Happy Super Bowl Sunday to everyone who will be watching the game! I can't believe that it's already February, it seems like this year has just flown by so far. The nomination phase of the 2013 Gay Authors Readers Choice Awards is over. I hope everyone got in their nominations before they ended at 12:00 am EST time this morning. Now, lets see what happened in the GA News Blog this week!

We started the week with the CSR Discussion on Totallyy's collection of short stories, complete with an interview and a live Q & A session. There were lots of different questions asked and it was a lively day on the blog. It's well worth a look, so if you haven't already done so, give it a glance, or two.

It seemed like a week for interviews. On Wednesday we continued with an interview with Hosted Author: CassieQ as well as a Blog Chat. Not only did Cassie talk about her stories and writing, but she also talked about what inspired her to write certain stories. It was really quite informative and I even asked her what was something about her that people might be surprised to find out. If your curious about her answer, check out the blog!

We ended the week, and the month, with two new prompts from Comicfan. This week's prompts consisted of a "first line" prompt and one with the tag of "the carpet". Both will hopefully inspire some stories from the authors at Gay Authors. For our featured prompt response, I chose a response from the prompt guru himself. Check out Friday's post and see if either of the new prompts call out to you and check out Comicfan's response to last week's prompt!

We had an extra blog entry this week. We started out the month with a blog post on Saturday which featured a new Hosted Background for the month of February. This month's featured story is "Love in a Chair" by Altimexis. Members have two choices of which background they want, one with a calendar or one without. To download your background, visit the Saturday post!

Anthology Announcements:

• 2014 Spring Anthology: Nature's Wrath - Due Mar 8th *Note: Deadline is for submission into GA Stories. Deadline for Submission to the Anthology Editing Team is March 5th*
• 2014 Summer Anthology: The Backup Plan - Due June 8th *Note: Deadline is for submission into GA Stories. Deadline for Submission to the Anthology Editing Team is June 5th*
  

NEW READING

In Premium this week:

Boy Called Slave by Nephylim

By our Hosted Authors this week:

Adverse Effects by Cia Book 2 of Saving Caeorleia

Let the Music Play by C James

Odyssey by Mark Arbour Book 6 of Bridgemont

Geeks by CassieQ

0300 Book 3 by David McLeod

9.11 by Mark Arbour Book 13 of Chronicles Of An Academic Predator (CAP)

New Kid In School by Comicality

Lost Inside by Cia Book 2 of Carthera Tales

Thwarted by Renee Stevens

Last Christmas by comicfan

Recovery by Nephylim

By our Sponsored Authors this week:

Timber Pack Chronicles by Rob Colton, Book 1 of Timber Pack Chronicles

Noah's New Plan by Rob Colton

By our Promising Authors this week:

MUSH! by Sasha Distan

Born Wolf by Sasha Distan

So Little Magic Left by Mann Ramblings

Guitars 2 by layla

Remember.... Read, Write... and REVIEW!!!!!