FuzzWolf's Blog

Boy, I should really update this thing more often. It's been almost a year since I last made an entry.

Well, lately I've been hella busy both with the day job and with FurPlanet's heavy catalog of new releases for Anthrocon. We're up to 24 new releases so far, including 5 prose works. Some of the layouts were a bit complicated this time, but I'm happy with how much I'm improving in my efficiency with In Design.

Heading to bed now. If you want to keep in touch with me, I'm pretty active on Twitter @FuzzWolf 

Hello again,

Today we’re featuring our new books. We have novels and anthologies galore premiering at Anthrocon. And as an added bonus, check out our first ever visual novel!

Click the images to go to the website and find out more about these great new titles.




From the author of Jake’s List, more gay fun with beefy guys.

Don’t Call Me Coach by Tagenar, illustrated by NuDog, rated NC-17, $19.95

The all gay, adults only anthology’s latest volume has a Victorian Romance theme.

FANG Volume 6, rated NC-17, $19.95



From the author of Otters in Space comes a cat/dog romance story. Can love survive in a world divided by species?

In a Dog’s World by Mary E. Lowd, G, $9.95

28 stories make this a packed volume of ROAR. The theme is Scoundrels, both lovable and the ones we love to hate.

ROAR Volume 6, PG, $19.95



In a world of superheroes and super powered villains, it’s important to keep your work and personal lives separate. That becomes a challenge for a hero when he falls for a villain.

The Shadows that Linger by M. Andrew Rudder, PG-13, $17.95

The final chapter of Rukis’ “Off the Beaten Path” trilogy is here. As a bonus, we have also released all three parts in hardcover if you want a nice set. Check the links on the store.

The Long Road Home by Rukis, NC-17, $19.95 softcover, $29.95 hardcover



The second novel by the author of Sixes Wild. Windfall features a husky and otter couple as they navigate friendship turning to romance, oh and also investigate their possibly haunted town!

Windfall by Tempe O’Kun, illustrated by Slate, NC-17, $19.95

An adults-only visual novel on CD, compatible with Windows, Apple and Linux.

Willy Bear Beach episode 1 by artdecade, NC-17, $15.00

Happy July everyone,

It’s almost time for Anthrocon and everyone here is scrambling to finish up all our new releases and take inventory before we hit the road. We have a ridiculous number of new releases this year. I’d love to tell you about all of them, but there are too many to fit in one email so we’ll be splitting them up.

In this email we’ll be showing off our new art book collections. Just click the thumbnail image to go to the product’s page on FurPlanet.com Enjoy!




The first art book by Redrusker! 70 pages of all male action, featuring works from 2013 – 2015.

That's the Spot! Adult Artbook by Redrusker, rated NC-17, 70 pages, $24.95

The first print collection from Rukis and Myenia’s popular Menagerie mailing list. Features 60 male pin-ups with a very broad variety of species.

Menagerie by Rukis and Myenia, rated NC-17, 60 pages, $19.95



Tsampikos is back with a selection of works created throughout 2015. This folio includes the 10-page comic, Cottonwood Springs part 1 plus lots of sexy, playful pin-ups. Lots of M/F content and male pinups.

Tsampikos Folio 2015, NC-17, 70 pages, $24.95

This compilation features some of Kadath's from 2013 and 2014. Also includes a previously unpublished comic from 2011, Casual Waggling.
Features M/F, M/M and F/F adult artwork.

Coffee Stains 3: Frappelicious, NC-17, 62 pages, $19.95



100 pinups from artdecademonthly.com from 2012.

Artdecade monthly 2012, NC-17, 104 pages, $24.95

Kaylii took on 100 commissions all featuring a harem theme. Both male and female pinups and pairings.

Harem Artist, NC-17, 104 pages, $24.95



Scappo returns with a collection of comics, pin-ups and stream commissions from 2014 – 2015.

Backtrack 4, NC-17, 94 pages, $24.95
We have an uneven number of art books so enjoy this picture of our badger, Fez. :-)

Hello and Happy Holidays to all our friends,

First of all, the big news for tomorrow is our Black Friday sale. Here is what you need to know:

FurPlanet.com deals
Coupon codes for FurPlanet.com
*15% off everything with the coupon code friday15, valid on Friday only
*10% off everything with the coupon code weekend10, valid Saturday, Sunday and Monday

All orders over $100 (before shipping) will receive a selection of additional items valued between $50 and $100 worth of furry books, prints and CDs. Additionally, 2 of those orders will also receive a Kobo Mini eReader!

All 5 volumes of FANG and all 5 volumes of ROAR will be on sale for half of their regular price. Only $9.95 each! These anthologies features a wide range of authors and each volume has a different theme. If you’re new to furry writing, these books are a great way to get acquainted with our best storytellers.

