update from sparkleup

diary/2021-05-06.md

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     * Utunu has been making video games since the early 90s, and currently works at BioWare. He likes gaming (especially boardgames and good old-fashioned pencil & paper gaming), African fauna, playing squash and proper football, commissioning artwork, languages and linguistics, writing, worldbuilding, commissioning more artwork, long sentences, and the Oxford comma. Unfortunately he has time for very few of these.
     * His writing has appeared in Heat #15, Civilized Beasts, and soon FANG #11., and find him on Fur Affinity and Twitter (@WildDogUtunu).
     * You can find his short story "Water" on The Voice of Dog podcast, available from many fine podcasting services, or on thevoice.dog
+    * Tweet: `The winner of the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Short Story goes to "Water" by @WildDogUtunu as heard on The Voice of Dog, spearheaded by @khakidoggy - part 1: https://www.thevoice.dog/episode/water-by-utunu-part-1-of-2 part 2: https://www.thevoice.dog/episode/water-by-utunu-part-2-of-2 #CóyotlAwards`
 * Best Anthology
     * I've already mentioned that anthologies play a huge role within the furry writing world. They offer one of the biggest paying markets for authors throughout the fandom, and the draw for submissions is alluring.
     * Publishers such as FurPlanet, Bound Tails, and Goal Publications all have plenty of different anthologies available, whether they are recurring series or one-off topical collections of short stories.
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     * Kirisis “KC” Alpinus, the happy-go-lucky dhole with a penchant for peaches, tea, hummus, and Asian cuisine. A magna cum laude graduate of Tuskegee University, she’s a Political Scientist by day, and eclectic author of erotica and neo-noir by night. SoFurry & Furaffinity: Kiris Twitter: @Darheddol
     * Goal Publications was originally created in late 2015 to publish A Glimpse of Anthropomorphic Literature, a furry webzine that even today serves as a great starting point for readers new to furry literature.
     * You can find SOAR at goalpublications.com, baddogbooks.com, or many other fine retailers.
+    * Tweet: `The winner of the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Anthology goes to Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements, Vol. 1, edited by @SwirlyTales and published by @goalpublication - https://www.goalpublications.com/store/p121/soar-one.html #CóyotlAwards`
 * Best Other Work
     * For the first time, the Furry Writers' Guild is proud to announce an award for best other work, a new category in 2020.
     * Writing takes many forms beyond just words on a page, especially as technology makes other formats more and more attainable to independent authors. I am always fond of saying that authors should experience and learn from formats other than just books. It is a good way to round one's education.
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     * This podcast started soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began closing down vast swaths of the world as a way for readers to find new stories. With its focus on uplifting works, it has been a bright spot to my week, as well as for many others. Khaki and the other readers breathe life into works, taking on characters, and letting us read even when we're driving!
     * While the podcast is the work of many constituent authors and a good number of other readers, recognition must still be given to Khaki for spearheading this effort, with nearly 200 episodes now. Khaki is a retired writer, editor and publisher who once founded Bad Dog Books, FANG and ROAR, won an Ursa Major for writing Heathen City and who now embraces the furry fandom through story readings at The Voice Of Dog podcast and photography. Twitter: @khakidoggy
     * You can find the podcast at thevoice.dog
+    * Tweet: `The winner of the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Other Work goes to The Voice of Dog, spearheaded by @khakidoggy - https://thevoice.dog #CóyotlAwards`
 * Best Novella
     * Novellas, sitting at that comfortable spot between short story and novel, are a convenient way to explore more themes than a short story night while also providing room for a brisker read and a faster pace of completion. In those 20-50k words, the author has enough space to create a fully fledged story with a broader cast of characters, a firmer sense of structure, and a more involved plot.
     * With the growth of e-books, the novella has enjoyed something of a resurgence as a single longer work that might otherwise be too short on its own to be published in a paperback.
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     * A strange ship lands on Paris V, ten years after the plague world has been abandoned by all except one left behind General Labor android unit. All GL wants is to be free, but when the crew of the Sleuthstar discovers her stowed away on board, she's confronted by a trio of suspicious ursines and a very uncertain future. Can GL convince them to let her earn her passage? Can she find her place among the Sleuthstar's crew? At this point, she'd settle for not being thrown out of the airlock.
     * Frances writes furry novels and short stories and posts her work on social media under the name Mamma Bear. Her website is francespauli.com
     * You can find Rightful Salvage on goalpublications.com, baddogbooks.com, and many other fine retailers.
+    * Tweet: `The winner of the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Novella goes to Rightful Salvage by @MothinDarkness published by @goalpublication - https://www.goalpublications.com/store/p122/rightful-salvage-paperback.html #CóyotlAwards`
 * Best Novel
     * This brings us to our final award of the year, best novel.
     * Novels are a big undertaking for just about everyone. It takes a lot of time, energy, planning, and attention to detail to pull together a story that spans tens or hundreds of thousands of words.
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     * Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…
     * T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children’s books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins. When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.
     * You can find A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking on argyllproductions.com and from many other fine booksellers.
+    * Tweet: `The winner of the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Novel goes to A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by @UrsulaV published by @argyllbooks - https://argyllproductions.com/product/a-wizards-guide-to-defensive-baking/ #CóyotlAwards`
 * Wrapping up