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And You Thought I Made It Up

Those of you who have read Obsession, Deceit And Really Dark Chocolate have wondered if some of the...um...fetishes described in that novel were made up. Well, this 4th of July weekend there was a huge Furry Convention in Pittsburgh.
For the record the organizers went to great efforts to keep it clean. In the list of rules and regulations distributed to attendees were the helpful, but presumably unnecessary, reminders that no means no and that all privates had to be covered, and not just by latex.
So if truth isn't stranger than fiction it is at least as strange as my fiction.



Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
SEX, MURDER AND A DOUBLE LATTE,
PASSION, BETRAYAL AND KILLER HIGHLIGHTS,
OBSESSION, DECEIT AND REALLY DARK CHOCOLATE
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING

6 comments :

  1. BunnySunday, July 6, 2008 at 9:12:00 PM PDT

    Thank you for clearing that up for me kyra, I was completely unaware that this was actually happening out in the world and not something you just wrote about or yes simply made up.

    I will go out into the worl today slightly less secure for knowing this today than not knowing it yesterday.

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  2. AnonymousMonday, July 7, 2008 at 4:07:00 AM PDT

    Yes, Kyra, I actually did think that you made all that up. Love it! Thanks for sharing!

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  3. kyradavisMonday, July 7, 2008 at 10:24:00 PM PDT

    Bet you'll never be able to look at a mascot the same way again ; )

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  4. a FurrySaturday, June 27, 2009 at 6:00:00 PM PDT

    Perhaps you could do better research of furry fandom or even took some time to attend a convention or two before writing a stereotype ridden piece of pulp fiction.

    You apparently don't know jack about the fandom.

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  5. kyradavisSunday, June 28, 2009 at 11:20:00 AM PDT

    Hi "a Furry,"

    First let me say that I do apologize for offended you. I did do research and while I didn't attend an official convention I did attend a Furry Party which was a somewhat odd but helpful experience. I am aware that for some people being a Furry isn't a sexual thing but a serious hobby or lifestyle choice. I know that plushies and Furrys rarely mix which is why my character Dena was surprised when she found out that that Peter was into both fetishes. I also know that the Furrys who put a lot of effort into their costumes (making them more artistic and in some ways more realistic) look down on those who simply want to get it on while wearing a snoopy costume.

    But of course I chose the Snoopy-costume-wearing-sex-addicts for my book. In other words I chose the most extreme examples of the Furry world for Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate. Why? Well, maybe the following excerpt from a Publisher's Weekly review of my second book, Passion, Betrayal And Killer Highlights will help clear that up:

    A cast of charming caricatures—the Jewish mom, the gay hairdresser, the destructive toddler—round out a version of San Francisco in which racial politics are fun to play with and sex is steamier than frothed milk. Davis chooses style over substance, skillfully keeping the snappy dialogue funny all the way to the unsurprising surprise ending, and lands square on target for her chick lit audience.

    See, my books aren't supposed to be realistic. I purposely create caricatures to create light hearted, comedic, escapist fiction. It's supposed to help us laugh at ourselves.

    Obviously it didn't do that for you and I am sorry about that. For the record I firmly support your right to be a Furry. It's a free country and you're not hurting anyone. I hope that someone else writes a book that will allow you to laugh at yourself (and we should all do that occasionally) without offending you as I clearly have.

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  6. JoeSunday, June 28, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM PDT

    A big part of the problem is that too many non-furries think the stereotype presented by Vanity Fair and CSI is accurate, or not far from it after making some allowance for the fact that media such as those tend to zero in on the more scandalous bits for shock value. By comparison, most people know that Weird Al Yankovic's song Genius in France is a very tongue-in-cheek stereotyped portrayal of the French, but a lot less people have the same understanding about furry fandom.

    Furry fans do indeed laugh among themselves about this portrayal of furry fandom, but they get nervous when it appears in media targeted to a largely non-furry audience. I've seen enough teenagers talk about how they developed an interest in furrydom and how their parents reacted (or they kept it hidden for fear of that reaction) to say that the concern is not unjustified.

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ABOUT KYRA DAVIS

I'm the internationally published author of the Sophie Katz mystery series, and So Much For My Happy Ending. My first Erotic Fiction Trilogy will be released in January 2013.

Aside from that, I'm a single mom; I'm addicted to coffee and True Blood (the show, not the drink). I'm happy with who I am yet I’m always striving to be better; I have more bad hair days than good ones, I love a challenge but I am not fearless, I’m….well…just me.