Sofawolf Press is excited to announce “Caterwall” a young adult graphic novel by Spain Fischer, also known online as Sophie Cabra.

Caterwall is the story of Pax, the orphaned son of one of the kingdom of Katia's greatest knights. As he nears adulthood he should be taking on the mantle his father left behind, but his impatience with the slow pace of his life in the capital city of Caterwall makes him few friends. The kingdom has been at peace for many years, and the knighthood has been relegated to administrative tasks and pageantry.

When he stumbles on a messenger from the dog kingdom bringing news of war with the wolves of the north, it looks like his chance to shine. But, when he rushes off to get help, the messenger vanishes without a trace, and everyone sees it just as another attempt to gain attention. When he incautiously insults the dog kingdom's own ambassador in open court, the king has no choice but to banish Pax from the city for good.

Now left to his own devices, he is joined by his best friend Gavin, led to Pax's side by a seer's intuition, an ability considered by most to have faded from his blood line long before. Together they set out to make their way to the dog kingdom, but many miles lie between them and their goal, and neither of them have any idea what they are going to do when they get there.

Pax's journey will be told in a series of three, 100 page graphic novels, beginning with the first book, scheduled for release in Summer 2013. The story is appropriate for ages 12 and up and will balance a serious fantasy storyline with the sort of wide-eyed frivolity familiar to those who share their lives with domestic felines.

Artist and writer Spain Fischer started writing the story that would become Caterwall when she was fifteen. Inspired by both Tolkein's The Hobbit and Jacques' Redwall series, what originally was conceived as a novel grew in an artistic direction. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Fischer has worked as both a newspaper editorial cartoonist and a storyboard artist for TV productions.

Keep up with announcements about the project, sneak peeks, and ongoing character and story background information on the project's web site www.caterwall.net, or on Twitter: @Caterwall. Or watch the publisher's web site www.sofawolf.com, or Twitter: @sofawolfpress

[Alopex] Once again, it's time to announce a new volume of Heat! After months of work bringing together stories and art from nearly two dozen different writers, poets and artists, Heat #9 is in its final stages of proofing and adjusting before we give the final OK. Content is finished and contracts are signed, so I am finally safe to announce who is appearing in this issue!

Heat is intended for readers 18 years of age and older

Please stop by our product page (swp.im/p/h-09) for more details on the individual stories that appear in this issue, including links to web pages for the many contributors. Here's an abbreviated list:

• Front cover by racoonwolf
• Better, a story by Kandrel illustrated by Scappo, who also did art for the back cover
• Love Learn, a poem by Camron Cuccu illustrated by Vantid
• Two Minutes, a story by Whyte Yoté illustrated by Alastair Wildfire
• A Weapon, a comic written by Kobal illustrated by Negger
• Bad Timing, a story by Huskyteer illustrated by Cara Mitten
• Rewind, a story by Kyell Gold illustrated by Nimrais
• Stupid, a comic by RayFkm
• The Prisoner, a story by Tempe O'Kun illustrated by Blotch
• True Color a story by Khaz illustrated by Tush
• "Advertising" has been provided by Rukis and Foxfeather, and the Afterglow Husky this year is by Mitti

This volume was fun to work on, despite a few inevitable hiccups along the way. The stories explore the sexual relationships between characters in ways that really make you think; they lean perhaps a bit more towards drama and less towards humor than previous issues. Also, the art that was created to accompany the stories (whether in prose, poem or comic format) is all top notch and wonderfully diverse in style and technique, including both digital and real media. Alastair Wildfire, for example, really went over the top, creating toned prints from etchings for "Two Minutes," a story by Whyte Yoté.

Two of the stories involve fetishes that might cause some readers to pause, but in each the fetish is treated deftly and is used as part of a larger story; the stories are much more than an excuse for the authors to play out their fantasies for those who already share the fetish. They are great examples of Heat's overall goal of showcasing stories that can appeal to a broad audience of readers, not just those who share the particular sexual orientations or kinks of the characters involved.

Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue! I hope to soon post a FurAffinity journal with links to all the FA pages of those contributors to this issue who have them, as well as teasers they have posted.

[Malin] I've had the pleasure this year of working on M.C.A. Hogarth's "Flight of the Godkin Griffin," a story previously serialized on LiveJournal that Sofawolf is publishing in two parts. The first part will be appearing at AnthroCon in a few months, so I thought I'd take a little time to talk about what I like about this book.

