It occurred to me, that those non-cyclists who read Bike, might not have a clue what I'm talking about when I mention Saunier Duval (a cycling team - now defunct) and David Millar, a British rider who has been a national champion at road and time trial racing.

A picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words:

Angharad :)

Here I am again, begging for votes instead of nominations. As of late today, Jan. 24th, only four people have voted, including myself. That's not nearly enough for a fair tally. There are a lot of very good stories that really do deserve recognition so I hope to see a lot more votes soon.

I check my stories listing several times a day, when I can, to see if there are any comments that need to be replied to. I had noted of late that the hits on all of my stories (there are only four) had basically dropped to zero on all chapters with just one or two hits here and there. Suddenly,over the last two days, all four novels are getting four to a half dozen or more daily hits for most of the chapters. "Who is Sylvia" is getting quite a few hits and it's not even a TG oriented story, although one character who makes a brief appearance is.

After her appearance on Midweek (BBC Radio4) a few weeks ago, she's now in Guardian Weekend - the Guardian's glossy magazine, with a far from flattering photo. Not quite sure what she hopes to achieve apart from explaining how she spent  £60,000 on surgery - I'd want a spare body for that, still some of us have to succeed without facial surgery or voice training.

Judge for yourselves. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/experienc...

Angharad.

So I am planning to post a few chapters of a story that there is a REALLY good chance will never be finished.

I am having trouble logging in. When ever I type my pass word, nothing happens. I just get sent back to the home page without being logged in. The only way I can get logged in is to request a new password every time. What am I doing wrong.

When I started writing Luck Be A Lady, it was begun as a take-off on an idea presented to me by Prudence Walker. When I began telling the tale, I had an ending in mind.

For all those who have gone before, when do the butterflies settle down?

A few weeks back there was a bit of dialogue about making payments (to Hat box)that remain anonymous and protect payer from other exposure (e.g. credit card statements). There are pre-paid credit cards (Visa, Mastercard intended as gift cards) that can be purchased with cash at a variety of outlets. These can be used on-line e.g. with Amazon. These will provide sufficient curtain of privacy or limit financial exposure when dealing on-line for one off transactions. There is a small charge for the card but the simplicity makes it worthwhile.

I just watched America's new President give his acceptance speech. I know some of you are probably already thinking "Oh, no, not again" but I'm half a world away so I didn't get a chance until I finished work this evening.

While I might be cutting my own throat, hit and comment-wise with this, I feel it's only fair to let everyone know that Luck Be A Lady is incomplete, ending with Chapter 8. There WAS a chapter 9, but I have decided that it is non-canon, and it will NOT be re-posted here, or anywhere else.

Since I wrote the story, so much has happened in my life and it seems my muse has gone on semi-permanent vacation. Thus, the story remains in it's unfinished state, with no inspiration in sight for a close.

I'm very sorry having to tell you, that since 12:00 CET there are issues finding Hypatia's Garden. As far as I know, it's a DNS issues somewhere along the line. The server itself is still working nicely.

So as it unfortunately is out of our sphere of influence, I hope it will be resolved soon.

Greetings from eastern germany,

Saphira

Ummm why do they call them sissies? Doesn't that mean likes your big sissie, or your little sissie? Like mes, I love my big sissie Kitty, and ummm I just don't understands what the other sissies means, because umms is that what it means?

At last I got the next chapter of Maiden finished, and it's waiting to be posted at the site I always give precedence to with this story. Once it's posted there, I'll be putting it up here.

Good news everyone...

Next episode of Totally Insane should be finished as soon as we can get Kylie out of the loo, she got locked in. Only joking, it's nearly drafted, so should be posted towards the end of the week. So if you're planning a holiday....

Angharad & Big Bad Bonzi.

I want to thank everyone for their assistance in helping me find this story. Kristina LS was able to send it to me. I really appreciate the way so many people are willing to help each other here on BCTS. Thank you all!

I have been reading Tiffany Shar's story "Standing Up To Life" She posted a second part to it on Fictionmania but I can't get it. I had heard that someone here was able to get on FM again, but I think AT&T may be playing their games again. I can't get it to come up. Is it still down or are they just denying access? I think the second story was "Daring To Hope" but I am not sure. If anyone could help, I would be very grateful!

Having recently reached my 65th annual celebration of life, I have decided to retire ...
the name ...
Holly Logan.

15:15 Fri 16 Jan, Channel 5 "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story"

My RLT is going great. I'm accepted by almost all of my friends, all of my co-workers, and some of my family. I live with a wonderful woman in a 16 year platonic partnership, I have recently discovered that an angel, an incredible, beautiful, intelligent, understanding woman, is in love with me, and I feel the same about her...and yet.

Okay, for those of you who are waiting for an update on my situation, here we go:

I just realized that my .doc version of Carversion by Pru Walker only had chapters 1-50 in it. I went to the home page to finish saving the rest of it, but apparently the domain expired and is up for sale again. It is not posted at Storysite. Does anyone know where it might be available now?

I want to ask if anybody has had contact with T. D. Aldoennetti since Christmas. I want to know as she lives in the outskirts of the Seattle-Tacoma area and as if you have followed any of the news from that area they were hit real hard with snow before Christmas and and then heavy rain after Christmas causing a lot of weather problems with flooding and other things. She hasn't posted anything on the site since the Dec 20th.

