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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

The magic letter for the week is "c" - as in Cia and comicfan!   We started off with a wonderful review by joann414 of Cia's newest complete story: Burden of Secrets. As joann says about the story, "I was enthralled with the story from the get go. Cia writes in a way that always makes me take sides when it comes to her characters".   For Wednesday, we had a great blog article on "Leaving Reviews" - that I basically stole borrowed from comicfan. Based on the comments, looks like it was a grea
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How's your writing going? Everyone know that the Fall Anthology, Pandora's Box, is due just one month from now? Give it a try - and realize, that month is going to go by faster than you think!   So, first monday in August, beside being a bank holiday for some of our community, was also the launch of this month's edition of our Can't Stop Reading book club - and the August story is Don't Shout by Author Sasha Distan. Join us in reading this story and talk about it on the August 26th discussion
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ANNOUNCEMENT: In case you missed it - we are happy to announce our newest Hosted Author: David McLeod. David has been a Promising Author here and has a great body of work - hope you check it out!   Another month ended - can you believe it is already August?!? O.o I don't know about you, but the calendar has been moving fast. Before we said goodbye to July, we had a great Discussion Day session of our CSR Book Club, featuring The Degan Incident by Author Rob Colton. Based on the comments, looks
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We've heard your requests for more "Likes" and everyone has now had their ability to like content increased per day. To balance this, an author now needs a slightly higher reputation to have their stories no longer subject to the moderation queue.   We started our week with a great review by Daithi of Hosted Author Lugh's Binding. Binding is a Premium Content story, and we additionally talked about how Premium memberships help GayAuthors.org. Even being only available in Premium,
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GayAuthors.org has been here for over ten years, with so many wonderful authors calling this site home. There are other gay fiction story sites, and great authors elsewhere on the web (GASP - I know, shocking, but true). So recently when TheEggman started logging in and posting his fantastic story, A New Life, I was very excited. joann414 also was happy, as you can tell from her great review of this story, that we ran on Monday.   On Wednesday, we had new GA.Stories site help advice with a pos
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I love our community and how many members just dive in and get so totally involved. On Monday, we had a great review from Sasha Distan, a relatively new member who nevertheless has already made almost 400 posts and has a reputation of over 1100! Sasha reviewed Nemesis by Author Thorn Wilde, another new member who has become very involved with GayAuthors!   On Wednesday, we saw July's edition of Dark's popular feature, Ask An Author - with this month's interviewees being Luc Rosen, Libby Drew a
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Happy July - isn't the year moving fast? We started the month on Monday with our usual CSR Book Club Selection - this month we're looking at Author Rob Colton's The Degan Incident. Take a look at this story (or review it if you've read it in the past) and come back on July 29th to join in the discussion day for this story!   On Wednesday, we had an intro by Louis (LJH) and Joann (joann414) to the new "Editor/Beta Ballroom" - really, our re-energized Editor/Beta Program. The way they describe t
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations on our newest Promising Author, Layla!   It's been a fantastic week and our week here at the GayAuthors.org News Blog started with our monthly Can't Stop Reading bookclub's Discussion Day for Reach by Promising Author Cassie Q!   Wednesday was an exciting day, with a great new writing tip from Libby on Specificity!   Finally - not only did comicfan give us two great new Writing Prompts for Friday - the greek chorus has already chimed in. The comments are wonde
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So - June is busting out all over! Barely into the month, and at least here in California, we're totally in a summer swelter. Of course, a great remedy is just staying cool inside, reading some great fiction... Hmmm - gee, where to go for great fiction...   We started our week kicking off the June CSR - Can't Stop Reading Book club entry of Reach by CassieQ. Oh hey - maybe THIS is the great fiction I was talking about? Ya - check it out, and be sure to come back on June 24th for the CSR discus
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He's baaacccckkk! Heh - this is my first Weekly Update in seven weeks, but as I mentioned in our Wednesday blog, I've been able to use this time to deal with a number of things and now that I have a handle on my offline life, I can put in a bit more time to this wonderful online community.   So - what has been happening around here? Well, as is usual for the last Monday of the month, we had the Discussion Day for our Can't Stop Reading book club, where May's reads were four Reader's Choice A
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Welcome to another look back at the week here on GA! Happy looong weekend to the USA'ers too.   Monday we featured TMmCallahan's Dust & Ash. Wicked Witch reviewed this truly wonderful, and looooooooooong story! lol. Trust me, you want to read this!   Wednesday we had the very sad news that a long term member of GA, NaperVic, passed away. A member from nearly the very beginning, Vic was always here to help others and touched many lives of members new and old. He was a mainstay in chat, w
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Sorry for the late post again this week; I had family visiting I haven't seen in a few months. As for GA ... lots of drama here this week! Let's take a look back, shall we?   Monday was relatively quiet ... I announced our short story line up for the Can't Stop Reading Blog Book Club. We will be reading the last 3 year's Reader's Choice Award Winners. Take a look at the stories, and join us for the Discussion Day on 5/27. You can ask the authors questions (or send them in ahead of time via a
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Once again from yours truly... a look back at this week on Gay Authors!   This week's blogs started with a review by Wicked Witch of The Rider's Pride by dkstories. This novel length story is a fanfiction of McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern stories. Dan did a great job creating a story in much the same manner of the original work; Wicked Witch called it a "superb piece of fanfiction". As a fan of the series since I was a girl, I have to agree!   Wednesday brought something a little differen
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The wrapup will be slightly late this morning - thanks for your understanding and come back around 11AM pacific [posted Fri night]   So - I almost made it, if it hadn't been for Myk interrupting me   Want to start with reminding everyone that April'sCan't Stop Reading Book Club is featuring Josh's Blog by Hosted Author CarlHoliday. We hope you join many in the community and read this great story so you can join in our discussion which will be held on Monday, April 29th!   Also - the subm
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As we started April, instead of a trick, we got a treat in the start of this month's Can't Stop Reading Book Club which this month is featuring Josh's Blog by Hosted Author CarlHoliday. We hope you join many in the community and read this great story so you can join in our discussion which will be held on Monday, April 29th!   Wednesday was again a wonderful entry in our monthly Ask an Author - we are so thankful to Dark for creating and managing this great look at various authors on the site.
