The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

2021 Sir Julius Vogel Award Winner for Best CollectionDapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate.Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, her beloveds, the rat Queen Orvilia and the marmot diva Loquolchi, lead soprano of the Theatre Rat-oyal, her loyal cabin kit, Benj the chinchilla, and Agnes, last of the great krakens, as they hunt for treasures of all kinds and find adventures beyond their wildest dreams. Let Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning storyteller A.J. Fitzwater take you on a glorious journey about finding yourself, discovering true love and found family, and exploring the greatest secrets of the deep. Also, dapperness.The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper includes seven stories about Cinrak and her crew:• "Young Cinrak"• "Perfidy at the Felidae Isles• "The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars"• "Search for the Heart of the Ocean"• "The Hirsute Pursuit"• "Cetaceous Secrets of the Jewelled Nadit"• "Flight of the Hydro Chorus"This is the second volume of the Queen of Swords Press Mini Series. AJ Fitzwater can be found living between the cracks of Christchurch, New Zealand. They survived the Clarion workshop in 2014, added two Sir Julius Vogel Awards to their shelf, and have gone on to have work published in Clarkesworld, Shimmer Magazine, Giganotosaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Glittership, Capricious Magazine, and other venues and anthologies of repute. Their WW2 NZ Land Girls shape-shifter novella "No Man's Land" will be published by Paper Road Press in early 2020. They Twitter at @AJFitzwater.