M.C.A. Hogarth

July 27, 2024 M.C.A. Hogarth, also known as Micah or Poomah (full name Maggie C. A. Hogarth‎, née M. de Alarcon), is a female artist and writer who lives in Florida, USA.

Fandom involvement
M.C.A. Hogarth was a guest of honor at Midwest FurFest in 2003, and again in 2009. She is a greymuzzle, with her earliest known work appearing in Yarf! #0 in 1989.

Micah also built TKI&I Clothiers and Jewelers, a room on FurryMuck with over 200 descriptions of clothing and jewelry. Her Basilica on that muck later became the source for the roleplaying Muck Genesis, which she administrated until 1996.

Her avatar is a jaguar. She has invented several fantasy species, the Jokka, the Ai-Naidar, and the Le'enle.

Art
Micah's art has appeared in fanzines, APAzines and various comic anthologies, including Anthropomorphine, Beauty of the Beasts, the Caffeine Quarterly, Centaur's Gatherum, The Ever-Changing Palace, Excursions, Foxes are Neat, Fox One, Furrlough, Gallery, Huzzah, Mythagoras, North American Fur, Pawprints, The Pelt, Wildlife and Yarf!''.

She has also done illustrations for the World Tree RPG and a cover for the World Tree novel A Marriage of Insects.

Micah maintains a database of over 3200 sketches online at her website's art archive.

In 2013, Micah began a webcomic, The Three Jaguars.

Writing
Micah's short story In the Line of Duty was the winner of the 2003 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction. Her short story 'Rosettes and Ribbons' appears in Sofawolf Press' Best in Show.

Additional short stories have appeared in Sofawolf Press's Anthrolations ('Butterfly' in #1, 'Dark Lighthouse' in #3 and 'The Blade to Your Hand' in #5). Other fiction also appeared in Yarf!, Pawprints, Morphic Tales and in general SF/F magazines Strange Horizons, The Leading Edge and Oceans of the Mind. Her stories about Alysha Forrest were collected and published as a book entitled Alysha's Fall by Cornwuff Press in 2000.

Her latest short fiction has been collected in two books, The Aphorisms of Kherishdar and The Admonishments of Kherishdar and concern a caste-based society of vaguely feline aliens, the Ai-Naidar. The first Jokka novel, The Worth of a Shell, was released in 2009. Her 2010 project is Spots the Space Marine, a serialized military SF novel. Her current releases and projects are detailed on her website's bibliography page.

"Space Marine" controversy
In mid-December, 2012, Games Workshop lodged a complaint with Amazon.com about Hogarth's novel Spots the Space Marine (a near-future military science fiction novel about real marines). Games Workshop indicated that the work infringed on their trademark of the words "space marine", and, as a result, Amazon blocked sales of the book.

This led to an internet backlash from commentators such as Cory Doctorow and the digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who questioned the right of Games Workshop to trademark the term. Subsequently, Spots the Space Marine reappeared on Amazon, and Games Workshop issued no further legal action.

Peltedverse
Peltedverse (furry space opera):


 * The Stardancer series (or Alysha Forrest series)
 * 0: Alysha's Fall (Stardancer prequel) (2000)
 * 1: Second (Stardancer book 1)[SF] (2013)
 * 2: Who Is Willing? (Stardancer book 2)[SF] (2017)
 * 3: Sword of the Alliance (Stardancer book 3) (2018)
 * 4: Either Side of the Strand (Stardancer book 4) (2017)
 * 5: Faith in the Service (Stardancer book 5)


 * The Dreamhealers (series)
 * 1) Mindtouch (2013)
 * 2) Mindline (2014)
 * 3) Dreamhearth (Dreamhealers book 3)
 * 4) Dreamstorm (Dreamhealers book 4)
 * 5) Family (Dreamhealers book 5)


 * Her Instruments
 * 1) Earthrise (2013)
 * 2) Rose Point (Her Instruments book 2)
 * 3) Laisrathera (Her Instruments book 3)
 * 4) A Rose Point Holiday (Her Instruments book 4)

Other
Princes' Game
 * 1) Even the Wingless (2012)
 * 2) Some Things Transcend (2018)

Media

 * The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (ISBN 1-434891-12-7) purchase
 * The Admonishments of Kherishdar (ISBN 1-442145-08-0) purchase
 * The Worth of a Shell (ISBN 1-449531-65-2) purchase -