Blogs

Story Review Featured Story: For The Love

While I realize that we recently featured Hosted Author C James' Circumnavigation, after reading this great review by Wildone, I was all for featuring it this week - and it seems appropriate, since few can match our beloved Goat in his labors to diligently to turn out one wonderful tale after another for his readers here on GayAuthors. So with good Labor Day wishes to all (should this be Labor Day for you), here is Wildone's excellent (and cliffhanger-free), review: For the Love

September 3, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

If you haven't seen yet, Myr had a very important blog entry about GA Hosted Authors, eBooks and Fiction Stories, please take a moment and check it out. If you did see it, but didn't see his late posted note, I want to repeat what he said - this announcement does NOT mean that GA is switching to Pay only. GA will always have the majority of content free, as long as Myr runs it. Also - we now have only 2 days left for our FALL Anthology entries. The "Friends and Enemies" anthology is due Sept

September 2, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Reach / Traveling Home

This week, we have first a great review by Houdinii of Reach, by Promising Author CassieQ. Then following in a bit of serendipity, we have a review BY CassieQ of Author podga's Traveling Home. Each is a bit of a different story - and that's one thing that makes each of them special. We hope you enjoy these reviews and try out the stories themselves! Reach by CassieQ Reviewed by Houdinii Status: In Progress Word Count: 41,349 I began reading a story today by Cas

August 29, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Endings And Beginnings

Happy Monday! Since we're about to end August (and for many of us, our summer's), as well as starting the week, what better story to take a look at than "Endings and Beginnings" by Hosted Author Viv. Enjoy! Endings and Beginnings by Viv Reviewed by: Trebs Status: Complete Word Count: 10,442 Endings and Beginnings is the first of a series for Viv's "Underneath This Big Ol' Sky". In Spring of 2007, GayAuthors had an anthology of "Endings and Beginnings", and Viv

August 27, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

First things first - announcements time!!! Renee announced on the 20th of August that she is looking for theme suggestions for the 2013 GA Anthologies. If you have a suggestion for a theme, now is the time to let her know via the thread in the Anthology Forum. Suggestions will be taken until midnight (US Mountain Time) September 3rd and then this topic will be locked. Once all suggestions are in, a team will narrow it down to twenty themes for the GA Members to vote on. Why wait, get your su

August 26, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #164 & #165

One of the things I personally love about the weekly blog is the Prompt Me that debuts every Friday. Comicfan always manages to come up with something that sounds quite interesting and this week is no exception. If you tackle either of these prompts why not share them with everyone else by posting them in the Writing Prompt Forum! Prompt 164 – Creative Tag – The Stranger They showed up out of nowhere and seem to know everything about your life. Your friends and the rest of your family readil

Renee Stevens in Prompts

August 24, 2012

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Keeping Your Writing Life In Sync (And Backed Up)

So many of us write from multiple computers and I know from personal experience that it can be a pain to try and transfer files back and forth between laptops/desktops/etc. Today, Myr is telling us about a great way to make our life easier when switching between computers! Keeping Your Writing Life in Sync (and backed up) In this day and age, many of us have multiple computers or devices that we use in our daily lives. For those of us that write, we could be writing i

Renee Stevens in Writing Tips

August 23, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase

With great thanks, we give you LouisHarris' review of Promising Author WrathofMagneto's Slide, as well as Andy021278's review of The Other Foot, by Author Forty-Two. These reviews are fantastic and are such a help - if you have time to help us do a review of a GayAuthor's story, let me know! And once you've read the reviews, I hope it spurs you to check out these great stories. Slide by WrathofMagneto Reviewer: LouisHarris Status: Complete Word Count: 4,113 The

Trebs in Reviews

August 22, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Circumnavigation

Here, without any need for introduction (since I wrote it myself), is a review of Circumnavigation by our Hosted Author, C James. Circumnavigation by C James Reviewer: Trebs Status: In Progress Word Count: 906,898 to date Do you ever get tired of just getting to enjoy a story, and then hitting the end of the story and there's nothing more to read. Well - start reading Circumnavigation and it will be a while before you get that feeling (if you ever do). Now as m

August 20, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Monday we started off with a review by Fozzie Bear of our Hosted Author Renee Steven's story Roving Dreams. As everyone should know, Renee is very special to us here as an extraordinary Co-GA Blog Organizer, but additionally, she is a fantastic author. This was followed up by an interview of Andy021278 that Comicfan graciously did for us. It's always great getting a better in-depth look at our authors and community members. So after getting to know Andy021278 better, we get to read his

August 19, 2012

Story Review Blast From The Past

Saturdays can be so many things to so many people. To some it is a chance to get that stuff done that you haven't had time (or have put off) during the week. Others it's a great time to just sit back and relax and forget about the stress of work and/or school. For us here at GA, it's a chance to look back into our past and bring you something from either an old Newsletter or an old Anthology. Today we're looking at a story from the 2007: The Road Not Taken Anthology. Enjoy! The Key By Lugh

