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2024 New Year's Contest

If you click on 2024-01 January - New Year's Resolution Story Contest above, you will see a list of the entries.

Contest Closed for entries.

Please post your choices for top three stories and possibly win $50.

Start the New Year right by participating in Jill, Emma, and Joanne’s writing contest!

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Sledgehammer by me from DopplerPress on Amazon

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Sledgehammer on Kindle

  

This is the same story that's been in the Hatbox for some time, now released with new editing and a new cover on Amazon. The story of Jake and Cody, friends--and Freds--for a lifetime. See story for joke about the Freds.

Hugs,
Erin



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Hatbox funds needed - Today

Cash contributions from our members are how we keep BigCloset operating.

Company account was down to basically $0

If bills hit, we will overdraft.

Amazon is supposed to pay us tonight, but my stomach is cramping now with anxiety about this.

Please, If you can help, it will be appreciated.

Paypal contributions come straight to our account.

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Jamie, Cat and the rest of the crew

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The Last Holidays - Kindle eBook by Grover Young

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Craig is one of Earth's bio-engineered soldiers in a war against an alien invasion. Unfortunately, when he uses his powers, he turns female. Now Halcyon has to deal with invaders and with Craig's girlfriend's preference for his female self! On top of that, Earth is losing the war.... There must be another way to deal with the conflict or the world will run out of holidays—forever!

The Last Holidays



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Chins Up

I have notice a fall off on reviews both here and on Fictionmania.
I have asked there whether this is a reaction to these troubled times, when the very small and thoroughly pleasant transgender community has been picked out as the substitute jew to be hated by pliable majority. Are people frightened to put their names (even pennames) to a few words in praise of our evident perversion?
I just hope that is not true and that the courage to simply stay calm and carry on still exists

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I swear

I swear, I overthink everything. Here I am, scrubbing words like “earth” and “inch” from my novel because they don’t exist in this world—while writing the whole thing in English, a language my characters wouldn’t even speak.

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Weeping Willow

I'm just about to start posting a new story. It's called 'Weeping Willow' and is, as my other, longer, efforts, about a gifted musician. It will be the longest story that I've written and runs to five books of over twenty chapters, so a half a million words. Like my other long stories, it just seems to carry on in short bursts of writing. It starts with a central character a good ten years younger than I’ve normally written about. Ninety-five percent of the places mentioned are real and viewable on Google Maps.

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An Apology...

Well, this weekend has dealt me pressure I didn't expect to face and landed me in the awkward position of disappointing readers... something I promised to never do again.

With Focal Point's start being reposted as a BCTS Classic, it's gotten people reading my long dead work all over again and sadly, many are finding out that like a lot of my work back then, it was unfinished. This wasn't intentional, but it happened and It was something I promised I would never do again.

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I blame Jo

I blame Ms Barbarella. she commented on one of my stories, as she often does. and it collided with my writing method, which is to construct a solid back story for every meaningful character.

I am now 11,000 words into bringing Neil's back story to life. In two evenings of writing.

STOP IT, JO!

Seriously... apologies for the resultant hiatus in 'Mates', but Neil and Maddy have my writerism by the scruff of the neck.

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I'm ill

I'm sick with a bad cold. It's not the flu and I tested negative for Covid, so it's just a cold. And now Melanie has caught it too, but we are getting by. Today it feels like it's turning around for me, so I expect to be fine in another four or five days.

Not to worry.

Hugs,
Erin

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Needing help and advice

In my next book, my main character has her SRS.

Since this is not in my ballpark, I need advice and help to portray an accurate description of everything. Google only gets you so far.

I'd like to create a dialogue with others who could look at what I've written or help me with questions.

Thank you for reading, and hopefully, I will hear back.

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DopplerPress News! New distribution channels!

We're trying out a new distribution channel with our latest DopperPress release. It's called Draft2Digital and will make our books available on many different online sellers, including Amazon, Apple, SmashWords, Kobo and more!

We get a wider world footprint, more flexible pricing, more help with promotion and simpler uploading for eBooks as well as better potential for producing paperbacks and audio books.

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Revisiting and refreshing other author's work.

Twenty-five years ago I read a story on another website and the story of a TG romance has never entirely left me. I decide to look up the story again and it is still listed on a small TG part of a story site for gay men. It is a story that has nothing to do with being gay and there are no characters in the book that are gay.

I read the story again and it still appeals to me. It is called Skin-deep. It is really a novella, and although the author says that it was edited. I see very little sign of any active editing.

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Julia Phillips and Anmar

It has now been just over a year since I last heard from Julia. Our regular email exchange broke off in the middle of a conversation and I have to accept that she is no longer with us.

I want to provide some notes about her and what her contributions mean for the future of Anmar.

