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Author Request

Friends,
I have a silly request.
The ninth story in the Lee Corcoran story arc (Cheerleader Series) has 46 reviews.
I am told that crossing 50 is an important achievement from Amazon's perspective.
I will soon be adding to this series and at that point, the comments will all go on the last story in the series. I'd really like to get to 50.

If you enjoyed the book and did not leave a review, please consider doing so.

Thank you.
DD

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Does anyone here think this plot could work in any way

I am curious. Theres been a number of stories and books about an ambitious girl piloting against a favored brother in a monarchy type male dominated society and turning him into a girl so she is suddenly favored and she seizes the throne from him
And they are cool stories and I am enjoying him

but im thinking of another type of story.

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My novel is available as a Nook Book

My first novel, Missing Without A Trace: A Kelly Mitchell Mystery is available for purchase from Barnes and Noble as a Nook Book. The price is $1.99

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Ready Reads: I Suck.

Alright, so . . . yeah. If it ain't obvious I got nothing ready for today.

I'll be honest here: I really overcommitted on this. I don't have the head space right now or really the time to dedicate to doing this properly.

So, I'm asking for help.

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Flash Point

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She'd seen it coming. Ever since Harold Westlake had made his announcement that he would be running for President, Kitty had been trying to warn her friends and teachers just how bad things were going to get. And yet, no one was doing anything about it. No matter how much she sounded the alarm, everyone kept telling her to just believe that things would work out.

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Hyperverse timeline

A lot of people wonder what order the various Hyperverse stories happen in and while most of the stories are meant to be standalone there is a general timeline. I will be posting this timeline to the Hyperverse main page and updating it as new stories are added. These are in order from the earliest chronological point in the stories.

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Bianca and Marcos have been on my mind

Maybe because it was about this time of the year that the contest was getting underway, but Bianca and Marcos have been making themselves known to me again. There was so much there to work with once I went back and looked at the story "Were to start" again.

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Butterscotch 5 Preview Free for Everyone

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Marjorie headed directly to the lingerie department where I began practicing my cringing. The sum total of taboo femininity in sight overwhelmed my brain and my consciousness threatened to strobe out.

“She’s serious,” I muttered to no one.

She had a bra in her hands and approached me, saying, “Let me use this to get an idea of your sizes.”

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The "County Sheriff" Stories

Thanks for all the nice comments on my recent postings in this series.
As I have hinted, there is more of this series to come. I havetwo more stories under development. I wrote more than 3000 words for one of them yesterday. The other story is far more problematical. It may well see the end of the series but it is not easy to write because of the crimes involved. I had an idea pop into my head around 02:00 this morning which may make writing to a conclusion a lot easier. Only time will tell on that one but it is shaping up to be another two part story.

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free story idea

As I already have too many ideas started, I'm letting one go free: A group of sailors encounter a siren and are saved by a crew-member who is a closeted trans woman. realizing this might be a chance to rid the world of the dangerous siren and maybe even rescue some men, the trans woman is encouraged to find as many others like her to form an army that would be immune to the siren's call ...

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Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

Just a reminder that my current story, "Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?" is set in the 1960s. It's currently the summer of 1968.

Kenndy has been assassinated, Johnson is the president, but is not seeking reelection. And we're deep into the Vietnam war. Dr. King and Robert Kennedy have been assassinated. And, our two girls have witnessed an anti-war demonstration on campus.

Chapter 210 will be out tomorrow (Sunday)

Teddie

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Butterscotch 4 Chapter Preview Early for Patrons

Previews of chapter 1-3 are open for everyone to read. Here's a sample of chapter 4:

Arno’s table companion called out to him and the strange Mr. Pink let my hand go and went back to his own table. But not without a parting pat on my cheek and a confidence shared in a stage whisper, “You’re going to have such fun!”

“Toodles,” Marjorie told his back and he waved at her without turning around. The man waiting at his table looked like an ex-professional bouncer who had made it big as a financial consultant, or maybe Dwayne Johnson just beginning a campaign for president.

