Sasha Distan

thanks very much.I think Boris belongs to the "love Oli club" more than the "hate Alex club". Being in love with Oli is much more important than hating anyone else.

there have been no of discussion packs at pretty much any point actually...thank you, and i'm glad you like it.

I don't think she knew that Oli knew all those years ago. Alexander certainly wouldn't have told her...

something like that.

tehehehe

I don't think Boris had fear of anything, except being alone and not having Oli anymore.

Boris is a fully adult wolf/teenage human. He has no verbal filter.

Why on earth would you reduce your personal library? Printed books are so pretty.

They lay in bed with the weekly digest newspaper, Oli on his back against the pillows, Boris lying crosswise on the bed with one pillow tucked up under his chest as he read to the wolf. The magazine had arrived that morning, and Oli hadn’t had a chance to read it, so he listened with half an ear as Boris practiced his vocabulary and read him the happier stories from the previous weeks news. “So it turns out this couple who got married actually met when they were kids. They made sandcastles on a

I had an extra curricular English tutor who took a small group of us for creative fiction. We spent three weeks being forced to write smaller and smaller stories (Romeo and Juliet in 100 words or less, Harry Potter in 50 words, and so forth. She was the first person who introduced me to the idea of prompts. She once shook us each by the hand and smiled, then asked us to write a story of exactly 80 words about our relationship with her. She was an excellent teacher.

Yes, there will be both e-book and PDF versions of the book with exclusive content which will be emailed to investors. There will also be options for e-format or print copies of exclusive artwork in higher investments tiers.

A man is aiming for the sun and he misses. (10 words)

What’s the project? A Trilogy of Bears: Falling For A Bear, Summer Camp and the as yet un-finished and un-posted Tiger Winter. The three novellas will be collected together in the same book as they all take place within the same universe and share some of the same characters. More information about the stories can be found below. What is crowdsourcing? In simple terms, crowdsourcing is promising to invest in a product or service, in this, a book, before it is actually complete. In this case, investing in A Trilogy of Bears will guarantee you a copy of the books with exclusive content, and potentially lots of other exclusive content depending on how much you invest. Is it safe? Yes: if the total amount of money needed for the project is not reached, no money changes hands at all and we all go back to the beginning. If the full amount of money is reached (yes please) then the money comes to me and I produce the goods. Hopefully by now you all know me (and my editing team) enough to trust us to deliver as promised. Because we will. The books for the U.S. will be shipped by Kitt, the books for the UK and mainland Europe will be shipped directly from me. What in the idea behind this project crowdsourcing? Although all the stories will be available on GA indefinitely, there’s nothing quite like owning your own copy of something. A book you can read on the train without peering at your phone and can take to bed and the bath. The money raised through the crowdsourcing project is needed for a couple of purposes. Firstly to pay the artists for cover and in-book artwork, secondly to give some genuine credit to the editors who spend literally hundreds of hours making my look all clean and polished, and thirdly to give me the time to write and finish the work as well as I would like too. Books sold through Amazon and similar give absolutely fractional percentages to authors, and though Lulu.com revenues are better, it’s still basically publishing and giving your books away for nothing. Thirdly the crowdsourced version of the book will have exclusive content! (more below) Hey, what’s all this exclusive content you’re on about? Exclusive content is just that, things that will only be available to those who invest in the book through crowdsourcing. These include but are not limited to: artwork, character reference sheets of the main pairings, formally told ‘myths and legends’ style versions of the four Shifter Creation Myths, hardback copies, and personal on-request character scenes and sketches. Sounds fun? We think so too. About the books: Falling For A Bear: Hoyt Ford likes clean cut skinny boys with good hair, which are hard to find when you have gone to live with your older brother and his wife in the middle of nowhere. So when his senses tell him he's falling for the big butch lumberjack who lives on the other side of the river, he tries to run from the feeling, and straight into the furry arms of Mato, an actual black bear he meets in the woods. Summer Camp: Paddy is a bear. Literally. He's twenty and he's got a job at a summer camp in the semi-wilderness for kids and school groups. There he meets Troy, and instinct kicks in to tell the pair that well done, they have found their soul mates. But the pair of young men know practically nothing about each other, and instead of being able to screw like wild animals in the woods they need to spend the next four months surrounded by humans, children, and job responsibilities. Tiger Winter: Emmett Garrick changes a lot about his life when he decides to grow up and move across the city to share a house with a Chinese Panda: he has to buy furniture, do the washing up, and gets himself a cute boyfriend named Zeke. But when his housemate’s cousin comes to stay, Emmett realises that he got a lot more in this friend than he bargained for. Hopefully you now feel able to cast a vote. Please let me know what you think, and also what sort of exclusive content stretch goals you would like to see when the project opens up. Our timeline is to hopefully have a book in your hands sometime in February/March.

You can't rush that young man. Architects are very patient.

since i love both race drivers and racing fans and that quote and that film... I dunno. I think it's true and untrue in lots of ways.

should you practice with pellets first?

teflon

foreshadowed

Oli day is coming boys, worry not. Even though it is almost completely irrelevant, I now wish to quote James Hunt, F1 driver from Kieran's favourite film du jour "Rush": "I have a theory why women like racing drivers... It's not because they respect what we do, driving round and round in circles. Mostly they think that's pathetic and they're probably right. It's our closeness to death."

Being made to wait has never been such fun, eh?

does he not always say lovely things? Thank you LadyDe.

no curve... balls. No. other things with curves. Yes.

Almost exactly what Iarwian said. And Cia is right (she often is!), and the risks for the site outweigh the benefits of individual allowances. As tattoo artists like to say "put in your time and pay your dues" (I have never understood the second half of that phrase), you'll get out of the pink soon enough - you're a good writer. joining in on the forums (all of them), commenting on the blogs and everything else you do with get you noticed by potential new readers. People like your work, you got featured in the prompts blog the week you joined (do you have any idea how long it took me and how much I would love to be featured again?), so you'll climb up no problem. Remember, the more content you have, the more there is to "like". We all got out of the mod queue, you will too: remember, everyone was new at some point or other.

yeah, but I like the not-telling. Haven't I always said I was a bastard?

oh all of the supposition!!! and I can't tell you who has got which tiny snippets correct and who is barking up a completely different tree in another wood. this is a strange and delicious joy!