I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! Before I forget, I want to let everyone know that Cole Matthews will be doing a live Q & A via the blog tomorrow (Monday) from 7pm-9pm Central time. If you won't be able to make it, feel free to leave your question as a comment on the blog for him to answer, but we hope to see lots of people there. Now, lets see what happened this past week in the blog!

On Monday we did something a little bit different. We still featured a review, but instead of it being on a single story, the review was on The Rossford Triptych by Chris Lewis Gibson. If you haven't already read the story, check out the review and see if this trilogy is something you might be interested in.

This week's Premium Feature was Picked At The Peak by Cia. If you're not already a Premium Subscriber, check out the blog entry and see what you're missing!

For Wednesday we did a bit of a Blast From The Past and refeatured a writing tip from Sara Alva on Keeping It Legal when using lyrics and other copyrighted material in your stories. A lot of great info and some great comments, I'd strong suggest all authors check it out.

Friday we had two new prompts. One gave us a list of words and the other used the tag of "Favorite Memory". I look forward to seeing what our authors come up with! For this week we featured Valkyrie71's response to Prompt 340.

Finally, and to finish off the week, Saturday brought August's Signature Author Background. For the month of August we'll be featuring "The Game" by Nephylim. If you haven't already done so, don't forget to go and download your background.

Anthology Announcements:

• 2014 Fall Anthology: Scars - Due Sept 3rd *Note: Deadline is for submission to the Anthology Proof Team*
  

• 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

By our Signature Authors this week:

A Prompt a Week by comicfan

Leopard Spots by Graeme; Book 2 of The Lilydale Leopards

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

Space Pioneer by Dolores Esteban

HMS Valiant by Mark Arbour; Book 7 of Bridgemont

Translator III: Dragon Warrior by David McLeod

Lost Inside by Cia, Book 2 of Carthera Tales

Dream Lover - Extended by Comicality

By our Promising Authors this week:

Vintage by carringtonrj

A Wolf And His Man by Sasha Distan

Direct Confusion by Sasha Distan

Curse of the Fallen by JMH, Book 2 of Fallen

Redemption's A Bitch by Sasha Distan

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