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Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Choices - our Summer anthology is LIVE! Go enjoy (after you read the rest of this post) ;-) We started the week with Almost Home, by our Hosted (and very sexy) Author Shadowgod. This is one of Shadowgod's short stories, and Podiumdavis wrote a wonderful review of it. In this week's Author Showcase, we also had great reviews of both Promising Author WrathOfMagneto's Three Hundred Years, as well as What Remains, by Author myself_i_must_remake. Our Tuesday Toss-up gave us the first of a

June 17, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase

Ready to check out a new story but not sure what to try? Hopefully these two reviews may help. New reviewer ChingTara reviewed Three Hundred Years by Promising Author WrathOfMagneto and MJ85 has done a great review of What Remains by Author myself_i_must_remake. If you'd like to help us out by reviewing a story here on GayAuthors, just let Renee Stevens or myself know. We love seeing more people reading and reviewing and helping us to highlight the great talent we have here, writing compelling s

June 13, 2012

Writing Tips - Skills

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Publishing, Part 1

We are very appreciative of everyone here at GayAuthors that has stepped up and offered to help in some manner. One of our volunteers, K.C., did some interviews with AnytaSunday and Nephylim recently about publishing. Here is part one of his two part contribution. Publishing Interviews by K.C. You said you were going to do it! You swore you were going to do! Even a few of your friends laughed at you, but you’ve finally did it, you finished that novel that’s been spinni

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June 12, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Almost Home

It's Monday! Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, and while I'm sad to see it end, I'm also happy because it gives us another choice to bring you a review on one of Gay Author's wonderful Hosted Authors! Not only is our author today a Hosted Author on the site, he is one of the earlier members of the GA community. He's the author of the chapter story "A Shot of Bourbon" but has shown that he can write not only longer stories, but also short stories as well as poetry. Today we are happy to

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June 11, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Our Summer anthology deadline has come and passed, so looking forward to soon being able to read some good "Choices". Our week started by Seeking Nirvana - a story by LittleBuddhaTW that was reviewed by Mark 92. Seeking Nirvana is a great story that I first read when David wrote it, but it was sooo good to take another fresh look at this gem. We had a couple of great tips this week. As one of the possible uses for Tip Tuesday will be interviews, what better than a tip on conducting inter

June 10, 2012

Story Review Blast From The Past!

It is always fun looking through old newsletters and GA Anthologies - so many treasures. Like a story from ComeWhatMay, written for the 2008 Anthology "Living in the Shadows". Much thanks to MJ85 for their review of Falling Slowly. Falling Slowly by ComeWhatMay Reviewer: MJ85 Status: Complete 2008 Anthology: Living In the Shadows I stumbled across this story while checking out some of the older anthologies on the site, curious as I was to see what they were (this

June 9, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #144 & #145

Wind down your week with our foray into writing prompts! With our usual profound thanks to ComicFan, we have two great new Writing Prompts to try out - and once you do, share them with the community in the Writing Prompts forum! Prompt 144 – Creative Cue – Beloved We all have someone or something that we love dearly. Tell a narrative in poetry. Who is this person or animal? Is it your ever faithful dog? Your doting parent? Your incredible partner? Bring them to life in a poem so that we can

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June 8, 2012

Writing Tips - Skills

Writing Tip Writing Tip: How To Find A Beta

So, a couple of weeks ago we talked about what an author should look for in a Beta Reader. I thought that today we could maybe talk about how to FIND a Beta Reader. There are many ways to go about it, but here are just a few! You could always post in your Chapter Note or Chapter End notes that you are currently looking for a beta reader! I wouldn’t personally put everything I want from a Beta Reader in there, but you could always tell your readers that if they are interested in beta reading for

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June 7, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase!

It's Wednesday! You know what that means, two more Author reviews. First off, we are bringing you a story from our Promising Author: JWolf called "The Funny Thing Is" reviewed by Percy. Based on the wonderful review given by Percy, I will be checking this story out in the very near future. Our second review is an in progress story by Author: Naptowngirl called "Hello, My Name Is..." reviewed by K.C.. When KC sent me his review, I read through it and what he wrote sounded like something that I wo

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June 6, 2012

Story Review Feature Story: Seeking Nirvana

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Even though the weekend is over, there's something good about the new week starting. It's Monday, which means, that we are bringing you a new featured story!!! Thank you to Mark92 for writing this review for us on Hosted Author: LittleBuddaTW's story "Seeking Nirvana." Hopefully this review will pique your interest and convince you to go check out the story and if you enjoy it, you might even leave a review!! Seeking Nirvana by LittleBuddh

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June 4, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

First - the deadline for the Summer Anthology "Choices" is LESS THAN A WEEK away! Also, if you haven't seen Myr's Thursday post on the "EU Cookie Law and You", please take a moment to check it out. I hope your weekend is going well. I seem to have a bit of a head cold so this is going to be a more minimal wrap up - hope you understand. Our Hosted Author Feature story was Double Down by Cia. In the Author Showcase, our Promising Author spotlight was on Dolores Esteban and our Author s

June 3, 2012

Story Review Blast From The Past!

