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Blast From The Past!

Going back through old GA Newsletters, you find gems like the below review. Not only was the review good - I remember it led me to TheZot's work which are uniformly GREAT!   Here from the Dec 2006 newsletter, a review from the past:   You Meet Your Soulmate in the Strangest Places by TheZot   With high recommendations from many people I recently checked out this short story written by hosted author TheZot. To say it made me smile would be a grave understatement. Love at first sight, a conc
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Reviews

What's New?

So, we ran out of reviews members have written for the blog about our site authors, so I picked a few stories that members seem to have liked over the last few months, myself included, and pulled a few reviews and comments. If you'd like to share a review on a story you've enjoyed lately please contact Trebs or Renee Stevens. We'd love to feature your thoughts on some of the great work available here!   Kiss Me Deadly By Nomoretears Length: 15,941 Status: Complete   This s
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up 2/27-3/3

A look back at this week on GA!   This week started off with a review of Tiff's No Fairy Tale World by yours truly! A great story, follow the link if you'd like to see the review if you missed it the first time around. You'll also find a link to the story.   We had member reviews of two stories by site authors, Cassie Q and In the mind of Sunshine. Another feature this week was a prompt 114 response story by Andy021278. This weeks prompts, 116 and 117 were both creative cues. One gives you t
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Reviews

What's New?

Watch out guys! We've got two up and coming stars here...   CassieQ's series "Not the Sun" is well received by her fans, of course she's always looking for new fans.   "Ground Rules" is in progress and is getting pretty lengthy as well as pretty interesting. One warning though -- there is a little violence so consider yourself warned.   The reviewers, as well as myself, would highly recommend that you read each of these.   Not the Sun By CassieQ by Renee   I had read most
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: No Fairytale World By Tiff

I read this story when I first came to GA. I thought the new blog was an excellent place to review it so that other readers who might not have come across it yet can get a bit of a sneak peek at the story and then go read it! You won't be sorry! No Fairytale World by Tiff Review by Cia   The title promises exactly what the story delivers. The fact is that most lives, in this world, are not a fairytale. In fictional worlds they are, but not in this story. Here we meet Andy, a thirty-is
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Reviews

Watt's Gnu?

Ok, ok, bad, bad Lugh... What's new? Well we have two for you -- enjoy!   The Mall by Mike00 review by Cia   For those who love to read the unexpected, check out The Mall by Mike00. A teenage boy goes to the mall with his mother and something he never would have dreamed of happening, does. Lost in a bizarre new situation, he has to make decisions and face things he never would have imagined.   First kisses, dreams, loneliness, and chocolate bars all come together in an en
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: A Shot Of Bourbon

This week our story is A Shot of Bourbon by Shadowgod. I hope you enjoy it as much as Conner did. So, give it a shot, and you may find you like... bourbon. A Shot of Bourbon by Shadowgod review by Conner   This was the first story by Shadowgod that I ever read. I’ve been a fan ever since. For me, humour and intimacy are an irresistible combination. This story has both in spades.   As stories go, this one is on the shorter side – 5 healthy chapters totalling about 38k. The s
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up

Well, our week with Shane by Vlista is done. I do hope some of you enjoyed the story. Our tips this week were on Research and Plot Bunnies. Comicfan brought us two new prompts and we got to see a poetic response to one of our previous prompts. And finally our week wrapped up with a Blast from the Past -- featured poetry from 2006!   Reader's Choice Awards -- Voting will end this SATURDAY, Feb 25, 2012. I've gotten mine in have you? Please READ THE DIRECTIONS as they are VERY specific. If you
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Reviews

Blast From The Past!

How about some featured poetry from Edition 3, December 2006:   His Hand by Nickolas James   I used to reach for your hand when I was smaller Now sometimes I push it away. But I’ll never forget how you still loved me the day I told you I was gay. We fight a lot and you still yell at me Every time I act like I don’t care But the truth is I still idolize you From the way that you walk To the clothes that you wear. God blessed me with you But you say that I’m wrong You call me the blessing So
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Featured Stories

Featured Story -- Shane

Monday, Monday... (sung in his best Beatles impression) Time for a new featured story, so this week we bring you Shane by Vlista. Vlista has been a member since (gasp) 2005 and a hosted author since about the same time, which makes him one of the "older" authors (although he's not really old himself). I will warn you right up front that Shane is not easy reading. It deals wtih subject matter that will be difficult for many people to read. However -- it is dealt with in such a way that is compell
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up

Time to review for the kids in the back of the room!   Monday: Featured Hosted's Story -- Jack Scribe's It Stay's in Vegas. Tuesday: Mark Arbour shared how he gets his motivation Wednesday: More than a Crush by FleetingRainbow and Social Skills by KingdombytheSea Thursday: Renee Stevens shared how to create a credible villian Friday: Comicfan brought us two new prompts and new prompt responses to read Saturday: Our Blast From the Past was a 2006 interview with Vlista   Like the cliffnotes?
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Author Interviews

Blast From The Past!

Don't you just love these? I do. This is from the third edition of the newsletter in December 2006.   For those of you who don't know Vlista, or Vance, is one of our oldest Hosted Authors. He has been 'away' for a while and I miss him. So, here is a little insight into Vlista as an author and a person as well.   Member Interview-Vlista   GA: Hi Vance!   Vance: Hi GA! How are you?   GA: Great, how are you?   Vance: Not too bad!   GA: Ready to be interviewed?   Vance: Yep I think
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Reviews

Whats New?

