Not a question, just a compliment - I think I stumbled upon your work through a review of a mutually read book - anyway - it lead me to read Chouette and Book of Dog - thoroughly enjoyed both! Since this form is forcing me to ask a question, would you shapeshift if you could?

Lark Benobi Vivienne, I'm so happy that you read The Book of Dog! That is my little love-child of a book, and it will always be my favorite, because I self-published it, and then the feedback I got from readers (mostly here on goodreads) gave me the courage to look for an agent for the next novel I wrote, which became Chouette.

It appears that I'm -not- done with shapeshifting and its fictional possibilities. My next novel in the queue (called Poor Deer, to be published Jan 2024) has a titular big mythic beast in it, who is also the manifestation of a human character in the novel.

After Poor Deer, the book I'm writing next is all about transmogrification, along with every other kind of trans-ness. My working title for this story is "Wander," but that's likely to change. It's never clear to me if any given story is going to work until I get to the end of a first draft, which I haven't done yet with Wander. Sometimes stories stall on me in the middle. But it's the story I'm most excited about telling at the moment.

I've heard writers aren't supposed to talk about their works in progress. Oh, well.

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