Furry Writers' Guild Forum

Calls for submissions

It’s one editor and two illustrators, though it does say that one of the illustrators does a lot of “miscellany”.

Now in the Main Ring: Amazing Tales from the Circus

What’s a circus story without animals? And the publisher is called ‘Otter Libris’ :slight_smile:

Domesticated Velociraptors.

Do I really need to say anything else? :smiley: Okay – 2-7K, PG-13 max, pays $10 and ebook contributor copy, deadline April 30.

http://midnightwriterssociety.com/submissions/

Tough call: negatives free ebook and indenting without tabs?

Positive: working with an editor to polish…?

You should not be using the tab key to indent anything. Grrr.

I’ll get the ruler to rap his knuckles.
Also why is a free ebook a negative?

Every time an author presses the TAB key, an editor dies…
I do, I do, I do believe in auto indents!

Hey folks - just wanted to poke my head in to say that Jaffa Books has formally re-opened for novel and novella length submissions. We’re seeking fantasy, science fiction, and furry fiction works specifically.

I was just stressed because I’d fallen into the habit of writing for email and websites and I had to reformat everything to everyone before submitting… so for the last three months prior, I’ve been forcing/training myself to do it RIGHT from the beginning. Double spaces and tabbed indents… so I was like “NO! I won’t do it that way! I’m trying to do it RIGHT!!!”

sob! I was sooooo very wrong! :’(

But at least I learned before submitting more than one or two stories.

:frowning:

Free ebooks are only a problem because I can’t seem to enjoy them.
I can edit and write on the computer, but somehow I can’t even enjoy stories I would normally enjoy reading when reading them on the computer. My emails are full of Rabbit’s installment and I can’t enjoy them as reading materials. Kris’ stuff is here, too; I can’t enjoy read. I can’t review read.

I could probably push past it with an extended effort, but I’ve 100s “real” books to enjoy.

I blame the grey hair.

This is a request for nonfiction pieces, but it may be of interest to the FWG community:

http://ashlandcreekpress.com/about/submissions.html

Call for Submissions: Writing for Animals Nonfiction Anthology

Ashland Creek Press is currently accepting nonfiction submissions for a new anthology, Writing for Animals: An anthology for writers and instructors to educate and inspire.

From Franz Kafka’s Report to the Academy to Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, animals have played a central role in literature. Increasingly, writers are playing a central role in advancing awareness of animal issues through the written word.

And yet little has been written about the process of writing about animals—from crafting point of view to voice. Writers who hope to raise awareness face many questions and choices in their work, from how to educate without being didactic to how to develop animals as characters for an audience that still views them as ingredients. We hope to address these issues and more with a new collection of essays, by writers and for writers—but most of all, for the animals.

We seek essays from authors and educators. Our focus is on including a mix of instructional and inspirational essays to help readers not only improve their work but be inspired to keep at it. Essays may be previously published and should not exceed 10,000 words.

Areas of interest include:

Anthropomorphism and writing from the animal’s point of view
The rethinking of animal-centric idioms (such as “fish out of water” or “kill two birds with one stone”)
How to elevate animals from “set pieces” to “characters” in your writing
How to address violence toward animals
Animal rescue themes
Animals and “personhood”
The “animal turn” and what it means for animal-centric literature
Animals in children’s literature

For all submissions, please include (in a single document) the entire essay and an author bio listing all publishing credits, awards, and experience. Include a valid e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number.

Interesting. I wish I were more of a scholar on those kinds of topics, but at the very least, I’d be interested to read that when it comes out.

One for the equines – opening this September:

http://www.rhondaparrish.com/equus/

I’m

I’m already bugging her on Twitter. ;D Thansk PT

Higgs Raccoon in Great Britain has just sent me this:

Hi Fred,

I understand you frequent the forums of the Furry Writers’ Guild. I thought you might like to point them towards this call for submissions by Guardbridge Books:
http://www.stokesinternet.com/guardbridgebooks/submissions.html

(They’re looking for a kitsune story, which should be right up the alley of many of the furry authors.)

Cheers,
Higgs.

Cool! I note they’re also looking for transhuman and fantasy novels…

Untitled Neko Erotica
Edited by Tarl Hoch

I moved this here: http://www.anthroaquatic.com/forum/index.php?topic=1137.0
So as not to clutter things up in this thread. :slight_smile:

How likely is a story to be accepted if there’s only one character that’s a neko, as long as it’s one of the main characters?

If they are one of the main characters, and they are involved in the sex, then you should be good. Just remember that the overall theme of the anthology is Nekos, so I would like them to play a large roll in your story.

Not sure if this has been caught yet, but the next volume of Sofawolf’s Heat is open for short stories and poetry.

Yeah, I fixed that sometime in the past 48 hours actually, unless people can’t see it for some odd reason.