marshall can be convinced to write more stories in that world, because I've loved every word of it so far.

My story, "Frankenstein's Gryphon," will be coming out from Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things in October. They're doing a funding campaign right now, and contributors can get an eBook of writing prompts from the authors, including a furry one from me:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/.....-things#/story

Also on that page, you can see an illustration of the snowy owl/snow leopard gryphon from my story!

My novella from Five Fortunes, "When a Cat Loves a Dog," won the 2014 Ursa Major Award for Best Short Fiction!!! Thank you very, very much to anyone who nominated or voted for me. I was really excited to win this award. When I found out, my family went out to a small burger place that inspired the location for one of the scenes in the novella and celebrated with chocolate shakes. My daughter was thrilled, because she got to stay up way past her bedtime.

The final ballot for the 2014 Ursa Major Awards has been posted, and voting is open until April 15th.

There are a lot of good things on there. I'm particularly excited to see Renee Carter Hall's Huntress in the novel category, the Furry Writers' Guild in the website category, and Allasso 3 in the magazine category. I'll probably also vote for BoJack Horseman, a Netflix original TV show about a horse who was a famous actor in the nineties -- it's weird but kind of great.

Also, I want to thank everyone who took the time to nominate my short stories -- five of them made it to the final ballot. Five. I... words fail me. Thank you. Of course, I'm making all of them free while voting is open.

Again, thank you.

Now, go vote for furry things!

(Disclosure: I have a story in this anthology.)

My two great loves are science fiction and furry fiction. The Furry Future is both. It's more than 400 pages of furry science fiction, and, in and of itself, that's a great thing.

Here are some highlights...

"Tow" by Watts Martin paints a completely believable, gritty future where Gail, a rat totemic, must deal with prejudice from cisform humans while she's simply trying to do her job salvaging space wreckage. This story sold me so completely on its universe, that I can't wait to see the novel that Martin's writing about Gail.

"A Bedsheet for a Cape" by Nathanael Gass features a police dog, Arf, and the woman, Tarla, who rescues him from being "retired" when he can no longer serve on the force. The real strength in this story lies in the character of Tarla -- she's strong and likeable, but she's also rash. Bringing home Arf has unexpected repercussions, and she has to deal with them, because he's totally unprepared for life outside the police force. The contrast between Tarla's determination and Arf's naive compliance is charming, sweet, and poignant.

"Vivian" by Bryan Feir reminds me of Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects." (If you're familiar with Ted Chiang's work, you'll know that's a high compliment. If you're not, go read something by Ted Chiang.) Vivian is an AI with a cartoon fox avatar. The concern that James -- a psychologist/computer scientist -- shows for Vivian as she develops and the friendship that Vivian eventually develops with a human girl named Jen are heartwarming. A sweet story.

"The Analogue Cat" by Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden tells the entire life story of a genetically uplifted cat who becomes a cyborg and falls in love with a robot. And it tells that story in only four pages -- truly amazing. This story is a perfect little gem.

"Trinka and the Robot" by Ocean Tigrox is a fun, light read about a ferret girl, Trinka, who discovers a robot in the ruins near her home town. What makes this story shine is how well it steps into the world view of this spunky ferret girl -- the solar panels that power the robot are described as being "shiny metal rock that stretched out to the sun, just like a flower." Trinka calls them rock-flowers. Between the delightfully spirited protagonist and the evocative descriptions, this is a lovely story.

"The Darkness of Dead Stars" is a dark, dark story about a ship full of naked mole rats, drifting aimlessly through empty space. But it is also gripping and fascinating -- a story that perfectly succeeds at what it sets out to do.

"Thebe and the Angry Red Eye" by David Hopkins is barely furry... But it is a beautifully told, heartbreaking science-fiction story about an astronaut stranded on one of Jupiter's moons. While I wouldn't even remember the species of the main character if the story didn't have illustrations, this story does experiment with anthropomorphism in other, very interesting ways.

Basically, this anthology is exactly what it should be, and I'd love to see more anthologies like it. If you enjoy both furry and science-fiction, then The Furry Future is for you.

