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Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #12

Renee Stevens

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**NOTE - Friday's Prompts may be delayed due to weather issues. We hope to have them to you as soon as we can. Thanks for understanding - Trebs

 

 

 


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful time while saying goodbye to 2013 and welcoming in 2014! There's a lot of exciting things planned here at Gay Authors for the new year and I for one am looking forward to being involved in them. To start the new year off right, I'm happy to bring you the first Ask An Author post of 2014, compiled by Dark! Enjoy!

Ask an Author #12

 

Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!

 

In AtA #11, we had questions for authors Adam Thomas, Ieshwar, Krista, and MethodWriter.

 

In AtA #12, we hear from authors Cia, Riley Jericho, and Thomas Nealy.

 

For their protection, the members who asked these questions shall remain nameless (unless they choose to reveal themselves). :lol: Please note that all author replies are copied as is, spelling errors and grammar eccentricities original to the individual.

 

Today’s first author is Hosted Author Cia! An amazing cook, redhead, and mother (as well as published author), it’s hard to find something around GA that Cia’s not involved in. She’s a moderator and on the Writer’s Support Team, the team behind the GA Blog, and she runs the CSR Club. Journey on over to Cia's Stories to help support one of our own.

To Cia: What is your favourite part of writing for
GA
?

 

Community. Finding the site gave me new friends and a creative outlet I didn't have at a time when I desperately needed both.
GA
doesn't always have the numbers of reads and reviews I can get elsewhere but this site is, and hopefully always will be, my writing home. I enjoy putting my stories here for other readers to enjoy, no matter how much, or little, feedback I get. This is where I can talk about my writing, other's writing, writing in general, without having to worry that my subject matter might not be acceptable. For the most part, I've always been given support and encouragement and I try to share that. By writing, I'm also giving back and contributing to the site. I like that.

 

Today’s next author is Riley Jericho. This brit joined GA in 2010 and has been working on his opus ever since, the infamous and currently unpublished story, An English Teen, Circumcised in the USA. Originally to be posted elsewhere, there was some argument regarding the story’s title, but Riley stood by his choice, and so he came to be here. Why don’t you check it out? You’ll soon see why this is one of the most favorited stories here on GA.

To Riley Jericho: What was your inspiration for writing English Teen?

 

Hehe - well I had to grin at that! I wonder if the question - from whatever source it came - actually means 'So, tell us Riley. Are you circumcised?' That aside, ET is about what most fiction comes down to: 'who am I, and where do I fit?' The idea of crossing cultures has always interested me and I wanted to see how an English kid would fare in the States. Above all that, inspiration - if it can be called that - for me comes from personal experiences. To write it well, I have to have been there; my characters live because I literally live, breathe and eat the scene with them. It's rewarding but can be painful at times - honestly, you won't believe how many buckets I wept at the end of 'In Safe Hands'! So, was I ever in Luke Summers shoes? Now that would be telling, wouldn't it!

 

Today’s final author is Thomas Nealy. Although he’s been with GA for a few years, Thomas has taken a break or two in order to deal with real life. He’s also known as the guy who posted a cliffhanger that didn’t answered for months and months! Of course, this is way back when and we know he’s not going to do that again … right? In any case, during his time with us, Thomas has posted two stories, both complete. One is a short Harry Potter fan-fiction, and the other is original. Both are worth a read and we eagerly await the next!

To Thomas Nealy: What was your inspiration for Lives and Trials of Jupiter?

 

Well to be honest it was a dream. I kept having this reacuring dream every night about a man with an adopted family living in this high tech house, it got to the point that I was thinking about it during the day as well. I knew I was in truble when I started to give names to the people in my head. After weeks of this going on I started to write it all out just to get it out of my head. As the story came along more of my personality started to show it self in alot of the characters as well which made them seems all the more real to me. Personaly I have all ways been a fan of High tech every thing and Mythology as well. So both of those had a part in the world builing. Lives and Trials of Jupiter was my first story I atempted to write out and will probly all ways be my favorit because of that, even if I see alot of issues two years latter.

 

That’s it for now! For more info on these authors, go check out their stories, post in their forums, and/or catch them in chat!

 

Coming next time: Q!, Layla, and Nephylim.

 

Want to ask your favorite author a question? Simply PM me (Dark).

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Excellent batch of Q & A! Kudos to the questioners and the questionees! 

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I like these introductions if they can be called that. Anyway, I usually find something I haven´t found or read before. I thought I´ll check An English Teen, but couldn´t find it. 

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I like these introductions if they can be called that. Anyway, I usually find something I haven´t found or read before. I thought I´ll check An English Teen, but couldn´t find it. 

 

According to a forum post, Riley was having personal issues with finding the time to finish English Teen and felt it necessary to pull the story in its entirety. That obviously happened well after the Q & A had been created and scheduled, which is too bad, because it really was a great coming of age story.

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ET is one story I've never gotten round to reading.

 

Here's hoping Riley will repost it eventually.

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According to a forum post, Riley was having personal issues with finding the time to finish English Teen and felt it necessary to pull the story in its entirety. That obviously happened well after the Q & A had been created and scheduled, which is too bad, because it really was a great coming of age story.

Ok. Thanks for the info. Perhaps he finishes it some day and re-posts it. 

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:P I've been knocked down to a mod! Yay! No more admin duties for me. Don't tell Myr. ;) I didn't know I was being featured today, so that's really great. I've had some wonderful eBook news today, so hopefully the rest of 2014 will be as successful. Many thanks to Dark for arranging these peeks into the on and off GA lives of our authors.

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