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    2025 Anthology - Big Announcement!

    By Valkyrie

    Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! I'm still in a bit of a food coma from Christmas dinner, but I wanted to bring a reminder and also some important news for next year's anthology.  First, submissions for Carlos' tribute event are due tomorrow, so be sure to put the finishing touches on your stories and post the link in the thread in the Writer's Circle.  Second, I decided to do things a little differently this year, and instead of having a committee decide
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #276 & #277

I am watching the leaves come down like falling rain, only in tones of red, orange, yellow, pale green, and browns. Friday has arrived after a few days of frost and passing showers so I'm ready for a little change of pace. Hopefully you're ready for some fresh prompts as well.   Prompt 276 – Creative Tag - List of Words Use the following words in a story – a Danish, cup of coffee, broken leg, cell phone, and a teddy bear. Prompt 277 – Challenge Tag – The Teacher We have all had one teacher tha
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #10

Not only is it November and National Novel Writing Month, but it's also the first Wednesday of the month, which means it's time for our monthly edition of Ask An Author, provided to us by Dark! While we do still have a few more editions waiting in the wings for the upcoming months, I have learned that Dark is running low on content and needs YOUR help! Both Dark and the blog staff want to keep the "Ask An Author" feature going, but to do that, we need you to send Dark your questions for your fav
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club November Story: The House Always Wins By Andr0Gene

Happy November to everyone! The seasons just keep on marching along and soon it will be winter, with all the indoor snuggling time the cold brings. For you southern hemisphere folks, you can just beat the heat by staying in the AC too, lol! Either way, you can have a great time reading this month's CSR Book Club selection, The House Always Wins by Andr0gene.   The House Always Wins by Andr0gene   Length: 51,963   Description: $20,000, 1 month, 1 lie.   What a Reader Had to Say: Two thing
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

If you're someplace that practices Daylights Savings, I hope you remembered to turn your clocks back! It was a busy week here at GA and I hope everyone had a wonderful week and a fun Halloween! Did you see lots of Ghosts, Goblins, and Witches? I heard through the grapevine that one GA member even dressed up as a character from a story here at GA. Curious as to who and what character? Check out the gallery!   What better way to start out the week than by having the discussion day for the CSR Bo
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #274 & #275

I'm sure many of you are dealing with a hangover ... from the sugar you ate with all the candy last night on Halloween. Just remember today is Friday and the start of the weekend and a chance for you to do something truly wicked. What kind of wicked you ask? Well, what about one of my prompts.   Prompt 274 – Creative Tag – First Line “Is that honestly what you think of me?”   Prompt 275 – Creative Tag – The Twist You have been invited to be a guest on a new game show. You figured it would b
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Writing Tips

Writing Tip: Quotes From The Greats!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week so far! If you haven't already done so, don't forget to chime in on the CSR Discussion on "Wrangler Butts" by Reddirtwriter! For today's installment of the blog, I have a list of some great quotes compiled by Cia. I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did! Quotes from the Greats Compiled By Cia   Writing Quotes There is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. - C. N. Bovee
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Discussion Day: Wrangler Butts By Reddirtwriter

A story with Butts in the title? Where can you go wrong? LOL Check out this month's interview with the author of Wrangler Butts and share your thoughts about his story. Don't forget to vote for next month's story too! Without further ado... I bring you: RedDirtWriter.   I love to get to know a bit more about our authors, so how about we start this interview with a little bit about you? What don’t we know? Okay, let me think. I’m not too unique, or at least I don’t think I am. I guess I’d say t
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! Now it's time to take a look back at the week here at the Gay Authors News Blog.   On Monday we took at a look at a free eBook by Stephanie L Danielson called "For The Heart of Phillip". Louis Harris provided us a wonderful review that certainly garnered some new interest in this wonderful story. If you haven't already read his review, check it out and if the story sounds interesting to you, then you can download it in GA's eb
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #272 & #273

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Weekly Wrap-Up will be moving to Sunday starting this week! The "Prompt Me" feature will now run for two days. Thank You! ~Renee Stevens   And now, I'll turn you over to Wayne...   Well here we are, less than a week from Halloween. Needless to say I couldn't let this go by without allowing some spooky fun happen with the prompts. I am hoping these inspire some Halloween tales or spooky fun. With no further delays here are this week's prompts.   Prompt 272 – Creative Tag
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Interview With Lisa

Recently I put out a call for people to do interviews for the blog. We have featured many interviews throughout the life of the blog, ranging from the staff here at GA, to the authors. Todays interview isn't with one of the many authors here at Gay Authors, she is actually one of the prolific reviewers on site who also carries the title of Editor. Please enjoy this interview with Lisa and thank you Percy for conducting the interview! Interview with Lisa   Interviewer: Percy   GA was s
Featured Stories

Featured Story: For The Heart Of Phillip

We sent out a call for reviews and you responded! Thank you. Louis (LJH) gave us this wonderful review of Author stephanie l danielson's For the Heart of Phillip - enjoy! And if you want to write a review for the blog, just let Renee Stevens or myself know. For The Heart of Phillip by stephanie l danielson Reviewer: LJH Status: Completed Free PDF Ebook Size: 1.34 MB   “Deepening”.   Some stories have it, many don’t. It’s not easy to define. It’s certainly easy to identify a story
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

