I hope everyone has had a great week so far. Before we get to this week's wrap up, I'd like to remind everyone that the first round of voting for the 2016 Anthology Themes is currently going on. Voting is open until August 15th at 11:59 pm MST. There hasn't been too many votes as of yet, so if you haven't voted, go to the Anthology Forum and vote! Whether you're a reader or author, we'd love to have you vote. If you're a reader, vote for the themes you'd like to read about or the ones that might inspire you to try your hand at writing. If you're an author, vote for the themes you'd like to write about! Now, lets see what happened this week in the blog!

We started our week off with the announcement that AC Benus' story Becoming Real is this month's CSR choice. If you haven't already done so, you have until the 31st to read it so that you can participate in the CSR Discussion. In other news, on Thursday, AC Benus was announced as our newest Promising Author!

Dark's feature, Ask An Author, returned on Wednesday with some great questions for AC Benus (who was very popular this week in the blog), Ricky, and Wanda Walker. Check out their questions and answers!

Friday gave us brand new prompts. This week we had the newest poetry prompt on top of the regular two new prompts. Check them out and see if any spark an idea. For our features, we had a prompt response by JohnAR and a poetry prompt response by Headstall.

Anthology Announcements:

***NOTE: All Deadlines are for submission to the Anthology Proof Team***

• 2016 Anthology Theme Voting: Round 1 *August 1st - August 15th*
• 2015 Fall Anthology: Blurred Edges - Due September 3rd
• 2015 Winter Anthology: Blackout - Due December 3rd
  

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Pretty Little Thing by Nephylim

By our Signature Authors:

Leopard Spots by Graeme; Book 2 of The Lilydale Leopards

Black Widow by Mark Arbour; Book 16 of Chronicles Of An Academic Predator (CAP)

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

Sword of Kings: Tested by Adversity by Bill W

Force of Nature by Krista

Innocence & Carnality by Mann Ramblings

Global Explorer II by David McLeod

GA Writing Prompts by Dolores Esteban

Fortitude by Cia

By our Promising Authors:

Destiny - a novel by AC Benus

Lie of the Serpent by craftingmom

Presence by Carringtonrj

Aditus' prompts and circumstances by aditus

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