#feline wizards

[dduane]

Just to let folks know...

...that Black Friday-level price discounts are now in place at the Ebooks Direct store. A bit early (and there aren't any snazzy graphics yet), but I've got some medical stuff coming up—like a brain scan on Monday—and don't see why I should keep people in suspense if they want some bargains. 😄

The bundles and all their prices are here:

Bundles

All our ebook bundles contain books significantly discounted from their standalone prices. And naturally they're all DRM-free, and come with

So if you're after some November reading, please do drop in and grab a bargain! My brain and I will thank you. 🙏

(Or if you already have too many ebooks and want to assist at the scanning end in some other way, do feel free to drop something into my Ko-Fi. Please & thank you!)

[g0ldenfur]

If you're a cat fiction fan and have ever found yourself wishing that warrior cats leaned more into how cats actually behave in its worldbuilding, you need to read Diane Duane's Feline Wizards books (The Book of Night with Moon, To Visit the Queen, The Big Meow). The worldbuilding is fantastic, the characters (who are almost all cats) are delightful, and there's so much actual CAT to the cats' society, attitudes, and behaviors. The setting is so great for imagining your own stories and having your own OCs getting up to stuff in the world, it deserves so much more fandom attention. Plus the author seems really cool (and actively uses tumblr).

[exocynraku]

long time no see

[haveyoureadthisxenofiction]

Feline Wizards (trilogy) by Diane Duane - have you read this xenofiction?

Yes, I've read all of it

Yes, I've read some of it

No, I've heard of it or the author but haven't read it

No, I haven't read this or heard of it

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think -- but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities. But amid this amazing secret animal world lies a danger that threatens not only the cats of the world, but humans as well.

[Goodreads, The Book of Night With Moon]

Traveling back in time to 1874 London to prevent an assassination plot against Queen Victoria, the feline wizards of Grand Central Station -- leader Rhiow and her able partners Urrah and Arhu -- must summon their powers to avert disaster in Victorian England, or else their archenemy, the evil Lone One, will warp time and trigger Armageddon. Teamed with a young Arthur Conan Doyle, Queen Victoria herself, and other historical figures, the feline wizards set out to find the forgotten magic that will rewrite history -- or the cats who can save mankind will never have existed.

[Goodreads, To Visit the Queen]

Rhiow and her team find themselves caught up in ever-deepening peril and mystery as they make the dangerous trip back to post-war Los Angeles. Their intervention plunges them headfirst into the glitzy, murky world of 1946 Hollywood, a smoggy film-noir landscape filled with glamourous starlets, flamboyantly corrupt studio heads, wicked, pampered cats with hidden agendas, unsolved murders, snoopy screenwriters, scheming PR flacks, and a shadowy, celebrity-ridden cult dabbling in knowledge better left alone -- knowledge which could destroy their world's present and doom its future, if the dreadful promise of the Year of the Black Jaguar is fulfilled...

[Goodreads, The Big Meow]

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[troutfur]

FanClans are OUT, fan worldgating complex maintenance teams are IN.

[histrionic-dragon]

Since moving to New York, I have really seen places and things that I previously envisioned completely incorrectly in books set there. I must have seen this somewhere before, though--or else saw it at the Met sometime before since moving here and then forgot it again until today--because it is almost exactly what I imagined from the scene in The Book of Night with Moon where the cats are in the Met teaching Arhu the People's mythos using ehiff Egyptian mythology as visual aids. This is the one with Urrua "slicing up the Snake like an ehiff would cut up a salami." @dduane ...Right? It has to be.

(I also got the East River almost completely right in my mental image of the scene at the very end, except that it was far too close to Grand Central.)

[wickedcityy]

[marblerose-rue]

HII guess who's reading feline wizards (this is rhiow and she's my absolute fave)