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Hello Papabear!

I just turned 18 back in March. I waited for this moment so I could finally earn cash from the government due to my autism. I discovered furries when I was 8, and I loved the entire idea with my whole heart; this has not changed, luckily :D

Lately, I've been really thinking of making a fursuit head, paws and feet. I want to dance to songs as my fursona and share it on the internet. However, here's the catch: My parents do not know that I am a furry, nor do they know what a furry is. My room is filled with a bunch of furry art; they don't really think much about it other than it being childish. The problem is that if I'll buy materials, my mother will ask me what I am up to. She REALLY likes to have control on everything she can lay her hands on, including my privacy.

I just want to make my own fursuit without my parents questioning what the hell am I or how weird this is. How should I handle this? Should I just tell them or wait till I live at my very own house?

Sincerely,
Raine

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Hi, Raine,

Thank you for your letter. 

Let's go through this step by step. Now, the only way you're going to collect Supplemental Security Income due to being on the spectrum would be if your autism is severe enough to qualify you as disabled. So, you would have to be on the low-functioning end of the spectrum. Even over age 18 and being certified as disabled, you're probably only receiving like $500 to $900 a month (the federal maximum is currently $943/month), yes? Not enough to live on. You're likely going to continue living with your parents, unless you have a job with some good income, but you do not mention that; and if you did, it would probably indicate you're not exactly disabled. 

If I am correct on this, it means your parents are probably going to be pretty protective of you because they know they have a lot of responsibility for your well-being even though you are 18 now. What you see as Mom wanting to "have control on everything she can lay her hand on, including my privacy" is really her being overprotective. I would bet money on that. And she likely knows more about your interest than you think, seeing as you've been into it for 10 years while living under your parents' roof (I mean, they can't be so dumb that they don't have a clue about your interests, right?)

Because she is very protective, she is going to be wary of Furries and will probably — like most parents — make the wrong assumptions. The good news is that she (and your dad, I presume) seem pretty tolerant of your furry stuff so far, not seeing it as a danger but just as something kind of childish. So, what you need to do is educate her a bit about the fandom. A very good introduction to the fandom is a free YouTube documentary by Ash Coyote at The Fandom: A Furry Documentary Full Movie. It provides a good background on the fandom, lots of interviews, and a solid sense of what Furries are about. Watch it. Then, if you agree it's good, ask your parents to watch it with you. Use it as a starting point for discussion about Furries and why you like this fandom.

Once the lines of communication are open, you can have an honest conversation about it. Remember, there is nothing for you to be ashamed of here, so don't act embarrassed in front of your parents. The fandom is something that literally hundreds of thousands of people across the planet are involved in, including this 60-year-old bear. It is a place for a bit of escapism, indulging one's imagination, having fun, and making friends, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Make sense? Write again if you have further questions. Or you can also tell them to write me directly. I'd be happy to talk with them.

Big Bear Hugs,

Papabear

Hi Papabear,
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I'm volunteering at a furry convention that I've been going to for a while now, and I enjoy it. My question is that this is my first time volunteering there, and I'm nervous that I'll mess it up. What should I do to alleviate this fear? Any advice you could give me would be great.

Zapper (Utah)

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Dear Zapper,

Good for you for stepping up as a volunteer :D

Since you're in Utah, I'm guessing you're going to AWU, yes? And that starts in a couple of weeks, so I imagine you know where you will be volunteering, such as in Ops, or helping in the Dealer Den or with set-up and take down or registration or whatev. I have never been to AWU, but I am pretty sure it operates like any other hotel-based furcon. This means that each aspect of the con will have a person in charge (e.g., there will be someone who is the lead for volunteers in the art room, the fursuit dance, the registration area, and so on). If you haven't already done so, find out who is in charge of your particular group. Then talk to them about any questions you might have.

Also, there is usually a volunteer meeting at the beginning of the con (most volunteers make sure they are attending early to make time for that). Definitely go to the volunteer meeting. This is where they will explain policies such as how to handle unruly guests, how to contact security, how to sign in and out of your time slot, and so on.

AWU is a medium-sized con that has about 2,500 attendees each year (latest figures), so it shouldn't be too bogged down with organizers being overwhelmed by emergencies and challenges often seen at the huge cons. You should be able to track down someone to get any questions and concerns answered.

Every new volunteer makes mistakes. One time, I volunteered for Ops at FC, and let's be honest, I really sucked that time and was not a great help. I talked to the lead afterwards, and they said I did fine and they appreciated the help I gave. I bet you do better than me! Con organizers LOVE their volunteers and always appreciate them, so don't worry if you're not perfect.

Have a great con!

Papabear

Savrin shares tale of their recent adventures from Furry Siesta, Anthrocon, and elsewhere, with jazz.

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DISTURBING CONTENT WARNING. This is an update to investigation of the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks.

(Clockwise from top left): Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky, Tekkita, Coywolf, Kit Fox, Marlo, and Akari. They and many associates appear in a 191-page report being released here.

A simmering threat [2026]

Washington is on the volcanically active Pacific Ring of Fire. It’s famous for the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, when the volcano went through months of earthquakes and swelled with magma until it exploded. It released 24 megatons of energy, left a mile-wide crater, killed 57 people, devastated hundreds of miles of land, and was the most financially destructive volcanic event in US history. It caused major new awareness of disaster preparation. Today deep under the mountain, a complex, interconnected magmatic system makes the next eruption an even bigger threat; not if, but when it comes.

In October 2026, a Washington furry named Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky is set to be released from jail. He’ll be on parole for his second conviction for preying on children and animals. Grabowsky did it in a ring of people like him in the Pacific Northwest furry community. His return is being watched by people whose warnings were brushed off, before and after he was caught — and those who know how many uncaught ring members are still where they always have been.

When Grabowsky was first arrested, he was at the epicenter of a quake under the community. Members scrambled to hide or face heat from the police. It shook out some buried corruption, and would make one organizer factory-reset his phone to hide involvement. A few ring members took the blame, but most of the evidence was buried, with friends smoothing it over. The impact was shallow in the end, and aftershocks weren’t seen as connected. There was no map to monitor the fault lines. The few other ring members who got caught were seen as internet denizens, not as part of a specific real life scene that connects offline, which helps it to stay underground.

Now you can see deeper into their scene with a report for exclusive release:

• CONTENT WARNING – Zoosadists of Seattle: The corruption of a scene and their friends, houses and parties.
• Let’s skip denial and hear the names of animals that were abused before defending people in it.

