Renee is off playing so I get to sneak in and give everyone a review of this, our last week of June. Can you believe after Monday that the year is half over? Wow! We had a great start to the week here, with a review by Renee of Promising Author Dark's short story The Matchmaker is Grounded. It a very sweet story and a quick read that will bring smiles to your face, and Renee does a great job of enticing you with her review.

Continuing on with our Premium Tuesday feature was a look at Coin in the Fountain, written by comicfan for the 2013 Summer Premium Anthology. If you missed reading it then (or read it and need a refresher), now's the perfect time for another read of this magical story.

We got a new Tech Blog 7 on Privacy Policy and Site Help. These site updates by Myr are always one of our most popular features, and this week's is no exception.

Friday is more important that just the end of the working week for many of us - it's also the time to celebrate reading the new weekly Prompts from comicfan, along with a great response to a past prompt. This week we got to see Cole Matthew's response to Prompt 332 that was a first line starter: "Try it again, and I will kill you!" And oh my, you should go see where Cole took this.

We ended the week with a wonderful two-fer from Mann Ramblings. The July Signature Author background is out and features Mann's story The Luxorian Fugitive. The "two-fer" aspect? The background graphic was done by Mann as well - damn, is there anything he can't do?

So - how was YOUR week?

Anthology Announcements:

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• 2014 Winter Anthology: Chain Reaction - Due December 3rd *Note: Deadline is for submission to the Anthology Proof Team*
  

NEW READING

In Premium this week:

No More Hiding by Renee Stevens

Do Over by dkstories, Book 1 of Do Over Series [reposting]

By our Signature Authors this week:

Belovéd by Don H

Leopard Spots by Graeme, Book 2 of The Lilydale Leopards

Space Pioneer by Dolores Esteban

Flux by Mark Arbour; Book 14 of Chronicles Of An Academic Predator (CAP)

GFD 12: Blood Ties by Comicality, book 12 of Gone From Daylight

HMS Valiant by Mark Arbour; Book 7 of Bridgemont

The Secret Life Of Billy Chase 8 by Comicality; Book 8 of Billy Chase Chronicles

Lost Inside by Cia; Book 2 of Carthera Tales

Noah's New Plan by Rob Colton

Finding Alex by Nephylim

Dream Lover - Extended by Comicality

Veil of Shadow by Stellar, Book 2 of unnamed

Geeks by CassieQ

By our Promising Authors this week:

The Gay Man of Her Dreams by carringtonrj

A Wolf And His Man by Sasha Distan

Direct Confusion by Sasha Distan

The English Year by Jwolf

Dinner is Prompt-ly at Eight by Cole Matthews

Button by Cole Matthews

Don't forget.... Read, Write, and REVIEW!!!!