Wow, what a great week. Hoping the weather was great where you are, we hit 3 record breaking days for the past 10 years here so enjoying being indoors for a while and working on the wrap up.

First off, the voting for the first round picking the 2016 Anthology Themes is now closed. A very big thank you to everyone who contributed to narrowing down the number of great ideas. GA relies on you the Members to help drive the direction of these special events, and sincerely appreciates your input.

The week started off with the blog reviewing our Feature Story. This week it focused on our month's Signature Author, Dolores Esteban's story Cold Case. Cia contributed a great review which has now piqued my interest and I have added it to my reading list. Also there is the link where you can download the Signature Background for the month as well. Check the story out and make sure you leave a review.

Wednesday was a followup with Interview Wednesday with Dolores Esteban. Dolores agreed to sit down in the dark and dank interview room at GA, with a single light shining in her face, a dripping noise coming from the corner, handcuffed to the table and the smell of second hand smoke in the room....okay, got carried away there . Cia asked Dolores some interesting questions including where she got the inspiration for Cold Case. Surprising to me, Cold Case spun out of a Prompt Friday prompt from Comicfan. Great to see that what started as a prompt response turned into a full story.

Friday, Cia took over the blog for Friday's Prompt Me. Comicfan this week presented us with two different prompts. First Creative prompt was for all the Anne Rice or Stephanie Meyers fans out there; Vampires. If you think you can do better than the two them, why don't you give a stab at upstaging them . The second one was creative as well with using the following words; a clown, a motorcycle, vacation tickets, chocolate cake, and a ring. Sounds like a good horror story theme. Lastly, Cia featured James Savik's response to Prompt 437. Great job James!!

Anthology Announcements:

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

• 2015 Fall Anthology: Blurred Edges - Due September 3rd
• 2015 Winter Anthology: Blackout - Due December 3rd
  

In Premium

Pretty Little Thing by Nephylim

By our Signature Authors:

Veil of Shadow by Stellar; Book 2 of unnamed

Cosmic Inception by Cia

Innocence & Carnality by Mann Ramblings

Global Explorer II by David McLeod

Sword of Kings: Tested by Adversity by Bill W

Space Pioneer 3 - The Yanara Archives by Delores Esteban

Leopard Spots by Graeme; Book 2 of The Lilydale Leopards

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

By our Promising Authors:

Presence by carringtonrj

Lie of the Serpent by craftingmom

Destiny - a novel by AC Benus

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