The 191-page report comes from long investigation. It started in 2022, but it sheds light on fresh developments. It reviews hundreds of pages of evidence, with sources from court and corporate records to social media posts. They show fault at the top of the community:

Screenshot from a pro-zoophile Twitter thread by Kit Fox. (The other person isn’t involved.)

Kit Fox is a co-owner of popular Seattle furry dance party FetchNW, with power over their consent policy. Where furry scenes thrive, they’re anchored by regular real life meets and parties like this, with management helping to set standards for the community.

The report shows that Kit Fox brushed off taking action about Matthew Grabowsky after his bestiality conviction, just weeks before his second conviction for child sex offenses. Kit Fox pretended that as a leader, he couldn’t make judgements. At other times he said “ask some zoos” to protect them from judgement, treating animal abuse as a personal preference, instead of protecting their victims. He was friendly with local open zoophiles. This is why Kit Fox refused to ban someone who pled guilty to abuse done with a ring of other uncaught predators. Grabowsky may have been banned later, when it was too much of a PR problem to brush it off again — but others involved kept attending and staffing FetchNW, and run events that partner with it today.

Those who sent complaints about Grabowsky to FetchNW management said that action is only done for PR, by leaders who can not be trusted.

Dogpatch Press is releasing the report with extra background and a reason to care about why justice isn’t done.

There’s evidence that, for the first time, identifies an uncaught animal serial killer.

A man pictured here is linked to kidnapping pets from yards to torture and kill. Later in the story, there’s a recreation of a kidnapping incident. It’s based on ring member conversation and location clues, but also adds the voiceless victim’s point of view. That’s where we switch from public service investigation of a threat, to a ghost story that asks why justice isn’t done.

If you want to know why justice isn’t done, a timeline can help. Later we’ll dig into evidence that you aren’t supposed to see. First let’s go back to 2017 to understand the layers of a mystery with a ghost at the heart.

A chain of events, and a secret deal you need to know [2017]

A mystery often starts with a woman in trouble. There was a woman in the furry scene named Nachodoggo, and she was afraid of having her dog taken away.

The report Zoosadists of Seattle: The corruption of a scene and their friends, houses and parties pictures the Pacific Northwest furry community as a complex, interconnected tangle of relationships. Members polyamorously date each other, live together in shared housing, and freely hook up. They mingle at house parties and official parties run by friends at clubs like FetchNW. They run furry businesses and get each other jobs. Imagine how they can keep things in the family, even before adding things to be afraid of.

Nachodoggo was close to furries into using parties for drug dealing and sex trade. She fell into a tangle with two to be afraid of: Kevin “Noodles” Richards and Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky. Even before getting a record, Grabowsky had a reputation for bringing young people to parties with bad intentions, and sometimes trading them to others. Nachodoggo and her service dog were some of his targets. One day in 2017, Richards helped him to get her dog alone to make a bestiality video.

Such videos were currency for trading, like baseball cards. This one went to a procurer who was organizing a ring for harder stuff: Levi “Snakething” Simmons. The problem is, Simmons wasn’t supposed to trade it again, but he got greedy. Then it got back to Nachodoggo. It was dangerous for her to see the video. It showed Grabowsky’s full face, and getting caught could wreck EVERYBODY. But they had a plan.

There was blackmail to make her shut up. And worse.

They made death threats and said her dog could be taken away if she didn’t cooperate. Instead she went to police. Grabowsky and Richards were arrested with a slew of charges. It gave Grabowsky a serious problem, and a grudge at Simmons for breaking secrecy.

People into harder stuff with Simmons knew Grabowsky was into the same stuff, and they could see heat coming at them next because of it. They also had a grudge at Nachodoggo, and a revenge plan to drug and rape her at a house party. (She avoided them, and drops out of the story here.)

Then, legal docs show Grabowsky coming back to the furry scene with a light slap on the wrist. It was for bestiality with Nachodoggo’s dog, but he was allowed back by favor from people like Kit Fox — yes, even after a report of death threats and extortion — until a surprise in 2021. He was arrested again on a simple parole violation, but he received much worse charges for sex offending with children that pre-dated the bestiality.

A new layer emerges with Grabowsky’s second conviction. It was instant conviction, which is weird. It’s because his violation triggered consequences of a deal. His worse charges hadn’t come out back in 2017, because he got a favorable deal for providing evidence on others.

Take time to review legal records of Grabowsky’s cases to see his deal disclosed in black and white. He provided evidence in 2017, but it wasn’t open until 4-5 years later. It took TWO convictions for us to know, but criminals can add 1+1=2 faster than us, from inside knowledge and asking why his penalty was so light.

With our hindsight, now consider how one incident informs another.

They leaked with a murky agenda [2018]

A year after Grabowsky’s arrest came the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks. Here’s where the timeline starts for reporting by Dogpatch Press.

• 2018: An initial announcement before much of the info could be read.
• 2019: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), a major update article series.
• 2021: A story about Grabowsky’s second conviction book-ends the info up to then.

For a quick review, think: Furry Epstein Files. It was a major release of chat logs about extreme child and animal abuse, taken from the procurer Levi “Snakething” Simons by shady zoophiles in his underworld. It was a rogue move, because Simmons hadn’t been caught yet. In the end (before ripple effects), Simmons had some of the only direct and serious consequences, but they weren’t mainly for animal abuse. He got 25 years in jail for crimes to children.

Child crimes cross a line. Predators flock together, but they care if it brings heat. Yes, Grabowsky had prior rumors about exploiting children before his first arrest, but the ring also knew from being directly involved. Remember his deal, and our newer hindsight on it. Later records of Grabowsky’s second conviction disclosed that he traded media of bestiality with children IN it… but some of the same media was traded by others in the 2018 leaks, who are uncaught and protected in the furry scene today. See who in Zoosadists of Seattle.

You might ask, how does one get a deal for doing that, and others get no consequences?

Step back and zoom in on legal records of Grabowsky’s cases. His deal is mentioned in a sentencing memorandum from 4/15/2022. It says he got a free pass for molesting kids by providing evidence to help solve murders of animals. It doesn’t add up with evidence that he was into that, too… and the memorandum says his help “did not result in charges against the perpetrators of the violence against animals.”

(4/15/2022): Government claims about Grabowsky and his desire to help don’t add up with external info.

