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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone had a great week this past week. A lot of stuff going on this week and there were quite a lot of story updates as well. That's always a good thing as it just means more reading material for all the readers here at GA! Let's see what happened this week in the GA News Blog, shall we?   We started the week out by announcing this months CSR story! Have you read "Tears of the Neko" by Craftingmom? If not, you have an entire month to read it before it's time for the discussion day!
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Weekly Wrap Up (Dec.13 - Dec. 19)

On Behalf Of The Staff Of GA To All The Members And Guests Of GA Geseënde Kersfees (Afrikaans), 메리 크리스마스 (Korean), Nadolig Llawen (Welsh), С Рождеством (Russian), sretan božić (Bosnian), メリークリスマス (Japanese), god jul (Norwegian), boldog Karácsonyt (Hungarian), Nollaig Shona (Irish), feliz Natal (Portuguese), Krismasi Njema (Swahili), ਮੇਰੀ ਕਰਿਸਮਸ (Punjabi), Շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ (Armenian), Gleðileg jól (Icelandic), срећан Божић (Serbian), ပျော်ရွှင်သောခရစ္စမတ်ဖြစ်ပါစေ (Burmese), veselé Vánoce
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Weekly Wrap Up (Apr.14 - Apr.20)

It is a sad weekend for me . My beloved Flames went down into a burning ring of fire 🔥. Both BHopper and me are both crying in our beers 🍻 notice the plural. If you are of the Christian faith, Happy Easter Sunday. If you are of the Hebrew faith, Happy Passover. I'm sure I'm missing some others, so make sure you comment below on what I did miss Looking back at the GA Weekly Blog this week, it all started off on Monday with Cia bringing us a New Classic Author Feature: And
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Weekly Wrap Up (Aug 13 - Aug 19)

Happy Sunday, y'all. What do you think of the snazzy look of GA? Yep, we had an update yesterday. If you find any bugs, make sure to go and let us know in the help forum, but remember, only one question/bug per topic. This update also included Clubs, so go check out what's available. If you're an author, make sure you join the Writer's Circle. If you were a member of The Pit, make sure you go and join the club as The Pit is being moved to a club. So, let's take a look at what happened outside of
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Weekly Wrap Up (Dec. 9 - Dec. 14)

What to discuss this week.... hmm, a friend and his family are in  Hawaii and they saw a one legged bird, so they decided to call it Steve 😮   But this is the same friend, to his wife's anger, gives me one sock every year at Christmas.     Shall we move on and into the Weekly Update?   Monday, we had another Featured Story, this one done up by Cole Matthews:   Tuesday was round 2 of what seems to be becoming a popular new blog by Renee.  
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Weekly Wrap Up!

I'm running a bit behind with this weeks Weekly Wrap Up as I kind of fell asleep on the couch, but here it is none the less. I hope everyone had a great week and that you all are having a relaxing weekend to gear up for the coming week. Now, how about I get on with the wrap up!   The review for this week's Featured Story was "The Lake" by Dolores Esteban. "The Lake" was one of the entries into the recent Spring Anthology and was enjoyed by not only our reviewer, Jo Ann, but based on the commen
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

We had a really full week here at our GayAuthors.org News Blog. We started with K.C.'s review of Man of Montana by carringtonrj. As KC mentions, "Man of Montana captivated me right from the beginning or should I say the end? [...] This story starts in an intriguing way by starting with the ending!"   Transitions was the theme of our Wacky Wednesday. After a bit of reflection and introspection that focused on the role of social media, I talked about GA's recent efforts to engage the community t
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Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Just a reminder that there's less than a month left to get your Spring Anthology entries in to the Anthology Proof team (23 days to be exact)! Now lets take a quick look at what happened this week in the GA News Blog!   Have you read Pierced by JVaughn? If not, now's your chance as on Monday, Cia announced that Pierced was this month's CSR Book Club choice. The discussion day will take place on Feb 23rd, but since it's just under 20,000 words, you should ha
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Weekly Wrap Up!

Our Summer anthology deadline has come and passed, so looking forward to soon being able to read some good "Choices".   Our week started by Seeking Nirvana - a story by LittleBuddhaTW that was reviewed by Mark 92. Seeking Nirvana is a great story that I first read when David wrote it, but it was sooo good to take another fresh look at this gem.   We had a couple of great tips this week. As one of the possible uses for Tip Tuesday will be interviews, what better than a tip on conducting inter
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Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Weekly Wrap Up (Jun 11-17)

We are now half way through June, oh my . We had another exciting week here in the GA News Blog including the news of our newest Signature Author, AC Benus  . So let's recap up the entire week.   Monday:   Tuesday Friday   Premium Updates:   A Closed Door by Andrew_Q_Gordon *Premium*   Negative Splits by Cia *Premium*   Classic Updates:   Reggie's Journal by Ronyx   Signature Updates:   A Man in a R
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Weekly Wrap Up!