Since Sofawolf opened up to novel submissions in late 2009, I've read probably fifty queries, synopses, and beginning chapters, and none of them grabbed me the way the opening to "Griffin" did. It starts out with a strong character voice and a clear plot: Angharad, the titular griffin, is called back from the brink of retirement to lead an army to a newly-conquered province where she is to assume the post of governor. Angharad is not happy about this, but there is no questioning the orders when they come directly from the Godson, the leader of her empire. In quick succession, we find out that the province has been unruly under the current governor, that the province includes people with many different belief systems, that some of those belief systems are diametrically opposed to Angharad's empire's accepted practices (to the point that instead of mixing species with an eye to godhood, they strive for purity of species), that there are a great number of half-human inhabitants in the province (as opposed to the empire's citizens, who are all humanoid with different animal characteristics depending on their bloodlines), that some of those half-human people are going to be soldiers in Angharad's army—mixing with her "human" soldiers—and that those half-human "mongrels" are commanded by Angharad's former lover, Silfia the fox.

We are extremely proud to announce that Ursula Vernon’s epic graphic novel series Digger has been nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award in the category of “Best Graphic Story”! All those years of regular Tuesday and Thursday posts have paid off. We are also quite happy that the award mentions Sofawolf Press, indicating that the award is at least in part for the printed volumes as well as the webcomic.

To welcome the fans of graphic storytelling who we hope will find their way to our website as a result, we’ve spent the day busily making updates of various sorts. One we’d been wanting to do for some time was to improve the product categories by dressing them up a bit with more information and images. This nomination was the push we needed to figure out the technical issues that had prevented us from doing so thus far. You can see the results of these efforts on our Digger and Ursula Vernon category pages. More to come in the near future as we pull together pictures and text! We also have plans to highlight our graphic novels and comic collections for visitors coming specifically because of the “Best Graphic Story” category.

We’ve put Digger on sale for $15 per volume, which is over 20% off the cover price! It’s also equivalent to getting one volume free if you purchase the complete six-volume set.

We’re also working on e-books, and a Digger compilation is definitely in the works as part of that project. We don’t have a specific timeline for publication, so keep an eye on our blog, our LiveJournal and/or our Twitter if you want to learn the latest! An omnibus print edition has also been discussed, but unfortunately we may not be able to pull anything of that sort together in time to be out before the Hugo voting period ends.

We'd definitely love to attend Chicon 7 for the official awards ceremony and see how the voting turns out, but we're not exactly sure of our schedules at this point. At least it's close enough that we could drive!

Once again, many congratulations to Ursula and Digger on their nomination!

Come join us at Emerald City ComicCon if you are in the vicinity of Seattle this weekend! We'll be at booth #1002. While you're there, you can pick up a copy of Nordguard if you haven't done so already, and you can get it signed by the 1/2 of Blotch who will be there! You can also pick up copies of our newest releases, including Red Lantern, Green Fairy, and Peachy Keen.

But the biggest new product for ECCC is:

Prydwen: Gods and Monsters

Prydwen is the latest graphic novel to be published by Sofawolf Press. It is 128 pages of full-color furry fantasy adventure, in both softcover ($19.95) and hardcover ($39.95).

Prydwen started out as a black-and-white web comic by artist and author Lynn Hogan. This print edition adds full color to the story and also includes a collection of impressive fan art. Lynn Hogan will be attending ECCC and will be happy to sign copies of Prydwen for you!

The story, as described on our product pages:

Orphaned at a young age and raised in a Sui monastery, Prydwen settles into a peaceful life tending the gardens, never knowing who she is or where she came from. When disturbing dreams give way to waking up in patches of ash where flowers used to be, she flees the safety of the church grounds with her friend Auric, looking for answers. Her path takes her deep into the sacred gardens of the Wanderkind God, where she is destined to release his imprisoned Elynd and learn more about her past. But, things rarely go as planned when Gods are involved, and Prydwen finds that she is a crucial part of the plans of both Gods and Monsters.

Prydwen pre-orders have already shipped, and the books are already available for order on our website, even though the official release will be at ECCC. So, if you can't make the convention, feel free to pick up your copy online!

It took us a scant year to sell out of our first print run of the Isolation Play softcover edition: swp.im/p/ip. This is a significant number for us because it was the first book we'd printed via the offset printing process (rather than digital), and it was the largest print run we'd ever done at the time. It is still the largest print run we've done for a novel. (Across Thin Ice has since eclipsed Isolation Play.)

