Hello everyone,

Well, its the last day of 2012, and its kinda traditional to take a moment and look back at the year that was. And since I rather like that tradition, here goes.

Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

I will be out for most of tomorrow and tomorrow evening I am going against the grade and actually going out with friends to celebrate New years. My feeling is if I don't go out and go to bed early it still occurs. Again against my better judgment I am going out. I'll be taking all the back roads home to avoid all the drunks. I am a recovering drinker and see news year eve as a chance for beginner and amateurs to play with the big people.
Have a wonderful new year and enjoy yourselves.

It's official I have been a member of this site for two years now. I have had a lot of encouragement and hopefully my writing is getting better. lol.

So The Underappreciated kind of ran its course with me. I'm still writing it but its going a lot slower than I would have wanted. So I've kind of put it on the back burner for the moment.

As everyone is aware, about two weeks ago I received a phone call from a friend who was in dire straights and in need of a place to live. I had been homeless and wasn't about to let one of my friends suffer the same fate. The problem, he knew me as Tiny the wrestler and not Katie. Figuring I knew what his reaction would be, I decided I need to die to self and put being female on the back burner while I helped out.

Well, right now, I'm plodding away at "Jake goes for help". Its a really tough story for me, for obvious reasons, so I can only do so much and then I need a break from it. But I'm hoping to have Chapter 4 finished by the start of the new year, and my basic outline has maybe 2 chapters thereafter before the story ends. I have tentatively planned to have a flashback chapter as a totally separate chapter, so those who would have trouble dealing with such things can skip it without missing much of the story.

I have once again reluctantly gotten involved with Facebook, and have done so with much caution. If they start doing what they were doing before, I will disappear immediately. So, this morning, I signed on to see what is going on in this alternate reality, and notice that I have a half dozen friend requests from friends on BCTS.

I'm still not well, didn't get to the Hobbit last night and have spent most of today in bed. I assume this is a cold but one with teeth! I've got joint pain but no temperature.

The free give away has been a rousing success. I mean, I am floored. I have had over 600 people download God Bless the Child while it was being offered free on Kindle. I want to thank all of you for going along with me on this.

Here are some things I have learned.

1. The transgender community is really supportive of itself. I know I had people here download the story, but also people from various TG facebook pages really got behind me.

I have it in the can and ready to post, but I do not know how to HTML code my creation, and neither does my Editor. If there is a kind soul out there who does, and would be willing to help me it would be most appreciate.

Huggles Michele

Hey everyone! As you can see yes, I did miss the Christmas Contest deadline. However, that's a story in itself. When the idea first hit me of mixing The Santa Clause and truckers together, I thought of Wren. I knew she'd spent time on the road until health matters prevented it. Now bear in mind besides the usual exchange of comments I never really spoke to her, but you can sorta get to know someone here though the blogs and such.

This is typical of what seems to happen to me over the winter holiday period. I have an eeeeeeevil cold and I'm reduced to coughing, hacking and dripping everywhere. Needless to say, I can't write while I'm in this condition.

So I finally got the new chapter of Kit and Kin out, and it has taken some work to pull that off. Between a lot of work on the new story which is up to chapter 12 with 4 chapters posted already, this thing is really going wild. If you are looking for it, it is called Written In The Body and is on fanfiction.net and Archive of our own. It is seriously intense and is pretty long. Over 15k in 4 chapters is a pretty chunky story. This is going to be yet another novel written by me. Le sigh.

..... for me to give formal notice of thanks and immense gratitude to those who continued to contribute to all our pleasure even over the past few days.
Thank you so much.

everyone for reading Gabrielle Noel, since it was posted on the 25th

Starting Christmas and running until the 29th, God Bless the Child will be free on Amazon for the kindle. I still believe that this is one of the most powerful TG stories ever and would appreciate if you downloaded it, if for nothing else but to show your support and appreciation for my continuing to post stories on Big Closet. You don't need to own a kindle to buy the free book, there are free readers available for android and the PC.

It is with deep sadness and regret that I have to inform the Big Closet community that we lost another one of our members. I have just been informed that Wren Phoenix has passed away. I know she had been sick for quite some time with heart problems, but was eager to get back into the swing of things.

You will be missed, my friend.

