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Weekly Wrap Up (Dec.23 - Dec.29)

So, who is ready to bring in the New Year with a bang? Well let's do something a little different as we all here at GA enjoyed the holidays so let's finish off with you taking over! Why don't we discuss the New Year. I know a few years ago I failed miserably when I said I wanted to be more of a drama queen in the coming year Well, some of you may have thought I'd succeeded. But what the h e double hockey sticks, lets ask you what you are going to make your resolution to be this upcoming year .

December 30, 2018

2018 Fall Anthology Wrap Up

Sorry all, I know that this was supposed to post this morning, but the CenturyLink nationwide outage has affected us and made doing much of anything next to impossible. Hubby managed to get our mobile hotspots working so that I could post the wrap up blog. We had 17 brand new stories for your enjoyment from a variety of authors. Hopefully you've had a chance to read all the offerings, and there's something for everyone, but if you haven't, here's a master list for you of all the 2018 Fall Anthol

December 28, 2018

Critique

story critique Improve & Encourage #13: The Tollbooth Operator

Hello all, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! It's hard to believe that the year is nearly over, and it's been such an exciting year. For today's blog, we're going to start wrapping up one of our previous blog features. The Improve & Encourage feature was a fun one to do, but it's time to move on to a new feature. With that in mind, I'm working on getting the final few Improve & Encourage posts and it will be complete in the near future. Today, to help get us started, we have a cri

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December 26, 2018

Reviews

Christmas Story Special Review

Well, it's Christmas Eve. Hope everyone is ready and if you celebrate, hopefully Santa visits you tonight. Make sure you're in bed early! To help you get into the holiday spirit, we asked the review team to pick some of their favorite Christmas/Holiday stories and write a short review. If you haven't already read these stories, they are definitely worth checking out. And maybe, if you have an extra moment or two during a lull in the festivities, leave the authors a story review! Now, I'm going

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December 24, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (Dec. 16 - Dec. 22)

Merry Christmas to all!! Yes, I'm a day or two early depending on your timezone, but what the h e double hockey sticks , lets get into the spirit of the message and wish everyone, their friends and their families all the very best over Christmas You may not observe Christmas so as mentioned, in the spirit, we all here at the GA Blog wish you too the very best!! We did things a little different this week with the blogs posting, so here is a wrap up! Monday, Cia took t

December 23, 2018

Classic Feature

classic author excerpt December Classic Author Excerpt: Someday Out of the Blue by LittleBuddhaTW

Did you catch Monday's feature of this month's Classic story, Someday Out of the Blue by LittleBuddhaTW? We shared the ad and a graphic you can add to your signature, plus a glowing review from a fan. If that didn't convince you to read the story, how about this excerpt below? I picked this excerpt because I wanted to point out all the drama this poor guy is going through. And, while most teenagers think they have a lot to shoulder under or face burdens that feel super dramatic and

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December 19, 2018

Fall Anthology: Fight Back & Good Intentions - Set 4 NOW LIVE

Well, this is it. The last of the anthology stories is finally live. Today's installment brings you three different authors. Don't forget to leave a review to let the authors know what you think and how much you appreciate their contributions to the anthology. In case you missed any of the previous sets, I've included the links below. Fall Anthology: Set 1 Fall Anthology: Set 2 Fall Anthology: Set 3 Now, let's take a look at Set 4!!!

December 19, 2018

Classic Feature

classic author feature December Classic Author Feature: Someday Out of the Blue by LittleBuddhaTW

Well the year is nearly over, but we have one last feature for 2018 for readers to enjoy from our Classic Authors. This story features some of readers' favorite themes here on GA: coming of age, first love, and jocks/geeks themes. Length: 223,509 Description: Connor Matthews, a shy boy who comes from an abusive family is accidentally hit in the head by a lacrosse ball one day, which leads him to meet Ryan, an attractive redhead, and his younger brother, Toby

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December 17, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (Dec. 9 - Dec. 14)

What to discuss this week.... hmm, a friend and his family are in Hawaii and they saw a one legged bird, so they decided to call it Steve 😮 But this is the same friend, to his wife's anger, gives me one sock every year at Christmas. Shall we move on and into the Weekly Update? Monday, we had another Featured Story, this one done up by Cole Matthews: Tuesday was round 2 of what seems to be becoming a popular new blog by Renee.