I've finished editing the last story for The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats! It will have thirteen stories -- six Shreddy stories and seven other cat stories. Here's a mock line-up:

"The Necromouser"
"Shreddy and the Zomb-dogs"
"Shreddy and the Silver Egg"
"Shreddy and the Christmas Ghost"
"Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon"
"Shreddy and the Carnivorous Plant" -- new story!

"Songs of Fish and Flowers"
"Magtwilla and the Mouse"
"Katelynn the Mythic Mouser" -- new story!
"The Wharf Cat's Mermaid"
"Cold Tail and the Eyes" -- new story!
"All the Cats of the Rainbow" -- new story!
"In a Cat's Eyes"

As you can see, four of the stories will be completely original for this anthology. All I have left to do is figure out the actual order of the stories -- I might go with the line-up above, but I want to spend some time checking to make sure that all the transitions are smooth.

Of course, due to exclusive rights on some of the stories, the collection can't come out before the end of September. Still, once I have the manuscript finished, I can start focusing on other projects again...

Finally, the Ursa Major Awards are still open for nominations, and I have eight short stories that are eligible. They're all available for free until the end of the month -- links here. And, if you're a Shreddy fan, you should know that one of them is a Shreddy story.

I had a story come out this week in Apex which is pretty super exciting. The story is a piece of science-fiction (not furry) called Foreknowledge. It's very sad. Seriously, don't read it if you're not okay with crying, because everyone who reads it seems to end up crying. I was sobbing while writing it.

I got my OTTER SPACE shirts from Woot today! They are fantastic, and I'm glad I ordered three of them. I may have to order some more shirts from Woot...

I'm thinking of applying to the Launch Pad program this year, because it sounds amazing.

Finally, the Ursa Major Awards are still open for nominations, and I have eight short stories that are eligible. They're all available for free until the end of the month -- links here. And, if you're a Shreddy fan, you should know that one of them is a Shreddy story.

The Ursa Major Awards are open for nominations through February 28th. This year, I have eight short stories that are eligible, and they're all available to read for free while nominations are open.

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A Real Stand-Up Guy -- A story about a pug dog comedian inspired by Stephen Colbert. Originally published in Allasso 3.

When a Cat Loves a Dog -- An Otters In Space spin-off novella and sequel to "A Real Stand-Up Guy." Originally published in Five Fortunes

Shreddy and the Silver Egg -- The latest in a series of stories about Shreddy, the lovably grumpy tabby. Originally published in Tales from the Guild: Music to Your Ears.

The Wharf Cat's Mermaid -- According to Fred Patten, "an "awww!" sweet story for cat-lovers". Originally published in ROAR 5.

The Little Red Avian Alien -- A Wespirtech-universe retelling of a classic fable with a twist and several animal-like aliens. Originally published in Luna Station Quarterly.

The Best Puppy Ever -- A very short science-fiction story about a dog who doesn't realize how important she is. Originally published in AE: The Canadian Science-Fiction Review.

The Carousel of Spirits -- A magical story of an otter ghost and an enchanted carousel. Originally published in Sorcerous Signals.

Weremoose -- A very short story about the fall-out from an encounter between a wolf and a moose. Originally published in Untied Shoelaces of the Mind.

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In other news, FurCon was a blast. We had our best Furry Writers' Guild meeting yet, and it was just basically a mellow good time overall -- lots of talking about writing, hanging out listening to my husband jam on guitar, and watching adorable fursuits. I hope to have some exciting news from the weekend to share soon -- but I think I'll wait until it's a little more certain. For now, I hope that people enjoy the above stories!

It's less than a week until FurCon! I'll be doing three panels this year.

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Furry Writers' Guild Meet & Greet
Panelists: Franklin Leo, Huskyteer, Mary Lowd, and Watts Martin
Friday, 3pm - 4:30pm

Come learn about the Furry Writers' Guild and the Cóyotl Awards, meet other writers, and discuss the present and future of furry writing.

