R.’s Comments (group member since May 22, 2014)

R.’s comments from the Genre Specific Review Groups group.

L.N. wrote: "I can read something else of Chance's and I have something else that James can look at, if that is any use to you.?"

I think that will work. Once we have at least six participants, we will try to work it out.

R.

This request has been resolved in a general YA review group.

Authors:

Your voices have been heard. A new YA review group has been started at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... Review the guidelines in the opening post of that topic. If you agree, post your name and the name of your book to that topic.

R.

In joining this review group you have agreed to review the novels assigned to you on a two month schedule. This group is now in the review phase and is no longer open for sign up.

This is the YA review group. (This includes all works intended for the Young Adult audience.) As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you. Assignments will be made after the group sign-up has filled.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher on Amazon), the review should be posted to Amazon (US and UK) as well, if the book is available there. This makes having accounts with both Goodreads and Amazon.com a requirement.

If a reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues, the reviewer is relieved of the requirement of posting the review. If this occurs in the first round, the second reviewer is relieved of the requirement to read and review the book. This is entirely at the discretion of the reviewer and is not intended in any way to manipulate the rating of any book.

Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews.

If you are going to be late with your review, either post to this topic as soon as possible or message the author and the moderator.

If your book has not been reviewed by the deadline for either round, contact the review group moderator. This is necessary to make certain that the review process is fair for everyone.

Note that any participant who makes no effort to fulfill his or her commitment to this group will have all reviews of his or her work resulting from this group deleted and his or her membership in the Genre Specific Review Group will be terminated.


THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 A.M.H. Johnson - Midnight Over Moores

2 Daniel Nanto - Luckson: A Dream Walker Novel

3 A.J. Culey - The Trouble with Antlers (a.k.a. Melvin's Rampant Rack): Season 1, Episode 1

4 Inna Hardison - Escape

5 Sanna Hines - Stealth Moves

6 Ryan Troske - The Rising


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

August 17 to September 17

A.M.H. Johnson reviews Daniel Nanto
Daniel Nanto reviews Sanna Hines
A.J. Culey reviews Inna Hardison
Inna Hardison reviews A.M.H. Johnson
Sanna Hines reviews Ryan Troske
Ryan Troske reviews A.J. Culey

September 17 to October 17

A.M.H. Johnson reviews A.J. Culey
Daniel Nanto reviews Ryan Troske
A.J. Culey reviews Sanna Hines
Inna Hardison reviews Daniel Nanto
Sanna Hines reviews Inna Hardison
Ryan Troske reviews A.M.H. Johnson

David wrote: "K.T. wrote: "I have a pirate fantasy I'd like to add to this list! 1001 Islands is presntly a stand alone book full of adventure, intrigue, and a touch of horror. Basically pirates meets inception ..."

The way the group works is once there are six participants, the moderator schedules reviews in two rounds. So everyone's book is reviewed twice. The schedule is arranged so as to keep authors from reviewing each others books. Amazon does not like mutual reviews and might take them down.

R.

There are two members voting for a YA group. If you are willing to join a general YA group, we will then have enough interest to start a YA group.

R.

Authors:

Your voices have been heard. A Speculative Fiction review group has been started at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... Please review the guidelines. If you agree to them, sign up by posting your name and the name of your book in that topic.

R.

In joining this review group you have agreed to review the novels assigned to you on a two month schedule. This group is now in the review phase and is no longer open for sign up.

This is the Speculative Fiction review group. (This includes but is not limited to Fantasy, monster-based Horror, Alternate History, and Science Fiction. Any work that ask the question, "What if?") As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you. Assignments will be made after the group sign-up has filled.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher on Amazon), the review should be posted to Amazon (US and UK) as well, if the book is available there. This makes having accounts with both Goodreads and Amazon.com a requirement.

If a reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues, the reviewer is relieved of the requirement of posting the review. If this occurs in the first round, the second reviewer is relieved of the requirement to read and review the book. This is entirely at the discretion of the reviewer and is not intended in any way to manipulate the rating of any book.

Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews.

If you are going to be late with your review, either post to this topic as soon as possible or message the author and the moderator.

If your book has not been reviewed by the deadline for either round, contact the review group moderator. This is necessary to make certain that the review process is fair for everyone.

Note that any participant who makes no effort to fulfill his or her commitment to this group will have all reviews of his or her work resulting from this group deleted and his or her membership in the Genre Specific Review Group will be terminated.

THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 Carolyn McBride - If It's Easy

2 L.N. Denison - Going Underground

3 Skye Noir (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4...) - Reader-Only

4 David Finn - Demorn: Blade of Exile

5 James Devo - Blood Red

6 K.T. Munson - 1001 Islands


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

September 1 to October 1

Carolyn McBride reviews K.T. Munson
L.N. Denison reviews David Finn
Skye Noir reviews L.N. Denison
David Finn reviews Carolyn McBride
James Devo gets a bye
K.T. Munson reviews James Devo

October 1 to November 1

Carolyn McBride reviews L.N. Denison
L.N. Denison reviews K.T. Munson
Skye Noir reviews David Finn
David Finn reviews James Devo
James Devo reviews Carolyn McBride
K.T. Munson gets a bye

Authors:

All reviews have been completed. Thank you.

R.

Carly wrote: "R., as per our PM discussion before you made up the ordering, I *can't* review any of Anthony's books since he has already reviewed one of my books. That is not the same as saying we need to avoid ..."

We have done this before and not had a problem with Amazon. However, the schedule of review has been revised per Carly's suggestion. Anthony is scheduled to review Carly in the first round. Carly will provide Anthony with a different book to review.

R.

Authors:

The review schedule has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Please review it and let me know of any problems as soon as possible. Note that there was no way to avoid all interactions between Carly and Ibiloye and Carly and Anthony. So, Carly is scheduled to review Anthony's book.

R.

Authors:

All reviews have been completed early. Thank you all for doing a great job.

R.

Authors:

All reviews have been completed. Congratulations.

R.

Based on another request, a Non-Fiction group has been started.

Authors:

Your voices have been heard. A Non-Fiction review group has been started. Please read the guidelines in the first post of https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... If you agree and want to sign up, post your name and the name of your book in that topic.

R.

In joining this review group you have agreed to review the novels assigned to you on a two month schedule. This group is now in the review phase and is no longer open for sign up.

This is Non-Fiction Review Group 2, which will include all works classified as non-fiction including self-help. (If you are uncertain about whether your work qualifies, message the moderator with the link to your work's Goodread page.) As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you. Assignments will be made after the group sign-up has filled.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher on Amazon), the review should be posted to Amazon (US and UK) as well, if the book is available there. This makes having accounts with both Goodreads and Amazon.com a requirement.

If a reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues, the reviewer is relieved of the requirement of posting the review. If this occurs in the first round, the second reviewer is relieved of the requirement to read and review the book. This is entirely at the discretion of the reviewer and is not intended in any way to manipulate the rating of any book.

Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews.

If you are going to be late with your review, either post to this topic as soon as possible or message the author and the moderator.

If your book has not been reviewed by the deadline for either round, contact the review group moderator. This is necessary to make certain that the review process is fair for everyone.

Note that any participant who makes no effort to fulfill his or her commitment to this group will have all reviews of his or her work resulting from this group deleted and his or her membership in the Genre Specific Review Group will be terminated.


THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 Carly Berg - Story Prompts That Work

2 Christy Nicholas - IRELAND: Mythical, Magical, Mystical: A Guide to Hidden Ireland

3 Angelique Bochnak - Change Your Mindset Change Your Life: Create the Foundation for Developing New Habits for a Lifetime of Success and Happiness

4 Ibiloye Abiodun Christian - A Prayerful and Virtuous Woman Always Prevails

5 Francis Mont - Humane Physics - Classical Physics - Second Edition

6 Anthony Stancomb - The Under a Croatian Sun - From grey Britain to a sunny isle: one couple's dream comes true.


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

August 9 to September 9

Carly Berg reviews Angelique Bochnak
Christy Nicholas reviews Francis Mont
Angelique Bochnak reviews Christy Nicholas
Ibiloye Abiodun Christian reviews Anthony Stancomb
Francis Mont reviews Ibiloye Abiodun Christian
Anthony Stancomb reviews Carly Berg


September 9 to October 9

Carly Berg reviews Christy Nicholas
Christy Nicholas reviews Ibiloye Abiodun Christian
Angelique Bochnak reviews Anthony Stancomb
Ibiloye Abiodun Christian reviews Angelique Bochnak
Francis Mont reviews Carly Berg
Anthony Stancomb reviews Francis Mont

Authors:

Good job on completing all reviews in a timely manner.

R.

D.M. wrote: "
R,
do you have schedule yet?

Cheers D"

I apologize for my senior moment. The review schedule has been posted in the first comment of this topic. Please post a comment in this topic, when you receive your books for review and when you post your reviews.

R.

Authors:

There are enough posts here to open a group for sign up. What I need to know from you is whether you want it to be self-help only or if you want it to be open to all forms of nonfiction?

R.

Authors:

We have seven books. The sign up phase is over. I will be publishing the review schedule in the next day or two. Please let me know about any conflict as soon as possible.

R.