BadDogBooks.com deals
Coupon code for BadDogBooks.com
*15% off everything all weekend with the coupon code furry15, valid through Monday

We’ll also be releasing two new free stories: What Brown Can Do For You by Andres Cyanni Halden and Portions for Foxes by M. Andrew Rudder

Out of Position by Kyell Gold will be on sale for only $0.99 till the end of the year. If you’ve been waiting to read this book, now is a perfect time to pick it up. The updated file also contains a preview of the sequel, Isolation Play.

***All coupon codes will go active at Midnight in FurPlanet’s home time zone, which is Central United States time***

We’ll also be releasing nine new items at Midwest Furfest next week. All those titles are now available for pre-order on FurPlanet.com and they all qualify for the discount codes. Black Friday is the perfect time to place your order for our hot new titles. Details and links to all new releases are in the chart below. Click the cover images to go to the product’s page on FurPlanet.

New Releases:




From stories about being abandoned in the heart of civilization to stories about forced abandonment for the sake of science to how abandoned places affect the mind; the stories in this anthology cover a large range of genres and types of abandoned places.

Each one with their own little piece of personal horror laying among the ruins, ready to strike when you least expect it.

Abandoned Places, short story anthology, rated PG-13, 350 pages, $19.95

10 Foxes, 10 Farms, Lots of Plowing

A Little Drop of Poison by Andres Cyanni Halden
Academic Fulfillment by Danath
Aspirations by K.M. Hirosaki
Foxtrot by Tym
Irony and Woodwork by Whyte Yoté
Services Rendered by Jeeves
Sticky by D.J. Fahl
The Fox Says Neigh by Ajax B. Coriander
Weekend Pass by Andres Cyanni Halden
Weeping Bear Valley by Ajax B. Coriander

Plowed, short story anthology, rated NC-17, 214 pages, $19.95



Mirdad never thought he'd be the one left behind. But when his best friend, Chandra, dies that's exactly what happens.

Now the lion's grief is holding them both back, and something needs to change before it's too late.

Fortunately, Graha is good at making things change.

Art and story by Rovan aka Ryuu Majin
Inking and background assist by Simeramen

Catalyst, comic, rated NC-17, 38 pages, $9.95

I have this dream I'm in a clearing with a great white horse.

I know it's the end of time, the sky is falling around us.

I have no more fight in me, so I close my eyes.

Then I'm falling, falling forever and right before I hit the ground I open my eyes.

The Seventh Day, comic, rated PG-13, 54 pages, $9.95



Rat Pack collects 56 pages of assorted rats drawn by the artist, Donryu. This full color collection includes the 15 page comic, Rat Problems.

Rat Pack, art book, rated NC-17, 60 pages, $24.95

Contains 60 High quality illustrations drawn especially for this project. Most pieces are Female solo or Female/Female in nature. Includes two comics.

Art by Vagabonda, Wildering and Orphen-Sirius plus guest art.

World of Amazon Hunters, art book, rated NC-17, 74 pages, $24.95



A Very Loud Life of Quiet Desperation

Suburban Jungle: Rough Housing issue 2, web comic, rated G, 26 pages, $5.95

The third in the series of books collecting the work of Albert Temple on his long running web comic, Gene Catlow.

Gene Catlow Volume 3: Life, Death, Change, web comic, rated G, 164 pages, $9.95



Lovebird husbands Ethan and Alan go on an anniversary cruise, but the meerkat Ethan can't resist pushing his bunny hubby's buttons, both emotionally and sexually.

Take a seat at the pool bar and watch the old flame reignite in... SHIP TEASE.

Art and story by Ritts

Ship Tease, comic, rated NC-17, 26 pages, $19.95

Hard-boiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award-winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido!

Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan’s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad finds himself mixed up in another murder, with roughneck bikers, a shifty lawyer, one down-and-out Beat generation writer, and some sinister circus folk! When John Blacksad goes on the road, trouble is dead ahead!

Blacksad: Amarillo, comic, rated R, 72 pages, $17.99


We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and spent time with those you love. Here’s to a wonderful holiday season from everyone at FurPlanet Productions. Thank you for another year of friendship and support.

Cheers,
FuzzWolf
FurPlanet Productions

I haven't written a con report in a while, but I wanted to do one for Central Plains FurCon cuz more people need to know about this con.

CPFC is in Wichita, KS so it's only a 5.5 hour drive from Dallas. Nice thing about that is I only need to take one day off work.

The GOH this year was Laura Garabedian. She's a friend and an artist we've worked with so it was nice to see her being honoured.

