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Chapters 25 http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/25 and 26 http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/26 are now posted

so am I

Somehow, I missed this excellent chapter in the lives of Joshua and Alexi: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/chapterreviews/24 A consolation: the next chapter will appear six weeks sooner.

Sweet. Sad. Joyous. Wonderful.

Another chapter of Porterville has been posted.

I am enjoying http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/adult-friends/porterville/ by Mark Stevens. The writing is passable, but the mystery-book-style plot is excellent.

Bruin, You need to get Stardock's Start8 app that recreates the Windows 7 start menu, by and large. It's $5 but you can try it for free for a month.

I'm not sure what the Tea Party has to do with his vile social-conservative positions. As started by Rick Santelli, the Tea Party has an economic mission to recognize the serious and unsustainable national debt that has been run up in the last five years with spending exceeding revenues by about $1 trillion a year. In my view, the Tea Party is largely a libertarian group, but social conservatives obviously belong to it.

The third of the Goldendale series about fathers and sons, The Book of Samuel, is starting to post: http://awesomedude.com/bi_janus/bos/index.htm The next generation joins the saga. The story is, by the way, finished -- for those who have been burnt by storius interruptus.

Another chapter has been posted: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/23 The story is still enjoyable.

I have to admit that the long hiatus didn't result in a sterling chapter -- in fact, it was disappointing, unlike the current chapter 40 of Joe College, which retained its freshness. Hoping for better in future chapters.

I just finished reading chapter 25. What a joy to read something that well written with characters that are so nicely drawn.

After a hiatus of nearly two years, another chapter has appeared: http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/highschool/the-move/the-move-40 I've had to skim back through Chapter 35 to reacquaint myself to the story line and haven't gotten to chapter 40 yet.

A new chapter of the fine Joe College has been posted: http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/college/joe-college/joe-college-25

IOMFATS has sent out an email with the sad information that Kiwi, who has written many stories based in New Zealand, is "in quite a fight to survive right now." There is nothing yet on the iomfats.org site except the links to Kiwi's prolific output.

Kit is one of the better writers around this genre, and The Question shows his skills. Here's the link: http://iomfats.org/storyshelf/hosted/kit/ As far as I can tell, the story is being reworked from a Nifty posting several years ago.

A new chapter is up: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/22

One of the refreshing parts of Crosscurrents is the erotic chapters in the chapters after 14. Too many stories in this genre fall back on formulaic, dull sex scenes (when they aren't pure pornography) that I normally just skim or skip, but the Crosscurrents erotic sections are just exceptionally well written, involving people and their personalities rather than just body parts.

The Last Days of Hitler in the states used the title Downfall. It is an eerie movie, making Hitler seem personally sympathetic, which he may have been. Regarding despicable characters, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem is subtitled A Report on the Banality of Evil. I haven't read it in decades, but her point is that evil is often engendered by banal men (and women) not monsters -- clerks and petty bureaucrats. As with Hitler, these people are extremely difficult, in my opinion, to nail down in fiction. But the lesson, I think, is that fictional despicable characters can be written with recognition that there may be a multidimensional common-person element within them but often are written as larger-than-life evil people as they are in thrillers and mystery novels, such as in the Jack Reacher stories. The upshot of this rather rambling note is that the presentation of despicable characters will depend largely on the intent of the writing.

I see Kindle books of all sizes on sale -- up to hundreds of pages, so I'm not sure what the commenter is saying about 10,000 word books. As I read it, the author can sell at whatever price he or she wants. True, there are some well-known authors that sell their short stories at $1.99 or $2.99 and their longer stories much higher, but nothing prevents the author from setting a lower price. A final (optional) editor who charges obviously will have to charge more for a longer book because of the extra time for the extra pages. On the cost side, there is probably not a lot of difference between a short and a long book. The problem for AD (an GA) authors is the revenue side, given perhaps the restricted set of potential buyers..

I found this story that might help writers interested in publishing their books through Amazon. The article is clear, and the process seems easy. http://michaelhyatt.com/kindle-publishing-success.html

Chapter 14 is one of the reasons I stayed with this serial novel, hoping it would be completed -- as is the earlier chapter when Matt gives his candidate speech.

After 10 years and a long hiatus for about the past five, the fine story Cross Currents by Adam Phillips is complete at GayAuthors.org. Unfortunately, I will have to reread the first 30 chapters or so since my memory of them has lapsed (but my impressions of them remain). http://www.gayauthors.org/story/adam-phillips/crosscurrents Well written.

I hate to say this, he said timidly, but I think the forum software may be out of date. I do notice that if I click on Toggle Editing Mode (not,My Media) on the top bar, I can get the line spaces -- and the insert web address features.

Another good chapter is up: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/lilansui/electricblueandcatnip/21