We travel around the world for our fifty-seventh episode, with letters from Australia, the UK, and the good ol' USA, as well as people who, um, speak Japanese. And mention Canada.

Anyway. It's good fun, and if you want a B-Hop baller name, listen up!

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss

Also: iTunes and Podcast Alley!

Hey! You can now hear our live episode from last weekend at RainFurrest in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it awesome, and special thanks to:

* RunningCat and Dragonman Mike, who brought Coke Zero and wine for us (Canadian Coke Zero!)

* Gene, Xodiac, and Rufus of the RainFurrest staff, who set up the room and got our projector and all

* Kario, who was a terrific helper panther with our audience mike

* Zavian, who continued his tradition of providing art during our live show

Everyone else who helped--sorry if we forgot anyone!

The podcast is here, as usual: http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss and also on iTunes and Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast.....?pod_id=104993).

To follow along when we introduce our secret project, we've uploaded it to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8G5lEk9nPE

Special thanks to  donryu and  amonomega for all their hard work on that project...awesome guys, awesome work.
Hope y'all enjoy!

Our fifty-fifth episode features conflict! Not between us, just talking about it and what it takes to make it real for your characters. Also: Kyell is a sloppy fox and makes a mess.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes!

That's right! Another Unsheathed! How about some spelling, some grammar checking, and some discussion of fanfiction? Also: Australian fans speak! And more discussion of our live show! What more could you ask for?

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss

Also on iTunes!

We answer some questions about what makes stories furry--more furry, less furry--and what we think about furry stories in general. It's a Very Furry Unsheathed!

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes.

or, Unsheathed #52!

We get a Weasel to join us for some hilarity about airports and diet sodas. And we answer a few writing questions along the way...

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes!

Unsheathed #51 is out! We talk about putting sex into stories and how to maintain your momentum, how to keep up your interest and keep stories going.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss and on iTunes, as always!

One year of episodes, fifty regular shows. We celebrated by meeting at Rocky Mountain Fur Con with a couple hundred close friends and one dog!  kyell did what is becoming a traditional at-con speech about furry in general, and Kit put together an awesome Pyramid game show. It doesn't lose much in the transition to audio, so give it a listen!

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes!

Have you ever wondered what blow job skills would be like in D&D?  kmhirosaki reveals his secrets! Of course, before that we talk about world-building and film adaptations.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes!

Crawling closer to fifty! This time we talk about characters. How do you not make them annoying powergamers? How do you base them off your friends without getting sued? And, most importantly, why weren't there ANY in the Star Wars prequels. Also: bonus Doctor Who geekery from the otter.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes and leave us a nice review!

We stealth-loaded Unsheathed #47 last week, with amazing special guest Savrin of  voxzerda. This week,  kmhirosaki reads a story of his on Unsheathed Presents #5. Give a listen! We're at http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss and, as always, on iTunes.

We creep closer to episode 50 with a discussion on how much simile is, like, too much, and what it takes to make a book great.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss and iTunes as per usual. And let us know how you like our new icon!

Neglected to announce when 44 went up, but it's there, and so is our new episode 45 finally (we had guests take over our studio, so K-Tech couldn't get to the editing until late in the week). It's an hour with  foozzzball the HacksawRat as we go through the following piece of prose sent in by  kandrel. Read through it and then listen to the episode as we discuss what we would change, and why.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us with our spiffy new icon on iTunes!

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People from outside the tribelands feared its sharp angles and perilous
heights, deadly jungles with creatures only whispered about since
prehistoric times, and endless plains with not a drop of exposed water to be
found. They avoided it like a black mark on the maps, merchants and traders
making half-a-thousand mile detours around its perimeter. At least one
civilization, near the northern rim, had made a practice of banishing
unwanteds into the tribelands, with three days worth of food and water, a
knife, and their wits to accompany them.

People from inside the tribelands feared the outside world as desperately as
the foreigners feared the tribes. Layered in generations of ritual and
ceremony, their terror of the outside world was enshrined in their beads and
feathers and the dances they danced around the fires at night, like the one
that looked like a chicken but was supposed to be an eagle. They worshipped
everything within their microcosm of the world just as fervently as they
didn't worship anything from the outside. At least one tribe, who lived
along the northern face of the labyrinth, thought that the sun and moon
shone only on the Tribelands, and every once in a while, a poor, untutored
soul would wander in from the outside, with three days worth of food and
water, a knife, and a dazzled look on their face like they were seeing the
sun and moon for the first time. The tribe would take them in, nurture
them, teach them the stories of father sun and daughter moon, then free
their soul to fly with the stars (who also shone only on the Tribelands) by
throwing them bodily from the top of a special plateau.

If the outside world and inside tribes ever bothered to meet, they would
agree on only one thing, and that would be that they should never meet
again.

Lookit, boys and girls (okay, probably mostly boys)! It only took us, like, a year, but we finally have a user icon here on our FA page. Suck it, paintbucket!