You may know of many examples of the government bungling serious cases, especially lately… and compare how Levi “Snakething” Simmons got locked away for crime to children rather than animals. The math of this makes a lot of collateral crime, like serial killing pets, left out of the equation like a rounding error. Maybe the feds had their priorities about kids… but where are ours about the people involved?

This is especially a question about whether laws = morals when organized zoophiles count on their cybercrime underworld being a rounding error.

Now lay out some puzzle pieces. Grabowsky’s arrest in 2017 gave him a grudge. He got a snitch deal. Ring members could add 1+1=2. Criminals don’t like being watched. There was a leak. That’s bad for active cases.

Here’s where everything gets murky — but think of how convenient it would be for a leak to interfere with active cases if they didn’t know about Grabowsky’s deal. The evidence shows that ring members were paranoid about exposure well before the 2018 leaks, there was blackmailing all around them, and there was coverup afterwards. It follows that the leaks had an agenda. Could it be simply for payback and cutting loose a liability who risked too much? Was it to also to block justice by wrecking surveillance, spoil evidence about themselves, warn friends, protect friends by throwing enemies under the bus, grab inside power from rivals, or be vigilantes about crimes ignored by the police in a partial way, while doing all of that?

The leaks came with a claim that “These are not what zoophiles are”, as if it was simply to care about animals. The problem is when this IS what they are, and the idea of organized zoophiles cleaning up themselves is like a snake eating its own tail, serving some to get away with it and stay protected today.

Things don’t add up about why many were not charged, and how many know and don’t care even at the top of the furry scene. This contributes to evidence later being misinterpreted, excused in bad faith, dismissed with genetic fallacy, surrounded by attempts to manipulate and spin, hide and deny it for PR, erase the victims and attack those who see through it. The whole thing is burning with injustice and the smoke of confusion. But one thing is clear.

The evidence is real and can not be denied. There are literal buried skeletons.

Aftermath, more developments, and a foundation of facts [2019-2026]

The leaked evidence emerged from the swamps of internet rumor with concrete legal consequences. As time goes by, and more developments build on what came before, the foundation of facts gets more firm. No counter-evidence has emerged to undermine it. No part of the leaks has ever been shown to be faked.

This encouraged mainstream producers to back a fact-checked TV docuseries on AMC — The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster. This reporter was a source for being given the leaks. Nobody has been able to challenge the reporting, passing time limits for legal challenge.

Confirmed ring members who were caught include:

• Grabowsky and Richards, Levi “Snakething” Simmons, and ring members like Eliteknight, Icepaws, and Spark Dalmation all have crime records.
• James “Sangie” Hoyt was friend/partner of Simmons. Hoyt had a 2009 child sex offense conviction, then became influential owner of furry porn printing service Inkedfur. He was outed in the leaks for helping Simmons to plan child grooming — but strangely he had no charges, and stayed welcome to vend at furry conventions. Finally in 2025, Hoyt was busted again for a huge collection of CSAM files.
• David “Tuskyn” James was a pedophile active in the ring with a conviction from 2006. He was in furry for decades and remains friends with furry convention organizer Shy Matsi after a new conviction in 2022.
• Jason “Moose” Birch was caught for bestiality in the UK in 2024. This ring member was named in 2020 as prolific decades-active bestiality producer Animalkiss/AK-Akita, but his charges reflect very little of his history. He was accused of raping farm animals and pets at his wife’s dog trainer business, and linked to UK furries at the Confuzzled convention, and a Scottish bestiality ring.
• The Scottish bestiality ring had 3 men busted in 2021, with one known as “Magic Flame” in the ring.

With a factual foundation of caught members, look at some of possibly hundreds of associates with weak consequences.

• Among the most sadistic killers is Timothy “TimWin” Amaroso in Winlock WA, who was covered up by organized zoophiles for decades — and ring member Woof (Rubén Marrero Pernas), who benefited from having no animal protection law under Cuba’s constitution.
• Florent “Pakyto” Durin is a French furry who abused dogs to trade with the ring. Durin said he was caught but not charged for bestiality by French police, and flew to Anthrocon when reports didn’t prevent his entry. Durin was online partner to pedophile Carl “RC Fox” Kirkwood, and hinted of encouraging his 2018 suicide to avoid conviction. Durin announced Kirkwood’s death, after police found the body and called ring member Saito (Coywolf)…
• Ben “Foxberance” Mills was outed for raping animals on video in a fursuit made for him, and organizes popular furry dance events in Germany and the UK that once partnered with the Confuzzled convention.
• Nickolas “Tane” Spahn was a ring member in leaked evidence of a teen being groomed to make CSAM. This led to Spahn’s partner Tyler “Leko” Mark requesting coverup for Spahn, admitting he was in the ring, claiming that receiving tips about it was “bullying”, and pushing backlash from convention staff. Spahn was banned from a DEFCON furs club — then shielded by Silicon Valley furry nonprofit Pawprint Prototyping. Spahn was founding treasurer on the Pawprint Prototyping board made of his friends and roommates. They know he was in the ring, and helped him to lie and rebrand with a new fursona. (Remember, as Grabowsky’s legal docs show, the government has let people out of charges for making CSAM.) Spahn’s enabler Leko went on to staff a furry event that tried to cover up a pedophile owner. Pawprint Prototyping gained 6 figures in crowdfunding for their “Dotfurry” campaign after protecting this ring member on their board. (Wait for Part 2.)

Injustice lets corruption prosper and sprawl internationally, but let’s follow it back to the Pacific Northwest.

Zoosadists of Seattle looks at organizers of furry club parties, house parties, brewers and bar owners, and BDSM kink events. People aboveground with popular businesses have given cover and excuses for friends involved, or are zoophiles themselves. See 2024 investigation of Seattle bar Slightly Furry’s zoophile owner K0mpy, who was let go with shady PR but remained a kink event producer. The bar kept a bartender, Anubis, who appears in the 2018 leaks.

Most named here are tight with a local furry scene with offline networking, where crony corruption can be whitewashed with appeal to scene loyalty. That includes whisper networks between organizers to suppress reporting with harassment and shunning, as anyone who speaks on these affairs may find out. It’s like abusers benefiting from influence in the Catholic Church, schools, or Boy Scouts to defer justice for what’s buried. Yes, it’s liable to happen in any contained community — but this is OURS to reckon with. Especially if we love and take pride in what we’ve built.

Now we dig down to the bone.

The passenger — Incident recreation for a voiceless victim [2018]

Coywolf is a fursuiter into motorsports and guns, now in his late 20’s. The following recreates locations and actions from messages in the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks between him and Levi “Snakething” Simmons. The source files have been repeatedly corroborated by years of converging evidence. 