We'd estimated that the second printing would be ready by March 1st, but it just came in today, so we are putting it online now for anyone who wants to place an order.

Our forthcoming releases of Red Lantern by Rukis and Alectrofencer and Green Fairy by Kyell Gold, with illustrations by Rukis, remain on schedule for world-wide release March 16th, 2012.

We will be releasing two big new titles at Furry Weekend Atlanta, March 16th, 2012, scheduled to coincide with the Guest of Honor appearances by the creators for the publications, Kyell Gold and Rukis. Green Fairy is a novel by written by Kyell Gold and illustrated by Rukis, with a setting that coincides with the convention's Moulin Rouge theme. Red Lantern, The Crimson Divine is a graphic novel about life in a brothel of a different sort, created by Rukis and Alectorfencer. If you are in Atlanta that weekend, be sure to stop by and pick up copies signed by the creators!

For those who won't be able to make FWA, we have several opportunities to purchase either book that same weekend, regardless of your location on the globe. Starting Friday, March 16th, the books will be available at:

• Furnal Equinox in Toronto Canada (vendor TBA)
• Black Paw (online orders in Germany, the EU, and beyond)
• Sofawolf Press (online orders to nearly anywhere)

 
Green Fairy is the newest novel by multiple-award-winning author Kyell Gold, and the first novel he has written in the Forester Universe that does not have an Adult rating.

It is the story of Sol, a teenaged wolf coping with being gay and vegetarian in a small town. He finds answers and solace in an unlikely place: a book written about a gay romance at the turn of the century in the bohemian district of Paris. After trying absinthe with a friend, Sol dreams he is a dancer at the Moulin Rouge facing the challenges of a gay relationship in a different time. Then the dreams begin to encroach on reality in surprising ways, and Sol will have to solve not only his own problems, but those of another gay youngster who died a hundred years ago.

Cover and interior art by Rukis.

272 pages – $19.95 US – ISBN 978-1-936689-16-3 – http://swp.im/p/gf

 
Red Lantern: The Crimson Divine (adult content) is the first book in the web-comic series written and illustrated by Rukis and Alectorfencer.

On a small isolated island run by ruthless gangs and powerful crime families lies a town of brothels and drug dens, serving all who come into port. Sold into a life of servitude when he was young, Amon is now approaching the end of his usefulness to the Madame. With no hope of escape and too little money to buy his freedom, all he can hope for is a miracle. Now war is raging in the waters surrounding the Shanivaar islands, bringing foreign naval soldiers and their money into the brothels. Their unfamiliar morals and military code of conduct could be a blessing or a curse, and with Amon already forced to start training his replacement — a naïve young tiger with nothing but hard lessons ahead — time is running short for everyone.

This color graphic novel collects the web-comic as it is being released online (which as of this writing is only 75% complete or so — so the print edition contains the rest of the story up until the completion of book one), with the addition of approximately 12 pages of adult material that have never been seen online.

104 pages – $29.95* – ISBN 978-1-936689-13-2 – http://swp.im/p/rl-1

* The final price of this title is higher than what we advertised at previous conventions due to a required change in printing process. Our initial plan to print via the less expensive offset printing process fell through when TWO separate printers turned down the job due to the nature of the content. To meet the FWA release deadline, we switched to digital color printing, the same printer and technique used for Dog's Days of Summer, which looks great, but which is twice as expensive as offset. Due to this change, we will be unable to offer a hardcover edition at this time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this change in printing plans may have caused to our customers.

 
We'll have further details about the release plans as we get closer to March 16th, as well as information about the release of "Prydwen: Gods and Monsters" by Lynn Hogan a little later in the month at Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle, WA.

With our Further Confusion 2012 launch behind us, we have now made "Peachy Keen" by Mandi Tremblay available for purchase on our website. Please check out its product page!

We had a fun time at Further Confusion, even if the weather was only slightly warmer in San Jose than what we'd just left in Minnesota. However, on our return we've found the temperatures have dropped sufficiently to make it start to feel like a proper winter. Now if only we could get some proper snow...

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hi and pick up reading materials at our booth! It was a good time to connect with fans and also catch up with creative folks who are working on yet more interesting projects for the future.

This post is late, but projects have been keeping me very busy lately. This is a good thing as there is a lot of very exciting stuff coming up in the next couple years. But, I digress... We are here to talk about Further Confusion, which is coming up in a few days in San Jose, CA!

