I am making myself available to anyone needing an editor to review their writing. My native language is Texan, but I am fairly fluent in American English. All I can offer up for credentials is the fact that I got an A+ in College Freshman English with Composition back in 2003. Examples of my own writing can be found on my LiveJournal site: http://dv8nekomimi.livejournal.com/.

For those who have not just gone ahead and purchased the download, Tiffany has posted part three of her wonderful book. Unfortunately it appeared so far down the list that many of her fans may miss it.

Never fear, however! She told me a few days ago she was going to try to post a segment every day. It's just not possible to do it faster for a number of reasons.

Hugs
Carla Ann

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_k...

I just now tried to enter the zone, but it is down for some reason. I hope that Piper has it back up soon.

this is a wonderful story and i would advise you to read it the story can be sensitive full of suspence wondering what the next chapter will bring but in all honesty i believe that you need to read the full story instead of waiting for each chapter to be realeased i took the opertunity to download the full story from a site called lulu.com and thought it was worth paying the $3 to download it believe me it was worth every penny i paid but don't take my word for it download it and you will see what i mean i look forward to reading the next book due out in march

Stradapc

BUT, I feel that I should. I want to draw attention to Angharad's Bike series to the many readers that have come here from FM. When she first posted the series, I thought, this isn't for me. I waited for a year and a half to start to read it, and the story wasn't what I thought it would be. It's very touching and much like a column in a news paper which is published every day, except without the waste of a bunch of paper and trees. I know how hard it is to write a series and my bonnet is off to Angharad. What I'm saying is to please take a chance and become hooked.

I got my paperwork in the mail and I can now claim title as Lady Jennifer Campbell. I purchased a lease of 5 Square feet of land in Bandrum, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. I am very happy to help preserve the land of my ancestors for future generations. I hold title in my family for 175 years and can pass it down to future generations in my family. This land is beautiful and deserves to be protected from greedy developers.

Parts of Australia have had terrible wildfires, over 130 people have died and many folks were burned, some may not make it.

Kristina LS and our other pals from Oz, are you okay, family alright?

I once had a very small cat.
So small I named her Quantum.
She never saw any buttons that
Were so ugly she didn't want'em.

There are loads of links, this one had a bit more text with it.The film is called 'Rage'.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Jude-Law-Cross-Dresses-for-Ra...

Angharad.

You ever had one of those days where you wake up and roll over to look at the clock and scream because you're going to be late for work so you jump out of bed and rush around in a blind panic trying to get ready but you still know you can't make it in time so you slam the door and call to let them know you're going to be late and get a confused silence because you've been asleep three hours and misread your clock and still have over twelve hours before you have to be at work? I hate those days.

My wonderful husband, Grover, drove me to work today. On the way there we were talking about the blog "Women are Hard to Read". As the conversation went on, we then talked about the virtual whirlwind of emotions and thoughts that women go through during different parts of life. I told him I was cute and fuzzy when things are going well, but if someone I love or care for is being attacked (according to my perception) then the claws come out. He turned to me and said..."So...you're a Velocibunny!"

I am sorry for the lack of updates, but I've rewritten chapter 20 now nearly three times because I keep writing it into a place I don't want it to go.

I have a message from Nick B

He said he was sorry that he just dropped off the map and left without finishing stories or saying goodbye properly.

Gosh, aren't we lucky bunnies? For those of you who haven't explored the new sections in searches, do and be impressed. The stories are in alphabetical order - although why their seems to be more pages for stories starting with letter E, I'm not sure, it's KP and her Edumacation serial, I s'pect.

A question to you all! How many are taking up "DENNY'S" on there "FREE offer of a Slam Breakfast" tomorrow between the hours of 6am and 2pm across America? Richard

Bob and I will be experimenting with a new server configuration (not with the current BC server) over the next few weeks. If things work out well, we expect to be able to increase BC speed and reliability to a noticeable degree. Wish us luck. :)

Erin,
I know you warned us but I was almost watching it. 5,000,000 hits on January 31 at this end of the world. I went out for dinner and when I came back it was over.
WOW,
Joanne

with FM down i just realized that i will have a hard time find JulieO's works. I don't know how often julieo posts on topsehelf or stardust.She is my all time favorite author. I was also wondering if there is a offical list of stories by her and other authors in her universe.I know she has stand alone stories and ones that are connected in julieverse looking for the connected ones.

Gang; I just got an e-Mail from Angel saying she just got out of the hospital from emergency surgery and has been there since the 31st of December. She lost 50lbs while there and just needs some bed rest for now. Also I'm glad hear she OK. We will probally hear more from her as she gets better! Richard

I want to say thank you very much. As I said, this is a story which, I hope, will be just the first of what will be nothing but complete stories from me, from now on.

Links to a site called FictionMirror have been placed here but I have suspended their publication because the identified "advanced search" on the page brings up instead a series of pop-under ads for sports sites. I consider this technique a form of spam by deception.

This link is discussed in the WikiPedia article on FictionMania where it is implied but not stated that the FM TaskForce has approved FictionMirror. I would appreciate communication from some person knowledgeable about this but I will not pursue the information.