It’s near the early hours of August 24, 2018. It’s 2 nights before the full moon.

Coywolf’s mind is fired up with a plan.

He’s used to being on the move with long-distance driving jobs, at all times of day or night. Based on his habits, a best guess for his location is in Jurupa Valley, a semi-arid city east of Los Angeles.

The Southern California weather is pleasant enough for just a T-shirt for prowling in the dark. It would dip to 67F by dawn.

Coywolf opens the Telegram app on his phone and sends a message to his eager contact.

“Dog hunting time.”

He is chasing an adrenaline high with hope to lure someone’s dog from a yard. He’ll use food. That will be better for his use than trying to randomly kill animals under his tires, or find roadkill that other truckers say they hit, to pick up warm or not.

He keeps a tarp for that, but it’s an interest that he’ll talk about on other nights. 

Tonight any live dog will do. 

Shortly before dawn, Coywolf is on the move now, but stops to chat with his contact for 8 minutes. He makes a threat to keep things private. He is tense because the luring worked. 

Her yard was as quiet as her heartbeat, except for the whisper of a distant vehicle rolling past, turning and parking next to the darkest part of the road, positioned to go. She didn’t alert to anything for a while after that, until a soft footfall crunched gravel outside the gate. A furtive, slim shadow, beckoning.

She yelped when he opened the gate without knowing a name to call, and put his hands on her. She is a pit bull, maybe anxious about a stranger’s touch, but friendly enough to sit still in the back seat.

At first he played nice to soothe her with a soft touch while getting fast distance. Confidence settled in. Now he’s all business, and thinking of a way to tie her down. 

He says he might try ratchet straps, but he wants no blood or traces for roommates to see on his clothes.

Coywolf has property near Preston, Nevada. It’s expansive and sparsely populated land. He stores things for his car and gun hobbies there. He has 5 cars registered in the state. They bear vanity plates with sly fetish codes that the DMV won’t know but furries will; variations of “knot”, slang for dog genitalia.

Coywolf’s house interior that he posted to a furry chat

This is ordinary code used with joking familiarity in his close contacts with other secretive predators. Sometimes too close. He has uncomfortable housing with ones he’s paranoid about because of how much they know, but he can live across a wide geographic base as a professional driver.

He says he’s taking his prey to the mountains.

His property near Preston is about a 7 hour drive away, flanked by White Pine County’s mountains over 10,000 feet tall. The I-15 in San Bernardino County is a route to there.

She is confused by being driven for many hours longer than going to the vet or the park to play. She wants water. He wants to kill her by sexual penetration. He flushes feverish at the thought of crushing her trust as he grips the wheel like her neck.

He loves the power this gives him, the experience he’s gaining for how much he dares to get away with while prowling at night, and the points this will score with others. In the rearview mirror his gaze is remote, like in the portrait his mother posted for his birthday.

She’s panting in the back seat, wanting to be home in her yard. Her need is just a nuisance to him. It was already over when the door closed and the engine started. Now Coywolf is also just riding along as a passenger, for a decision made with his contact who desperately wants to see it done, giving him permission to transgress without guilt. Timestamps in Telegram mark the falling sand of her life. 

Around 10 a.m., he sends a short video of her bound with electrical tape.

It’s a trophy now. He says it’s done to the one who wanted to see.

He has bragged about penetrating other victims to death, like the neighbors cat that he caught and bound, but he couldn’t do it this time, even after she died. She would have choked, unless he ended it with a knife or gun he likes to carry. On Telegram they don’t bother discussing how she might have felt or struggled. She is just another soul consumed by the fire beneath what we know.

The open land is full of bleached bones, and there’s no known matching body. Police won’t bother with cold cases about pets, and animal control officers are like dog catchers, not trackers to go after one who vanished. Pit bulls are one of the most euthanized dogs. Shelters are full of ones like her.

Records requests to county animal control are as good as a shrug. Without a body or a witness, was she even real?

Somewhere out there, her family knows. They saw their gate left ajar, and cried with hope that she’ll come home some day. They felt guilty as if their carelessness led to this. Her killer knows that dogs run away and get hit by cars, or picked up and euthanized every day, so who cares about a statistic? Nobody will ever imagine what she saw when he ripped the tape, sending her mind bolting away from the stickiness pressing her fur, with escape only coming when it went slack, making it his secret forever. Nobody will know except the one he showed, who savored it with him from afar.

On August 25, 2018, Coywolf reminds Snakething to keep it to himself:

“Don’t ever get on my bad side because there are plenty of places here to bury a person and never be found.”

Our witness [timeless]

Levi “Snakething” Simmons has communicated from jail with Dogpatch Press, out of loneliness about missing his friends in the ring. Apparently they left him to rot in there, but he’s still loyal enough to play very vague when asked for details about what they did.

The details of this incident include an August 24 date, and a huge, sparse mountain area for a missing female pit bull with no ID. County animal control and multiple agencies WERE contacted. It’s not enough to find her. Imagine trying to dig up his property. If you have any information or leads, please reach out.

We still have plausible evidence that Coywolf is an uncaught pet serial killer. This leaked chat is real. It has him boasting to a soon-caught ringleader about kidnapping pets from yards to torture and kill. He sent real-time messages of doing it, with confidence that nobody would ever match it to him. He sent video evidence, and got viewing reaction from an experienced partner. Then he made death threats to keep it private. They weren’t role-playing.

The reconstruction is made for an impact that not even their statements can give, because who wants to watch gore, or rely on reading chats between predators who glorify but hide what they do? The witness is a voiceless ghost. The impact is her reality.

She is a ghost who haunts this community, a restless spirit who cries to go home until she is heard.

She haunts those who deny what’s inside, want to write this off as a singular, personal problem, or tell you to trust the government to take care of what we don’t.

On average, predators have numerous victims before being caught the first time. It’s easy if they hunt in places where a legal limitation for one event is treated like an overall community standard. Watch for those who treat a predator conviction as just one mistake to let go, or go out of their way to dismiss judgement.

She is the secret of a predator who walks by you in a fursuit in spaces you love. Zoosadists of Seattle shows that Coywolf knows famous Youtubers and convention leaders, gets invited to their houses, and goes to gun ranges with them. Private sources know he also hooks up with people who are well known for adult media.

