Well, another week has gone by and the time has come to take a look at what's happened in the GA News Blog this past week. Before we do that, I seem to recall promising an announcement of the 2015 Anthology Themes. A big thank you to the team who helped narrow down the choices as well as to everyone who voted. We have some great themes for next year and they are:

 

To start off our week, we featured a review of Judas Tree by Author: AC Benus. Timothy M. thoroughly enjoyed reading the first story in the series of novellas and brought us a great review for the first story in the series. Based on the comments, he wasn't the only one who enjoyed the story by AC Benus. If you haven't already read Judas Tree, check out Monday's post and see if maybe the story might be for you. If you have read it, feel free to stop by and leave your own comment as to what you thought of the story!

 

It's always great to bring attention to our Premium Stories since they are one of the ways in which GA is funded. On Tuesday we featured a story by Cia called Burden of Secrets. It's a great story and so worth the price of a premium membership. If you don't believe me, just go check out the comments on Tuesday's posts.

 

Myr joined us on Wednesday to bring us his monthly Tech feature. This month he talked about the testing of the new forum software and some of the new features, one of which is the way the new software will recognize top contributors. There is a lot of great information in these monthly features and as the release of the new forum software gets closer, we'll have a lot more of them. Curious as to what's coming? Go check out the blog post!

 

Friday brought us a couple of new prompts from the Prompt Guru. This week he decided to give us a "First Line" prompt and a creative prompt with the tag of "The Party". It should be interesting to see what people come up with. Some members have already taken these prompts and ran with them. We also featured Rook Lee's prompt response to last week's Prompt #355.

 

Normally Friday would have been the end of the week for the blog, but this week we had a Saturday post. In another break from the norm, our CSR Discussion Day took place on the last Saturday of the month instead of on a Monday. This month we had a live Q & A with Dark regarding their story "The Phantom." There were lots of great questions asked and answered so stop by to see what Dark had to say as the interviewee instead of the interviewer!

 

Anthology Announcements:

• 2014 Winter Anthology: Chain Reaction - Due December 3rd
• 2015 Spring Anthology: Full Circle - Due March 3rd
  

***NEW READING***

 

In Premium:

 

No More Hiding by Renee Stevens *COMPLETE*

 

Do Over by dkstories *reposting*

 

By our Signature Authors:

 

Priest and Pariahs by Mann Ramblings; Book 3 of Ship Logs of the Santa Claus

 

Leopard Spots by Graeme; Book 2 of The Lilydale Leopards

 

Finding Alex by Nephylim

 

A prompt a week by comicfan

 

Global Explorer by David McLeod

 

Sword of Kings: Forged Out of Necessity by Bill W

 

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

 

Streak by Mark Arbour; Book 15 of Chronicles Of An Academic Predator (CAP)

 

Kiss Of An Angel by Comicality

 

By our Promising Authors:

 

Lay Your Prompts On Me by Sasha Distan; Book 2 of GA Prompts

 

Sole Scion by JMH; Book 2 of The Sole Scion Cycle: Second Cycle of the Centurion Chronicles

 

Vintage by carringtonrj

 

The Art of Being Gay by Cole Matthews

 

A Wolf And His Man by Sasha Distan

 

Redemption's A Bitch by Sasha Distan

 

Curse of the Fallen by JMH; Book 2 of Fallen

 

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