Sep
10th
2014
And Now, a Short Story for Sale · 12:11am Sep 10th, 2014
Here's another:
Non-Pony story of mine folks can purchase and read if they've a mind to. "Deep Down Among the Dagger Dancers" is the story's name, and it's now available in an anthology called Music to Your Ears, a collection of talking animal tales all concerned somehow with music.
The story steals several things--including its title--from Carl Sandberg's Rootabaga Stories and features a cat giving accordion lessons to a bunch of squirrels. Which really ought to tell you all you need to know about it... 
Mike
This looks like it's been illustrated. Is it? Either way, sounds fun.
Damnit, I've gotta expose friends to this. consider it acquired.
Why is it the very first thing I thought of was The Emperor's New Groove?
Aaand... I just estimated the shipping to where I live, and it alone is nearly twice the price of the book.
Well, if it ever appears in an electronic format, give a shout. The physical one is a tad too expensive for me due to shipping.
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The blurb there:
Mentions "interior illustrations," but that was the first I'd heard of it. Since the book was just released, I haven't gotten my contributer copy yet, so I'll hafta wait to see if my story got a picture or not.
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy the stories: I can't wait to read the others myself.
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I haven't thought about that movie in years. I'm remembering it as being fairly clever, but nothing about accordion-playing cats and/or squirrels is coming to me...
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I'll certainly announce it here.
Mike
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My mind makes strange logical leaps. You mentioned cats and squirrels. Yzma, the villain in the movie turns into a cat, and there is a recurring squirrel, to whom Kronk can speak.
Furry Writers' Guild... Didn't that start on FA? I have a feeling like I was part of that once. o.O
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Anything with squirrels:
Is OK with me.
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Yep. Renee Carter Hall, known as Poetigress, is in charge of it now and seems to be trying to increase the group's visibility. They've gotta website and everything with a forum attached that I keep forgetting to visit...
Mike
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Ohhh yeah, Poetigress. :B I was heavily involved in the FA writing community prior to joining this one, but not before I fell out of it hard.
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All this Pony stuff:
Is the first time I've ever really been involved in a fandom. I mean, yes, I've been hanging around the edges of furry fandom since the late 1980s and contributing stories to the various fanzines that used to exist, but being Fluttershy, I never talked to anyone and never paid any attention to what was going on around me.
And yes, I still don't pay any attention to what's going on and could probably characterize my involvement here as "hanging around the edges" just as well, but I feel much more a part of "the community" here and behind the scenes at EqD than I ever have among the furries...
Mike
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Well, I could sum it up as anyone who's into fanfic here would know your name, while I just found out you have a FurAffinity account yesterday. >.>
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The thing about:
FurAffinity is that it's a site for posting artwork that has a partially-thought-out way of posting fiction. I'm not terribly interested in visual art--as anyone's who's glanced at my webcomics will tell you
--so I don't go over to FurAffinity all that often. This site here is everything I ever hoped to find among furry fandom and never did: a site dedicated to stories that's easy to use both as a writer and a reader. So why go anywhere else?
I mean, except for Equestria Daily, of course.
Mike
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I was really heavily into the FA writers' group for a while (I think my name is still on the writers' thread, unless someone stated a new one), but when I started falling out of the fandom, that was one of the first things to go. I don't even read fiction on that site anymore, and it sure doesn't help that it's not a focus. :/ Furries need a site like this, but that's also the fandom that taught me that projects on the internet never work out. (This is the fandom that taught me that isn't always true, but bronies seem to be the exception proving the rule.)
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That should be our motto:
"Bronies: The Exception Proving the Rule Since October 2010"
Mike