My son, Max (not his real name), will be starting at the high school next year. Therefore, they are starting to send materials home and have assemblies to discuss what things will be like for them next year. Today, they got the Curriculum Guide at an assembly. Max was excitedly showing my wife the extracurricular activities available to him next year: freshman soccer, jr. varsity volleyball and the chess club are the three he has circled as "must-do's". And he had crossed out, as "must not do", the Gay/Straight Alliance and the International Thespian Society.

Once again, I've had to turn guest searches off here at TopShelf due to server load. At 2:36 pm PDT, we had a dozen or so guests doing searches simultaneously and this effectively slowed the server to a crawl that it took Bob and I twenty minutes to get in and correct.

Guest searches can be done at Second Shelf: http://bcts.stardustr.us/

Sorry. Maybe we'll have a new server by next month.

Hugs,
Erin

Thank you everyone.

A google search of site:bigclosetr.us hanger
shows that we use the word "hanger" as a misspelling for "hangar" more often than we talk about coathangers.

Not really a TG post, but I have to beg for some help right now.

I have a page up at this location:

http://www.davensjournal.com/APlea.html

Those of you who read my sagas will have observed the regular occurrence of the ersatz complaint, either at the protagonists or by them in a self declaration. I see it in the works of other authors as well, and I've also known it in real life with other transgendered people. It's a very common phenomenon -- the feeling that despite all your inner drivings, you're still different to biological women (or men) and therefore inferior.

Okay, this is as good a place as any to ask. I've been wracking my brain trying to remember the name of this movie because it's a really good example, to my mind, of what makes not just a good transgender story, but a good story in general. I'm hoping someone here has seen it and can tell me the title.

a belated happy new year or hoppy news rear, yes my lil sides running rampant a little bit to enjoy life. things are getting into perspective and fun again for me and i am starting to see the fun in things and life.

alot of it is i get down over the holidays as i am so far away from those i consider my true family and friends and it gets me down.

to all of you i wish a good 2009 and may all your dreams come true or as many as possible this year

2008 Terry Award Nominations

For some reason (that is beyond my understanding) several people seem to have gotten the mistaken idea that I've abandoned this story. This couldn't be further from the truth. I do admit to falling way behind where I expected to be, but it's far from abandoned. (1st draft of Chapter 13 is complete, and 14 has been started - barely). (Historically, once I get a chapter close to where I want it, it generally takes two weeks to get through my four overworked editors and finally get into a shape where I can consider posting it. Sorry, but that's just what it takes, even with e-mail.

Amy sent me an email saying:
I have been without work for a month and am unable to find work.
As of now I'm forced to use a library computer to get online so I'm not able to write or visit BCTS.

OK, I've never made a blog entry before, so here goes. I just have to get this out somewhere.

The good news is my wife and I have health insurance again.

It's possible that you saw that chapter 45 of Being Christina Chase was posted today. This was a mistake. If you read the story, I apologize. It should have never gone up. It is not ready for public consumption.

So, I'm having a crappy day. As many of you may or may not know or care, I've been hard at work finishing off Being Christina Chase to please my three fans, even though two of them have given up all hope that the story will ever be finished.

Like all us here tend to do, I am as of right now suffering from a bad case of Writer's block. Sadly, it's not just on one or two but ALL my stories. Add to that that the flash drive I use for saving them has gone AWOL, costing me a few days' work (I had a backup past that, thank gods) and my writin's not doin' too good.

I'm also re-re-re-rereading Tuck, so that's a bit time consuming as well. I hope to have more of Cassie and Miriam out by mid-February at the latest. Wish me luck, please!

Melanie E.

Will soon be completely posted. Then i will do a sequel because I know that her and her family and friends have more to say. But I want input from the readers on the title, story ideas and goals.

Help wanted!

With FM down, traffic growth at BC has been penomenal, Bob and I have both spent 20 to 30 hours a week in November and December tweaking and tuning the server and software to keep the site up. Today, we're probably going to set another record for traffic, it looks like we will break 12,000 visitors and get close to 45,000 pages. This is still less than peak loads at Storysite and much less than at FM. BC's software is flexible but CPU and Disk Access intensive compared with FM and SS; we've got plenty of bandwidth but we're flogging the server eight-to-the-bar to keep up.

Well, I am back in Orlando. I had a wonderful week with family for the holidays.

I've become a little "comment shy" on stories lately, and it occurs to me that I could do more. At one time I had a reputation for providing, lengthy, blunt ... er, incisive feedback, so I'm making this offer:

I'm sure everyone will be pleased to note that the Virgin Mary seems most likely to have been a feminised man.

I'm sure there's a really great story there as well...

The 2008 Terry Awards - Award Categories

Here's a link to today's Dear Abby. Joe in Pennsylvania finds skirts more comfortable, but some of his relatives are gossiping about him.

I don't know about global warming, because we've had two lousy summers, and we seem to be having something of a mini ice age in the UK at present, with temperatures well below normal.

11,088 on 2008/12/29! And 38,514 pages, which is not a record since we went over 40,000 pages one day last Feb.:)

Hugs,
Erin