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This really is a great version of Peter Pan. I got a few good laughs and enjoyed the cuteness of it all. Definitely a great contribution to the site. We miss you Jack.

The bed is all here. I can sleep on it tonight. It spent the night... forming. It comes rolled up in a box. A really heavy and dense box.

We had this discussion in the Writer's Circle, but in Science Fiction and Fantasy, because the worlds are not our worlds, there is more telling than in other genres. The dreaded "information dump". People that are primary in science fiction and fantasy, probably have a higher threshold for telling and not showing than others, but one still needs to be very careful with it.

Thanks for the great advice @Comicality !

A very enjoyable quick read. I had a good chuckle a few times. And great job name dropping all those different tales.

I enjoyed this short story. It was a nice twist on Goldilocks while maintaining a fairy tale feel.

An interesting story and a nice plot. I'm always a sucker for "save the prince" stories.

I've added a link down at the bottom of the social media buttons, per your suggestion. Thanks!

I've done this, but it is, unfortunately, showing up somewhere else as well. I'll be working on cleaning that up a little.

So, I thought I'd start with one of the first published gay books I've ever read. I have this in both paperback and Kindle. This book is outstanding in that it creates a fantasy world that has a very unique magic system. I've never really read anything that was similar. The fact that it has a gay teenager as a lead character just rocks my world. There is an age struggle basically between an immortal 20-something? 30-something? and a teenager. It works very well since, by the time anything happens, there is certainly no coercion or even ability to coerce in place. I loved the book and have read a few times over the years. By the same measure, I can't stand the sequels. The sequels to this book suck to such an extreme it is hard to believe the same author wrote them. So, by all means, check out this book. Skip the sequels at all costs.

This is the best version of Snow White I have ever read. Great twists on the story.

A cool story with a couple of twists.

This story is a bit odd for me. I am not a huge fan of first person as it is difficult to do well. I definitely don't understand the plot.

Take some time to check out our Fairy Tales Anthology from Spring 2007 In no particular order: Would you mind taking a few minutes to leave a review for our hardworking authors? For Authors! We'd also like to remind all authors that we have 4 Anthology themes for 2018 and a Novella Contest: Contests 2018 Summer Novella Anthology - Due April 15th, 2018 Anthologies 2018 Spring Anthology: Now or Never - Due May 15th 2018 Spring Anthology: Encounters - Due May 15th 2018 Fall Anthology: Fight Back - Due Nov 15th 2018 Fall Anthology: Good Intentions - Due Nov 15th

So, while I was laid up this weekend, I finally had some time where I could do pretty much nothing but catch up on the very large pile of movies I have sitting here. Well, I could have caught up on the very large pile of books or games or reading lists or nevermind. I watched movies. Baby Driver was one of them. Now, I love action movies. Check. This has action. I'm rather fond of any movie with a Twink-like character in it. Check. Check. Kevin Spacey almost always plays an obnoxious prick. Turns out the reason why is because he's not actually acting that part. Knowing what we know about Mr. Spacey, I have some concern for Ansel Elgort... after all... Mr. Spacey was calling the guy Baby the whole time. And was a manipulative bastard of the first order. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. It went pretty quick and there were only a couple of slower spots to distract. The links above are affiliate links, so if you decide to go buy them from Amazon (USA), then Gay Authors gets a cut.

So, as I mentioned yesterday on the blog about the new bed I ordered, my back has been pestering me for the last week or so. On the suggestions from several friends from work and here, I picked up a Tens unit. Since I was so in need of relief, I picked it up at Walmart (ick) and paid a lot more than Amazon for the pleasure. But let me tell you, that little thing really really helps with muscle issues! There are a lot of them out there and I'll be doing research on them. For now, this little Omron unit has helped a LOT.

Any link to Amazon you see on GA would work.

Yes and me too!

As I mentioned in my blog yesterday, I like stuff. I like gadgets and I like new technology. I figured I'd start posting some of this as affiliate links. If you are buying something off from Amazon here in the United States and you get to the Amazon site after you link from here, then we get a percentage of whatever you buy. It's a pretty cool Affiliate arrangement. So, I'm ordering this new memory foam mattress tonight along with accessories. My current boxspring and mattress have seen better days and are contributing to my irritated back. So, now is as good a time as any to make the leap. My coworker bought the queen size version of this mattress last year and both him and his wife love the thing. I've got a few memory foam pillows that I really like, so this wasn't a hard sell for me. So, here it goes. Remember, the links above are affiliate links. If you buy the stuff above, we get a cut. If you click through to Amazon from the links above, we also get a percentage of everything you end up buying. A great way to support the site is to click to Amazon from one of the links you see on the site. I'll make a follow-up post to let you know what I think of my new purchase.

