[Mkguild] Some MK Publication News

[christian okane]

CONGRATULATIONS! I'm happy for you! This is very cool my friend!

   Chris
   The Lurking Fox


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From: mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org
[mailto:mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hoekstra
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 7:59 PM
To: MKGuild at lists.integral.org
Subject: [Mkguild] Some MK Publication News

Greetings all!

I know that I haven't been heard from around here in a terribly long time,
and for that I am sorry. But something happened recently that is worth
saying with you all.

I have been waiting months to write this email. This is about why leaving
old stories hanging around the internet can sometimes lead to some really
cool things happening.

Back this February, I get a nice little email, the gist of which is:
"We at FurPlanet Productions would like to pay you for the permission to
republish one of your stories."

To which my reaction was pretty much:
"You want to publish one of my stories? And pay me money?!"

Suffice it to say, in the end I said, yes.

The end result is the dead-tree anthology collection An Anthropomorphic
Century will feature my Metamor Keep story Daylight Fading and Bill
Kieffer's The Good Sport . The anthology debuted this weekend at Rainfurrest
2015 and is up for pre-order on FurPlanet 's website
(http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=810). It was supposed to come
out at Anthrocon, but due to foot-dragging around story rights issues
(apparently caused by the professional publishers, not the
amateurs) it was delayed till now. Thankfully FurPlanet  was able to get it
all sorted on their end!

Now, I never got into writing with the goal of getting published, or making
money, or anything like that. I got into it because I found it fun, I found
I had a talent for it, and I found I could make some great friends along the
way. So to have something like this happen is just absolutely, positively
mind-blowing for me. To get an email from the editor of the anthology back
in February and have him tell me that he still remembers that story and
considers it good enough for solicitation and inclusion in a work like this
was just such a heart warming occurrence.

Getting to see the final full list of 20 authors is also a real treat for
me. As I said, Bill Kieffer is there as well, as is Phil Geusz, but some of
the other names are a bit of a surprise (How the heck did I get published
alongside Peter S. Beagle, Michael H. Payne and Philip K. 
Dick?! Holy sh--t!). It's a shame Channing (aka Jeffrey Channing Wells)
didn't make the list given some of his contributions to the fandom that I've
sure most (if not all) of us have read over the years.

And so there we go. I have been waiting since July, when An Anthropomorphic
Century was supposed to debut, to post about this. It feels absolutely
amazing to say that I am now a published author. (I don't care if it's
fandom and not mainstream, it's still amazing!) For those reading this, just
take it as a reminder that... well, you never really do know what may happen
in the future.

Take care everyone!
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