I love these images. I have some stories here, but really, just enjoy any/all of them. The world needs more furry animal tales. 📚💙🐻#furlit

Issue 3 is now available and free to read on our website! plotthoundmag.com/issues/#issu...

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Plott Hound Magazine is open to submissions! Short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and our new category RETOLD TALES (reprint fiction up to 10,000 words). If you're writing animal, we'd love to see it. plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

My current work in progress is an autobiographical horror, working title: Frances Pauli and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Cold. :(

Big news from Plott Hound and great news for those of us who get to read more animal stories! #furlit

why is this so true??

A Unicorn's Guide to Society: Tip #2- Kelpies don't exist. Obviously. But if your best friend really believes in them, go ahead and play along. Especially if she's your best source of sweet tea. #furlit 📚💙🐻 #kelpiesforever

Here at Plott Hound Magazine, we can confidently say there are more extinct animals than we have paws. Sadly, very few of our paws have touched tales of such incredible creatures. If you've got something cooking from the Pleistocene or beyond, we'd love to see it in March!

A Unicorn's Guide to Society: Tip#1- Sweet tea is best when drunk from a friend's trough. Especially if she also has oat cookies in her cupboards. #furlit #kelpiesforever 📚💙🐻

We open in ten days! Send us your short stories and flash fiction, poems and essays. We love all kinds of animal from living to long gone, possible to impossible. I would say skies the limit, but we're also interested in unearthly (non-humanoid) aliens to boot.

The videos, flyers, and slides from the Furry Fiction Showcases at FurSquared 2026 are now available on my website. Enjoy! #FurryWriting

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This whole thread. <3

It's literal madness to think of this as actually writing books. You are triggering an automation machine to produce a book a day that you have zero, zero authorship over. I don't care how fancy your prompt is. Every author knows it's the writing NOT the idea that makes a book....cont

I couldn't love this more.

Wolves are still being portrayed as villains in modern storytelling, despite the facts. These fear-based narratives fuel misinformation and public fear. It’s time to change the narrative. 🔗Read more on our blog from Board President, Martha Hunt Handler: nywolf.org/2026/01/how-...

They had me at tea. <3 📚💙

Need some more short fiction to round out your 2025 reading list? Give "To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social a read We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

And one last thing for today: the latest edition of Critical Friends. We've moved it a week earlier in the schedule in order to include a fantastic conversation between @tristanbeiter.bsky.social's Le Guin book club about the contexts of criticism ... and the potential of the book club.

AUTHOR BEWARE: Scammers making Facebook pages that look like Kindle Publishing and/or use the Amazon logo clearly trying to sell author services. 100% fake. Tip: say the word 'trademark' and they delete the entire page in ten seconds flat. 📚💙

Resistance is not futile.

Owl philanthropists are now canon in my universes.

I've bought a lot of pre-made covers from Skyla (and have commissioned others) & she's wonderful to work with. Check them out ⬇️

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

2025 Reads Thread-animal fiction edition. :) This year I discovered the Shady Hollow mysteries of Juneau Black (pen name of an author-duet of cozy mystery) The books are sweet, full of animals and lovely coziness. So far the mysteries are actually pretty obvious, but I've hope for a twist in book 3

I have a few things eligible this year, From the Indulge anthology, my sweet gay romance, Manuel and Otis, and from the Wild Hearts anthology, my Francine DeCarey pen name has True Colors. I'll be posting some of my favorite reads this year soon.

Animal-centric Speculative Fiction alert. :) 🐻📚💙Your morning read?

Gender Ideology: Both a completely new liberal concept that no one 5 years ago ever heard of before AND somehow infecting the writings of ancient Greek philosophers.

I feel this in my cockles.

ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨ We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).

"...the touch of magic in the world (at Christmas) is amplified by the collective consciousness focusing on quiet beauty, kindness, and generosity."

They did a lovely job with this frame story and so many good stories inside too. <3 Have a listen.

We should all be enraged by this, because there is literally nothing to stop it from happening to all of us now. Anything is fair game to the magic insta-gratification machines.

Add your voice to the AI conversation.

I'll just ditto this and say that I also don't use AI to generate any of my cover images. I use stock photos and hire human artists. Because the stock photo sites have been inundated by AI 'art' if you see an image on one of my books you suspect involves AI please tell me so I can investigate.

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📚🐻Junebug remembered, she was not a kelpie either. Not unicorn anymore nor fully kelpie. She was, as General had been, a creature with both natures. She still had her horn, even if her teeth, her coat, her belly had been born anew. She had magic. www.patreon.com/posts/kelpie...

"Wet Rat Winter" shall be the name of my grunge band. Toilet Rats is a close second. The king of disaster headlines.

A very good model to consider. I will be making a statement for the webpage shortly with this one in mind.

This entire thread, up and down. Why art is about process and why handing the process over to a machine will never result in your own art. Ever. Process always trumps product. <3

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable. There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same. pwlearninglab.com

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Life is too short to be anything other than kind to yourself

Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

#amwriting today for the first time in a long time and I can't believe I let it go so long. Feels amazing to make words!

Y'all should buy this. Like... everybody.