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We are not gonna top the title of Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter. We won’t even try. We’ll just tell you it’s a new hardcover graphic novel, written and illustrated by Rich Moyer. “Ham Helsing is the descendant of a long line of adventurers and monster hunters–who don’t often live to rest on their laurels. Ham has always been the odd pig out, preferring to paint or write poetry instead of inventing dangerous (dumb) new ways to catch dangerous creatures. His brother Chad was the daredevil carrying on the family legacy of leaping before looking, but after his death, it’s down to Ham. Reluctantly, he sets out on his first assignment, to hunt a vampire. But Ham soon learns that people aren’t always what they seem and that you need a good team around you to help save your bacon!” Ooo, pretty scary kids!  Look for it now from Penguin Randomhouse.

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A very new take on some very familiar Disney characters comes to us in Duckscares: The Nightmare Formula, a new hardcover graphic novel from Amulet Books. “Huey, Dewey, and Louie — the world-famous nephews of Donald Duck — are off on a globetrotting adventure! When the boys are suddenly (and confusingly) selected for a prestigious exchange program, they head off to Germany, where they learn about soccer, the local culture… and a spooky plot plaguing their new friends. What’s all this about a haunting?” Written by Tommy Greenwald and illustrated by Elisa Ferrari, Duckscares is available now. There’s also a review over at Comic Book Resources too.

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“Van Hill Millvele (fursona name Janky the Fuzzy Life Coach) is a writer of clean romantic space fantasy novels with anthropomorphic elements.” Allauthor.com I will be honest with you: “frugal” and “furry” are words that don’t usually work well together. Though, that doesn’t have to be true. Talking about furries, you may think of those thousand-dollar […]

TigerTails Radio Season 13 Episode 19 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show.

Excitement flies through the furry fandom, as many furries reported that the hashtags and keywords of ‘furries’ and ‘furry twitter’ have trended on social media platform Twitter. Many furries pointed to one of Twitter’s recent post on their official account showing a GIF of their logo with a furry outlook while also captioning, ‘Furry Twitter’, […]

To Australia, Sydney convention Aurawra has postponed their physical event to next year, following cases involving the more contagious COVID-19 Delta variant that is starting to appear locally; the city right now is under a two-week lockdown. Attendees can choose to get ticket refunds by contacting the furcon’s email, and registrations for this year will […]

In spite of COVID-19 vaccines rolling out globally, some businesses and events impacted by the pandemic had to fold out. US-based convention Camp Tiny Paws recently announced Thursday (Jul 1) they will be closing the furcon indefinitely. According to the furcon, this decision came about with their hotel venue now closed and prices at other […]

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters comic book mini-series takes an especially furry turn with issue #3, dedicated to one of the most famous tricksters of European legend. “Meet Reynard, a wily but penniless fox who boasts to his learned friend Stork that he will make himself a fortune at the market, despite having nothing to sell but an empty pouch. But Reynard’s scheme may come with terrible consequences, both for the customers he cons and for the con-man himself…” Written by Amal El-Mohtar and illustrated by Isa Hanssen (with cover art by Peach Momoko), this issue is available now.

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The description goes like this… “WWII. The Pacific. A mythic adventure unfolds as three American soldiers — a disgraced ex-cop, a mobster trying to escape his past, and an intelligence officer with mysterious motives — investigate a top-secret Japanese superweapon: A deadly force of trained dinosaurs!” It’s called Operation Dragon, and it comes to us from writers Bill Groshelle and Brendan Cahill, with illustrations by artists Germán Peralta and Kristian Rossi. This new graphic novel is available in hardcover, later this month from Dark Horse.

image c. 2021 Dark Horse Press

Maybe you thought that the time was right. Maybe you wanted a special friend to talk to. David Hilvert isn't sure that extremely strong AI, or strong AI, will give you more than elf ears, or even that. Maybe it's like Might and Magic, where it stays whatever it was to begin with. Maybe you

A few weeks ago, con chairman Samuel Conway wrote a Twitter thread about how a customer was stiffed by a seller in the Dealer’s Den at Anthrocon. OK, I just deleted a long thread where I detailed how an unscrupulous fursuit maker made Anthrocon look bad in the eyes of our friends in Pittsburgh. I intended […]

Today we heard the sad news that Dwale (it/its), a veteran writer and poet, recently passed away. If next of kin requests donations be sent to a particular cause, we will share those details.

