So yesterday I started my petition to Amazon. I really should have done it much sooner because it is something that frustrates me to no end. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords etc. have no dedicated transgender fiction genre and expect us to lump our work either under gay and lesbian or erotica. I don't think either is fair or right. But Amazon isn't going to do something solely for me, so I got organized.

There are a great many things I can say about me.

I was broken.

I'm healing.

I'm still not who I want to be.

I'm no longer who I was.

I was doomed to be trans, no matter what.

Hi,

As you might know, I'm moving into Kindle books, and I need some help!

I'm looking for some cover art for some new ebooks. I want to BUY the publishing rights for the artwork.

Can you believe that Amazon doesn't have a transgender fiction genre, even though there are over 1500 titles available. To put that in perspective, it does have a Transgender memoir section with under 200 titles. I think that needs to change because fiction is a great way to educate while entertaining. Please sign and share this petition. Thank you, Katie Leone (Transgender fiction writer and a good one).

As the title shows, I'm looking for someone with good manga-drawing ability. I'm not going to ask someone draw manga with me, I just need someone to draw the characters and the backgrounds.

Okay, I may have asked this before, but I'm a little frustrated.

I seem to have struck a note in mentioning that I was thinking of living in my car and camping for a couple months. I was looking at it as more of an extended camping trip away from the city in far North Eastern Oregon. It has been my experience so far that if one can get more than 100 miles or so from the big city, there is just less trouble.

That's what I turn tomorrow. An auspicious date certainly. After all, the Titanic sank on April 15th, Lincoln died on April 15th and, just to top that off, there will be a Blood Moon at 2AM EST(EDT?) on the 15th. Quite a trifecta,to say the very least.

I seem to have reached that awkward age. You know, the one where most of the people in the newspaper obituaries are younger than I. As Red Green so eloquently put it, "when I furrow my brow, it looks like a rump roast made of corduroy."

This site is amazing.

There are so many caring people.

There are so many talented people.

There are so many generous, giving people.

Well, I learned some things yesterday because of a combination of a story from when I was born my mother told me and a memory from before I met my first girlfriend that I had not thought about since.

The story my mom told me is that I almost died just after I was born. I wouldn't gain weight, so they decided to leave me with my mother so she could feed me whenever I would take it.

It would be three months before I was out of the woods.

Now, for the memory.

Some have a wonderful way with words .....

We did not get a chance to read these during our civil wedding, as the judge had her own set of vows. So I thought I would share them here.

I promise
To love you for all you are

Just to let people know I'm around again ;)

Lynne

Well to take the strain off my time on Wednesday I've posted More Changes - Gaby book 9 onto Kindle today rather than wait.

It should be live later today.

Every so often I get this bug up my ass that makes me think I can be commercially viable as an author. I don't know why I get it. I mean, out of all the transgender publishing houses out there, not one will touch my stuff but I see other authors who I outsell by considerable amounts continue to get publishing contracts.

But, I digress.

There was a comment on the latest excellent episode of "Somewhere Else Entirely" that asked about some maps, or, more exactly, where somewhere was on the map.

I'm trying to find an older story on a Westworld/Futureworld theme where the customers mind is transferred to the selected theme character while the body remains in his room at the park. Things go wrong and the guy/customer becomes a girl,falls in love with another customer,etc.

I found this in a Spanish article-
http://pijamasurf.com/2014/04/implantan-vaginas-cultivadas-e...
here is the tranlation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26885335

Warning: the following blog talks about religion. As that is a sensitive subject with some people, please read with care, and if you comment, keep it friendly.

If this was available in California then Holly Hart might have grown up normal:

http://globalnews.ca/news/1253902/does-male-or-female-no-lon...

shalimar

As promised, the final polished version of Reaching the Point of No Regrets is now available as an ebook on lulu.com. I think you'll enjoy some scenes that I added, as well as some necessary editing that, in my opinion, really helped improve the flow of the story. Aside from that, it's only $3.50. I hope everyone enjoys this unofficial second edition. Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Drew

Its possibly come to some of your attention that a certain big sporting event is starting in Yorkshire this coming July. A couple of BC authors are event volunteers and I know a few more are cycling 'fans', it has therefore been suggested that we have a mini Gabycon over the weekend.

Question is, are any of you up for it? we are most likely looking at getting together after the stages for food, chatting and possibly having some TdF themed Gaby readings. Location will most likely be South Yorkshire-ish.

Let me know what you think, if you are interested or want to know more.

