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Writing Resources Page

We have consolidated and removed two different forums that were dedicated to Writing Resources.  We have instead replaced them with a single Writing Resources page. This page will be a constant work in progress as we update and make better ways to organize it.  There are already a ton of resources linked on the page.  If you're writing and stuck on something, there is probably a resource there for you. https://gayauthors.org/writingresources/  

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World Building Deep Dive

World Building is a special genre added to Gay Authors to group together the various elements that an author must develop for a speculative fiction story that occurs outside of our own experiences.  The further outside the more that needs to be developed.  However, modern audiences do not generally tolerate large amounts of exposition (Show, Don't Tell!).  World Building genre is where you can post the various parts and pieces that aren't full on story, but fill your world for those that just wa

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Word Search #2: Promising Authors

Who's ready for the next Word Search? Today's Word Search features the Promising Authors here at Gay Authors. Each Promising Author appears once as well as one of their stories. As always, I've included both the image of the Word Search as well as a downloadable excel format. If you have ideas for future Word Searches or Crosswords, feel free to send me a PM! Promising Authors Word Search.xlsx

Why April?

Why did I choose April to feature the poetry anthology?  I thought it would be a perfect way to feature our site poets during National Poetry Month!  April is the month to celebrate all things poetry; so read, write, and if you're daring, participate in the NaPoWriMo writing challenge!  NaPoWriMo stands for National Poetry Writing Month. It's the sibling to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November.  So what is this challenge I speak of?  Simple.  Write one poem per day (30 total) dur

Who's Next? Ask An Author 3.0?

I want to start out this blog by saying a HUGE thank you to @Carlos Hazday for all his work doing the Ask An Author feature for the last 3 years!!!  I am deeply appreciative of all the work that Carlos has put into the feature over the years. To be honest, keeping a single feature going on a monthly basis for that long is A LOT of work and yet Carlos managed to always have one ready for us. Unfortunately for us, after 3 years of dedication to the Ask An Author feature, Carlos has decided that it

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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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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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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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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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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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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Western Deep Dive

Sub-genres of westerns focus on the western United States, the frontier in general, and the rugged individuals that tend to populate such places.  The sub-genres can range from the historical context, the present day, or the weird with fantasy and aliens invading the west. Sub-genres: Weird West, Western Historical, Western Modern, Western Romance, Western Sci-Fi   Top 10 Most Read Western Modern Change of Heart by sojourn Riding Lessons by Andrew To

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Welcome Valkyrie, GA's Newest Admin!

Yes, we've conscripted another one!  In honor of all the hard work Valkyrie has been doing for the Prompt Blog, coordinating the Anthologies, Writing Contests, and in general awesomeness volunteering her time on the site... we've tagged and bagged her officially. Please join us in thanking and congratulating Valkyrie in becoming GA's latest admin!  @Valkyrie Author * Prompt Promoter * Anthology Organizer

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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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Weekly Wrap Up! (May 8 To May 15)

Looks like you guys are stuck with getting the weekly update for me today! I'll try to hit everything, but it might not be the usual format, so bear with me. It's been a busy week with a return to our Premium feature on Wednesday and some extra prompts on Friday, so if you missed out on those, here's another chance to catch up on this week's blog features.   Monday's feature was Timothy M's review of Red Running Shoes, written by Aditus. Timothy says... "Indeed, Red Running Shoes may take the

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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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Weekly Wrap Up!

So have you woken up today with a candy hangover? Or worse, for those of age, a real hangover from partying too much? Well time to pack away the ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and drama queens (like that will happen ).   We had a little different week here at the GA news blog for this most festive weeks of the year.   Monday saw our monthly CSR Discussion Day. This month we not only had 1, not 2, but 3 stories, hahahaha (done in my best Count voice). Three stories were up for the month to be read

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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.   To start our week off, Valkyrie provided us with a rev

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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Weekly Wrap Up!

Have you been enjoying the latest anthology, Choices? The next anthology is a big one - "Secrets Can Kill" is not only a Novella Anthology, but also will be celebrating 10 years of GayAuthors.Org! Full details on the specifications for the anthology can be found here. For those that don't want to click, the baseline requirements are: Our past novella collections have been wonderful and I can't wait to see what people come up with this time!  Our week started with a review of Ben by Hosted A

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Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone has had a great week so far. It's still hard to believe that we're in a new year, 2014 seemed to go by so quickly! It's been a busy week here in the blog and in case anyone missed a post throughout the weeks, it's time to take a brief look at what happened this past week.   Cia joined us on Monday to announce the first CSR choice for the year. If you haven't already read Joe the Welder by Robert Rex, now's your chance. If you finish it by the 26th, you'll even be able to join i

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Weekly Wrap Up!

I can't believe the week is already over! Don't forget to get your votes in 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 noticed a change in some of the Author Groups here at Gay Authors. Want to check out the new names and what the new names stand for? Check out the thread in the Gay Authors Announcement Forum!   Th

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Weekly Wrap Up!

Well this is my first week without the training wheels on, so lets hope I don't go home crying with a scraped knee Renee will be back next week to whip this back into shape!   Final 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 Lig

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Weekly Wrap Up!

The submission deadline for the Spring Anthology: A Night to Remember has passed. Thank you to everyone who has submitted a story and keep watch for news regarding the anthology going live.   A Reminder: All nominations for promotion to Promising and/or Hosted status MUST be done via GA's private messaging system to Cia, Talonrider, or another member of the WST team. No other nominations will be considered.   *** Blog Highjack - if anyone's interested, did a quick update on my medical status

Weekly Wrap Up!

If you didn't see yesterday's blog entry, the Fall Anthology: Friends & Enemies is now live. Thirteen great new stories for all to read - check them out!   Also, on Thursday, we put out a new inquiry from Podiumdavis. PD has been fantastic in compiling various responses toautors on questions like How would you cast your story? and others. This time, he has a one for anyone who wants to reply, not just our authors.   So the inquiry is:   If you're interested, send your response on this

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