In 2016, Coywolf was in the San Francisco Bay Area furry community. As a stranger and teenager without a past, he asked about volunteering for a Zootopia movie screening hosted by Dogpatch Press. He also randomly greeted this reporter face to face one time at San Francisco’s Frolic furry dance party, in a crowd outside where an under-21 wouldn’t be noticed. This reporter didn’t remember, but he did.

When Coywolf’s secret was on the verge of discovery during the 2018 leaks, he tweeted denials, then reached out with defensive private messages to throw off reporting. This included sending an “active sessions” screen with a lie about being hacked, the same one that was infamously tweeted by ring member Kero the Wolf in a futile attempt to cover his ass. Coywolf was Kero’s coach in the shadow of that viral moment. He had also seen Dogpatch Press tagged with the leaks and believed that there might be an opening to manipulate a tenuous personal connection for a coverup. It stunk, without even knowing his agenda or reading the evidence yet. When Coywolf was challenged about lying, he admitted to being a zoophile. Chasing his identity took years after that.

In 2023, after he was painstakingly tracked and identified, this reporter was embracing a different ghost on the party floor of the Further Confusion convention in San Jose. Eating magic mushrooms and being in a fursuit was a way to process the recent death of a partner. In this place to release life, with a crowd of animal people vibrating softly and brightly, suddenly the air soured with an aura of death.

The crowd parted and Coywolf came past in his fursuit. This reporter was in a fursuit that wouldn’t be recognized. Being in touching distance made a struggle with the weight of a secret that nobody else could possibly grasp, and an urge to grab him, unmask and name him, and spit lava in his face. That would only alert him to hide things. Caution squashed the urge, but it was too heavy not to go back later and stand at that spot, so far from the light, waiting for a confrontation that never came.

Imagine how long it takes to piece together all of these details, try to get help without enough for authorities to make a case, and hope leads might emerge later. Years of investigation ended in a cold case without help from above. That means all you can do is witness the victim and watch out for each other. The only justice is in seeing.

Below the mountain

Imagine the community as a mountain where the base is unstable and the top is hidden by clouds. Zoosadists of Seattle shows how some people up there are keeping it that way. When Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky returns from jail in October 2026, remember how the first time, leaders decided it was better to play dumb and put the risk on other people and animals, than to limit Grabowsky’s access to a community where he and his friends hunted them. This is part of how ring members like Coywolf get away with much more than we know.

The opening mentions the threat of an eruption. Maybe it never happens while they stay welcome. Or it could be one of rage about injustice for what they do.

Today Mount St. Helens is a popular and beautiful hiking destination. It has gone from being monitored with a single seismometer 30 miles away in 1980, to a close network of sensors and reporting operated with a much greater understanding of the systems beneath an eruption. The next one won’t catch anyone unaware, and if it does, it’s because someone deliberately didn’t do their job, or was prevented from reporting.

Monitoring for risk goes farther than the area of an eruption itself. There’s also the way it can generate lahars — torrents of melted ice and mud that can wash away populated areas downstream, far below the mountain. Awareness may need to extend much farther than you think.

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TigerTails Radio Season 17 Episode 08 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: He Said She Said by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Friend of the channel and good doggo, Shiloh Skye, presents his latest batch of adult furry book reviews. More furry book reviews on Shiloh's website: https://www.shilohskye.com/post/anthrocon-2026-showcases Merch, Sweet Tees and stuff: https://culturally-fd-merchandise.creator-spring.com/ Support Culturally F'd: https://www.patreon.com/culturallyfd Listen in on TEMPO TALKS with Tempe O'Kun https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPyIK2c7mK-LpbvfDNqfcSW Check out Tempe O'Kun's books "Sixes Wild" and "Windfall" here: http://furplanet.com/shop/?affillink=YOUTU2907 Here's a playlist of his other Culturally F'd videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPS7tnT4hdJwBI-CeLF8Kb_

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Friend of the channel and good doggo, Shiloh Skye, presents his latest batch of furry SFW book reviews. More furry book reviews on Shiloh's website: https://www.shilohskye.com/post/anthrocon-2026-showcases Merch, Sweet Tees and stuff: https://culturally-fd-merchandise.creator-spring.com/ Support Culturally F'd: https://www.patreon.com/culturallyfd Listen in on TEMPO TALKS with Tempe O'Kun https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPyIK2c7mK-LpbvfDNqfcSW Check out Tempe O'Kun's books "Sixes Wild" and "Windfall" here: http://furplanet.com/shop/?affillink=YOUTU2907 Here's a playlist of his other Culturally F'd videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPS7tnT4hdJwBI-CeLF8Kb_

TigerTails Radio Season 17 Episode 06 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: He Said She Said by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

The Good Furry Awards are open once again! Here it all is, straight from the big bear’s mouth: “Have you ever wanted to say, ‘Thank you!’ to someone who has done a lot for others in the furry fandom? Perhaps it is a furry (or team of furries) who has organized or helped to organize a fantastic furcon or furmeet. Maybe it is a furry who runs an informative YouTube broadcast that has taught you a lot about the fandom that you didn’t know. Or maybe it is just someone who has given you a personal paw up to help you along the way with words of encouragement or comfort. Well, now’s your chance to thank them!

Sponsored by Uncle Bear Publishing, the Good Furry Awards have been thanking people since 2019, and we’re doing it again this year! What are the Good Furry Awards? Essentially, they are a People’s Choice awards in which the furry community nominates good furries and then votes for them. Winners receive a handsome trophy of thanks and a nice little dollop of cash. Even if a nominee doesn’t win, they will all receive handsome certificates of appreciation to show we care.

There are three categories of Good Furry Awards: The Good Egg Award for volunteerism, the Image Award for media programs that promote and enlighten the fandom, and the Furtastic Award for general foofiness that doesn’t fit easily into the other two categories. There’s also the Lifetime Achievement Award, chosen by committee to recognize furries who have had a substantial impact on the fandom over the last twenty or more years. Previous winners have included Mark Merlino, Rod O’Riley, Steve Gallacci, Reed Waller, and Ken Fletcher.

The nominations are now in, so now’s the time where YOU get to vote! Just go to Vote for the Good Furry Awards – UNCLE BEAR PUBLISHING and complete the easy form. One vote per furry, please! Voting will be open from now through August 24, with winners announced at Anthro SoCal in September. If you have questions about the awards or with to arrange an interview with the chair, Grubbs Grizzly, write to: contact@unclebearpublishing.com. Good luck to all the nominees!”

