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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

First things first - announcements time!!!   Renee announced on the 20th of August that she is looking for theme suggestions for the 2013 GA Anthologies. If you have a suggestion for a theme, now is the time to let her know via the thread in the Anthology Forum. Suggestions will be taken until midnight (US Mountain Time) September 3rd and then this topic will be locked. Once all suggestions are in, a team will narrow it down to twenty themes for the GA Members to vote on. Why wait, get your su
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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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Happy Super Bowl Sunday to everyone who will be watching the game! I can't believe that it's already February, it seems like this year has just flown by so far. The nomination phase of the 2013 Gay Authors Readers Choice Awards is over. I hope everyone got in their nominations before they ended at 12:00 am EST time this morning. Now, lets see what happened in the GA News Blog this week!   We started the week with the CSR Discussion on Totallyy's collection of short stories, complete with an in
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Hope everyone had a great week!!! Before we start with the weekly wrap up, I have a request. I'm planning a special Christmas review for the Monday before Christmas. I already have a few reviewers, but I still need four more. If you're interested in helping then please PM me for more details! Also, keep in mind that there's only a month to go before the deadline for the Winter Anthology. I look forward to reading all the stories! Thank you!!! Now, lets get to the Weekly Wrap Up!   Cia started
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Hope everyone had a great week and for many, hope you are having a wonderful extended weekend!   Reminder: SonoLuminus has decided to participate in Light the Night, a walk to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She has dedicated her walk, and even named her team, in memory of Robert (aka Trebs) who passed away on August 7th after a long battle with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. To learn more about Light the Night and how you can help support SonoLuminus, please visit the lounge topic.
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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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I hope everybody has had a great week. It has been a very busy week here in the GA News blog. Don't forget there's only one week left before the CSR Discussion on "Roommates" by Krista, so if you haven't finished reading, you still have a little bit of time. Now, let's see what happened this week in the blog!   Our Monday feature took a look at Leaving Club Leo by long-time site member and author C James! If you haven't already read this story, then check out Monday's review and see if it's so
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ANNOUNCEMENT: If you hadn't seen the news yet, please help us welcome GayAuthors.org's newest Hosted Author - the one, the only (due to court injunction) - COMICFAN! Congratulations comicfan on your new status!   Kids are back in school (or about to be) and I think that helped make Monday's Featured story feel even more relevant - The Paradox of Friendship by InTheMindofSunshine. Joann414 gave us one her fantastic reviews of this tale (which now has a sequel that's started coming out) and man
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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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It's been a rather busy week at Gay Authors. Before we get to looking over the past week in the Gay Authors News Blog, I'd like to do something a little bit different. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Slytherin back to the Forum Moderation Team, we are glad to have you back. We also added another new Moderator and I'd like to welcome MJ85 to the Forum Moderation Team, we are happy to have you join us! Thank you to all the staff who helps to keep Gay Authors running smoothly!   Now,
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Hope everyone has had a great weekend so far. It's almost time to start a new week, but before we do that, we get to look back at what happened this past week. Also, don't forget that we're currently taking theme suggestions for the 2016 Quarterly Anthologies. If you have an idea that you think would make a great theme, don't forget to share it in the Anthology Forum topic. Please make sure to read the theme guidelines in the first post.   On Monday, Cia announced this month's CSR feature. Hav
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone had a great week! I think today I'm going to get right into the Wrap Up for the week.   Monday and Wednesday were all about K.C. and his story "A Grim Fairytale", which just so happens to be this month's Signature Author Background. On Monday, Cia wrote a review for the story and then on Wednesday she interviewed KC. If you haven't already checked them out, they're sitting there waiting.   Friday brought us a couple of new prompts from the prompt guru Comicfan. This week he g
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ANNOUNCEMENT: It may seem like a long time away, but the deadline for the Winter Anthology "Desperate Ends" is only two weeks away - Due Saturday, Dec 8th. The Special Mayan Tribute Anthology "End of the World" deadline is not long after that on Friday, Dec 14th.   We started this week with a great review from Johnathan Colourfield of Wintery Wanderland by Promising Author Formosa. How did Johnathan feel about the story? One hint from his review: "This story was a masterpiece in terms of its
