Watts Martin

Watts Martin (also known as Chipotle) is a writer who lives in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Watts has been involved in furry fandom (where he represents himself as a coyote) since the late 1980s, primarily as a writer and fanzine editor/publisher. He was a guest of honor at Albany Anthrocon 1997 and Eurofurence 14.

Watts contributed to FurVersion and YARF!, and edited and published both FurBytes, a short-lived electronic furry fanzine, and Mythagoras, a semi-professional furry publication published sporadically throughout the 1990s. In October 2004, Watts launched a short-lived fiction webzine, Claw & Quill. After years of plotting to relaunch it as a curated story archive, he announced plans in 2013 to form a non-fiction online magazine under the same title.

Many of Watts's stories are set in Ranea, a fantasy setting with humans and anthropomorphic animals in a world where magic is treated as an engineering discipline and technology is at a roughly Victorian level. Two of the most famous early Ranea stories are novellas featuring Revar Desmera, a vampire bat.

Ranea novellas

 * "A Gift of Fire, a Gift of Blood," originally serialized in YARF! (2013 revision, free online)
 * "The Lighthouse," the "Gift of Fire" sequel from YARF!
 * "Indigo Rain," published by FurPlanet in January 2013 (Coyotl Award winner)
 * "Going Concerns," in FurPlanet's Five Fortunes in January 2014 (Coyotl Award nominee)

Other works

 * "The Fence" in MU Press's shared world anthology The Furkindred
 * "How George Miles Almost Saved the World," originally in YARF!, reprinted in Best in Show
 * Why Coyotes Howl, short story collection published by Sofawolf Press in 2005 (Ursa Major Award nominee)
 * "Tow," in FurPlanet's The Furry Future