If you haven't seen yet, Myr had a very important blog entry about GA Hosted Authors, eBooks and Fiction Stories, please take a moment and check it out. If you did see it, but didn't see his late posted note, I want to repeat what he said - this announcement does NOT mean that GA is switching to Pay only. GA will always have the majority of content free, as long as Myr runs it.   Also - we now have only 2 days left for our FALL Anthology entries. The "Friends and Enemies" anthology is due Sept
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Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Weekly Wrap Up!

Wow, what a busy week here at the GA News Blog. I don't have time to be my witty self today We had one of our busiest weeks since we went to our new format.   Monday we kicked off the week with the CSR Discussion Day with the Author of Penguin joining everyone in the blog for a live chat. Valkyrie participated in a grueling interview with Cia earlier where we learned Valkyrie dressed up for the questions in a pair of jeans and a purple t-shirt . Several Members weighed in later in the day to
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Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone has had a great week and a great weekend. It's time to take a look at what happened in the GA News Blog over the last week. Also, a huge Thank You to Cia and Wildone both for their help with the blog last week while I was so sick.   On Monday, Cia took over the blog to announce this month's CSR choice. If you haven't already started one of the three listed stories, I'd suggest you start now so you can join in on the discussion that will happen on April 27th.   Tuesday, Wildon
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Weekly Wrap Up!

Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend so far. Monday will be here before we know it, but before that happens, lets take a look at what happened this week in the GA News Blog, cause there's been quite a bit to look back at.   Due to last weeks takeover of the blog due to an issue with story ratings, Cia did a re-run on Monday of her review of the Signature Author Background story, Joined by Blood. If you haven't read the story, why not pop by the blog and see if it might interest you. If yo
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Special Announcement And Weekly Wrap Up (Dec 11 - 17)

**Special Announcements**   Many of you have spoken and we have listened. Have you ever had to decide how many of your likes to use within an 24 hour period and were limited and unable to like everything you wanted? Well starting today we are happy to announce that there is no limit on the likes you can use in a day!!! The only exception will be the Newbie Group that will be increasing from 3 to 20 a day. Just so you know, if you are a Newbie and want the unlimited feeling, you only need
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Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Weekly Wrap Up!

So as we end January and enter February, we started the week with our first wrap up for our Can't Stop Reading Book Club with Discussion Day. If you've read January's CSR book, Memories of Forgotten Love, by Nephylim, you can still head to the discussion in the link above to give your thoughts on this great work.   For Wacky Wednesday, Yettie One continued his monthly Pulse Behind the GA Crowd, with an interview of KingdombytheSea. It is fantastic to get to know a little bit more about one of
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Weekly Wrap Up!

Spring has sprung and it seems like everyone's mood is picking up after which has been a long hard winter for some areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Other areas in Southern Hemisphere are, I am hoping, heading into a mild winter.   One of the things about Spring is that they always seem to bring the dreaded Spring Cold. Renee is sidelined with one right now so I have stepped in to ensure she is taking her meds, hot baths, and getting as much rest as possible. Join me in wishing Renee a speedy
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Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Weekly Wrap Up (Dec 31 - Jan 6)

We hope everyone has had a wonderful start of the new year. As always, it's been a busy week in the various news blogs, so let's take a look at what you might have missed!     Contests 2018 Summer Novella Anthology: Summer - Due April 15th, 2018   Anthologies 2018 Spring Anthology: Now or Never - Due May 15th 2018 Spring Anthology: Encounters - Due May 15th 2018 Fall Anthology: Fight Back - Due Nov 15th 2018 Fall Anthology
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Weekly Wrap Up (Mar.10 - Mar.16)

So, don't tell anyone  but I think Renee missed her hour of sleep this week  . This makes less work for me, and gives me something to tease her about  . I do have to admit that I don't have a lil' one under that age of 1 that I'm tending to day in and day out, so I guess I shall forgive her  Why don't we all share our love  .   On a more sad note, we have members in New Zealand that we should share our love with too  .   Monday, Renee introduced us to another featured story
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Weekly Wrap Up!

First a reminder - today is the LAST day to offer your suggestions for the 2015 Anthology Themes! Visit the thread to offer your suggestions for the 2015 Anthology Themes! Thread will close at 11:59 PM (US Mountain Time) on July 20th   This was a great week with men all over the place - err, I mean Mann Ramblings all over. We started the week with a great review by Joann414 of Mann's The Luxorian Fugitive. A slightly dark sultry tale set on the spacecraft The Santa Claus - tied together as on
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