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    Secret Author Contest-Forbidden Is... Revealed? Nooooo.

    By Cia

    Ha! Did you think it was time to share the stories and authors? No!! Total clickbait. Heehee! That's right, time to vote on your favorite! Now, to be fair, it would be ideal to have read ALL the stories. Can you vote without having read them? YES! Because this is about your favorite use of our theme of Forbidden Knowledge that you read in this year's Secret Author Forbidden Knowledge stories. Pick a SINGLE title, this isn't your top three. It doesn't even have to be your favorite overall st
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Turbulence

Monday's are a great day, not so much as they are the start of a new week but because it's the day we look at one of the stories here at Gay Authors. Maybe you have been looking for a new story to read? If so, why not read the following review provided by andy021278 of Eliotmoore's story Turbulence. After reading about the story, you can decide whether or not it's one you want to take a look at! Enjoy! Turbulence by Eliotmoore   Reviewer: andy021278 Status: Complete Word Count:
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Personal Announcement: For those of you who have been following my health status, here is the short story version - I may be more absent from GA depending on my upcoming treatments. The best part of that though is a recent test confirms that I am IN REMISSION (ie, no current trace of Mantle Cell Lymphoma - so the chemo worked). My sister comes in later tonight for two weeks, the first week will be tests to confirm she's healthy enough to be a donor, then the second week to stimulate production o
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #208 & #209

I don't know about everyone else out there, but I always look forward to Fridays. Not just because its the start to the weekend, but because every Friday our resident prompt guru Comicfan brings us two new prompts! I couldn't tell you how many of these prompts I have started writing something for only to decide it needs to be continued. I have at least six prompts began on my computer. Maybe one these days I'll get them finished. Until then though, check out the new prompts and share them in the
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr Book Club Monthly Feature

Hi again readers! We had some great feedback and thoughts on last books kick off book club selection. I appreciate all of the time readers invested in participating. This month I've picked a selection from the suggestions made by commenters last month. As February is a short month, so the discussion will take place on February 25th. I truly hope we can continue to see success with the book club! Okay, on to this month's selection! Drumroll ......... Nowhere Man by Jwolf       Length
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

So as we end January and enter February, we started the week with our first wrap up for our Can't Stop Reading Book Club with Discussion Day. If you've read January's CSR book, Memories of Forgotten Love, by Nephylim, you can still head to the discussion in the link above to give your thoughts on this great work.   For Wacky Wednesday, Yettie One continued his monthly Pulse Behind the GA Crowd, with an interview of KingdombytheSea. It is fantastic to get to know a little bit more about one of
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #206 & #207

"It's me again, Margaret!" No, I'm not quite that old but my Dad controlled the TV growing up. For you young'uns, maybe this will prompt you to google it; the man was funny! Okay, so this week I'm bringing you two more great prompts from our resident flash fiction guru man, Comicfan and a prompt selection from a new GA Author, Wicked Witch!   First, our dose of weekly inspiration:   Prompt 206 – Creative Tag – The Dance There is a long standing story that if any of the fairy folk ask you to
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday - Pulse Behind The Ga Crowd

I'd like to thank Yettie One for his regular feature here at the GA News Blog - the Pulse Behind the GA Crowd. This month, he gives us a great interview with KingdombytheSea. Enjoy!   Pulse behind the GA Crowd by Yettie One       In the tail end of December I managed to pin KingdomByTheSea down while she was in Costa Rica (lucky fish) and grill her about her time here on GA. For me this proved to be an interesting insight into a long standing member of GA and the self published writer Sa
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Csr (Can't Stop Reading) - Discussion Day On Memories Of Forgotten Love

First - thanks MUST go to Cia for coming up with concept and the legwork to make this happen.   Well, that wraps up the reading time for the first story of the GA Can't Stop Reading Book Club! Hope everyone enjoyed the story Memories of Forgotten Love by Nephylim. Now, before we get into the discussion, Renee contacted Nephy and asked her to give us her thoughts on the story. What gave her the idea in the first place? So to start off this discussion, let's here what Nephy has to say!   **SP
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

REMINDER: The first discussion day for our brand new GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, is this Monday, January 28th. Nephylim's Memories of Forgotten Love is a fantastic read that even if you haven't started yet, once you start, you'll not be able to put it down until you're done and so you'll easily be ready for Monday's discussion. Give it a try so you can join us on Monday!   For this past week, we started with a great review by Radiant Renee Stevens of No St
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #204 & #205

Well, Robert's off freezing his bits at the capital and internet gremlins have struck at Renee's, so you get a weekly prompt blog from yours truly! As always, our very own inspiring prompt guru, Comicfan has 2 interesting scenarios to intrigue you. Don't forget, if you decide to try one of these out, share it with the rest of us in the Writing Prompt Forum!!   Prompt 204 – Creative Tag – The Monster Hunter You always thought you were the only one. You hunted down the dark and the evil, until t
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Writing Tips

Writing Tip: Character Interviews

We're always looking for stuff for our Wacky Wednesday and this time, Cia came through with this piece on Character Interviews. Enjoy!! Character Interviews by Cia   I recently answered a tip request with some information regarding character interviews and I thought I’d take it site wide, so to speak. When you write a story, especially anything approaching novel length, you need to make it as vivid as possible for readers to keep them interested. One way to hook readers is throug
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: No Strings