December 16, 2018

Fall Anthology: Fight Back & Good Intentions - Set 3 NOW LIVE

It's that time again! Hope you're ready for another round of anthology stories. If you missed the first two sets, you can find them at the links below: Fall Anthology: Set 1 Fall Anthology: Set 2 Now, lets take a look at what we have for Set 3! Culled Parker Owens Leading the Way Puppilull A Tempest in a Teapot Myr Igneous Valkyrie Well, that

December 13, 2018

Author Interviews

Q & A: Round 2

Who's ready for another Q & A session??? For the second round, I added in a question for Poets. I had A LOT of feedback this go around, so I really hope I didn't miss anyone! Read on to see what Authors, Readers, Editors, and Poets had to say! Enjoy! Authors: Do you use an outline? Why or why not? @Thorn Wilde - I used to be terrible at outlining my stories, but I found that it resulted in a lot of unfinished novels and novellas. I don't do out

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December 12, 2018

story review Featured Story: The Hollow Hills

Welcome to another Monday! While Monday's might be the start of your work week, there is also a bright spot, at least on THIS Monday. Today we have a review from Cole Matthews on Valkyrie's in progress story, The Hollow Hills. Just a reminder, if you'd like to bring some attention to a story that you're reading, you are more than welcome to write a blog review for it! We do have a review team, but we also welcome reviews from members outside of the review team. If you're interested in reviewin

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December 10, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (Dec. 2 - Dec. 8)

♪♪♪ Wellllll, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightf............. Okay, who turned off the power so they don't have to listen to me sing? I can take a hint though! So first things first, we are now on the second release of the staggered releasing of the Fall Anthology. Now that you have read a few or all of them, we are curious on your opinion. So here goes the first every GA Weekly Update Poll Question! Make sure you answer it

December 9, 2018

Fall Anthology: Fight Back & Good Intentions - Set 2 NOW LIVE

Who's ready for some more anthology stories? Did you like and comment on the 4 posted last week? In case you missed them, you can check out the first set in last week's blog post. So whose wonderful stories do we have for you this week? Well, let's take a little looksie, shall we? The Death, Life and Suicide of Tommy Crouch by Tarek Donohue Mikiesboy Lifting the Veil Headstall Jealousy CassieQ Martin

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December 6, 2018

Author Interviews

interview Ask an Author 2.0 #14

Living in South Florida, the chances of a cold, snowy December are about as good as the chances of me not messing up commas in my writing. This time of year, my thoughts often turn to scaling the border wall and visiting our neighbors to the north. Oh, wait, never mind about that wall. Wrong direction. Anyway, because I’m thinking of snow, our Canadian members come to mind. The current issue of Ask an Author features a few of our authors from the frozen north. For good measure, I’ve added s

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December 5, 2018

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

csr December CSR Feature: The House of Storms by Geron Kees

Can you believe it's already December? Nope, your eyes are not deceiving you. Cia has been super busy, but luckily for me, she'd already chosen the December CSR, and now it's my turn to help her out! Hopefully in between all your holiday activities, you'll be able to find time to read this story, set in 1948! The discussion day will finish out the year here in the blogs, and will be on December 31st! If you haven't read anything by Geron Kees yet, now is a great time to start! Hope you enjo

December 3, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 23 - Dec. 1)

December 1st, WOW So, if you are counting and partaking in Christmas, that is 23 more sleeps to Christmas Eve, and if Santa shows up this year you'll be opening your pressies in 24 days. Or if you are Jewish, Chanukah starts in 2 days!! Either way, I just want everyone to be forewarned that I will be expecting you all to send me a present this year . If not, then you will have to make a New Year's Resolution in 30 days to make sure you get me one next year We had a bi

December 2, 2018

Fall Anthology: Fight Back & Good Intentions - Set 1 NOW LIVE

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Hope you've come to do some reading! As decided via the poll, we're going to try a new way of posting the anthologies this go around. Might be a good thing as we have a pretty good sized anthology this time as well. At first glance, it looks like the anthologies will post in four sets. We're starting with the first set this week and then will post a set every week until they're all posted. Hopefully this new way of posting will garner a bit more feedback for all of t