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    Paranormal Deep Dive 10

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    The Top Read Paranormal Stories Since Deep Dive 9 Top 2 Most Read Paranormal - Cryptid Features creatures from folklore, mythology, or cryptozoology, such as Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, or Chupacabra. The narrative often revolves around encounters with these mysterious beings. A Night on Pine Ridge by Myr Complete Lovesquatch: A Culinary Cryptid Romcom by Rafy Complete Top 5 Most Read Paranormal - Cursed Objects Focuses on objects with supernatural or
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #510 & #511

I hope everyone is having a great week! It's time for this weeks prompts, supplied by our prompt guru, Comicfan. Just a reminder, and for those who haven't worked with the prompts before: prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Hopefully you'll find something in this weeks prompts to spark an idea and get you writing! Prompt 510 -Creative Tag – First Line “Do you really think he did it?” Prompt 511 - creative Tag – The Child The neighborhood has gone strangel
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun 19 - June 25)

I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Just a reminder: Tomorrow is the CSR Discussion Day for Things We Lost by Dabeagle. If you want to participate and haven’t finished the story yet, there’s still time! Now, let’s see what happened this past week in the various GA News Blogs.   To start your week off right, we featured Thaw by Puppilull. If you haven’t already read Thaw, you can get a little insight into the story by reading the review provided to us by Timothy M.   Have you thought a
Prompts

Writing Prompts #508 & #509

Happy Friday, Y'all!!!!! Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend, I know I am! To help start your weekend off right, it's time for some new prompts. Hopefully one of these great prompts will inspire you, and don't forget to share your responses (at least a link) so that they can possibly be featured next week. Also, as always, remember that prompt responses under 1K have to be posted as part of a collection. Prompt 508 -Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in a story – a blue
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Featured Stories

Premium Promo: Galactic Conspiracies Series

While the majority of the site is free, Premium Stories are available to members for a small fee. Premium access can be purchased in increments of 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. We'll take a look at each of the stories that can be found in Premium to give you an idea of what is available. Some of our Premium Stories are part of a series. Today we're looking at the Galactic Conspiracies Series by Rob Colton.     Galactic Conspiracies Series Rob Colton  
Prompts

Writing Prompts #512 & #513

Happy Friday, Y'all!!!!! Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend, I know I am! To help start your weekend off right, it's time for some new prompts. Hopefully one of these great prompts will inspire you, and don't forget to share your responses (at least a link) so that they can possibly be featured next week. Also, as always, remember that prompt responses under 1K have to be posted as part of a collection. Prompt 512 – Creative Tag – List of words Use the following in a story – a snak
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Thaw

Being the start of a new week, Monday's are also a good time to take a look at some of the different stories that can be found on Gay Authors. With so many great works, it can be easy to overlook one and Monday's provide an opportunity for us to help make one of them stand out and maybe catch your interest. Today, we're bringing you a review by Timothy M. of Puppilull's story Thaw. Enjoy!   Thaw Puppilull   Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 59,856
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun 12 - Jun 18)

It's once again time to take a look at what has happened here on GA this past week. Emotions have run high after the news about the tragic shooting in Orlando, Florida. While many of us couldn't find the words to say how we felt, Steve managed to do what we couldn't, and shared some thoughts on what happened in Orlando. Some authors, both here at GA and others, are putting together a Poetry Anthology to benefit the victims of the Pulse shooting. If you're interested in participating, you can che
Prompts

Writing Prompts #506 & #507

And it's the end of the week again. Sorry about being so late in posting the writing prompts for this week, I haven't been home all day. Since it's already late, let's not delay any further and get right into the prompts!   Prompt 506 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story : a dirty plate, a nurse, a green hat, a puddle, and a squirrel.   Prompt 507 – Creative Tag – The Choice Your life has been easy, but now you have to make a choice that will determine your whole
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Signature Feature

June Signature Excerpt: Standing In Shadows By Krista

Did you see the feature on Monday highlighting Krista's favorite reviews from Standing in Shadows? Or download your a copy of the banner to share your love for her story? Never fear, you can still do that here! Today we're featuring the excerpt Krista has picked to share with readers.   Krista says... I picked this scene because the story really begins to take shape and the characters are settled in nicely. If the Excerpt needs a title it would be, "The First True Meeting".   Want to read
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Signature Feature

June Signature Feature: Standing In Shadows By Krista

This month's Signature feature is Krista's Standing in Shadows. This is one of Krista's most liked stories... and now you get to see why! Check out the thoughts of several of Krista's readers and make sure you download the signature ad if you want to share your love of this story!     Length: 200,330   Description: This story is about a young man trying to break through the expectations set by his father and small-town life.   Reviews: Jons317 says... Again, you are such a good w
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Memorial

Thoughts On Orlando

Shock, anger, sadness, resentment, and thoughts of revenge.   Those are the thoughts and feelings I am personally dealing with this morning waking up to the news of what happened early today in Orlando, Florida.   I’m sure there is much more we are all feeling and trying to work our way through right now.   As of the last report on CNN, there are 50 dead and 49 injured in a mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando called Pulse. It happened at 2 AM just around closing time. The gunman, who th
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun 5 - Jun 11)

