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Mark J. Engels

@mark-engels.com
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Sojourner. Husband. Father. Railroader. Anime-manga-anthro fan. Author of the WERECATS series of urban fantasy thrillers in the FOREST EXILES SAGA. (@mj_engels on Twitter/X.) #werecat #werecats www.mark-engels.com

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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 10h
YES AND AMEN
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Ralanr @ralanr.bsky.social · 12h
You should read Zyearth.
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Ryan Loup-Glissant (Slip-Wolf) @slip-wolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hoofed neck nibbler and a hoofed nibbler in training. They’re so adorable (from really far away) 😙
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 22h
I meant to post my newest ARCs yesterday, but I was so tired and busy, I only remembered Insta 😂 Here are my newest indie books! Can’t wait to read them! Also gonna try and get reviews out for the ones I’m currently reading this weekend (exhausted brain permitting). Stay tuned!
The Boreas’ Tribes books and The Black Bear Codex paperback. Atop is a sticker that says ‘Banning books is bananas!’
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 11h
"Wishing you a stubbed toe of a day" GENIUS 😎😎😎
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 11h
www.goodreads.com/quotes/30620...
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A quote by Bruce Lee
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 11h
www.goodreads.com/quotes/30620...
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A quote by Bruce Lee
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 20h
What writing advice has been most useful to you? Probably being told to write the story I want to read #writingq #WritingCommunity
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Freckles @elfreckles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🦊🏹 #comics #furryart #furry
Digital picture. Disney's Robin Hood fox character, looking concerned. A speech bubble comes out from him saying "If I was your first furry crush, it's time to take note of your cholesterol.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 11h
You too, huh? 👴👴👴 Although in my case it was...
maid marian from disney's robin hood movie a vixen anthro with a red and white face, eyes half closed, long eyelashes, speaking slyly to lady cluck off page, her mouth near the pedals of a flower she holds in her hands, wearing a large veil over her head and large prick ears
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Ryan Loup-Glissant (Slip-Wolf) @slip-wolf.bsky.social · 20h
Oh shit
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 19h
Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025) 📚🤍 rebeccacrunden.com/2026/09/27/b...
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 16h
weirdly, The Drowned Heir hasn't had any sales this month maybe it'll be up your alley? It's about family and responsibility (and a big fucking monster in the ocean)
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
FOUR years ago, I self published The Drowned Heir I dreamed the opening and had to write the rest. It's full of little magics and a big monster(?) and short on names AND it was a finalist in last year's SFINCS competition! books2read.com/DrownedHeir jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/the-drowned-...
Hardcover copy of The Drowned Heir in focus against a soft library shelves background.  the cover art is a pale woman wearing a tricorn hat with a brimstone tattoo on her left shoulder, her head turned to the left, writhing tentacles in the darkness behind her.

cover by Yorgos Cotronis, and I bought the art in a premade cover pack on his website  https://cotronis.com/  and put the text on it myself
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 13h
RIGHTEOUS 👊 THAT'S WHAT THIS IS 👇👇👇 So glad to see my friend, fan, and fellow author @zyearth.com 's books get some well-earned love. 🥰🥰🥰
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R. A. Meenan (Sammie)(She/They) @zyearth.com · 13h
Zyearth fan art! :D Look at the beautiful little Ouranos!
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Chu 🔜 BLFC @raizap.com · 15h
I picked up the first volume of Zyearth Chronicles from @zyearth.com on a whim at ASC, and I'm glad I did! I dove in without knowing a thing about it; Meenan did a great job introducing their awesome magepunk world. I ate it up and now I'm a fan. Here's fanart of Ouranos! [ #art #furryart ]
A photo of a hand holding "Zyearth Chronicles: Shadow Cast" by R.A. Meenan. The cover depicts two humanoid aliens with quils holding gems, surrounded by plans and shadowy creatures with three glowing eyes each.A sketch of Ouranos, a character from "Zyearth Chronicles: Shadow Cast". He is a quilar, a type of zyfaunos, which is a humanoid species from the series. He has black fur and quills, small ears bending backwards with teal insides, and teal eyes with no discernible white or pupils with small yellow and red gems embedded in his skin besides them. His only clothes are red pants with a white band around his waist and a white, inverted diamond-shaped cloth that hangs in the center.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🌟 ICYMI 🌟 rebeccacrunden.com/2026/09/27/b...
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
Oh hey handy a link to it appeared in the FWG's pack banner... bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
I found a couple...
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Matt Doyle @mattdoylemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strongman comp season is done, so now I can focus on other stuff. Halloween: going to be selling/signing books and stickers at Medway River Lit Festival in Chatham Library. Fursuit Making: my Utahraptor mask is coming along nicely.
A collage advertising my upcoming book con appearance and showing progress for my fursuit mask.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
🫂🫂🫂
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
🫂🫂🫂
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
You have created fully-formed, relatable, and rootable characters, experiencing love and loss and hardship and redemption in a world fraught with peril with more to come. Would recommend. (And I in fact have numerous times.)
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
reading the graphic just made my head hurt
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
takes one to know one here 🫂🫂🫂
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
"all's fair in love and war" "my enemy's enemy is my friend" yadda yadda
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows!
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 30/09/2026
I'm quite fond of this one, featuring a spacefaring race whose "home planet" is a massive space station... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_o...
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Crest of the Stars - Wikipedia
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The Book Badgers @thebookbadgers.uk · 29/09/2026
Heading to @pawsome.bsky.social? Looking to reserve a title? Please let us know on or before Thursday 1 October
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Pawsome 2026 - Beach Party - 1st-5th Oct 2026! @pawsome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
✨ Dealers Spotlight 🛒 Meet The Book Badgers! 🦡 A bookshop specialising in anthropomorphic, animal and fantasy literature, with books, graphic novels, games and more to discover! 📚 www.thebookbadgers.uk
Text: The Book Badgers, see them at the dealers den! Pawsome Beach Party 2026, Gloucester 1st-5th October 2026.