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Patreon Confusion

There are a number of very good stories that have gone to Patreon. I did try to pay Patreon but for some reason, my bank takes exception to their charges. The people at the main branch are fine but their "Loss Prevention" folk are awful to deal with. I'm on my 4th Debit Card in as many months. I wonder if there is a way to open an account at BCTS to pay for the various stories. OR... if those stories will ever go to Amazon Kindle??? I am not making demands here, just trying to work something out.

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the In-Between Bookstore

So yesterday, we were getting groceries and went to the book section of the store to find Mom a new book, and she told me she would get me one too, so I looked for something that might be interesting.

I found a book called The In-Between Bookstore.

The cover blurb described the story as about a man, who moves back to his hometown, and somehow manages to meet his younger self.

This sounded very interesting, so I got the book.

And almost at the end of the first chapter (which is as far as I have read), the main character just casually mentions that he is trans.

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Someone’s Having a Birthday!


And it’s a BIG Birthday, too!

She’s an absolute treasure. A wonderful author, someone who’s succeeded at marriage for over 57 years, and always a warm, positive presence here at BC.

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Take a bow, PATRICIA MARIE ALLEN! Or maybe a curtsy. :) Happy 80th to you! May your pantyhose never sag, and your nighties never tangle!!!

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Writing TG stories in 2025

What do you do if you're thinking about writing a story focused around a transgender character, in 2025 America where institutionalized transphobia seems to be ubiquitous?

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grammar problem

Lately I have been seeing a lot of sentences that annoy me. they look like this: "John is a singer that is quite loud." I'm certain that this should be "John is a singer who is quite loud." The problem is that I'm seeing this substitution of 'that' for pronouns in these sentences so often that I'm wondering if I'm wrong?

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There is nothing to worry about ...

There is nothing to worry about with Trump and Republicans in charge

-- The State Department is now not even issuing renewing passports to transgender people.

--The National Park Service (NPS), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior changed the information about Stonewall on their website. They erased four of the leaders of the riots who were transwomen and changed the phrase LGBTQ rights to LGB rights.

-- As of February 7, 2025, transgender individuals were banned from enlisting and having publicly funded gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. military.

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BCTS Patreon Experiments: books!

Great news everyone!

To try and help us move away from reliance on Amazon so much, we're going to be starting some experiments on the Patreon with making books and/or stories available to purchase there.

Right now we have two options available in this way: the complete collection of Quillian, and my own story Fresh Start. We'll be working on moving more work over there in the future.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day.

I just posted a short story for Valentine's Day, titled, "The Valentine's Day Gift" It comes in at just over 8100 words.

Thanks to my beta reader. She assures me that I was successful in giving the story the look and feel I was after.

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Summer Camp

I am looking for a story, I began rereading Anistasia Allread's story "Camp Kumoni"

I remember another story where the MC signs their-self up for a summer camp my pulling a fast one on parents, think it may be Guide\Girl Scout camp

can't remember but there may have been a leather working workshop

please help

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Dura or Duro

It occurred to me - years late - that the male street hero should be named Mano Duro rather than Mano Dura. However, my two years of high school Spanish are decades in the past. Can someone with more knowledge of Spanish let me know which is correct?

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Life After Retirement

So...here I am at the end of my contract, having reached the mandatory retirement age in my country of residence. Theoretically, I should have plenty of time to complete all of my unfinished stories, but it goes without saying that nothing is ever as simple as it first appears.

While I have a small pension provided by the government, it's not quite enough to make ends meet, meaning I have to decide what to do next. Basically, its a choice between finding another job in the private sector or moving to a cheaper country.

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Janegirl Scout Cookies

Yesterday, when I'd gone grocery shopping, I passed a few Girl Scouts selling cookies. That started a kernel of an idea rolling around my head. I woke up early this morning with a first scene in my head, which is inserted below.

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AFAB Transfemme - Is it Trans?

I have posted a story today and I think that I would be helpful to get an opinion on it.
I believe that is clearly belongs here, but is an AFAB transfemme individual truly transgender?
I pose the same question in my closing note, adding that the opinions of some are that "all genders and sexualities should be tolerated", but what exactly is this?
I would love to receive comments on the story, or here.
Maryanne

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Mein Gott, was für Ein Auto

While taking a break from a story I am working on I saw a photo of a 2025 Corvette Z..... something. 1000 hp, twin turbo V8, claims very good mileage if the driver keeps the foot out. 233 mph. Performance suspiciously like an Audi R8 which they stopped making. The driver of this beast MUST be a very masculine woman or perhaps TG ????

This must be edited into the new story !!!!

Gwen Brown

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Life Update.

Good evening everybody. I hope this evening finds you all in good spirits, for those suffering, afraid, or in pain, please know I'm praying for you. And that by simply living you are pushing back. Now, I owe everybody here an apology, I've not been as active as I want to be, I've not been leaving comments as I should. For that I'm humble sorry and I ask your forgiveness.

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