Can you feel the love tonight....

<ahem> I mean, are you loving our Anniversary week entries so far? Today, for Toss Up Tuesday, Radiant Renee Stevens interviewed the one, the only - MYR!!!

We hope you enjoy!

Interviewer: Renee Stevens

What prompted you to create GayAuthors.org?

• I wanted to put all my favorite stories in one spot.
  

So, would it be fair to say that GA surpassed your expectations and grew beyond what you originally had planned for it?

• Oh yes. Quite so.
  

Ok, it's got to be stressful working full time and keeping GA up and running, especially when you throw school into the mix. How do you manage?

• A distinctive lack of a personal life.
  

In looking at your list of stories, most of them are Harry Potter fan fic. What appeals to you the most about Harry Potter?

• When I first started sharing my writing, I decided to write to appeal to a very large audience of readers. To this day, I get far more feedback on my writing from FanFiction.net then I do here on GA. I have leveraged this and the feedback to improve my writing over all.
   
  And I just happen to love Harry Potter stories.
  

That would definitely help . So, you've been writing for quite a while, what is something you have learned that you think all authors could benefit from?

• Try to have at least an idea of where you are going before you start.
  

What are some of the things you are most proud of the site doing?

• I'm rather proud of our story hosting software, GA.Stories
  

Why are you so proud of the hosting software?

• Because I spent so much time studying how stories were hosted here and elsewhere and the older, clunkier software we had, eFiction. I designed GA.Stories to answer all the problems of the old systems while giving us a path forward. We're coming up on two years of using it now and it has proved to be very successful at improving the reading experience.
  

What further developments would you like to see happen?

• Well, we are always looking at ways to improve the reading experience and increase the feedback to our authors.
  

Out of everything that has changed on GA over the last ten years, what surprises you the most and why?

• The amount of crazy straight women hanging around. Shouldn't that be obvious?
  

The site is constantly on google and others as we see from the main forum page, what does that mean for the site?

• Google, Bing, Facebook and others are constantly on the site updating their search engines. It makes GA easier to find and more likely to pop up in search results.
  

So, theoretically, it might help bring more authors and readers to the site.

• Yup
  

Okay, out of all of your stories, which one is your favorite and why?

• Nick Cringle. I wrote it for the first Anthology we did on the site and it tends to reflect my general humor.
  

Is Nick your favorite character as well? If not, who is?

• Probably Jeremiah in Terran Confederation - Jeremiah. He was challenging to write because his emotional response is... different... from others.
  

What is one thing most people on GA would be surprised to find out about you?

• That I'm not an ogre.
  

Anything else you'd like to tell the members of GA? (Like maybe how to stay on your good side?)

• Be kind, review what you read.