[Mkguild] TG Story Announcement: Metamor City fanfic on NobilisErotica

[Raven Blackmane]

jerethdalion wrote:
> Raven Blackmane????
> you live ????
> and are still active????
> i thought you had left te fandom 
<megatron> "...I s-still function..." </megatron>

;-)

Yes, I'm alive. I've spent most of this year working on the Metamor City 
Podcast and my new novel in that setting. I've been somewhat more active 
on the Metamor writers' wiki (http://mkworld.wikidot.com/) than on the 
mailing list.

As far as leaving the fandom ... well, I definitely haven't left the 
science fiction/fantasy fandom, and in some ways I'm probably more 
active in it than I ever have been. (I actually went to a convention 
this year. <shudder gasp>)  And I'm still interested in transformations 
as a literary device. As far as the furry fandom is concerned, though, 
I'm not sure I was ever really a part of it in the first place. I've 
played along the edges of the sandbox, but on the whole my interests 
have taken me in other directions.

I do still have ideas for Metamor Keep stories, and I hope to bring some 
of them to you next year. For right now, though, I'm focused on Metamor 
City, because that's where I feel excited and energized. It's also a 
great deal more accessible to the SF/F general public than MK, so I've 
been able to grow my audience in ways that MK just wasn't doing for me. 
My last two stories in the Starchild Prophecy story arc garnered zero 
feedback, and my last MK short story ("Picking Up The Pieces") only got 
one response, from Kamau. It's hard to maintain enthusiasm for a project 
in the face of that kind of apathy. In contrast, response to Metamor 
City from the podcasting community has been strong and very positive, 
which makes it easy for me to keep writing in that setting. <shrug> I 
haven't given up on MK entirely, but I needed the break. :)

Cheers,

Raven

-- 
"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of 
the subject or feel that choosing science means that you cannot also 
choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not 
meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it." 
--Robert Sapolsky