Hope everyone has had a great week and weekend! We're going to get right up into the wrap up this week, and guess what, we're even going to go backwards! Have you been looking for something new to read? Something short maybe? With the release of the 2016 Summer Anthology, you have 8 brand new stories to check out. If you check Thursday's blog entry, you'll find links to all of them. Don't forget to leave the authors a review to let them know how much you appreciate their work.   Before that, w
Anthologies

2016 Summer Anthology - Wicked Games ~ Now Live

Attention all GA Members! Put your pen and paper down and put on those reading glasses, if you have them. It's time to do some reading, as the 2016 Summer Anthology is now live for your enjoyment! We had seven authors take up the challenge of the Wicked Games theme and there are eight new stories and poems for you to go through. Don't forget, if you like a story, leave the author a comment to show them your appreciation. Now, without further ado, here's what we have for you.    
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (May 29 - June 4)

I hope everyone had a great weekend. As we get ready to start a new week, it's time to take a look back at what happened this past week in the GA News Blog. There was a lot of great things going on, and if you haven't already checked out the past week's post, now is the chance for you to get a glimpse and maybe go read up on the posts you missed. And we're going backwards this week!     Anthology Announcements:   ***NOTE: All Deadlines are for submission to the Anthology Proof Team
Prompts

Writing Prompts #504 & #505

I hope everyone is having a great week! It's time for this weeks prompts, supplied by our prompt guru, Comicfan. Just a reminder, and for those who haven't worked with the prompts before: prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Hopefully you'll find something in this weeks prompts to spark an idea and get you writing!   Prompt 504 – Creative Tag – First Line “You’re giving me a headache! “   Prompt 505 – Challenge Tag -Sense Denied Tell a story, but your ch
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Author Interviews

Ask An Author #39

I'm back! Did you miss me? A huge thank you to AJ, Cia, Steve, and Slytherin for helping cover me while I was gone. It was much appreciated. Speaking of being back, Ask An Author is returning to start the month off right! Ask An Author is one of our most popular blog features, and I want to give a huge THANK YOU to Dark for supplying us month after month. Now, lets see what Dark has for us this month!   Ask an Author #39   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with
CSR- Can't Stop Reading

C S R Discussion Day: London And Love By Carringtonrj

Did you get a chance to read CarringtonRJ's story, London and Love? Set in... you guessed it, London, this story follows the life of a US transplant from San Francisco as he struggles to adjust to his new life in the city where he's all alone. Shy and awkward, usually, Tony learns there's more about himself than even he knew, which is saying a lot since he started out life as Tanya! First, though, check out my interview with CarringtonRJ and then make sure you leave your thoughts and reviews. Th
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (May 22 - May 28)

Wow, Renee takes the weekend off to be a mountain lady and she leaves me in charge of the Weekly Wrap Up. To top it off she changed the format on it too!!!   Well since Valkyrie was the only one to weigh in last week and said she had no preference of which format, I will use the old one   On Monday we had a Featured Story of Song and Dance by Headstall. LitLover did a very good review which sets up the story and will pique your interest to check it out.   Tuesday Renee did a Premium Promo
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #502 & #503

So this week, I had to set up the prompts from comicfan a little early, because I'll be out of town. (Ha! I'm not even here and yet I'm still doing the prompts, go me!). I'll be featuring the responses to Prompt #500 today, but if you did the prompt and it's not posted here, it's nothing against you, it's just that it wasn't up before I set up the blog post. Feel free to share them in the comments if you'd like. Don't forget, that if you post your prompt responses in GA stories, anything under 1
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News Archive

Ga's Newest Promising Author: Albertnothlit

GA is happy to announce our newest promotion to Promising Author, Albertnothlit! Albert has only been with the site for just over a year now, but he's already posted quite a variety of stories for our readers to enjoy. If you haven't checked out his work before, try out sci-fi fan favorite Tantalus, contemporary romance Josh.mp4, or his latest sci-fi serial story Life Seed. Albert seems to have a knack for writing science fiction, and we look forward to seeing what new worlds Albert has in store
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Featured Stories

Premium Promo: A Chance At Love

Note: I (Renee) will be going out of town starting either today (25th) or tomorrow (26th). The anthology deadline for sending to the proof team is tomorrow. If you haven't already sent your story in, then you will need to include both Cia and me in the PM to pair you with a member of the proof team. This way, if it is received after I leave, Cia will be able to get you set up. Thanks!!!   Gay Authors has always managed to remain free to it's members, one of the ways that it has managed to do s
Featured Stories

Featured Story: Song And Dance

I hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to start the new week. To help your week get started off right, we have a new featured story for you to take a look at. Whether you read or write, you most likely know Headstall and not only does Headstall write, but he reads and reviews a lot of other authors' work. Today it's Headstall's turn in the limelight, with this review of Song and Dance provided to us by LitLover. Hope you enjoy!   Song and Dance Headstall   Reviewer
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (May 15 - May 22)

Well, it's the end of the week and it's time to take a look at what happened in the various GA blogs this week. A quick reminder, if you're wanting to participate in the summer anthology, the deadline to get your submissions to the proof team is this coming Thursday. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with for the theme "Wicked Games". Also, I'm trying out a new format for the weekly wrap up, so let me know what you think!         Anthology Announcements:   ***NO
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