We will be there, in the same RELATIVE location as last year (Yes it is a different room entirely, but relative to the walls of it, we are in the same place as last year) and located right next to the lovely and talented Blotch.

Our only new release for this con (but it's a good one) is the 134 page retro-styled graphic novel Peachy Keen by Mandi Tremblay. Check out the blurb here:http://swp.im/p/pk-1 and find out more about it on her web site here:http://www.peachykeencomic.com/

Our other planned new release, the eagerly awaited Red Lantern Book One: The Crimson Divine by Rukis and Alectorfencer, ran into printing troubles and could not be completed in time for the con without jeopardizing product quality. The holiday season further complicated matters, and at this point in time things have not resolved sufficiently to announce any specifics about when it will be available. Watch our Twitter (@sofawolfpress) and LJ (where you are reading this) for details. If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out the comic online here: http://www.rukiscroax.com/redlantern/

One old release newly available again is the Nordguard Shot Glass, which we had out this summer at Anthrocon. Sadly we were unable to get the same glasses again, so those of you who got the nice Whiskey style shot glasses have a one-of-a-kind item. However the ordinary size and style glasses we got this time around are still quite nice, and will be cheaper as well. Like the ones from this summer, the logo is etched onto the glass, so they are dishwasher safe (if you feel the need to put your shot glasses through the dishwasher) and should last until you break them. Buy more than one to make sure. Here is a photo of the glasses we'll have for sale.

Then there is Blotch's amazing color graphic novel Nordguard Book One: Across Thin Ice. Everyone has been talking about this, both in and out of the fandom, and sales have been through the roof. If you haven't already gotten a copy from us at a con, online, or from your local comic shop, then now is a good time. The LAST of the first run of generally-available hardcovers will also be put out for sale at the con. We'll put out a few each day, first thing in the morning and sell 'em until the stack is gone. Once they are all gone on Sunday, that is it. We are likely to get another run of the hardcovers, but don't know when this will be. So, get one now!

We'll also have plenty of the other new releases from the summer and fall, including: Digger Volume #6 (the end of the series, so you can pick them all up now if you have been waiting), Fur-Piled Volume #5 (also the end of the series), I.S.O. Volume #2 (ALSO the end of the series), Heat #8 (an excellent issue), Sixes Wild: Manifest Destiny (just walk near the table and the author will sell you one), the hardcover release of Out of Position (with the bonus story), and Kyell's League of Canids anthology In the Doghouse of Justice. Whew. We also have the summer tee shirts, this year featuring a spiffy sled dog design done by Blotch to commemorate the release of Across Thin Ice.

I think that is about it. See folks at the con!

Call us boring and old-fashioned, but now that it's actually December and the chaos of Black Friday and Cyber Monday are passed, we thought it was time to finally get into the holiday spirit!

Give The Complete Story For Christmas

Our two long-running graphic novel series—Digger and Fur-Piled—completed their runs this year. We've put them both on sale to help you complete your collection, or your friends' collections, or to give your friends the full story all in one shot! Digger has been reduced to $15 per volume, a discount of 21%. Fur-Piled is now $14 per volume, a discount of 22%. Both get you one volume free (and then some) if you purchase the complete set.

Holiday Cards Are Back In Stock

If you're old-fashioned enough to still send Christmas cards, there is still time to get a pack of Sofawolf Press' own special designs. We have playful romping huskies painted by Foxfeather R. Zenkova, as well as our popular Digger and Shadowchild cards by Ursula Vernon. Both card sets have been reduced in price to $10 for a pack of 12 cards, a discount of 23%!

Have friends overseas? Let Sofawolf Press help do your Christmas shopping this year by sending them the gift of fine anthropomorphic literature! We always ship via USPS Priority mail, domestic and international, so it is easy to calculate the dates by when you need to place your orders so that they arrive in time for Christmas. Just take the ship-by dates for Priority Mail published on the USPS website, then subtract two days to give us time to pack and prepare your order. We have summarized the dates below. You can also view them on our calendar for December, 2011. Additional details, such as how to send gift orders, are included below.

Place your orders by the following dates to have the best chance of getting your gifts delivered in time for Christmas:

• November 30
  to Africa, Central & South America
   
• December 1
  to U.S. Military: APO/FPO/DPO AE Zip 093 (Iraq, Afghanistan & other Middle East)
   
• December 7
  to Asia / Pacific Rim, Australia / New Zealand & Mexico
   
• December 8
  to U.S. Military: all APO/FPO/DPO EXCEPT AE Zip 0093
   
• December 10
  to Canada, Caribbean, Europe & Middle East
   
• December 19
  domestic (U.S.A.)

