Furry Book Month

October is apparently:

     Furry Book Month.

     Not that the books themselves come equipped with pelts, I'm led to understand. No, it's rather a celebration of books whose subject matters involve talking animal folks in some way or another. The Furry Writers' Guild, who I'm fairly certain is behind the entire concept of "Furry Book Month," is celebrating with a Book Bundle consisting of nine furry books, and again I cannot emphasize enough that the books themselves are not more hirsute than other books. They are, in fact, "ebooks" and therefore have no physical substance to speak of.

     Nonetheless, one of the nine novels in this bundle is Neighbors, a piece I self-published about eight years ago. At the time, I characterized it as follows:

     You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your neighbors.

     For a full quarter of his life, twenty-year-old Gus Lancer has been a resident patient at Haven Space, a sanatorium and rehab clinic formerly isolated in the chaparral of southern California but now surrounded by the suburban sprawl of inland Orange County. The peculiar degenerative condition shredding his nervous system has paralyzed him from the waist down and robbed him of all but the most strangled attempts at human speech, but he has recently discovered that he can apparently understand and communicate with the various animals he meets.

     Rolling his wheelchair out under the care of El Brujo, one of Haven's therapy cats, he becomes more and more involved in the lives of the humans, dogs, cats, crows, squirrels and others forced into the close proximity of the neighborhood. And when some of these neighbors begin acting in a most unneighborly fashion, Gus finds that he might be the only one capable of keeping events from spiraling completely out of control.

     That still pretty much sums the thing up, so if that sounds interesting, go take a look. You'll get eight other works of furry fiction if you're curious about what "furry ficiton" actually is, and all the proceeds will get divvied up among the nine of us. The Book Bundle is available till the end of the month, and thanks for giving furry fiction a try!

                              Mike