Fred! Just so you know, still typing but the outline suggests I’m going to miss deadline.
Good luck everyone!
Yarst! I am dizzy after closing out Gods With Fur and deciding what will go into it. FurPlanet’s goal was 120,000 to 150,000 words. We got so many great submissions that my head was spinning over what we had to let go. FurPlanet finally agreed to accept over 170,000 words, after a couple of stories I didn’t want to lose agreed to wait for FurPlanet’s next anthology in about six months. Even so, I had to decline some perfectly good stories because Gods With Fur was just too long. They should be accepted elsewhere with no trouble.
Gods With Fur will contain 23 stories. The authors are a mixture of well-known names like Samuel Conway, Mary Lowd, and Watts Martin, and newcomers like Killick and Mut (some of whom have been furry fans for years but have just started writing). Authors like M. R. Anglin, Kyell Gold, and Kris Schnee with series have written short stories set in the worlds of their novels, showing their own gods or how our gods would fit into a furry world. There are dramas and comedies; action stories and quiet mood pieces. The trouble with editing an anthology with something for everyone is that it means there will be some stories that a reader won’t care for. Still, I think that Gods With Fur is an anthology that most furs will find worth hours of good reading.
Look for it at the FurPlanet table at Anthrocon, and in the FurPlanet online catalogue shortly afterwards.
Gods With Fur is now available for pre-order on our website: https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=876 Pre-orders will be mailed out towards the end of July. The book will be officially released July 1st at Anthrocon.
Here is the blurb and list of contributors:
From the very beginning, mankind has found the divine in the shape of animals from across the world. Deities such as Ganesha, Coyote, Anubis, and The Monkey King—even Zeus took to the wing from time to time. In ancient Egyptian deserts, misty Central American rainforests, and across wind swept tundra, man has forever told stories of gods with fur, feathers, scales, or tusks.
Gods With Fur features twenty-three new stories of divine animals working their will upon the land. You may recognize gods such as Bastet, while other stories see authors working in their familiar worlds, such as M. R. Anglin’s Silver Foxes books or Kyell Gold’s Forester University books. Others are set in new worlds where the anthropomorphic gods have tales to tell us. We are proud to present this new furry view of divinity.
400 Rabbits by Alice “Huskyteer” Dryden
Contract Negotiations by Field T. Mouse
On the Run from Isofell by M. R. Anglin
To the Reader… by Alan Loewen
First Chosen by BanWynn Oakshadow
All Of You Are In Me by Kyell Gold
Yesterday’s Trickster by NightEyes DaySpring
The Gods of Necessity by Jefferson Swycaffer
The Precession of the Equinoxes by Michael H. Payne
Deity Theory by James L. Steele
Questor’s Gambit by Mary E. Lowd
Fenrir’s Saga by Televassi
The Three Days of the Jackal by Samuel C. Conway
A Melody in Seduction’s Arsenal by Slip-Wolf
Adversary’s Fall by MikasiWolf
As Below, So Above by Mut
Wings of Faith by Kris Schnee
The Going Forth of Uadjet by Frances Pauli
That Exclusive Zodiac Club by Fred Patten
Three Minutes To Midnight by Killick
A Day With No Tide by Watts Martin
Repast (A Story of Aligare) by Heidi C. Vlach
Origins by Michael D. Winkle
Oh the cover is gorgeous! <3
I know! We love working with Teagan, she always turns out amazing work for our covers. 
Welp, I know what is on my ‘must buy’ list at my first anthrocon ever!
I have a question for either Fuzz or Fred:
Fred, you mentioned that there were a few stories that you didn’t want to lose even though GwF was too long at 170,000 (honestly, this is awesome. Love long books about mythology) and asked them to wait six months for the next Furplanet anthology. Does this mean that there is going to be a sequel or something similar to this anthology this fall?
I honestly hope so.
It wasn’t until I saw Samuel C. Conway’s name in Fred’s post to Flayrah https://www.flayrah.com/6600/gods-fur-—-and-feathers-scales… that I learned that Uncle Kage is a writer! Seriously, I had to look at his Wikipedia page. I knew, as presumably most furrys know, that Sam Conway is the boss of Anthrocon, but I didn’t know he wrote fiction until now. He contributed “The Three Days of the Jackal” to “Gods With Fur”.
The “Gods With Fur” looks like it will be a worthwhile purchase. I hope there will be some left after Anthrocon.
Standard operating procedure is for FurPlanet to hope to sell out of all the copies that they bring to Anthrocon, then to print more copies as soon as they get home to Dallas. That’s one of the advantages of using print-on-demand technology.
The stories that I didn’t want to lose from Gods with Fur being overlarge would have fit into both that and our next anthology, The Dogs of War, equally well, so I asked their authors if they would mind my moving their submittals to that. They replied that it would be okay, so I did. They are currently among the submittals for The Dogs of War, which has nine stories so far with a deadline of October 1st. Whether Gods with Fur has a second volume depends on how well it sells.
Shining River, Uncle Kage is an excellent writer. He has stories in The Ursa Major Awards Anthology and The Furry Future as well, and I hope that he’ll write stories for my future anthologies.
Vance, have fun at your first Anthrocon. I was only able to attend one, in Philadelphia, before my stroke that hospitalized me in 2005, but I had a great time. Unfortunately for me, Anthrocon was in Pennsylvania and I was in Los Angeles. I attended all the West Coast furry cons and s-f cons – the ConFurences, Further Confusions, Conifur Northwests; Westercons and Loscons and BayCons and OryCons and ConDors – until 2005. And there was also Anime Expo in L.A. I couldn’t afford to travel to the East Coast conventions as well. I had fun on the West Coast, but I always missed not getting to Anthrocon.
To FuzzWolf or Fred,
Any word on the contributor’s copies of Gods with Fur going out? I have a writers’ meeting in a couple of weeks, and I want to hold up my hand for once when they ask, “Did anyone get anything published this month?”
Yarst! I had assumed that they were mailed out long ago.
I can ask, but FurPlanet isn’t answering me, either. I’ve been saying that The Dogs of War will be published for either Midwest FurFest 2016 in December or for Further Confusion 2017 in January because FurPlanet has ignored several e-mails for months asking which it will be.
I had no idea. I’ve just poked Teiran to reply to you.
Teiran informs me that he is intending to mail them out before he leaves for RMFC. So they should go out this week. I’d do it myself, but my back injury has re-occurred this week so I’m having trouble getting around.
No big hurry. It would be fun to get it in time for the next writers’ meeting, though, because they’re starting to get a little sad. It’s been like:
“Did anyone get anything published this month? Did anyone get anything accepted this month? . . . Did anyone get a rejection slip? . . . Did anyone write anything at all this month? Doodle? Sign for a package? . . .”
Quick announcement, the eBook version of Gods With Fur is now available to purchase on BadDogBooks.com
I’ll be adding it to Amazon soon too.