For my fellow addicts, here's today's.

http://www.gocomics.com/skinhorse/2012/12/26

In case any of you missed this weeks 'To Make A Wish' because I posted it yesterday you can find it here TMAW Bk2 Pt7

Huggles & Seasons Greetings
Sammi

On this day, after we've spent too much money, too much time rushing to get everything done on time and start the day getting dinner ready, after spending the previous day baking, I'd like to reflect on the reason we've gone to all this trouble. Click the link for one of my favorite Christmas cartoons.

May the joy of Christmas follow you and yours through the whole year in 2013.

God bless us everyone!

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What really goes on here at BigCloset TopShelf on any given day? Lets take a sneak peek inside shall we?

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Christopher Leeson's Noel isn't exactly a traditional Christmas story. And yet, in many ways, it is the perfect Christmas story, being about redemption. It's also one of the stories that convinced me that the net was a wonderful place to discover and display actual well-written fiction and so led almost directly to the founding of BigCloset as a site for displaying and discovering TG fiction.

I would just like to express my biggest thanks and hugs and thanks to all those that have read the story so far and especially for those that commented and cheered me on:)
*Great Big Huge HUGS*

So, astonishment of astonishments, my Son now talks to me and has opened a "Dropbox" account, and wants me to put my picies in it so that the rest of the family can see me, and I asked him if he really wanted to do that, and he said that he had seen me on his visit last summer and not found me repulsive, so I should put my photos on Dropbox. GASP !

Hello everybody,

There is a verse in the Bible that talks about blessings being shaken up, pressed down, and flowing over, and it feels like that's where I am right now.

On this, the eve before the big day, I felt it good to remind others of my religion, Chocolatarian. Remember, this religion can smoothly blend in with other chewy religions. Sometimes it provides us with a tasteful blend of guilt and joy, other times it ends up like that chocolate....you know the stuff. The stuff you give to five year olds because it tastes so nasty. This religion blends with them all. Even ones with caramel and coconut. On this, the eve of the day of the fat chocolate giving man, we must all remember to be good to each other.

I just want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas, and also take a second to thank you all for reading and commenting or leaving me kudos to say you liked what I wrote. I also hope that you all have a wonderful time this festive season and enjoy the new stories I have my wonderful friend and editor SamanthaK proof and post in the new year.

Hugs and Love

SaraUK

So, it's that time of year again... heading off to relatives, eating too much, drinking too much, and generally enjoying the time off work while collapsing in front of the goggle box (TV).

First, let me just say a very happy holiday season to everyone! I know it's been quite awhile since I've posted. It's been a rough year for me, between finishing up dental surgery, dealing with a cyber-stalker, and most recently the CT school tragedy. But I'm not posting this to complain about the bad.

O K it is 2 days before Christmas so I would like to wish my BCTS family a very Happy Holiday and A very Good New Year to come
Hugs & Kisses may you all have happiness and peace :-) RICHIE2

Okay, I'm starting to grow uncomfortable.

Well the holiday rush is upon us and as usual, it's been a bit hectic fitting in all that needs to be done. But the gift shopping is all done. We finished it up yesterday. One of the things that needed to be fit in was practice for the Christmas concert that my wife will be singing in. That and she needed a new outfit to wear for the concert. The dress code called for Red and/or black.

To all the wonderful authors on BC, if I do not mention you by name here, it is not because I do not appreciate your work, it is just my forgetful mind misbehaving again.

Dear Santa,

I need two things desperately for my Winter story contest entry, a quick edit and critique, and formatting help, as i have severely bent the board in the past...
Pleaase?
Diana

This is gonna be a round about story, but it does have a punch line, end or what ever.

I guess 2012 wasn't done with being extremely shitty.

to everyone.

Drag Queen Olympics in Amsterdam

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/dec/21/drag-queen...

I am writing this because of the large number of comments and private messages I've received concerning the actions and beliefs of the Navy Psychologist in my story, A Change of Orders. If you haven't read the story, and intend to do so, you might want to come back to this later as some of the discussion will give away a significant piece of the challenges laid out for the hero(ine) in the plot. Okay?

Well, I had to spend my Christmas money on buying a new battery for my car. Ah well, had to be done.

Stolen from a good friend of mine:

Since a few people have asked, just wanted to drop a quick update. I started a new project at work that has to be completed before Dec 31, right. That's not a lot of time, suffice to say my life has been work, eat then sleep and then back to work.

I am a relatively new member on BCTS.