Dwale was a friend to many and had a strong impact within the furry and furry writing communities, including the Guild as former President. Its writing can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5354982.Dwale

Please, stay safe. If you or someone you love is struggling, please, please reach out. You are not alone. Help is available.
For US: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ 1-800-273-8255
For international: https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp

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Renegade Roo returns to the show to visit with Bearly and Taebyn and talk about things that have happened since his last appearance. Taebyn rehashs things from Season 1. Taebyn gives us names for groups of animals. Are there bell shaped turtles? Lux brings the Transfurmation Station to the studio and transforms Taebyn into a fork!  Can you put rap to math? We will find out.

Taebyn's Story is PC this week! The porcinistas will have you chuckling with delight over the banana plantation.  So join us for a couple hours of fun and mayhem. Moobarkfluff!

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Thanks to all our listeners and to our staff: Bearly Normal, Rayne Raccoon, Taebyn, Cheetaro, TickTock, and Ziggy the Meme Weasel.

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Bearly Furcasting S2E10 - Renegade Roo, Media, Transfurmation Station, Storytime, Trivia

Fox and Burger Podcast #11: How Asian/Western Cons Differ, Volunteering at a Foreign Con + More Feat Ray Ting. ---- Have you ever thought about how cons outside of the US are run? Well, look no further, as we bring Ray Ting on the show! Ray Ting is a silver fox from the US who is currently a staff member for FC as well as a volunteer for Infurnity. He has the unique position of seeing how an Asian and a Western con are run, so we decided to bring him on the show to give us some insights to how Infurnity and FC are run behind the scenes. We’re excited to have yet another fox on the show, so let’s give him a big awoo! ---- Time Stamps: 00:00 Section 1: Introduction 00:00 Podcast intro 01:06 Guest introduction 02:24 Section 2: Guest Spotlight: Translation and Volunteering Experience 02:59 What does the Infurnity translation team do exactly? 05:27 What word/concept that you found difficult to translate? 09:13 What did you do as a volunteer at Infurnit 2019? 10:25 Volunteer scheduling: Infurnity and FC 13:15 Would you volunteer again at Infurnity? 14:38 Section 3: Comparing and Contrasting Fandoms: Infurnity and FC/Western Cons 15:15 What accounts for Infurnity’s phenomenal growth? 17:35 What attracts people to Taiwan/Infurnity? 23:59 Are there any differences between Taiwanese and Western fursuiters? 27:02 Are there any differences between the dealer’s den/artist alley? 29:00 Differences in event scheduling 30:21 FurMIT story 31:44 How do Infurnity and AC different in the ways that they are run? 35:12 What’s your favorite moment at Infurnity? 37:52 Social media shoutout 38:13 Podcast outro ---- Social Media: Our official Twitter: https://twitter.com/foxandburger Fox: https://twitter.com/foxnakh https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK9xoFQrxFTNPMjmXfUg2cg Burger: https://twitter.com/L1ghtningRunner http://www.youtube.com/c/LightningRunner Ray Ting: https://twitter.com/RaytingTW --- Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U25fQ3dq3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJ2315x84c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcc58v3hibo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAjXUKlBfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQJaeQ-QSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33puEnCOAqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0dxEgfPTq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3176Sw8A0EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNUnknCu26w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKvsdd6mD8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl56QRAcqYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFBcQbRovw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8uLhAvzgJo https://jfpc.asia/en/result/2018/ https://aminoapps.com/c/furry-amino/page/blog/taiwanese-furcon-infurnity-2018/j04Y_XwPSKu3k256JmDQZqQBgRgMDWlZNG5 Other pictures and video provided by RayTing, Pixabay, and hosts' personal footage. Intro/Outro Music: Aioli by Andrew Langdon.