Additional Details:

1. Please remember that these are recommendations, not guarantees of delivery by Christmas. We have no control over your packages once they leave our hands.
2. USPS ship-by dates do NOT take into account time needed for customs clearance, and USPS recommends allotting extra time for deliveries outside major cities.
3. Gift order instructions are in our FAQ! Details include how you can send a personalized message with your order.
4. Make sure your address is correct! Confirm domestic addresses with the USPS Zip Code lookup tool: http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/

UPDATE: we have decided to start with the Con Suite. We're at a small table up at the front, right side of the room (second from the end of the row). There's a bit of a dull roar of conversation, but as long as the music next door stays reasonable, we plan to stay here.

Look for Two guys with laptops, one of them wearing a Sofawolf Press vest!

Location options:

• Con Suite
• Conference Center Foyer (Plan B)
   

Since we're not holding Pitch Night in any official space, we've been scrounging for some public place that's comfortable, easy to find but not in a high traffic area, and suitable for a face-to-face conversation. The Midwest Furfest hotel seems to have gone out of its way to make it difficult to find such a space! They have actually removed several seating areas that we remember from last year (that would have been perfect for our purposes), leaving only long benches where you can't actually face the person you're talking to, or the bar that is way too loud to talk without raising your voice. We've picked out a couple options that hopefully will work.

Our first option is the Con Suite. If you're coming to Pitch Night and you don't have access to Twitter, check there first. It was relatively open tonight (Friday), but we've heard it can be loud when the dances are going next door. Don't forget your con badge! You'll need that to get in.

If that space ends up not working, we'll try the upper level of the Conference Center Foyer. It's the domed space above the fursuit lounge. As long as there's no function going on there, we should be good. There are tables, and while it's a rather dark cavernous space, it should work.

To find us, keep an eye on @sofawolfpress on Twitter. We'll post updates of our location if we end up moving from the Con Suite. At least one of us will be wearing the Sofawolf Press vests that we wear behind our booth in the Dealers' Den.

[Alopex] We got enough interest in our proposal to have a Sofawolf Pitch Night at Midwest FurFest that we've decided to go ahead with the idea, though the response wasn't so overwhelming that we feel it necessary to set up a formal schedule. Instead, we'll run things on a first-come, first-served schedule.

For those of you who won't be at MFF, we'll try to arrange something again at Further Confusion. Aside from that, there's always the formal submission processes outlined on our website.

We've decided to do the pitch night Saturday, November 19th, from 9:00 to 11:00 PM. We're not sure what location will work for us in the con hotel, and we'll need to look into options once we arrive. Our memory from last year was that the bar was not the best place to try to hold a conversation. We'll announce the location and how to identify us on Twitter once we've decided. If you don't use Twitter or have access to it at the con, please stop by the Sofawolf booth in the dealers' den on Saturday for details.

We'll play the schedule by ear — if things get busy, we'll assign times so that people don't have to hang around indefinitely. If you have a tight schedule of your own that night, contact us before then and we'll try to set time aside for you. We'll keep total pitch times limited to 10-15 minutes, including both your pitch and our response, so please don't prepare a 15 minute presentation!

If you're an author, the projects most likely to get our interest will be novels and novel-length collections. (For our anthologies, Heat and New Fables, you're better off submitting completed works during the publications' advertised submission periods.) Samples of your writing style can be helpful, but also be prepared to talk about big picture things like the overall story structure, who the main characters are and what happens to them over the course of the story. Give us the spoilers edition: we will want to be able to judge the entire scope of the story, not just the introduction. Pitches that show evidence of consideration for all the basic components of good story construction will be more likely to attract our interest pitches that are little more than: "I've come up with this really interesting and detailed world I want to write about."

For artists, we are mostly interested in hearing about stand-alone, book-length projects such as graphic novels. If you'd like to simply be considered as an illustrator for our other projects, you are welcome to drop off examples of your work, but you can do that at any time (including online to the talent@sofawolf.com address). For pitch night, we are primarily interested in using this time to learn about artists who also have stories to tell. Like pitches for novels, we'll want to hear the spoilers edition that shows us the full scope of the story as a whole. We'll also want to see examples of your work in the style that you'd expect to use for the project.