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I had an idea

I had this idea of creating a series called "histoies of fictional worlds" where I would look at the in universe backstories of books and comics.
but i have no idea if that would be interesting to anybody but me. what do you guys think?

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Owie

Hey everyone.

I'm afraid that I probably won't be putting out chapers of Twice Removed or Syryn's Song this week. I have the toothache from hell right now, it's been going for the past few days and it's causing so much pain that I can hardly see straight, so concentrating on writing had been problematic at best. I already have chapters of I Wish and MSPD ready to go, so they won't be affected, but this has really cut into my concentration for working on much of anything at the moment.

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Twenty years ago

It was twenty years ago this week
Erin made a friendly place to seek
It's been going in and out of style
But it's guaranteed to raise a smile
So may I introduce to you
The site you've known for all these years?
BigCloset is your friendly place!

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Ready Reads 2: Fantastic Gadgets (Gone Kablooie)

I'd said that I'd do Ready Reads today, but . . .

See, there's a problem. After culling out repeat authors, stories that were FAR too short, and stories that were suggested but inappropriate due to requiring outside reading to understand, I was left with a grand total of four -- count 'em, FOUR -- suggested stories.

READY READS 2: FANTASTIC GADGETS

Here are the suggestions that passed muster.

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Butterscotch 3 Chapter Preview on Patreon for All

Davey can't figure out what Marjorie sees in him. She's older, richer and way hotter than he is! Then he finds out Marjorie may be a lesbian. Now he's really confused!

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Davey's nickname is Butterscotch because of the color of his freckles. But Marjorie seems to think he's much too sweet to be a boy!

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I cant figure out how to organize my stories better

I am trying to create title pages for my various stories
I have created a title page for the revision to the Prophet

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/81980/prophet-revision

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Call Of The Light - Part 6 is done!

Call of the Light part 6 is up and thus is complete! Whooo!

Apologies for the greater gap in getting the last bit finished, got knocked out for over a week by a nasty sinus infection (which still lingers, ugh). But it's finally done!

Now to start laying the framework down for Book 4! :D

Hope everyone enjoys!! Comments are always treasured and are huge motivations to get off my lazy butt and back to the keyboard! Thanks to all who have also sent me such encouraging messages! Massively appreciated!!

- Erisian

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A question for my readers.

So... I have a question. I've been having some motivation issues, as far as Stuck in a Rut. I love the story, and I have plans for it... but just haven't been motivated to write in it much.

So I propose to you that read it a choice.

1. I plug on, with chapters irregularly dropped on occasion.

2. I put it on the back burner and release infrequent chapters, while putting out a new story: "The Mysterious occurrence of Missy Hinde"

3. I put it on the back burner and release infrequent chapters, while putting out a new story:: "Right to Life: Brain donor."

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To Writers With Stories That Have Multiple Parts

Are there any particular criteria you go by when posting the parts of your story for how long between each post?

Why do you wait [X] number of days?

Is there a general consensus as to how often you should put up a new part to a story?

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Recent read

Recently I came across a book on Amazon that sounded like it might be interesting to read from the description of it. "Cinderella Boy" by Kristina Meister took a little different twist on a theme that would align with many stories on this site. Boy caught by sister trying on her clothes, sister helps him and things take a turn toward a love affair with a boy he has been crushing on for a long time. I'm not going to say much more so don't do a spoiler. It is $3.99 for the Kindle edition.

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The Last Boy Scout and his stories, and a challenge.

Having just finished what is posted by TLBS, I am left wondering. WHAT THE HECK EVER HAPPENED TO THE LAST BOY SCOUT???

There were vague promises and intents to continue his writing, but nothing now for 9 years!!

Is TLBS still alive? If so, where is he/she? Why did he/she stop writing?