This week's blog was triggered by the observation that some authors and members seem to be unaware of a built-in feature of our Stories system. This is the Series function. First, for the readers, you can find Series easiest by using the right-side menu on the main stories page. See below: If the Longest Series is not your thing, you can easily adjust it by selecting "Sort By" and choosing a different option: When you click on a Series Title, say "Gone From Daylight", the stories will be listed in Series order. You'll recognize Series stories in the system because they'll have a Series # followed by Series Title after the Story Title. For example, on the Gone From Daylight Series page, you can see the highlighted Series # and Series Title: That's all great for Readers, but how to Authors make a Story part of a Series? Easy! Edit the Story and right at the top of Step 1 is the Series Title and Series Number: We do ask that Authors not add the Series Title and Series number until there are at least two Stories in the Series posted in the system. Also note, that is a great way to tie related Anthology stories together. Although in the case of Anthologies, the staff will have to edit the story for you. I hope that helps everyone understand our Series function in Stories.

The start of a new year is a time of reflecting. I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately. I'm in the process of searching for a new employer so that I can move. We're coming up on three years since dad passed away. I've more than quadrupled my visits to mom since then. Most of the summer and fall, it was every weekend. It's not a horrible drive, but I'm tired of it. Mom wants me to move back in with her and I'm good with that. It would let me take care of the stuff she needs and let her take care of her parents. (Grandpa is 86, Grandma is 83). My career is flexible enough, in theory, to move and get a new job and with the economy going finally, this should work in theory. But I am getting rather sick of working for other people. When you step back in look... there are 168 hours in a week. Scratch 50 hours for sleep. Scratch 60 hours for work, going to work or getting ready for work. Scratch another 10 hours for chores/bills/other requirements of life. That leaves 48 total hours in the week. then GA. figure 4 hours a day averaged out for what I do. That leaves 20 hours. chances are good that not more an 2 or 3 of those hours are consecutively available. And by the time all that is done, I don't want to be on the computer anymore. I usually read or occasionally I'll get time up in gaming. This pattern has been pretty much the same for 10 years. So, I'm working on breaking that pattern a bit and get into a pattern of writing more. Some of this is the blogs. I'm now handling three site blogs per week. Some of them are fairly simple, but the Tech Tuesday blog is a lot more involved. I'm also thinking of doing just a general sort personal blog, like this one, once a week. I'm also looking more into alternative revenue sources for the site. One of those options is what they call affiliate marketing. That is, we link to products that other people are selling and we get a small fee if you buy after clicking on our links. Since I'm a gadget kind of guy, I've thought about talking about some of the gadgets I get in my blog and putting up an Amazon link to it so that if you decide you want to try it too, the site can get a cut. Also thinking of doing the same with books and movies. Writing and posting blogs regularly keeps me in the writing mood and helps prompt me to write more in other areas. I'm currently reviewing my Harry Potter and Parliament of Dreams story so I can finally complete it and then focus on new stuff that is wholly my own. I'm also targeting the anthologies this year. Slowly but surely I want to get myself back into a regular writing habit. Time will tell! Let me know what you think.

4 letter slang words for upper and lower female anatomy. Google really loves flagging those words. Obnoxiously insulting word starting with an N for people of African descent. Also highly flagged. Posts in this topic using those words appropriately as examples were blocked automatically because Google only flags the word, not the context. @Timothy M.And yes, I'd love to have everyone subscribe and kick touchy advertising rules to the curb.

I should point out that the system now automatically moderates certain words. If you have those words, the system will block the post. This is so that Google doesn't punish us. Please keep the public areas teen friendly. If you want to have a debate on that, I suggest The Pit, which Goggle does not access. Those words are allowed in stories, but should be rated appropriately.

Thank you for the information. We'll contact folks in private if we need more. The issue has been reported to the programmer, but we'll be unable to patch for awhile. He is working on the new version of the software.