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Well - I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccccckkK!     I want to thank everyone for their well wishes while I was in the hospital. I'm home now, and loving that part, but still isolated to the bedroom because of immuno-suppression. Right now, physically I feel great, but as my sister's cells finish grafting and producing new blood cells, especially white ones, I have to keep isolated and constantly washing hands, being careful, etc. But on the good side, I have my laptop, and can f
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What a great week it was, especially with the release of the 2013 GA Spring Anthology: A Night to Remember. So many wonderful new stories to read and if you haven't already checked them out, I would suggest you do so and leave the authors a review to let them know what you thought!   A Reminder: The chosen story for the CSR book club is State of Mind by Libby Drew. The discussion will take place on the 25th of this month, so make sure you've read it before then so that you can join in with you
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We have a new Premium author - Michael9344 - who has been gracious enough to write and offer his story There And Back Again for our Premium subscribers.   ALSO - a reminder that the submission deadline for our Spring Anthology, "A Night To Remember", is less than two weeks away. If you have any problems/concerns, the Anthology coordinator is the Radiant Renee Stevens.   This month's CSR book club feature is Nowhere Man, by Promising Author Jwolf and if you haven't had a chance
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Personal Announcement: For those of you who have been following my health status, here is the short story version - I may be more absent from GA depending on my upcoming treatments. The best part of that though is a recent test confirms that I am IN REMISSION (ie, no current trace of Mantle Cell Lymphoma - so the chemo worked). My sister comes in later tonight for two weeks, the first week will be tests to confirm she's healthy enough to be a donor, then the second week to stimulate production o
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This week has been a great week of announcements. For starters, if you will be in the DC area two weeks from now on Saturday, January 26 around lunchtime and would like to meet some others from GA, including Dan and myself, we're having a GA GetTogether. Check this topic for more info!   We also have launched our GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, the format is that we'll announce a story to read at the beginning of each month, and then have a discussion on the s
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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Be sure to check out the 2012 Mayan Tribute Anthology - now LIVE!   We started off the week looking at a returned story - The Beard by dkstories which is now back and complete on GayAuthors.org.   For our midweek Wacky Wednesday, we are grateful once again to Libby Drew for her writing tips, this time on No Warm-Ups Required.   And since it looks like we survived the end of the 13th baktum, we were all able to see the new weekly prompts from Comicfan in this Friday's Prompt
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ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Winter Anthology Desperate Ends is LIVE - check it out through this link!   And how was our week? Well, we started the week with a great review by Dark of Promising Author Jian_Sierra's poem "Come With Me."   Andy021278 then gave us a great Wacky Wednesday with his piece on The Infinitive: To Split or Not to Split.   And finally, Prompt-Guru Comicfan gave us two new prompts in Prompt Me - including one that challenges writers to come up with a response that includes "han
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We are very happy to be able to announce GayAuthors.org's newest Promising Author - SidLove. Please join us in congratulating SidLove!   So, we come to the end of our first week of trying out our new format here at the News Blog. The team appreciates all of the feedback and input and REALLY appreciates all of the offers of help. We will be contacting many of you to follow up on these offers soon.   Monday, lilansui gave us a great review of From the Heart, by Author Branflakes
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Did everyone (who needed to) remember to "Fall Back" this morning? For our household, it's back to PST again (GMT -8.0). And the extra hour of sleep was great!   For our GayAuthors.org News Blog, we started the week looking at one of our first Hosted Authors, Comicality, and his short story Of The Flesh. Radiant Renee Stevens gives us a great review of this short story and based on her review, it's now one for my reading list (which grows longer and longer...)   We then had the first of our
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We had a great start to our week with a look at Hosted Author Altimexis's story Double Trouble. Or as sat8997 said in the comments "Yep, what they said. Can't go wrong with an Altimexis story."   For our Toss-Up Tuesday, Cia wrote an informative article on the GA Store, "So many options! What Should Members Buy!" Good stuff to know about the GA Store.   Our midweek Author Showcase gave us a great look at Promising Author KingdombytheSea;s Dare as well as a review by LouisHarris of Author Sid
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