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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Boystown

I want to thank Lisa for offering to do today's review - she had written us since she loved this story and wanted to bring it to more people's attention. I hope you enjoy it and check out JBlankeview1's story, Boystown! BOYSTOWN by JBlakeview1   Reviewed by Lisa Word Count: 30,904 Status: In Process   Have you ever read an online story where every chapter ends with a cliffhanger and you just cannot wait until the next chapter comes out? Sort of a silly question since you’re
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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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Anthologies

2013 Fall Anthology "pandora's Box" Now Live!

If you're in the US, or at least anywhere that it's still Thursday, I'm betting you're going "Wait a minute, it's not Friday yet!" Well, you're right, but after much thought, I decided I really didn't want to release the anthology on Friday the 13th. Well, at least, not everywhere! So, without further ado, the anthology had been released. We had a lot of interest in the theme of Pandora's box, to be more precise, 22 authors decided to take up the challenge. Mixed in with the Anthology Veterans a
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Man Of Montana

This GayAuthors.org News Blog thrives because of our community - so many of the reviews and articles are offered up by our wonderful members. For this week's review, we K.C. asked if he could do a review of one of his favorite stories - not only did we say yes (of course) but were thrilled when we got this great review. I hope you enjoy it, and if you are interested in reviewing a story or offering a Wacky Wednesday article (such as a writing tip or site tip), let me know!   Man of Mont
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow is the DEADLINE for our Pandora's Box Fall Anthology!   ALSO - A reminder that the Anthology team is soliciting theme suggestions for the 2014 Anthologies - deadline September 13th!   So we kicked off September with our newest CSR Book Club Selection - Accidents Happen by comicfan! I can't wait for the discussion day on this story (Sept 30) as this is a story I've already read and love. It is a bit longer than the past CSR Book Club selections - but as we have five Mo
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #8

New month, new set of author interviews. Thanks go to the efforts of Dark for his GayAuthors.org News Blog series - Ask An Author. Enjoy!   Ask an Author #8   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #7, we had questions for authors JWolf, K.C., and Mann Ramblings.   In AtA #8, we hear from authors andy021278, Nephylim, and podga.   For their protection, the members who asked these questions shall remain nameless (unless th
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club Selection: Accidents Happen By Comicfan

It's September already! I'm off on the last summer hurrah, a family camping weekend, but I've managed to bring the September selection to you for your reading enjoyment! Per your voting (thank you to everyone who did the poll!) this month's selection is .... Accidents Happen by Comicfan   Length: 93,993   Description: Charlie's whole life has been a series of accidents. He often joked that if it wasn't for bad luck he wouldn't be here. But now that everything is changing agai
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations are in order for GayAuthors.org's newest Hosted Author - CassieQ!   Can you believe - August is OVAHH - and with it, two-thirds of the year is done. And with the end of the month, this past Monday our Can't Stop Reading bookclub held its discussion day for the August story - Don't Shout by Sasha Distan. Lots of good discussion on the story, and there is a poll for what you want the September CSR story to be - GO VOTE if you haven't yet!   Speaking of voting - we
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Discussion Day: Don't Shout By Sasha Distan

Welcome back to another Discussion day with the Can't Stop Reading Blog Book Club. Whew, is that a mouthful. What isn't a mouthful is the story that is the subject of today's discussion. Quite a bit of the problem we're introduced to right away is that fact that one character doesn't talk at all, at least not out loud. I hope everyone is ready to discuss their thoughts about Don't Shout by Sasha Distan. First, though, we're going to learn a bit more about Sasha, who I subjected to another one of
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Featured Stories

Featured Story: The Paradox Of Friendship

There have been times where I've cajoled and pleaded for someone to write a review - today's review and the next few that we have, are all from readers coming to me and saying "I just read a story that I want to write a review on - can I?" I hope you enjoy this great review by joann414 of Author InTheMindOfSunshine's The Paradox of Friendship!       The Paradox of Friendship by InTheMindOfSunshine   Reviewed by: joann414 Status: Completed Word Count: 143,832   Many ti
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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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Featured Stories

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
Weekly Wrap Up

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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