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Unnaturals [1]: The Battle Begins, by Devon Hughes. Illustrated by Owen Richardson.
NYC, HarperCollins Publishers/Katherine Tegen Books, October 2015, hardcover $16.99 ([5] + 335 [+ 4] pages), Kindle $9.99.
Unnaturals (the animals in the story are called “the Unnaturals”) is a fantasy-adventure series for 8- to 12-year-old readers; grades 3 to 7. The standard formula is to produce 4 or 5 annual serialized novels, each up to th
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The Long Road Home, by Rukis. Illustrated by the author.
Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, July 2015, hardcover $29.95 (403 pages), trade paperback $19.95, electronic edition $12.95.
This is a mature content book. Please ensure that you are of legal age to purchase this material in your state or region (publisher’s advisory.)
This is the final volume of the trilogy begun in Off the Beaten Path and continued in Lost On Dark
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Zootopia marketing inspires visions of a feature length Orangina commercial. This short article shares a new image and says the movie is having “aggressive marketing”. And Reddit furries discuss hot tigers:
Marketing meets Rule 34. “How Esurance Lost Its Mascot to the Internet.” Not furry, but this will ring some bells.
Puzzle Cheetah in Subway ad (via Greenreaper.) Puzzle is a U
Guest post submitted by Akhetnu.
Furry is a unique exploration and interpretation of the human experience, warts and all, through the lens of animals both real and fantastic. Many of these creatures are unique to certain parts of the world, especially the imaginary ones that form part of the mythological archetypes of the cultures other than our own. When it comes to looking at humanity, we also tend to investigate these various cultures as they existed and continue to exist throughout time.
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Dear Patch;
FurPlanet is advertising that its appearance at Further Confusion will be the final opportunity at present to buy the RainFurrest charity anthologies. FurPlanet is no longer carrying them after last December 31st and it is bringing its final printed copies for sale at FC 2016. The book is at least temporarily unavailable, because it will be up to the con to take over printing and selling after this year. – Fred
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Cats and More Cats; Feline Fantasy Fiction, edited by Fred Patten, is launching at Further Confusion 2016 in San Jose, California over the January 14-18 five-day weekend. The book can be pre-ordered online from FurPlanet Productions. It will be for sale on the FurPlanet online catalogue afterwards.
Cats and More Cats is a reprint anthology of 14 short stories and novelettes of feline fantasy fiction (“the best of the best”) from 1989 to the present, most of them out-of-print today, plus a new
Everything was happy and peaceful with the furries, until… Overflowing hot tubs damaged the Rainfurrest hotel. The con’s current status is still seeking a new venue. There’s been much public discussion about bad behavior leading to this.
Separate from that drama, there was an issue about organizing their dealer’s room in 2015. High demand vs. limited capacity made pressure to compete for tables. Rainfurrest decided to manage it with a new Jury Selection process that left many feeling shut out
If you have helped to organize a furry convention, please comment below.
Fred Patten wants to put your con in a fandom history book from an academic publisher. (He’s “Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer“, with many previous articles.) There are pieces of info lacking from many cons – Fred can make it clear what’s needed from which ones. He’ll report it like this example, RAINFURREST. – Patch
Fred’s message:
For the last two years, I have been compiling a history of all furry conven
Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.” It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s. This kind of dance party is independent from cons. This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther.
It’s more ambitious than events that happen once, house parties, or informal meets. Those can stay inner-focused for friends who already know each other. This brings partnership with venues that aren’t hotels, and new supportive interest in the ki
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Fledger: a Novel, by Nicholas Barrett.
NYC, Macmillan Publishing Co., September 1985, hardcover $13.95 (207 pages).
Ever since Adams’ Watership Down was published in 1972, just about any “realistic” nature fantasy centered upon one particular species has been “high profiled” as a “Watership Down for” (whatever species is featured). Fledger is certainly a Watership Down for puffins.
A flock of puffins is returning to Land (spe
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Housepets! Will Do It For Free (Book 6), by Rick Griffin.
North Charleston, SC, CreateSpace, November 2015, trade paperback $13.95 (52 pages).