TLBS was a master/Mistress of the written word who sucked the readers into her worlds and made them CARE about her characters and their lives.

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Ready Reads 1: Grown Ups!

After (almost) a week of suggestions and feedback, it's officially time for the first-ever post of . . .


READY READS

In this, our inaugural posting, we are tackling the weird and wacky world of adults in a theme simply called "Grown Ups."

All of the stories featured below have point of view characters or protagonists aged 19 or older, and as is the premise for Ready Reads, every story is complete on BCTS!

So, without further adieu, let's get into our reader-submitted suggestions!

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I blame the pizza

Yeah, it was all the pizza's fault, first I had to make it (well load it with goodies at least), then I had to cook it and lastly I was forced to eat it! by the time I'd finished dessert that was an hour gone. Of course, if I'd got back earlier, if I hadn't uploaded my ride stats before eating, well you might've seen this a bit earlier, but I did so you didn't.

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The Fall of Kruhl - Spectral Visitor

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The Fall of Kruhl

By Daniel A. Wolfe



Enclosed within a strange metal box, strapped to a rolling platform, and guarded by a pair of closemouthed humans Kruhl doesn’t think things could get any worse, but when a dark apparition appears she discovers just how wrong she was.


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The General's Son...

I don't know the exact title, but this story deals with a General who puts his son in a private school and he comes out as his daughter. It could have been a Military school? It could have been one of Nancy Cole's stories, and perhaps she reworked it?

At any rate, I have not found it and it is likely that I'm not getting the details right.

Ideas?

Thanks

Gwen

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Update II You Are a Meany

Here is an update and plans for You Are a Meany. I am close enough to being done with the revised version of the story that by next Friday I should have part one up. I then will put another part up weekly until the entire story is up. That is unless I finish writing the story early, then I will be posting the part daily. Then after the last part is up the story will stay up for a week. I am taking it down I do want to try to publish it. I have a great editor working with me so the editing part will be on par with the self-published titles.

Hugs N Love
Sarah

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I have an issue with my story that im not sure how to solve

I wanted to tell two paralell stories and I tried that in the first version and it ended up to become a mess that many readers told me that it confused them.
So im considering tell them in two separate separate tales with two different titles of a dark edwyn and a good edwyn thats allied with the light

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Just not my week

Sorry about my lack of posting this week and the fact that I likely will have to put off posting new chapters of both Twice Removed and Syryn's Song until next week. This week has just been extremely busy and I'm just sooo exhausted right now and lack of sleep due to nightmares and insomnia hasn't been helping. I haven't had time to write anything, and I barely even had time to post the latest chapter of I Wish. Then on top of my laptop dying earlier this week, my mouse died yesterday for the desktop and I had to find a replacement, killing what time I did have for writing. :(

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Daniel Ford, co-creator of Quillian

Sadly, I just got word that Daniel Ford who created Sam Valentine (an unpublished comic strip he and I worked on) died yesterday. Daniel was also co-creator with me of Quillian. He was a talented young artist, only 38, who died in his cobbler shop Tuesday, November 5, of complications from diabetes.

It hits me pretty hard, we had been friends for more than fifteen years and I will miss him a lot.

Take care of yourselves out there.

Hugs,
Erin (Joyce)

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Problems with the wood and the trees

There is so much good work on this site that I have long been frustrated by my inability to discover it, primarily because of the problem of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

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Brassick

I've spent this evening composing a little tale which I share with you all here.

Brassick, from brassick lint, rhyming slang for skint, ie lacking reasonable funds, moolah or however you wish to describe money, is a tale of reflection with a slight twist. It isn't meant to be deep or a fairy tale but just the lowlights of a life.

Please comment

Mads

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Ashleigh Blayze and Ellen Hayes

Since this is going on a lot right now I figure I would join in.
Has anyone heard from Ashleigh Blayze author of Legacy of the Anari Book 1 or Ellen Hayes author of Tuck?

I was wondering what happened to them?

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