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Anthologies galore!
Jul. 2nd, 2020 10:38 pmI just finished two stories, both for anthology calls, and I've submitted or am working on a bunch of other stuff right now. Busy times!
One story, edited up and sent off today, was for a vore anthology. Vore is not among my personal fetishes, but I do enjoy predator/prey dynamics a ton, and I've been toying with a virtual reality setting for extreme/dangerous kink stories, where it can be clear that everyone is fully consenting, while still writing tales about predation, snuff, violence, etc. So I figured why not! (I'm putting up another story from this setting as a Patreon reward shortly, also.) Don't know if my story will be accepted, but I suspect the odds are good, given how niche this is.
The other, rough draft done but still in need of a little time to sit before I give it an editing pass, is a story for the "Dogbumps School for Wayward Wixards" anthology. Dogbumps being a play on Hogwarts, and the point of the anthology being to create a school of magic specifically for transgender, LGBT+ and other marginalized peeps. It's a bit of a middle finger to Rowling's TERF-y ways, and I was delighted to take part! My story is a sweet bit of "first love" fluff between a trans man and his non-binary crush. No idea if I'll get in to that anthology, but of course I hope so.
I am also working on a story for a "HashtagLove" publication call, involving more VR, but this time finding romance in a Second Life style virtual world, and what happens when real selves that have been hidden behind very different (or maybe too similar!) avatars have to be revealed. It's a little silly, very fun, and I honestly I don't know if I'll have it done in time for the publication call, but even if I don't it's a good idea.
Then somebody pointed me at a "Solarpunk" anthology call, and I'm toying with trying to come up with a story for it. I love post-apocalyptic stories, but I also love the anti-apocalypse "the world gets better" theme of solarpunk, and I have a few thoughts about what I might write, but nothing that's really gelling for me yet. (It's one of those "I have a concept but not a story" things. I want to write something about a non-binary person who's a third in a poly relationship. Third gender, third role, "Third" as a title, it seems like a good concept, but I don't know what *happens*. Where does the story's motion come from? I don't want to build it on any kind of conflict about being non-binary, the whole *point* of a solarpunk story is a better future, and in my version of a better future, being non-binary is no biggie. But if not that, then what is the story about? Stories don't have to have "conflict" in any aggressive sense, my Dogbumps story doesn't for example, but characters have to go from somewhere to somewhere, and I don't know where this enby person goes.)
On top of that there's also a thing I've written an outline for and I hope I find time to write for the second Reclamation Project furry shared world anthology!
And finally I sent in a couple of my "HFY" stories to a "We're the Weird Aliens" anthology, that looks at humans from the point of view of aliens who find us bizarre. "HFY" is kind of a reddit thing, it stands for "Humanity Fuck Yeah" and is pretty much the same idea. (See also "Humans are space orcs" and "Earth is space Australia".) Humans being weird, scary, or especially scarily competent to aliens that are totally baffled by us. I don't spend a huge amount of time on reddit, but I have read some of the "classics" there, and I've had fun playing with that, so I tossed a few of those at the publisher, and I hope they'll get accepted.
Anyhow! As you can see, I'm busybusybusy!
Other things in the pipeline:
-At some point the Anti-Nazi furs anthology from Thurston Howl will be out with a story of mine in it.
-I should have two short story collections entirely my own from them also! They are apparently currently having some delays of things, I probably should poke somebody about those.
-The paperback of Blood and Fire is upcoming. Also need to poke somebody about the release date, it should be early fall?
-I'm trying to find a publisher (or an agent to help me find a publisher) for Dragon's Blood, my furry vampire philosophy novel. :3 Wish me luck there, it's a weird one! But I feel it's one of my best, hence wanting to get an agent to see if I can place it somewhere that might get it into actual bookstores and not just furry conventions/on Amazon.
Also more fanfiction coming, and I might even have an open commission slot one of these days. Maybe. If I don't drown in all this other stuff to do first!
One story, edited up and sent off today, was for a vore anthology. Vore is not among my personal fetishes, but I do enjoy predator/prey dynamics a ton, and I've been toying with a virtual reality setting for extreme/dangerous kink stories, where it can be clear that everyone is fully consenting, while still writing tales about predation, snuff, violence, etc. So I figured why not! (I'm putting up another story from this setting as a Patreon reward shortly, also.) Don't know if my story will be accepted, but I suspect the odds are good, given how niche this is.
The other, rough draft done but still in need of a little time to sit before I give it an editing pass, is a story for the "Dogbumps School for Wayward Wixards" anthology. Dogbumps being a play on Hogwarts, and the point of the anthology being to create a school of magic specifically for transgender, LGBT+ and other marginalized peeps. It's a bit of a middle finger to Rowling's TERF-y ways, and I was delighted to take part! My story is a sweet bit of "first love" fluff between a trans man and his non-binary crush. No idea if I'll get in to that anthology, but of course I hope so.
I am also working on a story for a "HashtagLove" publication call, involving more VR, but this time finding romance in a Second Life style virtual world, and what happens when real selves that have been hidden behind very different (or maybe too similar!) avatars have to be revealed. It's a little silly, very fun, and I honestly I don't know if I'll have it done in time for the publication call, but even if I don't it's a good idea.
Then somebody pointed me at a "Solarpunk" anthology call, and I'm toying with trying to come up with a story for it. I love post-apocalyptic stories, but I also love the anti-apocalypse "the world gets better" theme of solarpunk, and I have a few thoughts about what I might write, but nothing that's really gelling for me yet. (It's one of those "I have a concept but not a story" things. I want to write something about a non-binary person who's a third in a poly relationship. Third gender, third role, "Third" as a title, it seems like a good concept, but I don't know what *happens*. Where does the story's motion come from? I don't want to build it on any kind of conflict about being non-binary, the whole *point* of a solarpunk story is a better future, and in my version of a better future, being non-binary is no biggie. But if not that, then what is the story about? Stories don't have to have "conflict" in any aggressive sense, my Dogbumps story doesn't for example, but characters have to go from somewhere to somewhere, and I don't know where this enby person goes.)
On top of that there's also a thing I've written an outline for and I hope I find time to write for the second Reclamation Project furry shared world anthology!
And finally I sent in a couple of my "HFY" stories to a "We're the Weird Aliens" anthology, that looks at humans from the point of view of aliens who find us bizarre. "HFY" is kind of a reddit thing, it stands for "Humanity Fuck Yeah" and is pretty much the same idea. (See also "Humans are space orcs" and "Earth is space Australia".) Humans being weird, scary, or especially scarily competent to aliens that are totally baffled by us. I don't spend a huge amount of time on reddit, but I have read some of the "classics" there, and I've had fun playing with that, so I tossed a few of those at the publisher, and I hope they'll get accepted.
Anyhow! As you can see, I'm busybusybusy!
Other things in the pipeline:
-At some point the Anti-Nazi furs anthology from Thurston Howl will be out with a story of mine in it.
-I should have two short story collections entirely my own from them also! They are apparently currently having some delays of things, I probably should poke somebody about those.
-The paperback of Blood and Fire is upcoming. Also need to poke somebody about the release date, it should be early fall?
-I'm trying to find a publisher (or an agent to help me find a publisher) for Dragon's Blood, my furry vampire philosophy novel. :3 Wish me luck there, it's a weird one! But I feel it's one of my best, hence wanting to get an agent to see if I can place it somewhere that might get it into actual bookstores and not just furry conventions/on Amazon.
Also more fanfiction coming, and I might even have an open commission slot one of these days. Maybe. If I don't drown in all this other stuff to do first!