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Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

We're going to get right into the wrap up this week, starting with a reminder. The winter anthology deadline is coming up quick and we've only had a couple of entries so far. If you want to participate in the anthology, you need to have your stories to the Anthology Proof Team by December 3rd. Hope to see lots more entries come in! Now, let's see what happened in the GA news blog this past week. This week was our Signature Author week and we started it out by featuring CJames with our new Si

November 15, 2015

Prompts Writing Prompts #460 & #461

Have you started working on your Secret Santa Short Story contest entry? If you haven't, and are still trying to come up with ideas for it, maybe one of today's prompts will jump start something for you. Also, another reminder, if you want to participate in the Winter Anthology, the deadline to have your story to the proof team is December 3rd. Now, let's see what prompts we have for today, shall we? Prompt 460 - Creative Tag – First Line “Who invited you?” Prompt 461 – Creative Tag – Th

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November 13, 2015

Signature Feature

Signature Excerpt November Signature Excerpt: Circumnavigation By C James

This month we're featuring CJames' Circumnavigation with a whole new style of Signature features. Monday you probably saw the current ad banner running in Stories, as well as a signature banner fans can use to show their appreciation of his story. If you haven't, go check it out now and download your copy! We also featured several reviews of the story to whet your interest, if you haven't read the story. Now, usually authors will get to choose the excerpt we share on this feature post, the goat

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November 11, 2015

Signature Feature

Signature Feature November Signature Feature: Circumnavigation By C James

This month we begin a brand new feature to promote our Signature Authors. Instead of the computer background each month, we're going to promote the featured Signature author's story with an ad banner that will run in Stories. I'm also adding a banner that works for personal signatures on the site for the authors and their fans to use to help promote their feature! This month, we start off with C James! Length: 1,082,090 Description: Trevor, through little fault of his own, fi

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November 9, 2015

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Oops! It seems like last night I was a bit spacey and forgot to do the weekly wrap up before I went to bed. Guess it's better late than never, right? Even though it's not in the blog directly, in this weeks wrap up, I want to include the opportunity for promotional posts. For more information on this opportunity, check out this post: Authors: New Blog Promo Opportunities! On Monday, Cia posted the newest CSR introduction to the CSR Book Club. This month, it looks like we'll be reading A Resc

November 8, 2015

Prompts Writing Prompts #458 & #459

Happy Prompt Day!!! Otherwise known as Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week and are getting geared up for the weekend. Have you ever tackled one of the prompts provided by Comicfan? If not, what better time is there than now? Each week, Comicfan provides two brand new prompts to help get the ideas flowing. Don't forget to share your prompt responses in the forum and if you're posting in GA Stories, remember that all stories under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Now, l

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November 6, 2015

Anthologies

Interview Ask An Author #33

I can't believe it's already November! The great thing about it being the start of a new month, is it's time for a new Ask An Author feature and this one is a Special Edition! For those who don't know, Ask An Author is when members send their questions for their favorite authors to Dark and they ask the questions. So remember, if you have a question you want to ask, but don't want to do the asking, send it to Dark! Ask an Author #33 Welcome back to another quirky question and answe

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November 4, 2015

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

CSR Book Club C S R Feature: A Rescued Life By Lilansui

Who else thinks this is a good month to curl up with a story and a hot/cold beverage? I do, I do!! This story has been called beautiful, fabulous, and wonderful, so I thought it could use some feature time. Check out this month's featured story, read it, then be ready to come back and share your thoughts on the discussion day at the end of the month! A Rescued Life by Lilansui Length: 53,313 Description: Stabbed and left for dead, Toshiro Shindo is at the end of the

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November 2, 2015

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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November 1, 2015

Prompts Writing Prompts Second Chance #270 & #271

Hi Everyone Turns out that I'm helping out in a pinch with this weeks Prompt Me! blog entry. Our prompt guru Wayne, aka Comicfan, and Renee are shall we say 'indisposed' for now. Since I'm not an expert here, I thought I would copy a Prompt Me! that was originally posted on October 17, 2013 by Comicfan. I thought why not give this another go to share your Spooktacular writing skills with all! Prompt 270 – Creative Tag – First Line “Because, I’m leaving you.” Prompt 271 – Creati

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October 30, 2015

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

CSR Book Club C S R Discussion Day: Halloween Short Stories

'Tis the witching week! Perfect timing to talk about the three short stories we featured this month by GA authors, Gee Whillickers, Cynus, and Bill W. Did you make time to read them? They're only about 5k each, so if you haven't, check out the announcement blog post with links to each one. If you did, now's the time to add your comments and reviews! First, of course, I have a great interview with each author to share. Cynus: What’s your favorite Halloween memory or tradition? This me

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October 26, 2015

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

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

October 25, 2015

Prompts Writing Prompts #456 & #457

Wow! Is it me or are the weeks flying by? Welcome to another Friday, and you know what that means don't you? Prompt time. As usual, I don't want to hold you up, but need everyone to remember that prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Now, on to the prompts. Prompt 456 – Creative Tag – First Line “How did I forget his birthday again?” Prompt 457 – Creative Tag – Spiders To say you loath spiders would be a gross understatement. However,

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October 23, 2015

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: So You Wanna Be An Author

For a while in the blog, we used to do "Blast from the Past" posts. All of these posts came from the old newsletter. I was struggling to figure out what to post for today, when I thought, why not check out the earlier posts of the revived blog. In looking back, I found the perfect post, and it happens to be the first "Writing Tip" that was posted when Lugh started the blog back up. I hope you find it informative. If you want to check out the past comments on the original post, you can go c

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October 21, 2015

Story Review Featured Story: Presence

Being the start of a new week, Monday's are also a good time to take a look at some of the different stories that can be found on Gay Authors. With so many great works, it can be easy to overlook one and Monday's provide an opportunity for us to help make one of them stand out and maybe catch your interest. Today, we're bringing you a review by Timothy M. of carringtonrj's story "Presence". Enjoy! Presence by carringtonrj Promising Author Reviewer: Timothy M. S

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October 19, 2015

Weekly Update 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

October 18, 2015

prompts Writing Prompts #454 & #455

Welcome back to another Friday Prompt Me! Yes, amazing how quickly the week seems to pass. Already those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing the cooler temperatures moving in, the leaves changing colors, and announcement of snow. Seems that autumn is flying by. As it does hopefully people are taking time to enjoy things and perhaps even taking a bit of time to write again. Just the weekly reminder - Prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Considerin

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October 16, 2015

Author Interviews

Interview Interview: K C

Ready for more Halloween fun? This month we're featuring KC for the Signature background with his story A Grim Fairytale. Have you read it yet? You can check out my review of his story here. What about his themed desktop background? It's spookily fitting for this time of year! But first, you can't miss this interview where KC shares a little information of the... naughty variety. What’s your favorite Halloween tradition? With a name like Grim, Halloween has to be my favorite Holiday!

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October 14, 2015

Story Review Featured Story: A Grim Fairytale

Welcome to the Signature Author week. This month we're featuring KC's A Grim Fairytale, in honor of the Halloween season. Did you read it? If not, don't worry, my review won't spoil the story for you... but hopefully it will make you want to read it! If you haven't downloaded your background yet, get it here! A Grim Fairytale by KC Signature Author Length: 3,176 Status: Complete Reviewer: Cia Mention Grimm, and I’m in. I was a fan of the original ta

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October 12, 2015