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    Non-Fiction Deep Dive 11

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    Top Read Non-Fiction Stories Since Deep Dive 10 Top 10 Most Read Non-Fiction - Autobiography is a self-written account of one's life. Takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory. Memoirs of a child of the past century by old bob Long-Term Hold An Advent Calendar by Aditus Complete It’s Not How
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun. 8 - Jun. 14)

Howdy   No, not Stampede yet, but can't say howdy without the cowboy emoji   I kind of had a blah week the past week  for me. Wasn't bad, wasn't good, but we will take it. The alternative isn't so great🪦. Sunday through Thursday it was hot and dry and you couldn't see down the street due to the smoke from all the wildfires burning across the north of Canada👨‍🚒. I haven't really looked at the US of A, but I imagine they aren't too different. I heard that there is even some some smoke fl
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Prompts

Pick a Flower

Or bake a cake? Write a poem? A letter? What if someone’s birthday was yesterday and you forgot it? Maybe you didn’t know, but you want to do something nice now that you do know. PT #287   Write a birthday poem.   PT #288 Someone forgot an important birthday and needs a last-minute gift. Write their story and use the following words: purple bow, umbrella, plushy, cheesecake, revolving door, red pen, German punk band, oh, and flowers...lots of flowers.  
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Author Guess Who

Author Guess Who #25

Wow! Twenty five editions of Author Guess Who...  Plenty of fun has been had, many accusatory guesses, and countless acts of finger-pointing later, and AGW is still kicking! This month is no exception. What better way to celebrate than to participate. We have another mystery author with several answers that may or may not hint at their identity. Grab your detective hats, slip on that dusty foam finger from that random basketball game you went to ten years ago, and get ready to guess this au
Announcements

GA's Newest Signature Author: Mark Ponyboy Peters

Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating Mark Ponyboy Peters as GA's newest Signature Author! @Mark Ponyboy Peters has only been a member for 13 months, but he's been posting stories on the Internet for over 20 years. I don't mind admitting he was one of the early authors whose stories I fell in love with when I first started exploring Nifty. I especially loved his Seachange series. He's still in the process of slowly posting his extensive backlog of stories, so th
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Genre Deep Dives

Thriller/Suspense Genre Deep Dive 6

Top 2 Most Read Thriller/Suspense - Environmental Thriller thrillers tied to environmental events that are typically threatening the world.  Ex: The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm Journey To Proxima Centauri b by Lee Wilson Complete Neon by William King Temporary Hold Top 4 Most Read Thriller/Suspense - Espionage The spy thriller is a genre of literature that centers around a storyline with secret agents and espionage. Part action-adventure and part thriller
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Reviews

Featured Story: The Jerk-Off by JLynch

June is here, and that means we get our monthly fix from our Review Team. Check out this gem brought to us by Parker:   The Jerk-Off by JLynch Reviewer: Parker Owens Status: Complete Word Count: 98,033 It’s summer.  You need a good beach read – you know, the kind of story that engages your attention so much that you wind up frying in the hot sun, and which entertains enough that you ignore the subsequent pain. GA author JLynch serves up just such a story in The Jerk-Off.
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun. 1 - Jun. 6)

I was doing up our Weekly Update this week and noticed I had a long hard slog ahead of me to recap all the blogs   Then I got thinking about my preamble and thinking I should do an equal long and labourious one.  So get ready, here we go. How was everybody's past week?      Let's check what happened in the past week on the GA News Blog. Tuesday was the start of the week with a Deep Dive into the deepest part of our imaginations:   Friday, Val was in with a cou
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Prompts

Let's Play a Game

I love games.  Board games, card games, word games... if it's game night, count me in!  When I was a kid, we always played games when I visited my grandparents.  Yahtzee was a favorite, along with Boggle.  Later, we discovered Pass the Pigs.  As a teenager, I played a lot of poker with my friends, usually with M&Ms as the currency.  The different colors had different values, as did plain and peanut.  The winner was usually the person who didn't eat all their 'money'.  In college, my room was
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Genre Deep Dives

Sci-fi Genre Deep Dive 6

Top 10 Most Read Science Fiction - Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic concerned with the end of civilization, either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Example: 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, I am Legend The Last Boys in Clinton by Lee Wilson Complete The Falcon Banner by Topher Lydon Complete Shelter by Comicality Author Passed Away Hidden Sunlight by S
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