If you know me at all, you know I love a good mystery story. Dame Agatha Christie, Jonathan Kellerman, Joseph Hansen, Martha Grimes, Earl Derr Biggers, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Parker, Minette Walters, Joe Lansdale, Wilkie Collins, and many many more all come to mind. There is something intriguing about a whodunit or even a whydonit.
They are also such fantastic period pieces, where you journey to another place and live in a different time. You can read about Dave Brandstetter in the 19
June 11th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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American Evacuation Day (Libya)
Brazilian Navy commemorative day (Brazil)
Christian feast day:
Barnabas the Apostle
Bartholomew the Apostle (Eastern Christianity)
Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church)
Paula Frassinetti
Riag
Interesting way to start of the blog this week
Sooooooooo, I think I listen to this song at the beginning of each summer as my kick off song to the summer. I like the lyrics and the video. I always wanted to be a boy of summer for a boy . Add in the fact that the kid playing the drums is so intense, who couldn't like this video? I'm not sure if putting links to videos takes up a lot of bandwidth or not, but why not post a link to your favourite kick off to summer song. I'm sure everyone
How To Ruin A Series
Let’s say that you have yourself an amazing series online that you’ve been writing for an extended period of time now, and you can’t help but to have a blast working on it. You get excited sitting down at your keyboard with your juice or your coffee or your ‘miscellaneous’ cocktail of choice, and you’re ready to dive back into that world and continue the adventures of your readers’ favorite characters, ummm...’Slappy’ and ‘Hammy’! Hehehe!
How can you go wrong? It’s
June 10th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Abolition Day (French Guiana)
Army Day (Jordan)
World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide)
Christian feast day:
Bardo
Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus
Guardian Angel of Portugal
John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church)
Landry of P
June 9th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland)
Christian feast day:
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Columba
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and
At the heart of every scary story is a nugget of truth. We use fiction and storytelling to process emotions including fear, terror, and that lingering emotion called anxiety. As writers, we need to use life experiences to flesh out our creations. Fright isn't just about dark nights and ghosts. It's about what's unknown and about what we know only too well. Let's practice that channeling of our most negative emotions.
#139 - You are a camp counselor. Make up a story that will scare t
June 8th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Blessed Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan
Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
Chlodulf of Metz
Jacques Berthieu, S.J.
Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland
Medard
Melania the Elder
The next in our series of Secret Author contests centered around Halloween. I don't recommend reading these in the dark though. Or alone...
Link to stories:
https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/117-2017-halloween/
There's still time to work on entries for the current contest, but the deadline is fast approaching! Information can be found here:
Gah! Ugh! June! It's... so... HOT! I'm burnin' up, folks. Our poor little air conditioner at home can barely keep up. From muggy Kentucky, I hope y'all are finding ways to stay cool out there. Stay hydrated!
You know what else is hot? This month's Ask An Author! We got ourselves an awesome author to feature. With over forty stories in their piggy bank, our interviewee might seem familiar. I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with @CLJobe! Scroll down and see what questions were asked.
June 7th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Antonio Maria Gianelli
Colmán of Dromore
St Gottschalk[41]
Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
Meriasek
Paul I of Constantinople
Robert of Newminster
Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
In the last eight months, I somehow managed to write about two hundred ninety-five thousand words over six stories. And out of those six, four are first draft complete.
Untitled Story Number One: Set in Hershey Pennsylvania and revolves around a plot to assassinate a sitting US Senator on the road to a presidential nomination and the contract killer who decides to stop it. The first draft is 96,345 words.
Untitled Story Number Two: The story takes place in the US Virgin Islands as our
“Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.”
This isn’t a plot-spoiler but the opening line to one of Ruth Rendell’s finest novels. Though she sums up the plot of her novel in one line, there is much more to this book.
It is the mid 1970s and the upper middle class Coverdale family have moved to a manor house in the English countryside, but the housework is “too much” for Mrs Coverdale, so Eunice Parchman is hired as housekeeper-come-general-dog’s-
June 6th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Claudius of Besançon
Ini Kopuria (Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, Episcopal Church)
Marcellin Champagnat
Norbert
June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
D-Day Invasion Anniversary
Engineer'
Light-hearted, love is just the right mix for the Pride month CSR, and I wanted to feature one of our long-term Signature authors on GA too! What better mix of the two than Geeks by CassieQ!
Geeks
by @CassieQ
Length: 69,166
Description: A shy Star Wars geek love falls in love with an outgoing anime geek. As friends, family and old flames get in the way, will the two find a way to make it work?
A Reader Said: Such a cute story, mikeal is beyond adorable and adam is such
June 5th 2023 - Holidays and Observances
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Arbor Day (New Zealand)
Christian feast day:
Boniface (Roman Catholic Church)
Dorotheus of Tyre
Genesius, Count of Clermont
Blessed Meinwerk
June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Denmark)
Fath
Writing:
When I started writing fiction, I figured the places where I grew up, studied, worked and lived weren’t interesting enough to inspire readers. So I wrote about places that had never been home or that I hadn’t even visited. And I would keep the scale of those locations small or familiar to the masses. Settings that needed very little information to imagine.
It took me a while to get over this.
Fiction is often a reflection of what is real, and what better way to convey t
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There was a slight delay in it showing up but the receipt was received promptly so there are no problems with it, the delay is probably by design.
Please don't feel this way, what you have done is incredible. You have given us all an opportunity to say thank you to Comicality and do something for him in a practical and meaningful way that helps Momicality and we appreciate that.
That seems to be a little glitch with the website although their system may be designed to not show it publicly until the donation has gone through it's verification process. Refreshing it generally updates all information. Even the app lags a bit with new donations so, it may be more by design than error. If you used a valid email address when placing the donation, you should have received the automated thank you email as well as one from me directly once I see it. That's when you know for sure
Thank you Jeff for the update and for keeping this open. Another donation has just landed, however, it only shows up if you click top donations and GoFundMe has not updated the total yet. Maybe you could look into this as the receipt has been received and a further donation is planned for next month's cycle too. These donations have come from a fund left by my late father and have been made as per the fund requirements.
Added note. - GoFundMe has now updated the page and total, it would app
Jeff, thank you for sharing this. I will be adding another donation for Momicality as soon as I receive my nest Social Security payment on the third Wednesday of the month.
Another Update: Cool one too...
First and most important, the GoFundMe is still up. There have been a small hand full of people who have expressed their desire to help further. I bent the truth a bit and told her i didn'tt think i could shut it down because of the high goal i set for it. It sounded like a good reason to me. Yesterday the first payout of $2320.00 arrived at her house and while I was sleeping in preparation for an overnight payroll run, I recieved a text that is intended for
Absolutely. I'll maintain that as long as there is interest in helping her. The first payout arrived at her house yesterday and I got a really sweet message to relay to everyone in a moment 🥲
John Locke wrote, "I fear, that the jumbling of those good and plausible words in your Head..might a little jargogle your Thoughts..." That was the first know use of the word and it occurred in 1692.
The three or four would mean the 3rd or 4th hour of sunlight, as Romans divided the light and dark parts of the day into 12 equal "hours", which were not fixed. So 3 or 4 hours after sunrise might still be when many eat their breakfast nowadays
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