Torn World's Monthly Muse Fusion - this weekend!

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http://torn-world.livejournal.com/74955.html

Come join us for a Torn World creative Q&A - bring prompts, questions, ideas, ask about characters you want to see more of, and our writers and artists will write fiction and poetry or make art from the seeds you plant. Prompters get to see what's created from their prompts, even if the final results are reserved for subscribers of Torn World. Some of the work will be available for sponsorship or other forms of crowdfunding.

We'll be accepting prompts through the weekend!

Short Story Collection!

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Today I posted a sponsorship call for my print collection of short stories about the Jokka, the tri-sexed aliens. You can go have a look over here! There are goodies for every level of patronage, from signed bookplates to original artwork from the interior.

Crowdfunding Project: "Clays Beneath the Skies"

[ysabetwordsmith]

 haikujaguar is crowdfunding a collection of short stories, Clays Beneath the Skies. This will contain 7 short stories plus illustrations featuring the Jokka, a race of aliens with three sexes (male, female, and neuter). I've read many of the Jokka stories, and I love them. The Jokka have two puberties and can change sex at either or both, which may or may not affect their gender identity or their interest in sexual partners. A lot of different combinations have appeared across the fiction. Sex shapes the characters' lives because the females are very fragile, the males in-between, and the neuters are durable ... and the world is suffering climate change that just makes life harder.

These stories are among the best sociological science fiction and gender fiction that I've ever read. Go throw money if you have it to spare and you like this sort of stuff. It will totally be worth your while.