Thursday:
I got to work early then hit the road. We'd packed the car the night before so I left direct from the train station. The drive was good. Uneventful and with no major slowdowns. I started the audiobook of John Scalzi's new book, Lock In, on the way. It's a 10 hour audio so I finished it on the way back, good book btw.

I arrived around 10:30pm and pretty much got myself settled in and went right to bed.

Friday:
Got up and met Rahata for breakfast. We enjoyed the free breakfast buffet. This is part of how amazing this hotel is. A full hot breakfast buffet is completely free. They also do free dinner from 5:30 to 7pm along with three free drinks.

After breakfast Rahata helped me out big time since my back wasn't doing so well. We got my stock from the car and got all set up in the dealers room.

I had two tables and the were stuffed with different titles. It's a small con, but we do alright there for it being about 90 people each year. It means we have to pack a small quantity of a large range of titles though, so displaying them all on two tables is a challenge.

The highlight of Friday was when the charity showed up. They had an area of their own in the dealers room and they brought various animals.

OMG they brought a honey badger!

There's an animal I never thought I'd see in person. I even got to pet her! Their fur is really rough, even the underbelly, but the pads of their feet are super soft. Apparently they sense a lot with their feet.

They're not native to this continent, but the charity has a family of them including a breeding pair. This is for conservation as they are very endangered.

This one's name was Bonnie. Her brother wasn't there, but his name is Clyde. :-P Perfect for honey badgers.

I thought it was pretty cool that Laura and Vantid said down with their sketchbooks to do some live animal sketching. I think Laura took a few hundred reference pictures.

Rest of the day I worked my table. I closed about an hour early because it was pretty quiet and then I took a nap which turned out a lot longer than I expected. I got up around 9 and went to have a late dinner with Rahata at Avi, the hotel restaurant.

I had the pork chops. Definitely recommended. Just amazing. Avi is one of the big reasons I love this hotel.

I'd put my Kindle in my pocket so after dinner I relaxed in the hotel lobby for a couple of hours to read.

The lobby is huge and would be well suited for lobbycon. This con really needs to grow to take advantage of the space they're in. The lobby is big and sprawling, full of little clusters of chairs and ottomans. Perfect for a relaxing read or to chat with friends.

Saturday:
Typical for most cons I go to, I ate breakfast and worked the table.

Highlights of Saturday include the charity bringing back their adorale armadillo and hedgehog who were there last year and also another newcomer, a binturang. Which is smething I hadn't seen before, but they're super fluffy and have long, floof tails.

I also did a publisher Q&A on Saturday. It was sparsely attended, but given the size of the con I expected that. Much thanks to those who did show up and help keep the conversation going. Warrndog in particular was a good discussion started. He's the writing track lead at Oklacon and someone I'd like to chat to more about writing.

Dinner on Saturday was lamb if I recall correctly.

Sunday:
This was a short day. The charity auction started at 2pm and closing ceremonies was around 4pm. Since it was slow and with those two events I didn't expect it to get busier, I closed up shop at 2. The official close time of the den was 5pm, but I wanted to be on the road so I wouldn't be home too late. I had to work on Monday.

Kyo was my roommate for the weekend and he helped me out immensely with packing up the table and getting all the stock back into the car.

I fueled up, hit the road and finished my book.

Summary:
As with last year, CPFC was a very relaxed weekend in an awesome hotel.

My main criticism of CPFC is the same as last year: marketing!

CPFC is basically in the middle of the country. It's 5 to 10 hours from a wide range of possible attendees by car, not to mention all the Kansas locals. It has the potential to grow a lot, but the problem is very few people know about it.

I wrote this so I could talk about my weekend and hopefully let some folks know about this great little con who didn't know before.

They also need a lot of help. They have a very small staff who are all doing multiple jobs. So if you're looking to staff or volunteer at a con, consider helping out this one. It's a young, small con with great potential.

Here's some places to contact them:
Twitter: @cpfurcon
FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/centralplainsfurcon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CPFurCon

Figured I'd post a personal life update here.

Last Sunday (8/31/2014), Teiran and I got married!

We had proposed to each other last June after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. Then early last month we flew out to California to have the legal ceremony done and to get our marriage license. This weekend was the big wedding with family and friends here in Texas.

Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriage yet, but since there's no state income tax and our marriage is recognized on the Federal level then it is legal for income tax purposes. I'm confident that within five years, if not two or three, this state will be forced to recognize our marriage too.

Anyway, after being a couple for 13 years we're finally married. It doesn't change much in our daily lives since we've been living together for nearly a decade already, but it still meant a lot to have the ceremony, to officially proclaim our love with all the people close to us celebrating with us.

The weekend was a mad whirlwind due to bachelor parties, out of town guests, the ceremony and the after party. It was fun and overwhelming in a good way, but also pretty exhausting.

