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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)

@Ryffnah

Sci-fi/furry writer; author of Otters In Space series, Entangled Universe trilogy, etc. Editor of @Zooscape_Zine & @DeepSkyAnchor. @[email protected]

Joined April 2009

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Jan 4, 2024
I’ve been writing fiction for twenty years. I’ve written a lot of books. These are the 20 published by Deep Sky Anchor. I also have two trilogies and a book about how to write furry fiction with different publishers. Learn more about all of them here: marylowd.com/books/
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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Jan 31, 2021
Harsh writing advice: There should be more talking animals in your fiction. Yes, yours. Specifically. No, it doesn’t matter what genre you used to write. You write furry now.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Apr 21, 2021
Writing hot take: Sf/f cons -need- to start having an Intro to Furry Fiction panel because it’s unacceptable and embarrassing that we allow anti-furry prejudice, rooted in ignorance and the historical exclusion of queerness, to fester in a forward moving community.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Jun 15, 2021
Replying to @RoAnnaSylver
They’re good plums, Brent.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Nov 4, 2020
It was never going to be a landslide. All the despair broadcast by people acting like anything less than landslide victory is exactly the same as crushing defeat is exhausting... and troubling. We can’t afford people giving up so easily. The fight was never going to end here.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Apr 23, 2022
Writing is just being so good at reading that you can a read a book that isn’t there — you can read a missing book into existence.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Aug 21, 2021
Replying to @rebeccamakkai
Jim Henson. I can't even picture what all he could have come up with given the changing nature of technology over the last few decades... but whatever he'd continued to make, he'd have done it with so much heart.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @duneho
I saw The Last Unicorn in a theater w/ Peter S. Beagle there to answer questions. I asked if he’d planned the end before writing the book—since the connection between unicorns & ocean is foreshadowed on page one—but he said he discovered it as he went along. Very awesome.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Jul 4, 2019
ROAR 10 is available for pre-order from @FurPlanet!!! The theme is COMMUNITY, w/gorgeous cover art by @teagangavet, and stories by 16 awesome authors!!! furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx…
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Apr 25, 2021
Replying to @MarthaKelly3 and @SpringwaterJune
This is why we need massive taxes on billionaires, and Universal Basic Income for everyone. With UBI, the working class couldn’t be exploited so easily, because they’d have the baseline resources necessary to go on strikes or be self-employed artists. The arts would flourish.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Nov 9, 2019
“I agreed to spaceships and aliens and the possible end of life on Earth. I did not agree to tolerate talking cats. This is too much. It’s too mad. It’s out of genre. Undo it immediately!”” — Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
May 20, 2021
Let's talk about the squishy edges of the genre of furry fiction. Why? Because a lot of people clearly have no idea what the genre is. The first question I always get asked by people who've never heard of furry fiction before is, "What about lizards? Or fish?"
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
Feb 5, 2021
This is Avery. She has no idea of the adventure she’s about to begin.
Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog)
@Ryffnah
May 18, 2021
Science-fiction and fantasy writers are missing out on opportunities, and I'm going to tell you about them. First, let me tell you about my experience with these opportunities, so you can see what you might be missing out on.