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    Miraculous Prompts

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    The saying "truth is stranger than fiction" exists for a reason - sometimes what happens in real life is so far outside the realm of possibility that if written in a piece of fiction, readers would doubt its veracity.  I recently experienced such a moment when a family member of mine had a medical episode that should, by all accounts, have left them dead.  It still boggles my mind when I think about it.  90% of people who have this condition die from it, with most of them not even making it to t
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #362 & #363

It's that time of week again, time for the weekly prompts! Before I give the prompts, I want to remind everyone that if your prompt response contains ANY adult material, your entire prompt collection MUST be rated as "Mature". If you need more information on the different story ratings, you can find the information in this weeks earlier blog post or in the help section. Now, onto the prompts!   Prompt 362 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in story – candy corn, pumpkin, black ca
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Joined By Blood By Renee Stevens

It's a rerun! Due to the sudden alert of stories being rated incorrectly and Google being a PiTA, (read more here) we preempted a lot of the blog last week. So, to be fair, Renee gets her feature day back again!   Something a little different this week for the review for Renee Steven's featured story, cause I like being different, lol. Most of the time a reader would be the one to do the review, but this time, I'm going to do it. I had the great pleasure to be a beta reader/editor for this st
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

We are fully into the month of October and lots has happened this past week here at the GA News Blog   We started off the week with Cia presenting us with a bit different of a CSR this month. October is the Seasonal Spooktacular where we are featuring 5 different Anthologies to get us in the mood for Halloween at the end of the month. We have Vampires, Witches, Were-Creature, Mutants and Ghosts oh my!!   Rise of the Serpent by Celetheiel, Magic in the Air by Andy78, Midnight by Mark72
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #360 & #361

Fridays are a great day here at the GA News Blog! Not only does it signal the end of the week, but it's also time to bring you two new prompts supplied to us by the prompt guru, Comicfan. Whether you are looking for inspiration to help get over writers block or you just want to write something short and quick, the prompts are a great way to get started! Let's see what Comicfan has for us this week!   Prompt 360 – Creative Tag – First Line “Why do I even bother?”   Prompt 361 – Creative Tag –
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Featured Stories

Premium Tuesday: Taken

With the completion of "No More Hiding", it was time for a new Premium Story to take it's place. M.A. Church has provided us with her story The Harvest: Taken for our Premium section and the Prologue and Chapter One started posting this past Saturday. If you don't already have a Premium Subscription, now would be a great time to get one. Not only will you get to read a great story as it posts, but you also get to help support the site!   Taken by M.A. Church In 2050, h
CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr October: Seasonal Spooktacular!

In honor of the season, I thought this month we'd do something a little different! Anthologies are a great chance to sample authors' writing. It's also fun to see how they twist the themes into original pieces. For this October CSR, I thought I'd feature some of the creatures we often imagine lurking about the shadows.   Vampires! Pandora's Box: Rise of the Serpent by Celetheiel Description: A group of friends find more than riches when they set out to explore an abandoned house. ~ 3,050 wor
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Guess what? I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Been a busy week this week with lots of great information shared through the GA News Blog.   Monday was a surprise for Renee, as there was a conspiracy behind her back to have her story Joined By Blood as the featured background for the month of October. This story will surely get us all in the mood for Halloween only 26 days away Make sure to pop by the Blog to download the screen savers, one with a calender, one without!   On Premium Tuesday t
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #358 & #359

Hope everyone has had a great week so far and is looking forward to the weekend. What better way to start it off than with brand new prompts! If you've been feeling stuck, or maybe just want to do something a little different, maybe one of these prompts will jumpstart a new idea. Don't forget, if under 1,000 words, prompt responses that are posted in GA Stories must be posted as part of a collection.   Prompt 358 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in a story – fall leaves, rain s
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Author Interviews

Ask An Author #21

It's hard to believe that it's already October, and with the start of a new month, it's also time for the newest Ask An Author monthly feature, provided by Dark! Do you have a favorite author on-site? Have you had a question that you've been wanting to ask them, but haven't? If so, send it to Dark and you might just see it in an upcoming Ask An Author feature!! Ask an Author #21   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #20, we h
Featured Stories

Premium Tuesday: The Cassini Mission

Want to help support Gay Authors? One way to do that is to purchase a Premium Subscription. As a Thank You, there are a fair number of stories available for Premium Subscribers to read. Each week, I'm featuring one of the Premium stories in the GA News blog. This week, I'm featuring the story "The Cassini Mission" by Rob Colton.   The Cassini Mission by Rob Colton   Former Union Navy scientist, Dr. Aron Adler is ordered on a rescue mission to an outer rim research colony
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Well, another week has gone by and the time has come to take a look at what's happened in the GA News Blog this past week. Before we do that, I seem to recall promising an announcement of the 2015 Anthology Themes. A big thank you to the team who helped narrow down the choices as well as to everyone who voted. We have some great themes for next year and they are: 2015 Anthology Themes Spring Anthology: Full Circle Summer Anthology: Road Trip Fall Anthology: Blurred Edges
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Discussion Day: The Phantom By Dark