Beyond the Furry Horizon
Panelists: John Van Stry, Kyell Gold, Mary Lowd, and Michael Payne
Saturday, 6pm - 7:30pm

How do you sell work--especially furry work--to markets outside the fandom? Come talk with authors who've done it and survived to tell the tale.

Reading: Mary Lowd
Sunday, 1pm - 2:30pm

Mary Lowd, author of the acclaimed "Otters in Space" series from FurPlanet as well as more than fifty published short stories, will read a few selections from new works.

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My current plan is to start with a couple short stories (and, yes, one will be my furry version of Doctor Who featuring a tortoise) and end with a preview of Otters In Space 3.

I hope to see some of you there!

From now until New Year's, you can download my novel, Otters In Space, and my collection of space opera stories, Welcome to Wespirtech, for free on Smashwords using the following coupon codes:

Otters In Space -- DF87E

Welcome to Wespirtech -- BR87B

I hope you enjoy them! And I hope you had a great year!

My space opera fable, "The Little Red Avian Alien," came out this week in Luna Station Quarterly! It's set in my Wespirtech universe on Crossroads Station. You can read it for free online here:

http://lunastationquarterly.com/sto.....d-avian-alien/

Rainfurrest was amazing!

Half of the writing track panels were in a suite on the fourth floor, so I got do my reading in a cozy room with a comfy couch and arm chairs. People seemed to enjoy both the Doctor Who inspired short story that I read and the sample of Otters In Space 3. A lot of people asked about Otters In Space 3 and also whether there will be a collection of my Shreddy short stories. I talked to the FurPlanet guys, and I think we have a hand shake agreement that they'll release a collection of my cat short stories at Rainfurrest 2015. It'll be half Shreddy stories and half other cat stories. I'm pretty excited about that. As for Otters In Space 3 -- I'm working on it. It's hard to say how long it will take, but I certainly came away from Rainfurrest feeling charged up and excited to work on it.

I think that all of the panels I was on went really well. I got to meet a number of new people, some who I've been getting to know through the Furry Writers' Guild forums, and also people that I haven't had a chance to see since last Rainfurrest. I'm glad that I'll get to go to FC this year, so it won't be quite so long.

Another notable event of the weekend was the Coyotl Awards Ceremony -- it was a special double ceremony for the awards from both 2012 and 2013. My husband was the moose-ter of ceremonies in a tux and moose antlers. We aimed to make it classy but also casual and fun. I think it successfully hit that note. We even had a couple of the winners there to receive their awards.

The biggest news of the weekend is that Teiran of FurPlanet asked me to take over as the new editor of ROAR. I've already opened submissions with a post to the FWG forums. Hopefully, there will be a more official announcement on the FurPlanet website soon. I'm super excited.

So, with that, I have a bunch of writing to do! I should probably get to it.

I just had my 50th short story published! It's a piece of flash fiction in Daily Science Fiction called Pegacornus Rex.

I had three other short stories published over the summer. One of them was a piece of hard sci-fi called "The Hand-Havers" in Analog. The other two, though, were furry stories -- "The Wharf Cat's Mermaid" in Roar 5 and "Shreddy and the Silver Egg" in Tales from the Guild: Music to Your Ears.

It's less than two weeks until Rainfurrest! I'll be doing a bunch of panels again this year. Here's my schedule:

Furry Writers Guild Meeting
Thursday 7pm

Fiction vs. Fan Fiction
Thursday 9pm with WhyteYote and Greg Laurel

So You Want to Write a Novel?
Friday 11am with Kyell Gold and Julianne Reyer

A Reading by Mary E. Lowd
Friday 1pm

Coyotl Award Ceremony
Friday 7pm with Daniel Lowd

Writing 101 #2
Saturday 11am with Tarl 'Voice' Hoch and Ocean Tigrox

Shopping for Publishers
Saturday 4pm with Tarl 'Voice' Hoch and Sam Ward

Writing Tips, Tricks, and Exercises
Saturday 5pm with Ocean Tigrox and WhyteYote

The Development of Character
Sunday 1pm with Leo Magna and Mitch De La Guardia

I also plan to attend the Variety Show if possible since my husband will be performing a new song of his -- a werewolf love song.