What he said

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Written by Guild Markets Manager: Chase Anderson

Whether you’ve just finished your first book or your fiftieth, you have to make the same decision: how do you want to get it out into the world?

Self-publishing is pretty self-explanatory: you’re responsible for putting the book together and publishing it, and all the steps–and skills, and costs–that entails. It allows you to retain full control of the process, but takes significantly more time and resources. But what if you just want to write and not worry about any of that?

Traditional publishing, for hundreds of years, used to be the only option, and is still seen as the dream for many authors. But it can seem inscrutable to those unfamiliar with it, which can push underserved voices from submitting their books to agents and publishers.

The purpose of this post is to explain how this half of the publishing world works, to arm you with the knowledge on how to safely navigate traditional publishers both big and small.

### SO YOU WANT TO BE STEPHEN KING

If your dream is seeing your book on the shelves of Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, or Dymocks, you need to get your manuscript in front of an acquiring editor of a major publisher like Penguin Random House or HarperCollins. In the old days, they interred employees between stacks of mailed-in manuscripts to wade through the slush and pick out promising options to send upstairs.

But, once writers started using literary agents to negotiate deals on their behalf, publishers realized they could save themselves the trouble and move the slushing over to the agents. While some publishers might have limited windows for unagented/unsolicited submissions for underserved groups, the only way for most to get their foot into the door is through an agent.

Agents pick authors and projects they want to represent, which might entail feedback to strengthen the manuscript before showing it to editors. Once it’s ready, agents pitch your book to editors at publishers they believe will want it. They then ensure a contract from the publisher–or movie studio, or roller coaster manufacturer–is in your best interest, and they take a percentage of your earnings as compensation for their efforts.

This allows publishers to focus on what they do best: make your manuscript into the best product possible (so they can make as much money as possible selling it to readers). They offer you an “advance” on your future earnings (royalties) and you work with their editors to make your book stronger, along with the regular grammar, punctuation, and typesetting stages of editing.

One of their sales people will have a meeting with Barnes and Noble, where they pitch all their upcoming titles and argue that your book deserves space on their shelf instead of a Funko Pop. Their marketing team makes nice little graphics for social media and sends out review copies and press releases. As massive companies that put out dozens, if not hundreds, of books per year, they know this process in and out and have the connections to get your book in front of as many people as possible.

### BIGGER ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER

Publishing, in all its forms, is a business, and the book is the product. This means the corporate beancounters determine how many risks they can afford to take per year, as the guaranteed money makers like James Patterson, Colleen Hoover, and celebrity memoir bankroll everything else. It would be great for everyone if every debut turns into a runaway success like Xiran Jay Zhao, but they expect most books not to turn a profit. 

So books that are just outside the norm, whether it be in length, tone, subject matter, or the current political climate, will be harder to justify. Paying all those people to make a book a huge success isn’t cheap.

For furry writers, this is especially the case; we’ve all heard “Aren’t animal stories for kids? So why is this so long/mature? Who is this for?” We know there’s a market of readers for these books, but it’s not as big as major publishers want. They need to sell thousands of copies to make money, so what can you do when your readership is only in the hundreds?

### THE SMALL BUT MIGHTY

Small and indie presses do most of the same things that major presses do, but on a much smaller scale. They’ll put out maybe a dozen titles per year and have much smaller headcount; it isn’t uncommon for a press to be a single person who still has a day job.

The smaller headcount means that they need to sell much fewer copies to turn a profit, so they can publish titles that have smaller readerships. But it also leads to two major drawbacks:

1. They do not have the same cachet as a large press. It’s exceedingly unlikely that they’ll be able to get major reviewers or brick and mortar retailers to consider your book. Barnes and Noble is pretty confident they can sell that Star Wars LEGO set in Topeka, Kansas, but they don’t believe someone browsing the shelves will buy a book for a hyper-niche market.

2. Small or no advances. Without authors of instant New York Times bestsellers, their cashflow looks quite different. They cannot afford to give you $5,000 upfront if they expect to only make $10,000 in sales across all titles in a year.

But there’s also a number of benefits, too. You rarely need a literary agent to submit to them, so the barrier of entry is lower (and you don’t have to pay an agent’s fees, which means a higher royalty percentage for you). Your book won’t get lost among a bevy of new releases or a massive back catalog.

And, for furry publishing especially, you get the benefit of a deep understanding and integration into the community. Furry presses and distributors vend at all of the major conventions, where they hand sell your book and how awesome you are to people who otherwise would’ve never known furry writing exists. As furs themselves, they know what types of stories furries like and how to market to them. Despite having a corporate ‘sona, this isn’t something Penguin would ever be able to do.

### AND THEN THERE’S THE BAD GUYS

Malicious people–whether it be hackers, scammers, or shady businessfolx–succeed for two primary reasons: they manipulate emotions, and they take advantage of potential victims not knowing what is a “normal” interaction.

A real example I’ve encountered: I was at a local reading, and was talking to a fellow writer. She was telling me about her book and her efforts in getting published. “I found this great agent,” she told me. “And if I pay him up front, he’ll try harder to pitch my book!”

“Uhhhhhh, what?” I said. And I explained to her that agents get paid a percentage of your earnings, both the advance and royalties. They need to work hard to pitch your book in order to get paid. So, if you pay them up front…why would they try harder? They already made money off of you without having to do any work, so why risk putting in more effort for no return?

She didn’t want to believe she almost got scammed, of course. No one likes to admit they’ve been tricked. No one likes to feel ashamed. But it happens to all of us; I have absolutely clicked phishing links before my morning coffee has kicked in. But once I notice the website I land on is sus, I leave before I can do any more damage, like entering in passwords or personal info.

As a writer, you want people to like your book. You want people to tell you it’s amazing and that it deserves to be published. Bad guys know that you’ll become super excited when told these things, and, when you’re emotional, you’re less likely to stop and think things through. You’re less likely to question if these things are untrue. They may not ask immediately, but they will, at some point, ask you to do something against your best interest.

Which, almost always, is sending them money. There has been maybe one scammer in all of history that had the intention of stealing someone’s manuscript to publish elsewhere, as publishing takes a lot of effort and doesn’t guarantee a big payout. It’s a lot easier for them to get you to send them money for services that will never happen, or that you shouldn’t need to pay for in the first place.

### WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

Malicious people constantly change the names/emails/websites they use and the text of their messages, so listing known bad-actors will quickly age into uselessness. Instead I’ll list the techniques they use and some examples, as those are the most difficult for them to change. But the tl;dr is ”…and then they ask you for money.”

