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Part 1:  “If there was a Museum of Furry, theatrical “Panto-Animals” would be a major exhibit.“ Part 2:  Feedback, history and sources roundup. These “Panto-animal” history articles share a discovery of amazing proto-Furry happenings, in an overlooked era of Pantomime theater in Victorian Britain.  Stunning photos show why the topic is worth uncovering.  From those scarce records, a handful of actor […]

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New Members

Welcome to our newest members Erin Quinn, BanWynn, and Dire Wolf!

(Writers — if you’ve been approved for membership recently but aren’t listed in the member directory, it’s because I haven’t heard back from you about what name you want to be listed under. Drop me a line at furwritersguild (at) gmail.com and let me know!)

Member News

Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort continues to reveal the world of Laika Dosha, and From Winter’s Ashes is now on Wattpad as well. Weasel’s documentary Poetry is Dead! has been completed. John Van Stry has two new books available on Amazon, Demigods and Deities (book five of the Portals of Infinity series) and Lost Souls, the first book of a YA series. M. C. A. Hogarth’s The Three Jaguars business comic is now available as a collection.

In crowdfunding news, Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things is seeking funding for their next year of publication. The Spring 2015 issue included Renee Carter Hall’s “The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon,” and Mary E. Lowd’s “Frankenstein’s Gryphon” will appear in Fall 2015. One of the perks of the campaign is a book of writing prompts from Ember contributors, including both of those members.

Congrats, everyone!

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Upcoming deadlines: Thanks to an extended deadline, there are still a few days to get your stories in to the furry anthology Fragments of Life’s Heart, now closing on September 7.

New markets: The new quarterly zine A Glimpse of Anthropomorphic Literature will open for its first submissions on September 15. Fred Patten’s next anthology, Gods With Fur, is now open until May 1 (see link for full guidelines). And if you like your were-creatures as something other than wolves, the anthology WERE- is open to submissions until October 31.

Remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for all the latest news and openings!

Guild News

If you’re headed to RainFurrest this year, be sure to join us for our FWG Meet & Greet Thursday at 9 PM, followed immediately by the Cóyotl Awards ceremony at 10 PM. Come put some real-life faces to the online names!

On Goodreads? Don’t forget we have a Goodreads group and a bookshelf featuring books by our members. Feel free to add any members’ books we’ve missed so far (see the instructions here on how to do that).

We’re always open for guest blog post submissions from members — good exposure and a great way to help out fellow writers. See our guidelines for details.

Need a beta reader? Check out our critique board (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it).

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us in the forum shoutbox for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern and Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern. More info on the Coffeehouse Chats is here.

As always, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

That’s all for this month! Send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.

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Good Morning beautiful people,

I want to help users prevent scam. I've been noticing it, a lot. You wouldn't treat every stranger as a liar but however wouldn't treat every stranger as an honest person either? Unfortunately, your going to have to choose the latter. There are three types of transactions artists use majority of the time.

●Up-front: Pay first, recieve product second

●Afterwards: Recieve product first, pay second

●Down-pay: Pay start-up fee/down-payment, product finished, pay remaining total, recieve product

I'm not going to tell you how need to run transactions but I will recommend them. Artists if you use 'Afterwards payment' and have been scammed I highly reccomment you to switch to the other options to prevent faulty payements in the future. If you do not feel comfortable doing so, steps you can take are: if a customers payment is pending send your customer a "heavily watermarked" piece (and I say that with emphasis). It will show you have proof of the finished product can deter unloyal customers from screenshooting/unauthorized downloads of the product. Once that payment is authorized send them the real copy! Artists if you use down payments or up-fronts make sure your payments are authorized. If unauthorized, immediately stop progress until the issue resolved you can resume.

Note this is for any artist of any fan base, not just furries. This the most information I have come up with myself. I could write an essay about this if I wanted to. Hopefully, artists will use this information in the future. Please if you have any other advice please feel free to share it.

Edit: Just remembered Paypal has a very lazy not-so-secure system when it comes to pending transactions. The way to go about it is sending the money to your bank account to see if it clears.

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I'm thinking of making a character inspired by Avatar, specifically Johannes cause he's just so awesome. And I love to think of logic behind certain aspects of characters. I want him to have Johannes inspired face paint, but face paint doesn't seem logical when your face is covered in fur. So what do y'all think? Would temporary fur dye be a kind of face paint alternative for fur covered faces?

Bonus question - Any furs here like Avatar? The metal band, not the cartoon... or scifi movie.

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...this speaks to me on all levels.

Edit: Direct linkage to thanshuhai!

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Hey guys! I'm just a little lonely having spent all day trying to draw, but being unable to. I'd love to get some feedback maybe, or even some help figuring stuff out with it, if anyone wants to watch me!

If not, I still wouldn't mind chatting! What's going on? :D

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Hi guys! I found a website a little while ago that was basically a file archive with folders corresponding to each convention and then folders for each convention year. There were TONS of photos, going back to the 80's and it was super fascinating to look through but I CANT FIND IT. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link?

EDIT: Found SOMETHING kind of like it, just not as big: http://www.furry.org.au/chakat/Photo-index.html

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This week the group discusses Jess E. Owen’s book – Song of the Summer King. This episode has spoilers ahead, so go pick up the book and read it before listening. It’s a good book so don’t worry.

 
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Ep 48 – Review – Song of the Summer King - This week the group discusses Jess E. Owen’s book – Song of the Summer King. This episode has spoilers ahead, so go pick up the book and read it before listening. It’s a good book so don’t worry.   You can pick up Song of the Summer King [...]