For all pitches, be prepared to talk about your project from a business perspective, as we are a business, after all. Who do you see as your audience? Why do you think Sofawolf would be a good fit? Of all the ideas we hear about, what makes yours not only unique, but also a good investment of our time to publish it? Having enthusiasm in your project is always good, but it's definitely better if it's honest and not just salesman's bravado.

Finally, please keep in mind that we're already very busy with existing projects well into 2012. If we don't jump enthusiastically at your proposal, it's not personal, and it's not the end of the world. It's just a fact of life that there are only so many projects we can squeeze into each year's production schedule. If you don't make it into ours, you can always try one of the other great publishers in the fandom.

[Alopex] We are considering having what we'd like to call a "Sofawolf Pitch Night" at Midwest FurFest this coming weekend. The idea is that we'd set aside a night to hang out somewhere in the con hotel in a nice relaxed atmosphere (with drinks, preferably!), where people could drop by and talk informally about ideas for projects they think we might want to publish. We'd give folks 10-15 minutes to describe/show/interpretive-dance their ideas, and then we'd discuss whether the project is something that we might be interested in (though no guarantees at this point). If there was enough interest, we'd schedule times (and try to stick to them) to keep things smooth and fair for everyone.

The formal submission process can be kind of intimidating, especially if you're new to the process. It may also be difficult to know whether you have an idea that's developed enough to warrant submitting to us. The purpose of a pitch night would be to help break the ice in a less formal atmosphere. It is also easier for us to hold a conversation away from the chaos of the dealers' room.

If you are interested, please email me (alopex@sofawolf.com). I'll gauge interest, and if we get enough, we'll pull together more details.

Sofawolf Press is open for novel submissions once again! We took a bit of a hiatus over the summer to catch up with a number of other projects, but we're now back on track and ready to accept new submissions.

Our current production schedule for regular publications and new projects is currently full through the next year. Any new publications accepted for publication will likely have a release date of late 2012, if not early 2013 at this point.

Please see our guidelines for novel submissions for further details.

We have decided to remove the "Preview" option from our product review system. Previously, you could preview your reviews before submitting them, but now you have only one shot: "Save" or "Cancel".

The reason for the change is that we have gotten reports of people claiming to have submitted reviews, but they do not exist in the system. We have also gotten fewer reviews on the new site than we'd expected. We suspect that people are not realizing they must still click "Save" to submit their reviews after clicking the "Preview" button. Without clicking "Save", nothing is submitted and your submission is lost when you close your browser. No copy remains on our system to retrieve.

This does mean that review submissions are now do-or-die: you get one chance to submit your text, so type carefully and be sure to proofread!

If you thought you had submitted a review in the past, and it has not appeared on our site, we're afraid to inform you that you'll have to resubmit. There currently are no pending reviews in our system.

If you ever have questions or comments about the behavior of our website, please let us know at webmaster@sofawolf.com. We're happy to help!

The Sofawolf Press website now makes it easier to navigate from one product to the next, helping users view titles in a series and discover new products they might not have otherwise considered. We have also added shortened URLs to make it easier to share links with your friends!

Back when we first rolled out the new website, most products were dead-ends: once you got to a particular product, you'd have to navigate back to the catalog home page or various categories to view another product. We've now added two new navigation tools to make it easier to get around.

For those products in a particular series, such as annual anthologies or novels in a particular world, we have added navigation menus that will allow for quick jumping from one product to the next. You'll find these links in the lower right, below the add-to-cart button.

To help users find similar products, we've added topic-/category-based lists of related titles at the bottom of each product page. For the moment, they're all sorted by how recently products have been added to our catalog — a limitation of our content management system, but we hope to eventually improve upon this.

Finally, URL shortening has arrived! While the new site's descriptive URLs are a much more readable improvement over our previous site, they tend to get rather long for today's world of concise social media sharing. Rather than requiring people to use their own shortening service with their ugly random character strings, we are now providing each product (and in the future, other content on the site) with alternate short URLs that you can use to share links with anyone, on any platform. You'll find the short URLs in the upper right of each product page.

For example, http://swp.im/p/ng-ati will now get you to the same page as https://www.sofawolf.com/products/nordguard-ati.

We hope you enjoy the improvements!

One final reminder: the Heat #9 submission deadline is tomorrow, Wednesday, August 31.

We strongly recommend that you review our submission guidelines one last time before submitting to heat@sofawolf.com.

Thank you!

Don't forget, the Heat #9 submission deadline for short stories and poetry is only two weeks away, Wednesday, August 31!

Please review our submission guidelines before submitting to heat@sofawolf.com.

Thank you!