Another year passes, and here is the new annual collection of the Housepets! online comic strip by Rick Griffin. Housepets! has appeared each Monday-Wednesday-Friday since June 2, 2008. It has won the Ursa Major Award for the Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip for every year since! – for
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Ninja Timmy, by Henrik Tamm. Illustrated by the author.
NYC, Delacorte Press, November 2015, hardcover $14.99 (211 [+ 2] pages), Kindle $9.99.
This children’s book was originally published in 2013 in Sweden as Ninja Timmy Och De Stulna Skratten, although it was written in English. Henrik Tamm is described in an About the Author as “a conceptual designer in Hollywood involved in various animated and live-action projects” (p. [2
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. GeneStorm. Book 2, Fort Dandelion, by Paul Kidd Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com/Perth, Western Australia, Kitsune Press, 11/2015, trade PB $23.11 (347 pages), Kindle $7.95. Gene Storm: Fort Dandelion follows closely after Book 1, City in the Sky. It is also “set in the Australian ‘weird-lands’ 150 years after […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Typewriter Emergencies, 2015 Edition [edited by Weasel] Manvel, TX, Weasel Press, October 2015, trade paperback $16.95 (179 pages), Kindle $3.99. The blurb says, “Welcome to the first release of Typewriter Emergencies, a collection of psychologically damaging and hard hitting furry literature.” The implication is that this […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Midwest Furfest 2015 – More than 5,000 gather in Chicago. (Via Furrymedia.) The International Business Times has tons of great fursuit photos. You may find a few more in a slideshow from the same Reuters photographer. Enjoy a con video from Vox Fox and a […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Fred Patten’s birthday was December 11 – Happy 75th, Fred! Read an interview with Fred about the founding of Furry fandom, by esteemed novelist Phil Geusz. Thanks Fred for bringing so much content that keeps Dogpatch Press the only source for a long Furry News […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, by Mary E. Lowd. Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, September 2015, trade paperback $9.95 (131 pages), Kindle $6.99. This collection of 13 cat short stories by Mary E. Lowd contains nine reprints and four original tales. It also contains all of […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Mad Dogs and Englishmen, by Paul Magrs. London, BBC Books, January 2002, paperback £5.99 (249 pages). Doctor Who is massively popular, but his adventures do not seem to offer much for furry fandom. But they do overlap in “The 100th Novel in the Record-Breaking BBC Worldwide […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. “Here is another of my reviews that was published ten years ago, edited in a manner that I didn’t like. This is my original review, so it’s a bit different from the printed version.” The Cat, by Pat Gray. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, UK, Dedalus Ltd., March 1997, […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Koa of the Drowned Kingdom, by Ryan Campbell. Illustrated by Cooner. Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, September 2015, trade paperback $9.95 (146 pages), electronic edition $6.99. Koa of the Drowned Kingdom is the tenth of FurPlanet’s “cupcakes”; novellas instead of novels. It seems at one point to […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London, Methuen & Company, October 1908, hardcover 6/- ([vi] + 302 + [ii] pages). The Wind in the Willows is world-famous today. It was almost immediately world-famous. President Theodore Roosevelt praised it in 1909. […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. College Catastrophe, by Jan. Illustrated. Hong Kong, Tiger Knight Comics, November 2012, trade paperback, $12.95 (unpaged [127 pages]), e-book $3.95. This is the collection of the online comic strip that Jan (this book gives away his real name as Chun Yan Miu) published from November 2000 […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Originally written for Quentin Long’s Anthro Magazine. The Doorman, by Reinaldo Arenas. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. NYC, Grove Weidenfeld, June 1991, hardcover 0-8021-1109-2 $17.95 (191 pages). Reinaldo Arenas was a young Cuban novelist known for both novels of “magical realism” and a […] View the full article
Every community has its crimes. This story is not unusual in that way. It’s just sad in a human way. This small subculture has suffered at least a handful of murder stories – mostly on the victim side. This week, there’s word going around that an especially deadly mass shooting in California took a friend of the community. […] View the full article