i just wanted to dip my tail in here and check the water. i go by kebs or just liz or lizzy. im a fuzzy green lizard! like so: https://kebles.com/liz.png . im on version 26.7.2 of the last of my 9 lives. poke around my site or my brain if you want, for it is open to all! im obsessed with

After several entries for young readers, now it’s time for something truly different…! “Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster. All are age old folklore fodder, but could they actually be real? In recent years the myth of Man Goat and The Bunny Man has grown locally, and many have claimed sightings of the two unique creatures; yet no concrete evidence exists… And that’s exactly how they want it! Dealing with the things nightmares are made of so we don’t have to – deranged mutants, satanic cults, demons, summer vacationers – Man Goat and the Bunny Man protect us from the evils that hide in plain sight. But they don’t want your adoration, they just want to be left alone!” Issues of Man Goat and the Bunny Man (created by Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, Dave Franchini, and Edgar Salazar) are available now from Zenescope.

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Another month of the year has passed by. This month was Pride Month, and I hope people enjoyed reading the Pride Month Spotlights that were featured over the last few weeks. The Furry Writers’ Guild is blessed with so many members who identify as LGBTQ+, so in truth there could have been any number of people interviewed. We at the guild encourage everyone to continue supporting LGBTQ+ people and causes.

For this month’s newsletter, there will be three main topics to cover.
– The Leo Awards winners.
– Open anthology markets.
– Book promotion opportunities.

The Leo Awards are run by the Furry Book Review. They are a little different to other awards as there is never one single winner of each category. Instead, the awards seek to honour and highlight all exceptional furry fiction. As a consequence of this, all nominations that pass a benchmark score across a panel of judges is considered a winner of the award. This can be shared amongst the entire field of nominations, if all are considered worthy. (Note: I was one of the judges for this year’s awards, which were judged in March/April.)

The winners for the 2020 Leo Awards were as follows:

Novels

Disbanded, by Frances Pauli

Entanglement Bound, by Mary E. Lowd

Qoholeth + Gallery Exhibition, by Madison Scott-Clary

Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure, by Amy Clare Fontaine

Whip and Boot, by Herr Wozzeck

Ritual of the Ancients, by Ian Madison Keller

Symphony of Hunted Truths, by Leilani Wilson

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Novellas

What Makes a Witch, by Linnea Capps

Rightful Salvage, by Frances Pauli

Spin the Bottle, by Dajan Tafari

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Anthologies

Difursity, by Weasel

Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements, vol. 1, by KC Alpinus

Sensory De-tails, by Thurston Howl

Burnt Fur, by Ken MacGregor

OhMurr, by Weasel

The Haunted Den, by Tarl “Voice” Hoch and Thurston Howl

The Electric Sewer, by Thurston Howl

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Short Stories

“The Battler” by Cedric G! Bacon in Even Furries Hate Nazis

“The Fire in Her Claws” by Mary E. Lowd in Daily Science Fiction

“Paths” by Kyell Gold in Sensory De-tails

“Water” by Utunu in The Voice of Dog

“Summer Strawberries” by Mary E. Lowd in The Voice of Dog

“Loving You is Wrong” by NightEyes Dayspring in The Voice of Dog

“Ember in the Night” by BanWynn Oakshadow in SPECIES: Wildcats

“Sharp” by Thurston Howl in Electric Sewer

“Keep Breathing” by Karter Mycroft in Zooscape

“Too Much Play” by TJ Minde in Give Yourself a Hand

“The Pine Lesson” by Ian Madison Keller in Ironclaw: Book of Legends

“These Are the Days of Our Lives” by Weasel in Sensory De-tails

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Poems

“On Meeting My First Fur” by Chazz Chitwood in Furry Slut

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Nonfiction

“Furry Erotica and Pornography: Art, Sex, and the Self” by Katav in From Paw to Print

From Paw to Print, compiled by Thurston Howl

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Book Covers

Disbanded, by Ilya Royz

Once Broken, by Nomax

Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements, vol. 1, by Jonas Jödicke

When a Cat Loves a Dog, by Idess

Furry Slut, by Jessica Hart

Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure, by Paola Tuazon

Purrgatorio, by Joseph Chou

Please support these wonderful writers by clicking through the links and buying what stands out to you. Trust me, they are all deserved winners!
Nominations are also open for the 2021 Leo Awards.

