Want to discuss spoilers? You're in luck.

Some of you may remember that I once had an online forum called The Pride. It's still there, but it's almost completely inactive. That's my fault. I loved that forum, and at first I moderated it myself, and I used to check it every day. Then things got complicated. I started writing a second series, and I had less time, and questions came up, like, "Why is it called The Pride, if you also write about bean sidhes?"

Then Shifters ended, and The Pride seemed totally irrelevant. Or so I thought.

Then I started getting questions, like "What happened to The Pride?" And that's when I realized that even though Alpha, the last Shifters book, is already out in the US, the series still has new readers here (I hear from them every day on Twitter and FB) and more every day in other countries, which are just now getting the series. People are still reading the Shifters series. (Yay!) And they seem to want to talk about them. But we've grown beyond The Pride, I think. We need something bigger, but simpler. Because people are now also asking where they can openly discuss recent developments in the Soul Screamers series.

Not coincidentally, I discovered recently that the web host I've been using for four years (I LOVE Hostmonster) includes several types of forum software and hosting in my package. I've been paying for a forum all along. So now I'm gonna use it.

The new forum is easier to read and better organized than The Pride was. And it's hosted on my site, so it should be even easier to find, even before I get the links up on my website.

Why do I need a forum (you might be asking) if I'm already active on both Twitter and Facebook? Two reasons:
Discussion that doesn't disappear from the screen as soon as new people comment. Discussion on forums is archived. You can read through it and find what you're looking for more than a day after it was posted. That's what passes for permanence on the Internet.Spoilers. People hate stumbling across them accidentally, but they also want to be able to discuss them freely. My new forum provides a place for both. I've structured the boards so that there is a clear divide between spoiler-free and spoilery zones.If you want to talk spoilers with fellow readers (and maybe me), the new forum is the place to go. If you want to talk to other readers who haven't yet read the latest book without being spoiled, the new forum is the place to go.

I haven't named it yet. Maybe I'll hold a contest and let one of you name it. But the new forum is up, and it's running, and it appears functional. I'll soon be officially deleting The Pride, so if there's a discussion there that you want to continue or revive, feel free to copy and paste it into the appropriate board on the new forum.

Right now, you have to join to have access to the spoilery discussions. That's to encourage membership and to make discussion easier. Responding to posts from "anonymous" gets old.

Here's what it looks like (click to enlarge):





Interested? Click here to check it out.