So, the tables turn and the interviewer becomes the interviewee! This month the Discussion day is coming a bit early, but that's so Dark can do a live chat! Make sure you come back for the live chat at noon, Alaska time. Just cause that's not the usual zones, so that will be: Pacific 1 PM, Mountain is 2 PM, Central is 3 PM, and Eastern is 4 PM hours. On to the interview!!   Single people work more. Are you single? Yup. Been single since 2008.   Who do you like best, Jerry or Tom? That takes
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #356 & #357

It's Friday again!!! I hope that everyone has had a great week so far. It's that time again for two new prompts, supplied as always by our prompt guru, Comicfan! *Reminder: Authors are more than welcome to post their Prompt Responses in GA Stories, but please remember that flash pieces under 1k must be posted in collections, not as individual stories.*   Prompt 356 – Creative Tag – First Line “Since when do I have to tell you everything?”   Prompt 357 – Creative Tag – The Party You have been
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Featured Stories

Premium Tuesday: Burden Of Secrets

For those who are new to the GA News Blog, Tuesday's are the day when I share a little information about one of our Premium Stories. While Gay Authors is free to it's members, it's not free to run. One of the ways GA keeps the site running is by the help from members who purchase a Premium Subscription. What do you get when you purchase a Premium Subscription? You get access to the select few stories that are not available to the regular membership. One such story is "Burden of Secrets" by Cia.
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Judas Tree - Novella One

I'm back!!! First off, a great big THANK YOU to Cia and Steve (aka Wildone) for covering for me while I was gone. It's the start of a new week and a great time for another Featured Story entry! This week we're taking a look at Judas Tree - Novella One by AC Benus! Thank you Timothy M. for the review, hopefully it inspires members to check out the story! Judas Tree - Novella One by AC Benus Author Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 15,434   I stumbled on th
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Weekly Wrap Up

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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Prompts

Writing Prompts #354 & #355

Now that we re-whet everyone's appetites for flash fiction, let's get back into our weekly fun of Comicfan's great prompts! Thank you to everyone who participated in Wednesday's feature about why we like flash and how we do it, especially to everyone who tried it out! This week we have a very diverse word list prompt as well as a creative theme featuring... well, read on to find out, and then see what you can come up with!   Prompt 354 – Creative Tag – List of words Use the following in a sto
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Writing Tips

Writing Tip: Flash Fiction - Why And How?

I thought, this week, that we’d discuss something we host here on GA, and promote weekly on the blog. Flash fiction, namely in the guise of our prompts. Our anthologies are an extension of that as well. But we’ve never really talked about the art of creating these types of short stories—so today we will! I think there are two main questions most people have: What is flash fiction and why do people write it?   FLASH FICTION   Flash fiction can also run the gamut of ‘regular fiction’.
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Featured Stories

Premium Tuesday: Ice Fairy Ii

Do you write? Are you willing to consider writing a story for Premium? We're always on the lookout for great authors with a dedication to quality fiction who'd like to work with the site to provide content for our Premium subscribers, and make a little money, to boot! Feel free to PM me, if you're interested in starting a discussion. If you're interested in reading some of these great stories, then you need to become a Premium subscriber. Memberships can be purchased in the site store!  
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Empath's Kiss

Shh! I'm masquerading as Renee this week. I'm just her puppet, bringing you the site news for this week. I'm sure she's up in the woods thinking, "Dance, puppet, dance!" LOL Okay, to kick off a week of Cia the sub, we have an exciting short by Andrew Todd. If you like sci-fi this might be right up your alley!   Empath’s Kiss By Andrew Todd Author Reviewer: Renee Stevens Status: Complete Word Count: 13,996   This was the first story I’d ever read by this author and I
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

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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Anthologies

2014 Fall Anthology: Scars *now Live*

I know a lot of people have been looking forward to the release of the Fall Anthology. Luckily, the wait is over! Eighteen stories have now been released for your enjoyment. I hope you find something you enjoy and don't forget to leave the author's a review to let them know what you think of their work! Also, after you've read through all the entries, don't forget to go and vote for next years themes! Thank you to all the Authors and their teams, the Anthology Proof Team for giving the stories a
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Author Interviews

Author Interview: Mark Arbour

Our featured story for the September Signature Background is "9.11" by Mark Arbour. As I'm sure many can imagine, writing about the events of September 11, 2001 couldn't have been easy. Not only do we get to learn a little about Mark Arbour in today's interview by Cia, but we also get to hear from him on what it was like to actually write about the events of 9.11. Interview: Mark Arbour on " 9.11"   Personal:   Single people work more. Are you single?   I would like to see your
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