* Messages from a publisher, agent, or editor out of the blue saying they really liked your book (especially an unpublished book) and are interested in it.

* Needing to pay for services, such as representation, editing, cover design, marketing, appearance fees, etc.

* Needing to purchase X copies of your book in order to be published or to keep the publisher from going under.

* The terms of an agreement changing (e.g. My uncle works at Nintendo, I’ll pitch your book to him to be turned into a game. Oh, he said we need a treatment first, but my cousin will gladly do it for only $10,000.).

* Any sort of pressure to act now, or else you’ll lose your opportunity. (Publishing moves very slowly. You can absolutely take a week or two to think things over.)

* Any sort of pressure to keep the offer and/or threats secret.

* Any sort of hostility if you ask for more time/space to think it through or when asking questions.

If you’re familiar with banking, tech support, or investment scams, you’ll notice some similarities. Many unpublished mainstream writers are older and aren’t part of larger writing communities or organizations, so scammers see them as likely to fall for flattery and intimidation tactics. But anyone, of any age and at any point in their career, can be victimized by a scam. You need to be lucky every time spotting and dodging scammers. Scammers only need to get lucky once.

### BUT WHAT ABOUT…?

There are “vanity presses” and publishing services, where you pay for things like cover design and distribution. It’s common for self published authors to pay for someone else to edit their book or handle the marketing, for example.

However, the self published author knows up-front that they want to pay for a service and begin discussions with that in mind. They don’t get blindsided with, “Oh, actually I’m not gonna make you a cover for free. Gimme $5,000.”

Printing your book at FedEx is technically a vanity press; FedEx really doesn’t care what happens after it’s printed as long as you pay them first. If you see a press that says, upfront and clearly on their website, that they’ll publish your book if you pay $W,XYZ, then you have the right to enter that contract. But it’s important to keep in mind that what makes them money is the services, not making a book people want to buy.

Before you sign that check, do some research: Do their covers look nice? Do their titles have any reviews on Amazon? Do they focus more on selling books, or services? If you google them, what comes up? Have other authors had good experiences?

Just because a publisher doesn’t say upfront they won’t ever charge you fees doesn’t mean they aren’t a vanity press; many publishers assume this is an unspoken rule, like, “Please don’t set our store on fire or punch the staff.” If, after being accepted, you’re told you need to pay for services (either as a normal part of their business or that you or your book is an exception), that’s extremely not cool of them.

There are presses that only charge some of their would-be-authors, especially for editing. This is also extremely uncool, and it makes it harder for word to get out that they do this, because authors compare notes. If you were singled out for paying fees, it can increase the negative feelings that keep people from speaking out, which is the one thing they don’t want you to do.

### HELP! I THINK I’VE BEEN SCAMMED!

It’s awful that this happened to you. It doesn’t mean that you’re naive, or a bad writer, or deserved this. It means you’re human, with human emotions that a not very nice person took advantage of. They’re in the wrong here, not you.

You can try to initiate a chargeback with whatever service you used to transfer the money, but that might be impossible (services like Zelle and PayPal Friends and Family post warnings that they cannot undo transactions because they’re so commonly used for scams). The best thing you can do is share your story; while not furry-specific, SFWA’s [Writer Beware](https://writerbeware.blog/about/) has a tipline for potential scams and shady publishers.

I’ve submitted to them before, as I have been involved with publishers that ghosted authors without paying them, sending contributor copies, or reverting rights. And it always sucks when it happens! Unfortunately, if you work in publishing long enough, you’re going to encounter a bad actor, either one who set out to be a scammer or who meant well but got overwhelmed by the realities of publishing.

If something happened with a furry-specific publisher, you can privately message a Guild Officer and share your concerns.

Even if you just want a gut check or an extra set of eyes on a contract, one of the reasons why I’m here is to give you the tools you need to succeed, and that includes the knowledge and confidence to advocate for yourself. Your stories are important and deserve to be handled by someone who sees you as the artist you are, and not just a walking paycheck.

### GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Some words mean specific things with publishing, such as:

* Acquiring Editor: The person at a publisher who chooses what stories to buy to fulfill the company’s goals. For large publishers, final decisions are usually made by upper management. For small presses and literary journals, it’s often the same person who is the head of the organization and handles other editorial duties.

* Advance: A “loan” a publisher gives a writer for their manuscript. For each book sold, an author earns a certain percent of it as income, known as royalties, which are reported by the publisher and paid on a set schedule. An advance is an amount that is “borrowed” against future royalty earnings, any royalties accrued greater than the advance (and, therefore, sent to the author) means the book has earned out. Most books do not earn out, and this is part of the math that determines what advances an author might get. If a book does not earn out, the author doesn’t have to pay back the difference.

* Example: A publisher gives an author a $10,000 advance for a book that earns $5 in royalties per book sold. The first 2,000 books sold have their royalties “paying back” the “loan” that was the advance, so the author does not get issued royalty checks. If 2,001 or more books sell, then the book has earned out and the author receives additional income. If it sells 2,000 copies or less, the author only ever gets the initial $10,000.

* Agent: A person who represents a writer to sell and negotiate specific rights, such as English publishing, foreign language publishing, film adaption, roller coaster adaption… A person with an agent is agented, and an agent submitting a work on the writer’s behalf is an agented submission. A writer submitting directly to a publisher is an unagented submission. Agents get paid a percentage of author earnings, both advance and royalties, and is the only way they earn income; brand-new agents who have not sold any books do not make any income and often work another job.

* Publisher: A traditional publisher invests only their money into acquiring and publishing books; authors only receive money, not pay money. A vanity publisher will publish a book only if a writer pays all of the costs: some differentiate themselves by not accepting every customer, but they’re still vanity publishers. A hybrid publisher fronts some of the costs of book production, but they require the writer to “invest” some of their own money, too. Publishing services are offered by a company for authors to handle some parts of self-publishing for them.

* Note: Each has its own use case. If you want to print a couple dozen copies of a cookbook for the family reunion, then a vanity publisher is your best option. If you can’t be bothered to find a cover designer or figure out how to format eBooks, then publishing services can help you in self-publishing. Many vanity and hybrid publishers won’t call themselves that due to the negative connotations, so you have to determine what type of publisher they are by looking at their site. Regardless of what you choose, any ethical publisher that requires author payment must be up front about it. 

