Well, this is surprising to me. I wrote this blog in the midst of writing my latest love story, a full on, unapologetic TG one too. As I am writing this story, I am also re-reading 50 shades, watching the news, and processing the romantic proposal of a Muslim Imam.

Am I so far out of step with the folk here that my time has passed? Is it time to go?

As some of you know, I write Romances and over time, some of them have gotten quite soppy, and my naivete has made my life adventurously interesting at times.

Something for you to mull over while i'm away.

1. I'm thinking of producing Kindle versions of the Gaby books.
2. it looks like a lot of hoop jumping, is it worth it?

First off I'd like to start off this blog by taking a bit of a poll... I know I'm likely to get a broad range of answers, but I'm wondering what is your preferred length for a serial? I will try chose the more natural breaking points, but really its not that difficult with my writing style to find a good break points. Right now I'm leaning towards breaking things up into pieces ranging from about 3000 to 6000 words, but I was wondering what you guys and gals all thought.

Now on to the rest of the blog...

So, after a long time, I managed to get a story written, one or two paragraphs at a time, and with great nervousness. That nervousness has changed to abject fear and trepidation as I just posted it quickly, so I couldn't chicken out. Now the fear is looking at the comments.

Damn, but I'm pretty messed up emotionally right now. Messed up and fragile.

Like the title says there might be some delay in the release of the next chapter of "a boy and his dog". My grandmother has taken a turn for the worse again and I have been spending my free time (and not so free time as well) sitting up with her. She is doing better, and we expect her to improve but I haven't had much time for writing. I have been hearing some pretty interesting family stories though, and we have both agreed that we need to run for president in 2016 since we know all the answers when we are watching the news. My Nanny is going to be running as my VP. :P

We're probably having more new material every day than ever before, so it's easy for earlier works to be forgotten. I asked Sephy to resurrect Stephanie's Deal as a retro-classic to remind readers who might have missed it before. I just finished reading Torey's 'Switching Playing Fields', and its sequel, 'On The Flip Side'; two stories with a lovely feelgood factor about them. I highly recommend them to those who haven't previously encountered them.

I just wanted to thank all the authors who take the time to write & post the stories we all love so much KUDOS to all of you great creative minds plus thanks to all thiers muses for kicking butts to get they to get it done.
A few posts ago 1 of our readers asked about authors we have not heard from in a long time , to that point have you new & old readers gone back to read any of the great older posted stories you need to check them out.

of Book 9 is now available here on BC.

I was rummaging through Fictionmania, and came across a couple of authors that I've read before, then let lie fallow, then picked up again - still wondering. Plus others :)

We're approaching 2100 episodes of Bike and I thought I'd better ask the readers if they want me to continue. Bonz and Whizz have indicated they have no difficulties in continuing providing I give them a rise in the number of munchies they get to eat
- blackmailing little monsters.

Judging by the response to the recent birthday episode, I suspect this question is possibly rhetorical, but I feel I should ask it every now and again, just to make sure, and assuming that the management are also happy to continue finding space for my daily ramblings.

So...

I had to make a revision on SG @. Not a major one, but I would have to redo Chapter 3 if I didn't. Sorry all...

Just posted my short story. It is only a fantasy, but who knows? This is my form of closure.

All:

To ALL HERE
Regardless your religious beliefs, allow me mine this time -- please! Here by the Grace of God I, and I'm still alive.

A little birdy told me that it is Samantha Jenkins birthday today.

*runs and hides from Samfa*

Two of my books, I Should Have Known and Breath of Life, are free on Kindle from Friday July 19th (today) through Monday the 22nd.

What happened to Amethyst?
I was enjoying all the various stories, and then they have all suddenly stopped.

You know that feeling when you listen to a piece of music and it says exactly what you want to put across in a story, but no matter how hard you try you can never quite get the same vibe?

chapter of Book 9 is now posted.

Just by way of a coincidence I am writing the equivalent chapter of book 11 as I post this so look out for the concluding part of the book on Lulu in the next week!

Congratulations, Angharad for all the entertainment you have given us all,

Well I Boo Booed and posted chapter 53 of Half Term break instead of chapter 11. Over the next few weeks the other chapters will appear. Like others I will miss Stanley Morten and hope his editorial team have a few more stories to publish and that one of them will complete the task for him. Stanley eight years ago urged me to publish my Gaby fan fiction on this site. In one of them I had Stanley dying and being sent down the telephone line to live with Gaby. He thought it was funny. Well his spirit still lives on in the internet.

Wow, the Season two premier has been out for a week, and today the episode just surpassed all other previous episodes in terms of read count, second only to the pilot episode. Thanks everyone for the support.

Take one of Stanman's stories and write your version of it.

Do it for Stanman and make sure you credit Stanman with the idea.

shalimar

Sorry, I'm entertaining a visitor and we went out for a long walk this evening - it was delightful, but by the time we got back I was late starting Bike and keep falling asleep as I try and write it. So rather than have you read a load of gobbledygook, I'll finish it tomorrow and post it.

Sorry,

Angharad & Bonzi.