Next weekend, I'll be attending Furlandia. They haven't posted the schedule yet, but, as I understand it, I'm scheduled to give a reading from Otters In Space at 2pm on Friday, followed by a general panel on "Furry Writing" at 5pm. My friend and fellow Wordo, Garrett Marco (who helped me edit Otters In Space 2), should be joining me for the panel. Also, my husband plans to bring his guitar and hang out singing furry songs such as "Otterly Adore You" and "Walking in the Moonlight: A Werewolf Love Song." It should be a fun weekend.

In other news, I spent the last week -- in a manic burst of energy -- organizing my space opera stories into two short anthologies which are now available as e-books.

Welcome to Wespirtech
Beyond Wespirtech

The second one has more aliens, including canine aliens, sentient trees, and insect aliens. The first one has a story with octopus aliens. Though, neither anthology is really furry -- just space opera.

I also plan to release a third short anthology, The Opposite of Memory, on June, 2nd. That one will be a mix of hard science fiction, surreal, and space opera. If all goes well, I hope to release paperbacks of all three anthologies later in the summer, but that will depend on time.

Finally, I had a story come out recently in AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, which is really exciting. This story actually is furry -- though it's also hard sci-fi -- and, it's called The Best Puppy Ever.

The third issue of Allasso is finally out! Allasso, Volume 3: Storge is a beautiful compilation of furry fiction. Not only does it have several stand-out stories, but I think it really pulls together into an anthology where all the different stories speak to each other and gain from having been combined. I'm proud to have a story in it.

My story, A Real Stand-Up Guy, is the prequel to my novella, "When a Cat Loves a Dog," in Five Fortunes from FurPlanet. The inspiration for it came from trying to imagine Stephen Colbert as a pug dog in my Otters-In-Space-verse. The ensuing vision was a story I couldn't write alone -- I knew I couldn't write the jokes. So, my husband and I wrote "A Real Stand-Up Guy" together. It's a story I'm really fond of.

In other news, if you want to vote in the Ursa Majors this year, they're only open for a few more days. My novel, Otters In Space 2, and two of my short stories (both available to read in my gallery here) are on the ballot.

Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly and two of my short stories made it onto the final ballot for the 2013 Ursa Major Awards! This is really exciting, and I'm really grateful to everyone who helped nominate them. Thank you!

If anyone wants to read my nominated works, the short stories are both available as free e-books, and I've posted one of them here on FA. (I'll see if I can get the other one posted here too.) They were both originally published in last year's Rainfurrest anthology, Dancing in the Moonlight, from FurPlanet. As for Otters In Space 2, if you need a coupon for a free Smashwords copy, send me a private message, and I can set you up with one. It's also available in paperback from FurPlanet.

Here are the Smashwords links for all three pieces:

Best Novel category

. Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly


Best Short Fiction category

. Fox in the Hen House
. In a Cat's Eyes

Voting is open until April 30th, so just head over to the Ursa Major website if you want to vote. Again, thank you to everyone who nominated these pieces! I'm really proud of all three of them, and I'm glad to see that some other people are enjoying them too.

The Ursa Major Awards are open for nominations. Since the Ursa Major Awards are based on a popular vote, they mean more if more people participate in them. It only takes a minute, and it's really easy. So, if you care about anthropomorphic fiction, then I urge you to make your voice heard.

http://www.ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm

This year, my novel, Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly is eligible. I'm really proud of Otters In Space 2; I think it's some of my best work. If there's anyone who would like to consider nominating it but hasn't had a chance to read it, then I would be happy to supply a coupon for a free e-copy through Smashwords. Just send me a private message asking.

I also have two short stories that are eligible, "Fox in the Hen House" and "In a Cat's Eyes" from last year's Rainfurrest anthology.

Nominations are open until the end of February, so there's still time to check out works from last year that you might want to nominate. The Recommended Anthropomorphics List is a good place to start to get an idea of what came out last year: http://www.ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm