To all our BCTS family , did you know that if you click to link to Amazon for all and any orders you may have with Amazon BCTS gets % of the purchase about 4-7 % . Just click on Amazon it will open a new page then sign on as normal , this will help with team BCTS costs and the best thing is doesn't cost us member anything. Every little bit helps
HUGS TO YOU ALL RICHIE2

Just saw this today and I was a surprised no one had posted about it here. Thought it would be of interest to a lot of the folks here.

California Becomes First State to Ban Gay, Trans 'Panic' Defenses. It's sad that someone can try to justify murder for any reason, but at least this is a positive step. I was surprised, for once most of the comments seem to be positive.

I'm sorry I haven't been giving any updates recently. It just feels like I'm pretty much stuck in a rut - I go to work, I sleep, I go to church, I sleep again ...

But here goes.

My grief over losing Kylie is slightly better, I guess. I almost feel guilty about that ...

I got the green light to do a talk on trans 101 for my church, and I'm super nervous about it. Honestly, I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this ...

Vitamins has a Kindle edition out now. It was posted here on BCTS, but readers asked for an ebook version (along with some other titles of mine) and it's available here:

Excuse me for not joining in with the paeans of praise.

Since the 'upgrade' I have been unable to post comments. Nor can I post blogs.

It all works on the computer at work, but not here on my laptop - where it all worked fine last week.

This is for me a retrograde step.

I cannot believe that I am the only one with this configuration of hard-, soft- and vapour-ware.

I've just noticed the return of the Kudos/Thumbs Up numbers to the 'My Stories' page much more quickly than I thought would be possible. Thank you once more for all your efforts to ease our transition to a new BC World (I did of course immediately check my own numbers and also looked to see if the overall total showed in 'My Account' [not yet]).

In case others don't realise it is also once more possible to split your uploads into Teaser and Main Body by the insertion of <"!--break--"> omitting quotation marks.

Just a quick announcement about our two newest Kindle eBooks by some GREAT authors from our community! Hypatia and Rebekkah deMere.

While BC was undergoing it's upgrade, I published Hypatia's " The Lady Lies Sleeping "

" Many things that walk upon the earth are older than we can guess, at the beginning was The Firstborn, he who danced as the world was created…he will dance at the end of the world too…and that might just be a little closer than he would like. "

Welcome back with a new look . I was starting to get BCTS withdrawals . I love the new look. THANK YOU and the staff for the hard work you have done over the last week getting this up and running. HUGS & KISSES Richie2

Safari for Windows blog Test

Just trying

I feel horrible, not physically horrible but just bad for disappearing and not being able to post anything for so long.Granted, circumstances were beyond my control but I want to try to make it up to my readers. To that end I worked hard the past week on getting Going Green ready to post and the new chapter of Twice Removed.I'm currently working on the next chapter of that too as well as Alex in Wonderland, Syryn's Song, and Winters Child.

Since the update I have been able to post neither Blogs nor Comments

Everything should be working fine now, but we had an issue with our Secondary/Slave MySQL server. I'm currently working on figuring out exactly what the issue was, but things should be back working in the mean time.

-Piper, Erin, Cat and the Various Gremlins

Hope I'm not overstepping any bounds here, but I just thought I'd pop in and mention this since it might be of a lot of interest to folks here. I recently got the privelege to beta test a piece of online novel writing software known as Novlr. It allows you to rearrange and organize chapters as seperate documents in a manner similar to Scrivener, but has a much simpler interface. Currently, it's not very feature rich, but new features have been promised.

I know that everyone gets those odd emails, Increase your 'body part' and Buy cheap 'drug' here type ads. But the other day I got one with a very strange subject: Email Exclusive! Buy 1 Get 1 Free, Woman Within! Now I thought that slavery was illegal, but here it is a sale to buy one woman, get one free!

(For those that don't know Woman Within! is a clothing store.)

hmmm?

Sorry I have been away so long folks, but things went from bad to worse since my last blog.

I've been away from a computer for a few days and when I logged in this morning, I found a very different looking BCTS.

When I read a blog, the list at the left of the page does not turn color to alert me that I've already read that message.

Listed fiction no longer includes the name of the author, a prime criterion for whether I read a story with my very limited time.

I notice that the ads are absent. This cant be good for revenue.

This seems to be a large print version of BCTS. Even with my poor vision, not yet necessary for me, even on a laptop.

Amazon is pushing a new series called "Transparent".

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/21/349075013/in-transparent-trans...

Here in the U S we have a democratically elected republican form of government with a constitution enabling us to generally have free and fair elections. The most important way for anyone to have any voice in government is to VOTE! The only way to vote is to BE REGISTERED! If you are not registered get registered. Make sure you follow the qualifications in your state. Also ask your neighbors if they are registered, get them registered and urge them to vote. The country you save may be your own.

shalimar, a voter

Apparently tablets are not ment to be sat on any one know how to replace a digitizer on a galexy tab 3

I apologize for how this story has been received. Marina wrote this story about a man who is forced by the government to go undercover and his wife jumps on the bandwagon.