Before we move on to the featured story for the week, I'd like to remind everyone that the first GA's CSR Book Club discussion will take place on Monday, January 28th, 2013. The story to be read is Memories of Forgotten Love by Hosted Author: Nephylim. You can find the story pinned under the GA Stories tab. We would like to start the discussion with a review, so if anyone out there would like to write a review, or a couple of paragraphs about the story, then please PM Renee Stevens.   Now, ont
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

REMINDER - our new book club, the CSR Club is reading Memories of Forgotten Love by Nephylim. Read it by January 28th, then come back here and join in the discussion!   Also as a personal plug, if you'd like to meet me (or DKStories, or Quonus or a few other of our great members) - we're having a GA GetTogether NEXT Saturday, January 26 at Noon in Washington DC. Would love for more to join us - just send me a PM if you can make it.   We had a great mid-January week here at the news blog. We
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Writing Prompts #202 & #203

Well, it's finally TGIF day, better known as Prompt Me day!! So lets see what our prompt guru Comicfan has in store for us this week. Don't forget, if you decide to try one of these out, share it with the rest of us in the Writing Prompt Forum!!   Prompt 202 – Creative Tag – Immortals You have been having the day from hell. It seems that everything that could go wrong today did. Then you almost have an accident only to find out that the person you nearly hit isn’t human. In fact, you have just
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Writing Tips

Writing Tip: Don't Leave Your Readers Deaf And Blind

I always love it when we get a feature from Libby Drew - having someone who has been there, able relate writing tips from experience, is a valuable experience. Here she talks about using the characters various senses in your writing. Enjoy!   Don’t Leave Your Readers Deaf and Blind by Libby Drew   “Stop! You’re scaring me,” Megan said   “I’m not trying to scare you,” Steve soothed. “We need to talk.”   “Don’t come any closer!” Megan cried.   “Don’t be afraid, Megan,” Stev
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Moment Of Clarity

Welcome to the beginning of another week here at GayAuthors. I know personally, I could have used a much longer weekend. I loved the post on Facebook by George Takai, "I really need a day between Saturday & Sunday." Anyways, one thing to look forward to about a Monday is seeing a new featured story - this time we get a review from Dark of Moment of Clarity, by Author Jason Rimbaud. Enjoy!   Moment of Clarity By Jason Rimbaud Review by Dark Status: Complete Word Count: 4,
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

This week has been a great week of announcements. For starters, if you will be in the DC area two weeks from now on Saturday, January 26 around lunchtime and would like to meet some others from GA, including Dan and myself, we're having a GA GetTogether. Check this topic for more info!   We also have launched our GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, the format is that we'll announce a story to read at the beginning of each month, and then have a discussion on the s
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Prompts

Writing Prompts #200 & #201

Once again it is time for our weekly prompts thanks to the hard work of Comicfan. Best way to show your appreciation? Try one of these out, and please share it with the rest of the community in our Writing Prompts forum!       Prompt 200 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story: strawberry, tea rag, bottle of soda, brownies, and cat.   Prompt 201 – Creative Tag – The Cat Your cat has been bringing you presents. They aren’t the usual – no mice, birds, or anything li
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Ga's Csr Book Club

Book clubs have had a long and storied history - providing both social interaction for the members as well as providing a forum for discussion of books/stories that might otherwise have not received as much attention.   Cia recently came up with the idea for a GA Book Club and the rest of us here at the GayAuthors.org News Blog thought it was a fantastic idea. Here's an initial idea of how this would work, as well as the focus for our first month's choice - Nephylim's Memories of Forgotten Lov
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up!

Great week here and hope yours has been the same. We started with a look at Hosted Author Shadowgod's story Vegas Sun - with a fantastic review from comicfan.   For our Wacky Wednesday, we saw the latest installment of Yettie One's The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd - his series of interviews with this one with TetRefine.   Finally we had our two new GA Writing Prompts and looked back to a year ago, with a prompt response from Cia.   So - how was your week?   Anthology Announcements: Spri
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Writing Prompts #198 & #199

For some of us, it's been a short work week, but Friday's are still a day to look forward to. We always look forward to Friday's here as that means two new writing prompts, thanks to Comicfan, our writing prompt's guru. These writing prompts are a great way to stretch the writing muscles - but when you do, share your efforts with the community in our Writing Prompts forum.   Prompt 198 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in a story – dish rag, a new shirt, a box of chocolates, a b
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Author Interviews

Wacky Wednesday - Tetrefine Chat

Continuing in our monthly feature Interviews by Yettie One, here is December's interview with member TetRefine (ya, two days late - but the week started in December so....)   Enjoy! The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd by Yettie One           I was really genuinely excited to be able to interview this months member. As a new comer to GA, one of the people that I noticed played an active role in the community here is none other than TetRefine, a young and vibrant 20 year old guy who
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: Vegas Sun

Everyone have good plans to ring out the old and ring in the new? I had a LOT of great times in 2012, and some not so great moments, but ending the year in a great mood after spending some real quality time with friends.   Speaking of friends, it was also really nice to read this review by Comicfan of Vegas Sun, an anthology story that Hosted Author (and total studmuffin) Shadowgod wrote. I hope you enjoy the review and the story!           Vegas Sun By Shadowgod
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