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Featured Story: Burden Of Secrets

This summer has been a fantastic time for GayAuthors.org in terms of Premium content, We've had two great Premium Anthology stories, Save Tonight by CassieQ and Coin in the Fountain by comicfan. Cia has also started and is going strong on her new story Picked at the Peak. And we had the completion of two wonderful stories - Binding by Lugh and Burden of Secrets by Cia.   These, and all other Premium content, are available as a "Thank you" to those that are current Premium members. The current
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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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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #7

We are deeply grateful for the time and work put in by Dark for these great Ask An Author articles. Here is August's edition - we hope you enjoy it!   Ask an Author #7   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #6, we had questions for authors Luc Rosen, Libby Drew, and Mark Arbour.   In AtA #7, we hear from authors JWolf, K.C., and Mann Ramblings.   For their protection, the members who asked these questions shall remain n
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club Selection: Don't Shout By Sasha Distan

August already! Summer, at least summer here in the Northern hemisphere, has been flying by. I'm sure those of you still in winter are ready for a bit of warmth and a new season too. But first, we have August to get though. Reading this month's CSR Book Club selection just might pass a bit of time for you.   Don't Shout by Sasha Distan   Length: 52,675 Rating: Mature   Description: Cole is fascinated by a boy who won't talk to him and has no idea how to be gay in a world in w
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Discussion Day: The Degan Incident By Rob Colton

Welcome to the CSR Discussion Day for July! This month we featured The Degan Incident by Rob Colton. His first story here on GA was immensely popular and we were lucky enough to get him to share a little about himself, his thoughts regarding his story, and his upcoming story as well for our discussion! I hope you enjoy this interview with Rob Colton!   *Staff note for those who like to favorite stories and chapters: We've increased your daily likes, so now you can show your appreciation even
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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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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Binding

One of the current advantages of being a Premium Member of GayAuthors.org is access to wonderful stories like Binding, by Hosted Author: Lugh. Lugh recently completed Binding and we're fortunate to have a review of this work by one of our terrific new GA members, Daithi.   Before we get to Daithi's review, I just wanted to share our philosophy of having a Premium section on GA. We strive to keep most of GayAuthors.org as a totally free site, building a community of authors and readers, as well
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Featured Stories

Featured Story: A New Life

I've loved TheEggman's writings for a long time, and when I saw that TheEggman had stated posting "A New Life" here on GA.Stories, I was very excited. I'm not the only one - many of our members are avidly following this story and joann414 was gracious enough to write up a review of Author TheEggman's fantastic story. Enjoy!           A New Life by TheEggman   Reviewed by: joann414 Status: In Progress Word Count: 206,099   So, as many of you know, when I see someone po
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #6

One regular feature of this GayAuthor.org News Blog that I personally enjoy is "Ask An Author" - a piece developed and produced by Dark. Though normally posted the first Wednesday of each month, Dark was gracious enough to let us delay July's so that we could bring you last week's post about the Editor/Beta Ballroom. So - after a slight delay, here is Ask An Author number 6 - take it away Dark!   Ask an Author #6   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Nemesis

We have a great review from a new member who has only been with us for a short while, but who has totally embraced and been embraced by the GA community. Not only is Sasha an author as well, but in less than four months has over 360 posts and a reputation of almost a thousand. Here is Sasha's review of Nemesis, by Author Thorn Wilde and if you enjoy Nemesis, Thorn has six other current stories on GA.Stories. Enjoy!   Nemesis by Thorn Wilde   Reviewer: Sasha Distan Status:
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club Selection: The Degan Incident By Rob Colton

Check out this month's selection ... The Degan Incident by Rob Colton (formerly Robcub32). This science fiction story is one of my favorites and had a huge following. I really hope some of his fans come and comment here on the discussion day, July 29th. We'll be featuring an interview with Rob and some sneak peek info from his next work ... The Cassini Mission! Oh, and check out this great cover Rob had made! Click the cover to read the story now! Length: 58,679 Description: L
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Weekly Wrap Up!

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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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr: Discussion Day For Reach By Cassie Q!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please check out our reminder that political posts are not allowed in GA Forums   Thank you, and now back to Can't Stop Reading Discussion Day for Reach, by Cassie Q!   Has everyone read the story for this month? I hope so, because it was really good! Cassie's Reach is worth the effort to untangle the wicked weave of the twisted plot she wrote.   Do you know arousal?" To make his intentions more clear, Chad stepped forward, trapping the teen against the wall and blatantly i
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Weekly Wrap Up!

The week started off on a great note with a review by Wicked Witch of Promising Author JMH's The Centurion Cycle.   Wednesday, we had a great (and timely) article by Andrew_Q_Gordon on So you wanna be an Author - hope you took marketing classes. Andy gave us some great tips based on his experience - and timely as he just released his book Purpose yesterday! But whether you are writing an eBook, a published book or story that you are posting in GA.Stories, his advice is really good for any auth
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: The Centurion Cycle

As always, we couldn't do this without help. Thank you Wicked Witch for this great review of Promising Author JMH's "The Centurion Cycle" - much appreciated! If you have a story that hasn't been reviewed yet and want to write a review for us, let us know!   Trebs and Renee Stevens   The Centurion Cycle by JMH   Reviewer: Wicked Witch Status: In Process Current Word Count: 698,166   Some authors awe you with the way they managed to build vast, complex cohesive plots
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Hope your week has been going well. Here, we started with a review by Wildone of Hosted Author Krista's Something Unexpected!   Wednesday, we were pleased to be able to announce GayAuthors.org's first Anthology eBook: Best of 2006.   Speaking of anthologies, Friday we pre-empted out weekly prompts (don't worry - they'll be back next week) for the announcement of our 2013 Summer Anthology! This anthology who's theme is "Roll the Dice" is now live and has so many great stories to read. Enjoy!
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Anthologies

2013 Summer Anthology Now Live!

That's right! I know y'all have been waiting patiently for it, and today that patience is being rewarded! This go around we had eleven authors take the challenge to write a story using the theme of "Roll the Dice". I hope you enjoy what they came up with! 2013 Summer Anthology: Roll the Dice       A Deadly Choice Bill W       Coupled in Synchronicity Cia       Ghost of a Chance Dolores Esteban       Hard Choices comicfan    
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Something Unexpected

Our thanks to Wildone, who has written a great review of Hosted Author Krista's Something Unexpected. We hope you enjoy it!   Something Unexpected By Krista Reviewer: Wildone Status: Complete Words: 158,336   I was in conversation with Krista a while back and she mentioned a story of hers that I have never had the opportunity to read. Something Unexpected is a very appropriate name for this great story.   I debated on if to call this review a ‘before and after’ entry
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #5

Ask an Author #5   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #4, we had questions for authors comicfan, Cia, C James, and Comicality.   In AtA #5, we hear from authors wrathofmagneto, naptowngirl, and C James.   For their protection, the members who asked these questions shall remain nameless (unless they choose to reveal themselves). Please note that all author replies are copied as is, spelling errors and grammar eccentricities ori
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr June Story!

Happy June! Jeez, summer is here already. I'm shocked, I tell you. This year has absolutely flown by. I thought this week I'd feature a great author you'll also be seeing in the Summer Premium Anthology, and following site eBook ... CassieQ! You have 3 weeks to read this selection before our Discussion day on June 24th! Reach by Cassie Q   Length: 51,113   Description: In a world similar to ours, a young man must take his final step into adulthood. After a cruel initiation howeve
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