First off - cold's suck! Thanks to those who asked how I'm doing - much better now, just a slight cough lingering. And BIG thanks to Renee Stevens for covering this week in her usual fantastic way. Renee started this week off with a review on Reviewing, as we need YOUR help for continue great content on this blog, both in terms of wonderful articles but also in the reviews that are submitted. Think you're interested in writing a review but not sure how - check out Monday's blog article for all t
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #270 & #271

Ah, all the little terrors are knocking on my door. No, not trick or treaters, but people demanding I fork over the new prompts. Halloween is two weeks off yet, but some people really want their prompts.   Prompt 270 – Creative Tag – First Line “Because, I’m leaving you.”   Prompt 271 – Creative Tag – The Murder You had been invited for a vacation, and happy to get away from your daily life quickly took it. Once you were dropped off at the island, you found you were one of only four people
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Porcupines

Huh?!? Wut? Wacky Wednesday AND Featured Story? YES! Because we used this Monday's blog for a review of reviews (um - ya, I think I said that right) - we didn't want to miss featuring a story this week. Joann414 was gracious enough to lend her reviewing talents to give us a look at Porcupines by Author Cole Matthews. As we mentioned Monday, we always need more reviews as well as good informative articles, such as writing tips or author interviews. If you have an idea you want to work on, contact
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: DAH-DAH-DUMMMMM!!! The 2014 GA Quarterly Anthology themes have been set. Thank you to all of the members who helped participate in choosing next year's themes, through theme suggestions and voting. Special thanks to Renee Stevens and the rest of the Anthology team for working so diligently on compiling these suggestions and compiling them down to the final choices. Looking at the five final themes - next year's anthologies should be very interesting to read!   October's Can't Sto
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #268 & #269

Brr! Wow, that fall weather got nippy quickly. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather where they are. Oh, yeah it is Friday again. You all know what that means. (Wickedly rubs hands together like an evil villain.) Time to torture you all with a new set of prompts!   Prompt 268 – Creative Tag – The Change College is expensive and when you seen the ad, asking for volunteers to undergo a “totally safe” but “unique” trial of a drug you considered it. You were told if you were selected there would b
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club Selection: Wrangler Butt's By Reddirtwriter

October already! Really? Wow! This year is flying by, right? Well this month, for your reading enjoyment, we have a story about something any cowgirl or cowboy can appreciate ... Wrangler butts! Wrangler Butts by Reddirtwriter   Length: 85,286   Description: Darrin has had a difficult time, but has resigned himself to academia and solitude. But his new office mate arrives, and he is Darrin's living wet dream. A dark haired masculine cowboy with a little bit of attitude, Mitch is
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up

REMINDER - The Polls for the 2014 Anthology Themes are now open, so don't forget to get your votes in before they close on Wednesday, October 9th!!!   REMINDER - Don't forget to come back this Monday, October 7th, to find out what the October CSR Book Club pick will be!   On Monday, as part of the CSR Book Club Discussion we featured a wonderful interview with Comicfan, the author of the very popular story and September CSR Book Club Pick: Accidents Happen! If you haven't already joined in o
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #266 & #267

Welcome to Friday, and the warmer temps are still here in New York. I am looking forward to the changing leaves and cooler temperatures, but oh well. I don't want to keep you in suspense any longer so here are the prompts.   Prompt 266 – Creative Tag – First Line “I don’t care! I still believe in you.”   Prompt 267 – Creative Tag – Time Warp You had been watching an old music video from the 80’s, and laughed at the outfits and hair styles. Thinking how easy that time must have been for those
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #9

OCTOBER!!! Not only is it officially pumpkin-spice everything month, we also get the most recent edition of the GayAuthors.org feature Ask An Author. Thank you as always to creator and implementor, Dark, for his work on this feature - one of our most popular. Enjoy!   Ask an Author #9   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #8, we had questions for authors JWolf, K.C., and Mann Ramblings.   In AtA #9, we hear from authors
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Discussion Day: Accidents Happen By Comicfan

This month's book club selection featured Accidents Happen by Comicfan. The story is a bit longer than our usual, but with 5 weeks to read it, I hope that everyone is ready to discuss! The most votes for our feature today was for an interview with Comicfan, so I hope you all enjoy learning a bit more about our resident prompt guru and Hosted author!   First, the hard stuff!   Who do you like best, Jerry or Tom? I’m always rooting for Jerry.   Are you a person who makes their bed in the mor
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Sorry for being late to the party, but want to make sure to recognize and congratulate GayAuthors.org's newest Promising Author - Stellar!   REMINDER - This Monday, Sept 30th will be the discussion day for our Can't Stop Reading (CSR) Book Club and this month's book, Accident's Happen by Hosted Author comicfan! Finish reading and prepare your thoughts and join us Monday to give your thoughts...   Our week started strong, K.C. not only reviewed Ice Fairy by Author stephanie l. d
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #264 & #265

Oh, it is that time of the week again. Yes, I get to see if I can succeed in luring someone to pick up my challenge and write a new prompt tale. Interested? Well, let me show you what I have up my sleeve this week.   Prompt 264 – Creative Tag – Fall It is the beginning of fall and the temperatures are beginning to change, the leaves are changing color, and the moods of people are changing as well. Create a story centered around the idea of change – whether it is physical, mental, or maybe even
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