April 20, 2009 | Congratulations to Kate Gibalerio
Kate's story "Malicious Acts" is one of the storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2008. Congratulations!
The top ten stories of the year will be released May 15th, with the public vote for the top story beginning then.
Check out the rest of the notable stories here.
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July 15, 2008 | Congratulations
to Erin (TC Editor Billiard) and Rand who were married on Saturday.
If you were not among the TCers who attended, you can check out the photos here.
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February 24, 2008 | Celebrate Freedom to Read Week!
Visit the forums and tell us what you're reading this week!
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January 15, 2008 | Transition to New Server
Our service provider completed TC's move to a new server last night. Please see Bellman's post at Just the Place for a Snark.
Please note: At this time the forums subdomain is still directed at the OLD forums. It may take a few hours for it to switch over. (If you see locked forums, you are at the old forums.)
To get to the NEW forums, use http://www.toasted-cheese.com/forums until further notice. Thanks for your patience!
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December 15, 2007 | Support the WGA!
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November 05, 2007 | TC Downtime Nov 3-4
Our apologies for the downtime experienced over the weekend of November 3-4. Apparently the cause was scheduled maintenance by our web host that went awry and thus took longer than expected. Unfortunately, we weren't informed of the maintenance, so we were unable to let you know TC might be down ahead of time.
Please re-send any mail sent to TC addresses during the downtime.
For future reference, if TC is ever down, you can keep apprised of the situation via our newsletter (we will send a special update), our MySpace page, our Google gadget (you can add this to your iGoogle homepage--search "Toasted Cheese"), as well as on the editors' personal blogs.
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April 19, 2007 | Word of the Week
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October 14, 2006 | Toasted Cheese Downtime
Toasted Cheese was offline for about 24 hours due to a malicious attack on our servers from October 12th to October 13th. If you tried to email us during the downtime, your email never made it to us. Please resend your email. In particular, if you submitted on October 12 or 13th and did not receive an autoresponse, please resubmit.
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September 23, 2006 | Banned Books Week
September 23-30, 2006
Celebrate your freedom to read by reading a banned book this week!
According the American Library Association, the 10 most challenged books of the 21st Century (2000-2005) are:
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
- Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
- "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
- "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris
- Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
- Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
- "Forever" by Judy Blume
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September 03, 2006 | TC on MySpace
Are you on MySpace? Toasted Cheese now has a MySpace page and we'd be happy to add you as a friend!
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January 18, 2006 | Happy Anniversary Toasted Cheese!
Toasted Cheese is five years old today. Wow!
Thanks to all of our members for your continued support.
If you're a lurker, we invite you to pop over to the forums and say hello at Just the Place for a Snark (no need to register to post). If you're shy, drop us an email. We'd love to hear from you.
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The newest snarker has arrived! Holden Alexander was born today, December 19, at 7:30am EST. Congratulations to Steph (TC Editor Baker) and Pat & big sister Zoë from all of us at Toasted Cheese.
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August 18, 2005 | New Forum Host
TC welcomes Jaywalke as our newest forum host. He'll be hosting at Maxim Tremendous, our genre fiction forum.
We're always looking for new hosts. If you're interested, contact the editors.
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A big thank you to Liz for her recent donation to Toasted Cheese.
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It's wedding day for TC Editor Ana and TC Member Toxicfur. (Yes, an in-house pairing! We can't take the credit, though ;-)) Congratulations to you both from all of us at Toasted Cheese.
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Congratulations to Rhia (TC Editor Kittlekatt) and John on their marriage today. Best wishes to you both from all of us at Toasted Cheese.
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Yesterday, Steve (TC Editor Macfisto) and his wife Shelley welcomed to the world Hayley Rose, Ella Marie, Jordan Andrew, and Emma Grace. That's right, quadruplets! Congratulations to the new parents. FOUR Cheers & A Tiger! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
UPDATE: Burbank Hospital Welcomes First Quadruplets Ever | The Fantastic Four arrive
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Thank you to Barry and Matthew for their recent donations to Toasted Cheese. Your support is much appreciated.
Barry particularly enjoyed Ann Dowd's poem "Broken Spine."
All donations TC receives go toward contest prizes and site fees.
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January 15, 2005 | ToastedNews Update
As mentioned in the January edition of ToastedNews, we are switching over to a new mailing list system so our illustrious newsletter editor, Billiard, can bring you HTML newsletters.
If you are already subscribed to ToastedNews, you should have received (today) an email asking you to confirm your subscription to the new list. All you need to do to ensure you receive future issues of ToastedNews is click on the link in that email.
If you have not yet subscribed to ToastedNews, you can do so by entering your email address in the subscription box on the left (*points*). If you're a new subscriber, you will also receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription.
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August 24, 2004 | Comments Disabled
Since I don't want to waste any more of my time deleting spam comments, the comments here have been closed. Comments of the non-spam variety are always welcome over at the forums. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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July 20, 2004 | Best of the Boards
Best of the Boards winners are published in the Literary Journal.
If you'd like to participate in Best of the Boards, read the rules, then be sure to check out the new exercise at A Pen in Each Hand.
When you're done, don't forget to post your work at the forums!
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July 01, 2004 | Check out the new forums!
If you click on the "forums" link today, you're going to notice some big changes. Yes, the brand new forums promised in the last issue of ToastedNews are now live. Be sure to check them out and let us know what you think.
A couple things to note: Even if you're already a TC member, you'll have to re-register. You can use the same info you used to sign up the first time.
Also, a link to the old forums will remain up on the main page for the next few months so you can still access posts made there.
Enjoy!
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April 15, 2004 | Caprice Hokstad
Currently featured at Conundrums to Guess is the Web site of TC member and author Caprice Hokstad.
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Billiard's bio has been updated!
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March 15, 2004 | Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
Now featured at Conundrums to Guess is the Web site of TC reader and poet Jayne Jaudon Ferrer.
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