As always, the Furry Writers Market is the go-to place to find out which markets are currently open for submissions. Here is a quick rundown of the open calls.

• Untethered – Deadline: July 15th 2021
• Wolves Gay – Deadline: July 30th 2021
• Furward Slash: A Furry Adult Techno-Horror Anthology – Deadline: November 30th, 2021
• Pirating Pups – Deadline: November 30th, 2021
• The Nightmurr Before Christmas – Deadline: October 1st, 2021
• #ohmurr! – Deadline: Ongoing
• Zooscape – Reoccurring submission period.
• Isekai Me – Deadline: When full.
  
  An important note to add as well: The Submission Grinder now has a search category specifically for furry calls. This will mean another important tool in finding furry-specific anthology calls.

The Furry Writers’ Guild is also looking for books to promote.
If you are a guild member who has a book release coming up, then please get in contact with us so that we can help share this news through our social media outlets. We will be keeping an eye out for new books ourselves, but if you don’t want us to miss it, send us an email or message and we can make a note of it.

For now, we will only promote self-published books if they are from a guild member. All books through a publisher will be considered. This scope may well change in the future, so keep checking back to our social media feeds and blog posts for more information.

The second half of 2021 is upon us. Things may not have been easy so far this year, but hopefully the next six months will see a gradual return to a better normal.
Keep writing, keep reading. Make it all furry!

J.F.R. Coates

Hey, Papabear,

For the last year or so I've been feeling sexually attracted to animals (mainly horses). Whenever I see one, I get an erection, or when I see a picture of one.

Do you have any advice so I can set these thoughts apart and don't have to live with them?

Anonymous (age 18, the Netherlands)

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Dear Furiend,

Perhaps this letter that I wrote back in 2013 will help. My advice directly to you would be this: First, sex with animals is strictly banned in your homeland of the Netherlands as of 2008. This means that if you are caught indulging in your equinophilia, you could go to jail. The same is true if you are caught with pornography depicting sex with animals.

There may be a couple reasons for your sexual thoughts. One is that you are genuinely a zoophile, a subject I talk about in the article linked above. The other is that images of horses--their genitalia, rumps, etc.--may be a psychological tool to disguise other sexual impulses. For example, you are a male and you are attracted to the large penis of a horse, so it could be that you are disguising homoerotic feelings by covering them up in the idea of a horse rather than admitting you want sex with a man. This might sound counterintuitive, as one would think zoophilia would be worse than homosexuality, but the brain works that way sometimes. Also, if you have OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior) or PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), this can make your condition worse.

The best thing for you to do at this time would be to find a professional counselor to advise you, since Papabear is not a trained professional. You should really figure out what is going on in your head before you decide what to do about it. Follow this link for tips on where you can seek some help in your area.

I would like to end by saying there is nothing "wrong" with you. Human sexuality is complex, to say the least. At 18, you are at a time in your life when your hormones are raging and you are also going through many physical and mental changes. There is no shame in asking for help, and if you can't open up to a family member, then your best solution is to find a good counselor.

Good Luck!
Papabear

Faces familiar and new come your way in the latest work from Joey Weiser. “On your mark, get set, GO! Dive into the graphic novel sequel to Ghost Hog [we talked about it before!] from the Eisner Award-nominated creator of Mermin [that too!] full of action, adventure, and speed! Following the events of Ghost Hog, Truff, Claude, and Stanley are joined by a new friend, Vern, as he gears up for the big race back home in Dragon Racer! He’s never won the race before…but this could be his year! Vern’s been practicing and practicing, both on and off the road. But when the other racers start to tease the fast driving dragon about his abilities on the track, he’ll have to put the pedal to the metal and prove he’s got the speed and finesse to compete in this year’s race… Zoom into this fast-paced graphic novel full of friendship, teamwork, and believing in yourself.” Dragon Racer is available now in trade paperback from Oni Press.

image c. 2021 Oni Press

TigerTails Radio Season 13 Episode 18 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show.