* Rights: The legal ability to do something with a book. If a publisher only sells books in the US and Canada, they need North American English language rights. If a publisher has worldwide distribution (such as through Gumroad or itch.io), then they need worldwide English language rights. The rights a publisher is buying from you, and how much they pay for it, is spelled out in the contract. Good contracts should include information on rights reversion, where you get your rights back (and can then sell them elsewhere, if you so choose).

* Example 1: A publisher wants to buy your English-language short story to sell in their physical and digital magazine for 8 cents per word. But their contract states you are also giving them merchandising rights, all forms of media/publishing, both current and future, and all foreign language rights. Signing the contract gives them the right to turn your story into a movie, translate it and publish it in High Valyrian, or make a Funko Pop of the characters, and you won’t see any additional income. It’s good practice to ask what plans a publisher has to exercise each right, in each form and language; if they have no plans, then they don’t need those rights. If they make plans in the future, they can issue a new contract then (and write you a new check).

* Example 2: A publisher wants to buy your book to sell both physically and digitally. They want the exclusive right to be the publisher of your book, but there is no rights reversion clause. If the press goes defunct (such as the owner dies, closes the press, or decides to ghost everyone), then, legally, you can’t sell your book elsewhere (either to another publisher or to self-publish it). Contracts exist to protect both parties in case the worst happens, so having, in writing, what should happen if a publisher stops functioning is good practice.

* Note: Generally, you do not need a lawyer to review publishing contracts, as they tend to be simple (comparatively). Contracts that are more complex and involve larger amounts of money are usually handled by a literary agent and their legal counsel. The [SFWA Contract Committee](https://sfwa.org/sfwa-committees/contracts-committee/) is a free resource that includes annotated model contracts and other resources a writer can use to judge a contract.

* Solicitation: An editor or agent asking a writer specifically to submit to them. This might happen if you meet them at a convention or take part in a pitch event on social media. Most of the time, you’re sending unsolicited submissions. Major presses usually do not accept unsolicited, unagented submissions, but most small and indie presses take mostly unsolicited, unagented submissions.

The Summer sun beamed its wonderful light through June and straight into the next month! Welcome to July, everyfur! Pride month may be over, but our strong Pride shines along with the sun, showing its beautiful colors until the end of time! 

A big reminder that if you want to support the FWG more, then we not only have a Paypal… but we have a Patreon that you can subscribe to as well! Any support towards the guild really helps with future endeavors. So, thank you for donating if you do!

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Now, this next topic has to do with Book Publishing and how to navigate it without having any trouble! The next Blog post after this one was created by our Guild Markets Manager: Chase Anderson! This is mainly to help out newer authors navigate through their publishing journey. Though of course it is free for anyone to view right here on the site! Thank you so much, Chase!

Lastly, I’d like to remind all of you lovely furs that you can do it. There will be hard times, times where everything seems to be falling, times where your goals seem impossible to reach… but I just want you to remember that you have the ability to fight and keep going. Never give up on yourself or your dreams! Write that story that you’ve been thinking about for ages. You are the voice for your stories— let your voice be heard! You can do this. There are many that believe in you, and that includes me!

Keep on writing!

-Flash Kitterson

Here are the open markets from your Guild Markets Manager: 

July open markets:

Still open from June:

### Short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry:

* #OHMURR Fall 2026 – 2,000 – 6,000 word for fiction/essays, 1 – 2 pages of poetry, unknown length for book reviews, 100-300 word hookup stories, pays $20 for fiction and essays, until Sept 20  https://ohmurrmag.carrd.co/#submissionguidelines

* Children of the Night – short stories of 5,000-20,0000  words, pays 0.5 cents/word, open until full  https://armouredfoxpress.wixsite.com/website/furry-call-for-submissions

* Dinner at Yiffany’s – short stories under 15,000 words, no close date announced  https://www.dinneratyiffanys.com/story-submission-guidelines/

* Rho Iota Phi – short stories of 3,000 – 12,000 words, pays 0.5 cents/word, closes Oct 31  https://armouredfoxpress.wixsite.com/website/furry-call-for-submissions

* This is Halloween – short stories of 3,000 – 12,000 words, pays 0.5 cents/word, open until full  https://armouredfoxpress.wixsite.com/website/furry-call-for-submissions

* The Voice of Dog – short stories under 10,000 words, currently no close date announced 
https://thevoice.dog/?page=rules

### Books and longer works:

* Bewere – 30,000 – 120,000 words for fiction and nonfiction, unknown length for games and others, no close date announced  https://bewere.net/submissions.php

* Doppelfoxx Publishing – unknown lengths/types, opens June 15, no close date announced  https://doppelfoxxpublishing.com 

* Fenris Publishing – 30,000 – 120,000 words for fiction and nonfiction, unknown length for games and others, no close date announced  https://www.fenrispublishing.com/submissions.php

* FurPlanet (comics/magazines only) – unknown lengths, currently no close date announced  https://furplanet.com/shop/custom.aspx?recid=8

* Transcendent Fiction Publishing – unknown lengths for comics, graphic novels, art books; 30,000 – 12,0000 words for novels, novellas, and single-author collections; currently no close date announced  https://www.tfpublishing.com.au/submission-guidelines

## Opens on July 1:

* Plott Hound – original flash fiction and short stories under 5,000 words, reprint fiction under 10,000 words, nonfiction essays 1,000 – 2,500 words, pays 8 cents/word for original fiction, $20 for reprint flash, $100 for reprint shorts, and $100 for essays, closes July 15 https://plotthoundmag.com/submission-guidelines/

Please check out the latest book releases from our members:
Tethers Torn [Book 2], by Utunu, Released March 2026.
Archon [Book 2], by Mark Smith, Released March 27th, 2026.
Disaster Queers: Night at the Museum, by Alison Cybe, Released April 1st, 2026.
Howling Dead, by Vincenzo Pasquarella, Released April 13th, 2026.
Space Dragons: Cosmic Survivors, by Veo Corva, Released April 20, 2026
Travels, by Erin Lee, Released April 26th.
A Rodent of Unusual Size, by Rebecca Cascane, Released April 26th.
The Morning After, by J.F.R. Coates, Released April 26th.
Weasel Under the Sun (A Stone & Cooke Mystery), by Kyell Gold, Released May 2026.
Game Of Life, by Rob MacWolf & Alex Vance, Released June 15th, 2026.
Lesser Gods: Retribution, by Alex Frey, Released June 16th, 2026.
UPCOMING!! The Moonhound, by K.C. Shaw, Releases October 2026.

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