This pretty little thing was done for us by  Cirrus, who is talented and wonderful and you should all check him out.

Unsheathed #43 is online! It's an all-editing show with remote-otter. Kyell and K.M. are linked by K-Tech for a show, appropriately, about editing. Editing while you're drafting, editing when you've done a draft, editing when you're almost done. How, when, who?

Kit offers this bit of advice: if you want to get someone to edit your story, offer to edit theirs. Get good at it. It can only help.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or iTunes!

Also, we announce the imminent arrival of "Unsheathed Volume 2," our $10 DVD coming to a convention near you real soon. Sofawolf will be selling them at AC and Comic-Con, and I'll have them at RMFC and RainFurrest. Volume 2 collects episodes 25-43, including the famous Unsheathed Presents #4, with bonus stories "Teilo and the Desk Husky," read by K.M. Hirosaki, "The ISWA Semifinals," performed by B-Hop and Alex Vance, and ... "Chapter One" from the sequel to "Out of Position," read by Kyell.

Yes, you read that right. If you want a sneak preview of the beta draft of the OOP sequel, you can get it on "Unsheathed, Volume 2."

All proceeds from the sales of the DVDs go toward defraying our equipment expenses, past and future, and help us continue to improve the quality of the podcast. We appreciate all your support!

Unsheathed has The Answer! So what is the Question? Listen and find out. We discuss with Not Tube the problem of "good enough," whether a story with some redeeming qualities can be good or bad, and whether furries should demand better stories.

http:/www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes! And send in your story parts to edit at unsheathedpodcast@gmail.com!

It's just another episode for your intrepid fox and otter writer-hosts, as we inform on the subject of foreign words, talk about what kind of music we listen to while writing, listen to what a non-writer thinks of our 'cast, and give a listener some ideas to put in his story. Plus! A wicked cool idea for our live summer show.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes, as always--and thanks for listening!

Forty nights of podcasting. Forty episodes recorded. And what is our topic for this episode?

Do your online typefucking sessions need to be grammatically correct?

We ask for a lot of user feedback, so warm up those fingers (however you choose to do it) and listen up and write in to unsheathedpodcast@gmail.com!

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes. :)

Hey everyone!  KM_Hirosaki here, just wanting to explain exactly what happened to me with "Unsheathed Presents #4".

 Kyell is incredibly devious. He and Kit had me completely in the dark. See, unlike me and my single-project, super-plodding pace, Kyell is able to write like eight stories at once, in some weird pocket dimension of free time, and so he's able to write whole stories without my noticing. That part probably wasn't too difficult for him to pull off.

But no, even when the trap was ready to be sprung, they waited until the literal last moment to actually spring.

We went through all the motions of setting up Unsheathed #39. We had printed out the emails, we had gone over what we were going to talk about on the episode, and we had even done some preliminary planning on an "Unsheathed Presents #4" that was, obviously, not the one that was recorded.

I had myself all ready to record our show, and it wasn't until the mics were rolling that Kyell introduced the episode as Presents #4. Kit then turned on the projector, which had my instructions on it, which were simply to just read my lines as they came.

I had no advance warning. I hadn't read or heard the story. And I only got my own dialogue as it was my turn to say it. It was scary and embarrassing and humiliating and a whole lot of fun, in retrospect.

But yeah, those guys are the only people I think I'd ever let get away with something like that. Not without planning the deadly vengeance of deadly revenge (bonus points for anyone who gets that reference).

Oh, and since I don't want to be the only one subject to public humiliation: here's what  Rikoshi looks like hanging upside-down on a couch with his dick hanging out: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2864233/

Surprise! We fluster the otter with an unexpected story about him. And then we make him read his own lines. And some others. It's delightful.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss and iTunes, of course.

We will post the associated picture, or maybe Hirosaki-san will post it on his account, sometime this weekend. Hope you guys enjoy!

With the help of  foozzzball, we push our show over an hour! But it's all good stuff, talking about publication and podiobooks and what to do with that first novel.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us on iTunes!

Lots of people had busy schedules this weekend, so  kyell just read a little short story he'd written. This takes place in the Forester Universe, some time before the events of "In Between," and yes, it's THAT Lee.

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/Uns.....Presents_3.mp3

or

iTunes!

Episode #37 is up, at http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes. We talk a bit about editing: why it's important and why YOU have to do it, how to get better and when to do it. We also answer some personal questions about our species, how we met, and K.M. channels his inner weasel as we talk about non-fiction for a bit.

And of course, we pay homage to Kevin Smith.

Finally overcame technical difficulties--mine, this time--to get the episode posted. Lost of talk about writing process and where to stick your butt! (Hint: not at a wolf.)

http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or find us and review us on iTunes!

Episode 35, live at WonderCon, should be up and available now, at http://www.kyellgold.com/kkcast/unsheathed.rss or on iTunes. We talk about pop culture, furry's place in it, and Kyell answers the burning question: why are you wearing that hat?