Sorry folks, Bonz is out and Whizz is refusing to dictate the story to me, so I'm not going to do a bike tonight. If the truth be told, I'm too tired to be arsed to think enough to write anything coherent.

Thanks for all the comments and kudos for my short story, 'let him wear a skirt then.'

Hopefully, normal service will resume tomorrow. If you're desperate for Bike, might suggest reading some back numbers, I've been doing so for a few weeks and apart from the typos and other mistakes, I've quite enjoyed the experience.

You know, days go by and time and time again I'm surprised by the friends I manage to make.

I spent the whole day at the University hospital today.

First, I tried to get in to the dentist to get my teeth fixed, but the best I could do there was get an appointment for next month.

I've basically been stalled on the writing projects I've been working on for a while. I kind of know where I want to take them, but sitting down and getting stuff written has been hard. But last night, on a whim, I was poking through Melanie Ezell's Ultimate Writer's Challenge, one of the challenges caught my eye, and now I'm over 2000 words in to a new story.

We've got BC up and running on the new server, Buttercup, and it does run faster! We have a few configuration bugs to work out and then we will get one of her sisters up and running to share the load. It's been a long and tiring road and we aren't done yet. UPDATE: As of Sunday mid-morning, we have Buttercup and Bubbles sharing the load! Site seems faster still and appears even more stable. We did lose about 1/2 hour of comments and edits in the changeover, but no stories.

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Early days of Beverly when she was coming out. (The wobble was cos' I was in killer stilletoes on soft grass. LOLOL

Well as promised Gaby - Changes
is now available for Kindle

Here is a video that rocked me. What if you could be just as sexy as a hot girl and still be a boi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBT37_yyzY

Just a Minor update to my website. Links to the four new kindle books are now associated with the authors.

Sapphire

Many of you don't know Tom Peashey, but some of you do because he has helped several authors with his invaluable editing skills. In fact, part of the reason my stuff is remotely readable is because Tom takes the time to edit my work and he does it for free. He does it with a few other authors. I won't name them, but if they want to comment, feel free.

Tom is also an author, but he is languishing on Amazon. He is truly a nice person who has decided not to act on his Gender Identity issues because he is married and has kids, but he can always turn to fiction.

For some time now I haven’t been very happy with the response to some of my writing, in particular the last two novels Duality and Get A Life!

Second Sight has lain dormant since February 2011, but I hope it's not going to remain that way.

So still no McDonalds, I hear their stock is dropping like a rock.

Once there was a Seder headed by a female Rebbe. On the Seder plate was a crust of bread. A disciple asked, "Why...?" She told the story of Puah, a girl from a family of women, asking her Rebbe "Is there room in Judaism for a lesbian?" He said, "There is as much room for lesbianism as there is a crust of bread on the Seder plate." That is why this Rebbe had a crust on the Seder plate. -- based on the Oberlin College Haggadah.

I am now on Goodreads! And I need reviews for Josie's Con Stories!

Please?

For the last couple of days, I've been dealing with a terrible pain in my teeth. I tried going to the emergency dental clinic, but the earliest I can get in to see someone is tomorrow afternoon.

For my loyal readers who have been avidly following my story Out of the Blue Part II: Into the Fray, sorry for the delays. Since I came out to my parents and starting transitioning with hormones just about a year ago, I've gone through a couple of very dark patches, but now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now, I'm feeling very peaceful in my mind and contented. It's good to be writing and posting again. Looking forward to the future!

I just published my first book at Amazon.

I Hear it is Jennifer Brock's Birthday today

Golf Blogger Geoff Shackelford's idea of a April Fool's joke-

*****

While the expected names have surfaced in rampant speculation over who might be a leading candidate to become the first female member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, bookmakers have quietly moved Olympian Bruce Jenner up their lists.

It's that time of the year again and it's time for a prank. Tell us what pranks have ever occupied your day, so much that it made you annoyed for being troubled by it so much.

I am writing a story for Jaci's birthday, but due to circumstances, its obviously running late. Be finished and published soon, I hope.

Just checked my account and apparently I have been here for, ahem, four years and 52 weeks.

Well....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louXPUW7tHU

Over 13 years after I posted my tg fiction story, I'm changing my writing handle. Danielle J is now Daniel Thomas. There are a couple of reasons for this.

My wife approves of this writing name.

Sorry folks, it's got too late for me to write tonight - fell asleep in the chair after doing a long bike ride today (long for me that is) with several climbs. I didn't sleep very well last night either, so hopefully, things will be back to normal tomorrow and Bonz can dictate the next exciting episode of Dormice in Space, or whatever it's called.