Hugs,
Erin

Yesterday I "ran" the Sisterhood Shabbat service at my synagogue here by having the other ladies do the various readings necessary to follow the service. Most of it went well. I was given the task of paraphraising the Torah portion.

shalimar

I accidently sent a copy of chapter 6 for chapter 8 to Maddy and did not catch it until a reader saw it. I want to thank that reader for catching that error. I will check in my files to se if the actual 8 is there or if it's deleted.

Sometime during the evening of January 31, 2009, TopShelf will register the five millionth visit in a period of three years, seven and one half months. Also, that day is likely to see BCTS to go over 1/3 million (333,333) visits for the month of January.

Yesterday I finally obtained a prescription for the anti-smoking drug, Chantix. This morning I took my first pill. I have set a date to finally be off cigarettes. March First is the date.

I see from the list of my stories, that Bike's initial episode has passed 8500 hits. So hardy souls are still taking the long ride to catch up with the present.

Sephrena, my fiancee has decided to take a one week break mew. She was feeling much too drained to type this herself, so I'm letting you all know that she's going to be awol from the site for about a week, until she can get the rest and recuperation she needs mew. We both wish you all well mew ^-^

There was a very nice obituary written for this very talented transsexual conductor and arranger, in today's Guardian, link below. She wrote music for the BBC and films, and helped arrange music for such notables as John Williams in Star Wars and Superman.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/23/angela-morley-...

Angharad

This comes from a suggestion on Crystal's Cyberboard about an indexable story link database. BC already allows for a link database but I can easily add a capacity for indexed and searchable specialized story links on BC. In fact, I just did. :) These story links would be for stories not stored on BC but on sites that allow such linkage and with author permissions for such linking.

But...

Because of the recent happenings,and because I don't feel right about it, I will no longer post ANY work,here or anywhere else, unless it's completed.

Another author has removed her stories from BC. I can only guess as to a reason since I was not offered one, nor offered the opportunity to unpub stories rather than them be deleted.

This hurts me deeply.

While I was washing up after dinner, my computer anti-virus software picked up a nasty, which it has dealt with. I have no idea whence it came, any more than I understand the minds which create them. I suspect that they are created by adolescent minds - irrespective of actual age, and are probably male. I'm not sure whether I want to punish them severely or pity them. As no harm was done, maybe the latter this time, on previous occasions it has caused damage and I didn't feel so amicable.

I do a lot of reading, and I mean a LOT of reading. Sometimes, though, I have trouble finding stories I haven't read that fit the theme I'm in the mood for, even after searching the categories.

Hi folks,

I'm happy to tell you, the DNS issues from around lunchtime CET today are solved now. I also fixed a few mistakes at the forum software itself. I hope everything is now running smoothly.

Fictionmania is down, who knows for how long. Few more days perhaps at the best but thats what was said already a few weeks ago. last i heard the server was there and the Task Force was doing the programing. Did they hit a snag, Did it not get across the border? How long will it be down. Unknown.

I had a facebook account that I had totally forgotten about; never used it; real name and everything. Well, both my granddaughters found me there, but then it degraded to the usual stuuupid crap. Then some of my Muslim friends found me there. I never thought I would ever worry about being outed again.

Well, I cancelled it, myspace, and every other on line chat group I had. Today, I was checking google, and someone had taken my name and information and combined it with the picture of a really HOTTT!!!! stripper. NOT GOOD.

I am regretting a lot right now.

A web community is like any other community, and needs police.

Okay, so I have a weird life...

I won't be able to get back to it for a bit longer, hopefully by the end of January things'll be up and running here... more when I have time!

In the last chapter posted of Kelly's Journey-Despair, It ends with her suicide because she despairs of living.

I am sorry if this offends anyone, I do not intend to.

My preferences are:
From child to adult, M to F, most real life style, some types of magical or si-fi transition, some mild femdom.

This Article was on COX Cable News

Transgender model steals the show on Fashion Rio catwalk

The 2008 Terry Awards - Final Story List

I created the Terry Awards to celebrate past stories. Older stories are too easily forgotten once they move on to the archives (back pages) and I thought that was a terrible fate.

For the last few days, when I open my browser to Big Closet, the Log-on/Register option is not on the right side near the top. So far I've had to leave the site and log back on several times over an hour or two before the option appears. Am I the only one having this problem or am I missing something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have to apologise for not posting the next chapter of Football Girl - unfortunately work commitments have got in the way.

Bob and I are in the BC/SD chatroom. C'mon in! -- Erin

Click here to Chat

Update -- Things are looking good. Server load is nominal and the number of visitors is almost back to normal. :) We'll keep an eye on things and make sure it's all okay but when the DNS has finished propagating in 24 to 48 hours, all should be copacetic. Starting Monday, we have a few more changes to make, like bringing the old site back up as SecondShelf etc.

Hugs,
Erin and Bob

For those with SKYPE, a VoIP phone, I have always been frustrated by having to switch from speakers to earphones when I wanted to talk on the phone. I had somehow thought that I needed to make a switch box to do this, and so finally after months of forgetfulness, finally bought the parts to do it.

As the readers know, I have been posting King Of The Rim.

No more writer's block! For now, at least.