Photos of furry books and comics.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also, I've decided to set the price for Between the Blood and the Sun at a special $2.99 for the first round of #SFINCS4 (so until December 5) if I make it to round 2 again, I'll continue the sale (or make it lower? hmmm?) GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
300+ pages of my first book's manuscript all looked like that thank you browne & king 😓😓😓
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
yeah me too
excerpt from an early draft of werecats convergent by mark j engels after applying editing techniques recommended by browne & king self-editing for fiction writers indicated by various colors of highlighters used and various colors of ink to make notes
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Sami Sadek @skullgrin140.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Back a dump truck full of money onto Fernanda Dias's front porch to greenlight this into becoming a full length TV series. There's a story here just waiting to come to life & it's too cute to ignore.
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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (66.9/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Casson Family series by Hilary McKay might be the single greatest reason I'm a writer at all.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
As a kid I read "The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf" by Gene De Weese from the Weekly Reader Book Club over and over until the book's spine cracked. Years later I wrote urban fantasy thriller novels featuring the modern-day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats. 😼😼😼
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
LIKE. A. BOSS. 😎😎😎
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
Relatable. Painfully so.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
You're my kind of person. 🤗❤️
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Doppelfoxx Publishing 📚🦊 @doppelfoxxpublishing.com · 28/09/2026
🏘️ NEW DISTRO TITLE - TWO SOULS OF FANGCREST MANOR by @domusvocis.bsky.social During a trip to a remote manor, supernatural events lead Daniel to befriending Nate, who not only recognizes him from dreams, but also resembles one of the manor's previous owners doppelfoxxpublishing.com/products/two...
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am seen 🤭
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨ ICYMI | Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025) ✨ rebeccacrunden.com/2026/09/27/b...
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
🙏🙏🙏
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
Gunsmith Cats: Mister V #11 (of 11)

It takes more than an out-of-control 18-wheeler to stop Bean Bandit and Rally from getting their man! But now that they've got the counterfeiter Jim Macks, what next? Macks is Bean's client, but he's Rally's bounty target! And they've still got their friend Misty's kidnappers on their tail! It's the endless runaround of a bounty hunter's life, and as Rally's 23rd birthday approaches, Chicago's fastest draw is looking for a reward that isn't counterfeit! It's the final regular episode of Kenichi Sonoda's long-running hit, Gunsmith Cats!

Creator: Kenichi Sonoda
Letterer: Susie Lee
Translator: Dana Lewis · Toren Smith
Editor: Mike Hansen
Designer: Darcy Hockett
Cover artist: Kenichi Sonoda
Genres: Action/Adventure · Crime/Mystery · Manga

Publication date: Aug. 15, 2001

Format: b&w, 40 pg.

Price: $3.50

UPC: 76156899238001111
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fame drew Jimothy to the bottom."
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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 27/09/2026
I used to think werewolves were cooler than vampires (still do), and I wanted to write about them. Little did I know that werewolf books are supposed to have alpha males, hot knobly sex, toxic pack dynamics, and feral violence. So I wrote Last Fight of the Old Hound: mybook.to/LostDogs1
Cover image for Last Fight of the Old Hound. It's intended to evoke feelings of introspection and internal conflict.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 28/09/2026
🫂🫂🫂
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