Renee Stevens in Reviews

August 18, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #162 & #163

So once again, it's the end of the week, which is a perfect time to bring you a couple of new prompts by Comicfan. This way, you'll have the weekend to work on them before going back to work, school, etc. Don't forget to share what you come up with in the Writing Prompt Forum! Prompt 162 – Creative Tag – The Friend Create the perfect best friend. Are they male or female? Are they really smart or super sarcastic? Do they try to keep you from making mistakes or do they hand you another $10 in

Renee Stevens in Prompts

August 17, 2012

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: How To Be Critical, Not Cutting

It's a fine line between being critical in an effort to help a writer, and going too far and just being very cutting in what you say. In a text medium, it's usually hard to hear the "voice" that the criticism is being given. I mean sometimes, the voice comes through loud and clear, like when your friend comes up to you in a new outfit and you're all "Oh no you didn't - girl, you is a hot mess!" (did everyone else hear that in Layfayette voice from True Blood?) Anyways - Cia as always has som

Trebs in Writing Tips

August 16, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase!

So - after a great interview of Andy021278, what better than to read his review of Author Ricky's Blind Sensations? We also are treated with a review by Dark of Promising Author Comicfan's Mirror Tells the Truth. We hope you enjoy these reviews and check out the stories - I know I will! Mirror Tells the Truth By Comicfan Review by Dark Status: Complete Word Count: 5,057 Comicfan is one of our Promising Authors here on GA and currently has 28 stories to his name. Th

Trebs in Reviews

August 15, 2012

Author Interviews

Interview Toss-Up Tuesday: Interview With Andy021278

For someone who has only been a member since Oct 2011, Andy021278 has become a well-valued member of the community and especially helpful to those of use here at the GA News Blog. For a great in-depth look at who he is, here is an interview of him that Comicfan did for us. Enjoy! Interview with Andy021278 by Comicfan You’ve been with GA since last October. What brought you to this website? I read a lot on Nifty (in retrospect, probably far too much) and I came

Trebs in Author Interviews

August 14, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Roving Dreams

Again, I love this job. I get to help shine a light on some fantastic writing, like this Roving Dreams, a story by Hosted Author Renee Stevens (or, I like to call her, Radiant Renee Stevens). Our thanks to guest reviewer Fozzie Bear for his great review of this fantastic story! Roving Dreams by Renee Stevens Reviewer: Fozzie Bear Status: Complete Word Count: 2562 Wocka, Wocka. This is your favorite fuzzy Fozzie Bear back again. Did you get my joke? Wock

August 13, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

We started our week looking at a delightful story by Hosted Author Libby Drew. Radiant Renee Stevens gave us a great review of Libby's Spark and sat8997 and Mark Arbour both chimed in with their praise for Libby's works. Our Tuesday Toss up looked at heroes - specifically various readers from the perspective of two authors, FleetingRainbows and C James. The comments on this blog are as valuable as the entry itself, IMHO. For our midweek Author's Showcase, we had a review of Promising Aut

August 12, 2012

Prompts

Prompts Writing Prompts #160 & #161

By now - you know the drill... We gives youse two prompts - you writes... Dat easy! Seriously though, thanks again to Comicfan for this week's prompts. We hope they intrigue you enough to try one or both - and please be sure to share with the community in our Writing Prompts forum. Prompt 160 – Creative Tag – The dog You hadn’t noticed it at first but now you can’t ignore it. There is a dog following you. You see him when you take your run through the park. You’ve seen him when you go to

Trebs in Prompts

August 10, 2012

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Breaking Through (Part 2)

Here is the second part of the feature on Breaking Through that we started last Thursday. Great thanks to Radiant Renee Stevens for her compilation of this, as well as to podiumdavis for giving us the idea to do this kind of format in the first place. Enjoy! Breaking Through: Part 2 compiled by Renee Stevens So, after the success of the tip suggested by podiumdavis, I decided to take another question to the authors on the site! We had a great response and once a

Trebs in Writing Tips

August 9, 2012

Story Review Author Showcase

As we finish our first week of August, we decided to hit a bit of a dark Wednesday today. First we have a review of Promising Author Dark's Butterflies of Death, followed by a great review of Author Cehammock's Gaze. This review is by... (wait for it)... Dark! <cough - lame pun - so what> So to get the bad pun out of your mind - go read. These reviews should hopefully inspire you to discover some great new fiction! Butterflies of Death By Dark Revie

Trebs in Reviews

August 8, 2012

Author Interviews

Interview Toss-Up Tuesday: Our Heroes

Something a little different this week - Radiant Renee Stevens has complied a great little piece on thanks. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did... Our Heroes We love when we get messages from Members with things to go into the blog. Recently we received on such message from FleetingRainbows who strongly believes that Readers should not be overlooked, and we agree. Readers are what keeps a lot of the Authors on GA writing. So today, we are sharing a special Thank You from F

Trebs in Author Interviews

August 7, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Spark

What a better way to start a week than with a great story. Hosted Author Libby Drew is one of our most talented authors with wonderful tales - here is a review of her short story Spark. Enjoy! Spark By Libby Drew Reviewer: Renee Stevens Status: Complete Word Count: 6,434 I have had Libby Drew on my “to read” list for quite a while, and today I decided why wait? I scrolled through her list of stories and one immediately jumped out at me. The description sounde