Sunday Salutations and Cats Don’t Burn
Tod here this week. Anna is scouring a story I edited, rescued good words that were killed too soon. (He went a little edit happy on this story and cut my favorite lines. Tod is actually very good at tightening up a story. This time I was extra attached to some phrases. ~Anna)
In theme with National Cat Day (Oct 29th) or National Black Cat day (Oct 27th) I cannot keep up, but still we have a question for everyone. Do you have a cat that thinks he’s a dog? Or vice versa?
That asked, we’ve had two releases in the last month — both involving CATS. Woot! We are so on theme.
First up is Or All Will Burn ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKX6KXVR ). Our friend J. Kenton Pierce made the cover! This anthology covered the lengths parents will go to in order to protect their children. The topic was suggested by Kacey Ezell and organized by the fine folks at Raconteur Press.
In our story, “Peer Review Parenting”, we have the first Nano-Sapiens dogs and cats protecting their children with the help of two graduate students – and a presentation slide deck. To date, the published Nano-Sapiens universe includes “Space Sheep and the Electric Cow” ( https://www.amazon.com/Space-Cowboys-Electric-Raconteur-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B0BXW4MR9W ) and “Space Dog and the Runaway Asteroid ( https://www.amazon.com/Space-Cowboys-Bookaroo-Raconteur-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B0CJZWQ2BV ).
Second up is Moggies Back in Space ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLT91RV6 ). We made the cover alongside M.C.A. Hogarth! Our second cover!
This anthology is about cats in space. (Moggies is modern British cant for cats.) And oddly it isn’t for a Nano-Sapiens universe, we aren’t sure how that happened.
In “Cat Math”, you see what happens when Anna and I write a hard science-fiction story. This is based on software I worked on at Lockheed for NASA Johnson Space Center. The thermal bus hardware and software in the story really existed. The difference in piloting techniques for the space shuttle was also real. And fittingly, Anna’s experience with pet training plays a major role by showing what happens when a graduate student (Anna) really wants a dog. But only has a cat that thinks he’s a dog.
~Tod