The BBC has a nice piece on Red Clothes and their history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29240820

I have a problem and im stumped. I have written a story almost to the middle. I think its good but not as written. I have thought of a better way to start it and write the first half. It wont change my plans for the second half. But, its a totally different start up to the half point. What do I do? Just write it from then and later change the start, or rewrite the whole damn thing

Have any of you writers here even encountered a problem like this and what did you do

Well, pink pajamas has probably run its course and I've managed to piss a few people off, but when don't I piss people off. I got a nice message saying how someone will never read anything I ever write and I think someone has a voodoo doll and has been stabbing my keyboard.

I'd say they did darn good on their choreography.
They still walk like guys.

http://www.hellokpop.com/featured/5-male-idols-who-look-pret...

This may be useful for some - US News a World Report

Have a idea for a story. But need help with proofreading and editing hope someone can help me out

Looking over the past few months of blog entries, I've noticed that some of mine get far more reads than some others, and they're not always the ones I think are going to attract attention.

With that in mind, I put a question to all of you. What do you like to see in a blog entry, and what do you not?

Lifeswap by Maeryn Lamonte

How much is too much?

I havw circa 555 pages that can get the whole thing in one daring dowload, or I COULD RELEASE IT IN chapters

Let me on Beth "

There I was, thinking that if a story could make a political point I'd be okay replying to it - albeit with a rather hefty dollop of sarcasm.

Work got bad, to the point where I was so tired, I was coming home and going right to bed. I tired to finish the next part of Tracy over the past two weeks, but at work it gets hard, with just 15 minutes and a half hour lunch. But i got it to the editors.

I was also setting up something for the contest. An idea that came to me one night. So yeah, got sidetracked. Hope's ranch has suffered too.

I really should be careful what I say, things have got in the way of so much this week!

So I got back home, after days of traffic jams (bloody C Y C L I S T S - we even got caught up in the tangled web of closed and opened streets due to the end of the Tour of Britain !!!!) and getting a virus on the computer from a CD of photos that some a..h... had given my elderly recently-widowed aunt, and I unpacked all the goodies into the fridge (British sausage, bacon, and just a hint or two of individual pork pies, along with some Cheddar!!!!).

All well and good, and all the comforts of home, and a reasonable night's sleep for a change.

My apologies for my lack of clarity. Many people are on sites like BC because some of those authors are some of the finest story writers to ever live. If you are one of those who are not interested in TG issues, if you are here for the great stories, please ignore me and accept my most sincere apologies for my endless posts on the TG subject.

Just got back from the gender doc. He wanted to reassure me that he hadn't given up hope for me to have SRS, as he was writing to clinics in California and Arizona.

Well, I got moved to an Apartment building down by the river, here in Portland. So, there is a Transgender woman on the 4th floor with me, but I have not done more than catch sight of her as she walked around the corner.

The original site I picked this news up off is really off the wall when it comes to TLG things. Part of the "hate them" crowd. You can figure the comments were skewed. Lots of likes dislikes about this story at the school and on the net. Net search of the story turned up a little less hate mongering at the following site.

'I couldn't stop smiling': Transgender girl crowned homecoming princess by fellow students

Fascinating the ladies would put so much time and effort into a thirteen hundred dollar prize. Have no idea what those gowns and accessories cost in Thailand? Here in US easily twenty to fifty times the value of the prize for winning.

The fact they made that transition is the best prize of all for those who have their hearts and their minds finally in agreement for the first time in their lives.

Blot removed all of his stories from FM, deleted his deviantart account, hasn't posted to metamorphose.org since 2013, and basically vanished.

Anyone know what happened to him?

I have come to a point in life where I have read everything that has attracted my attention. I marathon'd (let it be known, I coined this word) Somewhere Else Entirely early this morning.

I am shocked, stunned, blown away, pick your adverb(s). This story is almost completely free hand as I call it. I didn't sit down do and out line in general, set a time line, lay out all the players and so on. the notes I made for it would fit on a 3X5 index card with room left over. That is not the way I normally write. I generally lay out he whole story start to finish outline style and than start the actual writing process. I normally do a ton of research before I start too.

Does any body know why Jessica Ash removed her stories ?
She had posted "My Hidden V" and "Anemonefish"

Peace tmf

Sorry run out of time. The shit that my life has become in recent months continues. At times it feels like everything I have is being tested or destroyed. Now it's my car which is going to cost a lot to repair and get through the MOT, earlier on Bonzi was attacked by another cat. My daughter is still suffering her fatigue, which is worse since Huw's untimely death, and working for the NHS remains very much a case of lions led by donkeys.

As I have already admitted to being terrible at tagging my stories. I am hoping that one of Erin's elves will look it over and add any that I missed. Happy reading.. Joe

Can someone direct me to the rules for the back to school story contest. I am thinking I might have one that will work, but want to review the rules before I post it.

Well Nena and myself are back from our German Odyssey and its nearly business as usual!

There is a new Gaby chapter here and an update on maddybell.com.

Wish me luck please, Cathy, Bev, and Beth and anyone else who's listening. Tomorrow morning I am moving to a place that has nursing care available should I need it. AND, it will be $250/Mo cheaper than where I am now. Hopefully, this will enable me to resume writing and have a bit of peace.

Pulling the plug now on SKYPE and will perhaps be back on line by Friday?

Much peace

Gwen