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Choices - our Summer anthology is LIVE! Go enjoy (after you read the rest of this post) ;-)   We started the week with Almost Home, by our Hosted (and very sexy) Author Shadowgod. This is one of Shadowgod's short stories, and Podiumdavis wrote a wonderful review of it.   In this week's Author Showcase, we also had great reviews of both Promising Author WrathOfMagneto's Three Hundred Years, as well as What Remains, by Author myself_i_must_remake.   Our Tuesday Toss-up gave us the first of a
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The sun goes down - I think about you. The coffee cup - I think about you... Oops - sorry... need to do the weekly wrap up, eh? Heh -and it WAS a great week to wrap up.   Monday started with Cia's review of Weeping Lily, by our Hosted Author Nephylim. On Wednesday, Frostina did a review of Over the Precipice by Promising Author Dark, and we got to see a glimpse of a story by Jasper, a new author who wrote Out of the Woods. Though this is still in progress, Michael9344's review makes it sound l
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So, a few things happening this week around Gay Authors. For those who haven't noticed, voting has opened for the 2013 Gay Authors Readers Choice Awards. To find out more on how to vote, make sure to visit the thread. February 22, 2014 is the last day to vote, so make sure to get your votes in before then!   Also, you may have gone to post in a forum only to notice that it wasn't where you're used to it being. The administration team has been consolidating some of the forums to give the site a
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I hope everyone has had a great week. Just a reminder that tomorrow, Monday the 30th will be the CSR Discussion for Roommates by Krista. If you haven't finished yet, there's still time so that you can come and ask Krista your questions at 8pm EDT. Now, let's see what happened in the GA News Blog during this past week.   Monday's featured story was Meta by JohnAR. If you haven't already, why not stop by and read the review provided by Timothy M.   Myr joined us at the blog on Tuesday with an
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It's hard to believe that it's almost November! This year has flown by so quickly and we're once again at the end of the week. I hope everyone has had a good weekend and now it's time to look back over the week. Before I do that, just a reminder that tomorrow is the CSR Discussion for the Halloween short stories. Speaking of Halloween, keep an eye out for a special Halloween post this coming Wednesday.   Monday brought us a review from Timothy M. of carringtonrj's story Presence. Based on the
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Renee has allowed me to learn how to do the Weekly Wrap Up this week as she will soon be taking some much deserved time off. Under her expert tutelage I hope I have done this right. Any errors are entirely my fault, but if you want to air your disappointments about my job, make sure to email Renee at renee@gayauthors.org.   Reminder: Today's reminder has a special meaning to a lot of us here at GA. Trebs would have turned 49 today if he was still with us . Once again we'd like to remind you
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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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Out with the old and in with the new!!! No I'm not referring to Renee and myself but the passing of 2014 and now on our way into 2015. Renee is taking a much deserved vacation or she is recovering from a massive hangover from New Year's Eve. I'll let you all decide   We had a busy week on Blog for the end of the year and into the new one.   Monday was a chance for Cia to bring us the CSR Discussion Day with Delores Esteban. Not only did they discuss Delores' story Space Pioneer, but also g
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The deadline for the Winter Anthology "Desperate Ends" is only ONE week away - Due Saturday, Dec 8th. The Special Mayan Tribute Anthology "End of the World" deadline is not long after that on Friday, Dec 14th. Also, Cia will be taking over these Anthologies for now, so please send your completed entries to her - thanks!   ALSO - Now that Chosen of Honorus, Chapter 1 of Andrew_Q_Gordon's Champions of the Gods has concluded with the completed last chapter being posted last week, we
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Wow! What a week it has been here at GA! For those who didn't know, on Thursday, the site moved to a new server! I'm sure I'm not alone in thanking those who worked on making the move go as seamlessly as possible. Hopefully the move to the new server will help keep the site from bogging down due to the high amount of traffic it gets during the day! While I know this is the "Weekly Wrap Up", I also wanted to give a heads up to look out for a new feature coming to the blog this upcoming week. I do
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REMINDER: our Spring Anthology submission deadline is right around the corner - March 8th for "A Night to Remember".   ALSO - Earlier this week, we announced our newest Promising Author - CONGRATS again to Mann Ramblings!   We started the week by having a great discussion on the CSR Book Club's February book - Nowhere Man by Jwolf. It was a great discussion and I can't wait to see what book will be announced Monday as our March book.   Wednesday we had our latest look at the Pulse Behind
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WOW! What a week! Hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready for a new week to begin. I know I am, since I'll be gone all week! Before I forget, I've got a little reminder before I get to the Weekly Wrap Up!   Reminder: SonoLuminus has decided to participate in Light the Night, a walk to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She has dedicated her walk, and even named her team, in memory of Robert (aka Trebs) who passed away on August 7th after a long battle with Mantle Cell Ly
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