I'm really happy and I feel so incredibly fortunate to have Teiran and so many awesome people in my life.

In other news, the cons I'm going to the rest of the year are Rainfurrest and Central Plains FurCon.

Now back to publishing and shipping books!

I subscribe to a service which monitors my credit score and emails me when it changes.

For those who don't know, I own a small publishing company. Our biggest event of the year is a convention in July where we release a lot of new titles. In preparation for this convention we have to spend a lot of money with our printer to stock up on products to sell.

Like most small businesses, we utilize our available credit for large expenses. In this case I used a card which had a zero balance and put the majority of our expenses on it, bringing it close to limit.

One of the factors which determines credit score is percentage of balance used to credit line available. You score higher if this percentage is lower.

As I expected when I used near 90% of the available credit on this card, this caused my credit score to drop.

The balance stayed on the card for two or three weeks and then I paid it off completely after the convention. The balance wasn't even on the card long enough to charge me interest.

After this I received another email saying that my credit score had gone up. Makes sense right?

Here's the twist.

My score decreased by 23 points (6/25/2014)
And increased by 13 points (7/12/2014)
A total loss of 10 points due to using one card for a couple of weeks.

Don't worry about me though. My credit is still healthy and it always stayed in the same range, which is the important part.

I'm lucky to be at a point in my life where a 10 point drop in my credit score doesn't really affect me. That wasn't always true though. Like most people I've worked for minimum wage, been a starving student and a retail wage slave. At times like that my credit score being off could have made a difference between getting a student loan or not, being able to replace a dying car, etc.

This is the kind of BS game the credit system plays and it always affects the young and lower wage workers more. Our purchasing power, even our abilities to get jobs and apply for rental housing can be affected by a score calculated by three reporting companies we have little control over.

Doesn't seem right to me. Just putting that out there.

I generally enjoy Moffat's writing, but I likened his quick explanation of various plot questions to receiving the Wiki answer rather than seing it played out. Who blew up the TARDIS, what are the Silence creatures, what is the order trying to achieve, what was in room 11, etc. The answers are all checked off one by one.

I also thought the whole "naked" gag at the begining was silly and unnecesssary.

Amy's appearance effectively minimized Clara's role in the regeneration scene, but I'm kinda okay with her showing up as it upholds the tradition going back to the Classic series of having bygone companions making an appearance for a regeneration scene. She still felt too much like a bystander though.

I was a little disappointed by the "suddenly Capaldi" jump-cut rather than seeing his face changing more gradually.

Overall too much packed in with not enough room for the various important plot points to breathe and the town of Christmas is underutilized.

Also, I didn't like the aging the Doctor to death thing. It's really out of character for him, especially as 11, to stay in one town for hundreds of years rather than working out a solution ages ago.

The end though, was good. 11 went out with dignity and grace rather than the godawful whining 10 did. 11's parting scene was truly in the spirit of the Doctor and Matt Smith was amazing as always.

3 of 5 stars, the final scene bumps it up from 2.

Crossposting this from furplanet :

We're excited to announce that we have been invited as the Guest of Honor to the inaugural Arizona Fur Con. The FurPlanet team is grateful for this recognition and we'll do what we can to help get this first year convention off on the right foot.

So if you're in the Southwest region of the country or looking for an excuse to travel to Scottsdale this October now you've got a convention to attend and we'll be there with our books, comics and art books.

Here are the places you can find out more about AFC:

FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/azfurcon/
Web: http://www.arizonafurcon.com
Twitter: @AZFURCON
Facebook: ArizonaFurCon

AFC will be held on October 11th through 13th 2013 at the Embassy Suites Scottsdale

4415 E Paradise Village Parkway South
Phoenix, AZ 85032

We hope to see you there!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-save-radio-comix

Back in 1997/98 I was first discovering furry comics. Some of the first ones I read were published by Radio: Furrlough, Havoc Inc, Tales of the Fehnnik, etc. Back then, before Diamond further smothered the indy comics industry, you could find furry comics by Radio in your local comic store. Radio probably did more to spread furry comics in those days than any other publisher. They practically created the market for printed furry comics and paved the way for furs like me who would follow in their footsteps a decade later.

Now they could really use some help. As noted on the link above, their former accountant screwed them over and they owe a lot of money to the IRS. The actual total owed, as documented in the update, is $40,000! They have already met the modest goal of $4,000 they set, but I figure the fandom can dig a little deeper and maybe help them out a bit more. The campaign runs for another 29 days so there's plenty of time to contribute and earn one of the perks they have listed.

So if you can spare a few bucks to help out one of the early pioneers of furry publishing please go to http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-save-radio-comix and help Radio Comix out.

Thanks for listening!