Here lately I've been asking a lot of people to write reviews. Not just people I interact with all the time, or even interact well with. I thought it was important to bring that up. I also thought it was important to bring up that in many instances, old news is put aside so new news can be brought to you the reader. And for that I would like to thank my reviewers... all of them. I also think it's important to point out that the blogs do not have a spellcheck function that I can find, so if you d
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: It Stays In Vegas

Some stories are so good they need no introduction. That's how I feel about this one. So with no further hullabaloo I present --       It Stays in Vegas by Jack Scribe reviewed by Renee Stevens   I have read all of Jack Scribes “Vegas” series and a couple of them I have read multiple times. The first story in the series, It Stays In Vegas, introduces many of the main characters that we see throughout the series.   When Bob Harrington takes a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate h
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up...

Greetings on this Superbowl Sunday from your friendly blogging team. This week has been a hoot! It started off by dragging out an old favorite by DomLuka:   Desert Dropping   You know, I really wish more of you would review these stories... make an author feel appreciated. Anyway, our reviewer really did just that. And got quite a bit of feedback. Good job!   Of course that was just Monday, we still have a whole week to look back on. Tuesday was a peek at the psychology of the
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Featured Stories

What's New?

So... What's new? Today we have two new stories for you to take a look at... Pitch Perfect by Intune and Red Light by Robyn. So, go, take a look and review, review, review!   Pitch Perfect by intune   reviewed by EmDee   After reading the first chapter of Pitch Perfect by intune, I was instantly hooked. In fact, I knew even before I finished reading all of the currently posted 10 chapters that I would be writing this review for the GA News Blog.   Pitch Perfect is an in progre
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Desert Dropping

Ha! Time to rile up all the lazy Domaholics on the site. This week's featured story is by their missing favorite author Dom Luka, which of course everyone wants out of hiding... well everyone that is except maybe our reviewer.... Desert Dropping by DomLuka published on GA December 27th, 2010. 36 chapters, 389,678 words.   It was a tried and true—if overused—premise. The protagonist, a typical closeted teenager named Rory, is thrust into a new environment and famil
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Whew! What a week two. I hope everyone took the time to go check out our Featured Story this week: From Behind Those Eyes by Viv   And while you were out there looking, I hope you stopped by all the other great stories we talked about on Wednesday: Quonus10's Second Shot and The Trial of Jordan Colmar and Dee's story, Low Down and Out. And on Friday we found a poem by JOeKEool in the Prompts and some people learned that the prompts aren't just "silly little things" any more but real
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Author Interviews

Grab Bag!

Today we have an author interview with Mark Arbour. Many of you know his stories, but do you know anything about him and how or why he started writing them? Hopefully Marzipan’s interview will shed some light on this subject for us all. but first... an announcement... Today is the last day for the Reader's Choice Award Nominations. Get yours in. Now on to the interview -- I’m going to start with an easy question. You are hugely popular author in GA. What do you think appeals in
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Featured Stories

What's New?

Well, here we are at Wednesday again, and it's time to look at something new. So, what shall we look at this time? Decisions, decisions...   How about a promising author? Quonus10, known affectionately as Q10, has been writing here for about eighteen months. During that time he has made quite an impression on everyone who takes the time to stop and say hi.   Well enough gab... here we go!   What people are saying about Q10:   TrevorTime on The Trial of Jordan Colmar:   And on Second
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Featured Story: From Behind Those Eyes

It's Monday again! Time for a new Featured Story Selection. Today, Tiger brings us one of his favorites, From Behind Those Eyes, by Viv. If you like stories about teenagers who play sports with a bit of angst about life and coming out -- well read on, this may be something you like. If not, well, it might surprise you, give it a try anyway.   From Behind Those Eyes   By Viv review by Tiger   About a year after I joined GA, someone pointed out From Behind Those Eyes as a must-read
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Weekly Wrap Up

The Week In Review...

This week we did so many things -- our Featured Story was   Working it Out by Don Hanratty   which a few of you read and commented on. I'm really hoping the rest of you will take a chance and do the same, this one is really worth a look.   Sharon gave some great advice to authors, James suggested a book on writing, and we dregged up a Blast from our Past newsletters to make you laugh. Also, over the week, you had the chance to become aquainted with two of our newer stories, Ugly Dav
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Featured Stories

What's New?

Today we would like to introduce you to two in progress stories added to GA Stories in the past few months, Eye of the Tiger is John Doe's third story on Gay Authors. Ugly Davey is EmDee's first.   Here is what a few of our readers have to say about them:   Eye of the Tiger by John Doe Romance/Fantasy Adventure reviewed by CassieQ   One of the things that interested me in Eye of Tiger is that it was a fantasy story, which is one of my favorite genres. But it was unlike any typical
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Featured Story: Working It Out

Today GA is proud to say we are beginning our Hosted Author's Featured Story Mondays. We would like to begin this journey by introducing you, our readers, to one of our oldest hosted authors, Don Hanratty, and his trilogy, Working It Out. Cia was so gracious as to do our first review. If you can, stop by and give it a look and drop off a few reviews of your own. It can be found pinned on the GA Stories Welcome page for the next week.           Working it Out by Don Hanratty
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Weekly Wrap Up

Newsblog -- Premier Edition

Welcome to the new Daily GA News Blog!   Starting today, we will be running a Daily blog. We have content all lined up and volunteers gathering more.   Here is the weekly format: Sundays - Weekly wrap up of everything going on during the week, various announcements, and special features. Mondays - Hosted Author Story of the Week. (Story will also be pinned in GA.Stories for the week) Tuesdays - Tips (Writing/Editing/Laundry?) Wednesdays - What's New? Thursdays - Tips (Writing/Editi
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