Glorious Saturday! And here at the GA News Blog, we like to look back on Saturday's to previous newsletters or anthologies. Today is a review by Birds of a Feather, of a poem by Nickolas James called The Hand that first appeared in the December 2006 newsletter. We hope you enjoy! The Hand by Nick James Reviewed by Birds of a Feather Poetry Review There is an eminent paradox that most poets at GA have confronted, but few have conquered as triumphantly as Nickolas James. Is there

June 2, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #142 & #143

It's Friday AND it's JUNE!!! Be sure to change your calender (people still use calenders, don't they?!?) and then settle down and try one of our prompts, supplied by the ever inventive Comicfan. Be sure to share what you do with the community in the Writing Prompts forum! Prompt 142 – Creative Cue – First Line “Because … how could you not know this was done to me?” Prompt 143 – Creative Cue – Superhero Don’t they only exist in comics? Who expected to run into a real life superhero? What

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June 1, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase

Gayauthors.org, as with many sites, thrives on its Hosted Authors. They are a valuable part of this board and unlike some sites, we have a formal contract with them, including such things as either exclusivity or preferential posting to GA (the details of which, vary by author). They are authors who are recognized by our site as special, and we here try to make sure that we show our appreciation to them, for the value they bring to the site. We also have a cadre of wonderful Promising Author

May 30, 2012

Story Review Feature Story: Double Down

First, for our US members, here is hoping you have an enjoyable Memorial Day. Though my father didn't die in service, he was in the US Military from shortly before World War II until the late 60's (and in three different branches - Army, Navy and Air Force). So thank you - to all who have served and died while in service. On to our feature story - I'm grateful to one of our favorite guest reviewers, Fozzie Bear, for this great review of Hosted Author Cia's Double Down. Enjoy! Double

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May 28, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Hope your weekend has been going well - mine started poorly due to allergies but major recovery today, so that's good. We had some fantastic reviews and other material here in the news blog this week. On Monday, we got a great review of prolific Hosted Author Mark Arbour's Wars End. If you haven't checked out any of his work, this may be the one to try first! Tuesday, I extended the conversation started the previous week, getting some additional input on this news blog. I really apprecia

May 27, 2012

Story Review Blast From The Past!

So, it's Saturday once again and that means it's time to look at something from the earlier years of GA!!!! Today we are bringing you a review written by MJ85 on one of the anthology works from 2007!!! Broad Ripple Blues was written by Altimexis for the 2007 Anthology: The Rainy Day. Enjoy this look into the past! Broad Ripple Blues by Altimexis Reviewer: MJ85 Status: 2007 Anthology Word Count: 7,874 This is one of the many stories I checked out in my first few months o

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May 26, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #140 & #141

Friday - start (for me) of a three day weekend! Hope you enjoy your weekend but first, our weekly writing prompts, thanks to the genius of ComicFan. Our prompts this week are: Prompt 140 – Creative Cue – The Date This wasn’t what you expected when you finally agreed to go out. You figured maybe a movie and dinner but that isn’t you got. Who could have expected this on a date? So what did happen? Prompt 141 – Creative Cue – Elements Life is created by the elements around us from the eleme

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May 25, 2012

Writing Tips - Skills

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Ingy Verbs

Ingy Verbs - Where They Don't Belong by Cia Interesting title, no? I thought it was better than if I hit you with 'Present Participle Phrases Do Not Belong at the Beginning of a Sentence' because that's just confusing right? I mean, who remembers what those grammar rules and names were for all the little bits of a sentence? *puts hand down* Soooo not me. So, if you're like me and it has been a long time since you took grammar lessons in school, I'm going to go with laymen's terms

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May 24, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase!

Well, it's Wednesday again, which you know what that means! Author Showcase! And today we're not having just any Author Showcase, it's actually a complete Poetry Showcase! It's great to have a day that is just poems! The first set of poems are by our Promising Author: Bugeye and the second set of poems are by our Poet: Menace! Both sets of Poems have been reviewed by Mark92!!!! The Art of Poetry by Bugeye This man is one of the sweetest members I’ve met on GA. He is both shy

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May 23, 2012

Story Review Feature Story: Wars End

Well, it's the start of another week! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and were able to do something fun! Today we are going to look at a story by one of our Hosted Authors who have been with the site since 2005! Mark Arbour! During that time he has posted 25 stories, including the very popular CAP saga! Today though, we are going to look at the short story he shared with us for the 2010 Spring Anthology: I'd Never Do That! Wars End By Mark Arbour Reviewer: Renee Stevens

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May 21, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

The weekend is almost over - but at least NEXT weekend will be a three-day one for many of us in the states. We've had a busy week with a ton of great feedback. For our "Tuesday tip", we did something different and had a poll as well as requests for open comments about this news blog. If you haven't chimed in, or if you have something new you want to add - please go and either post there or as a comment here. One of the suggestions has even been implemented already. As we continually ask