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

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

Authors:

I missed a conflict. The schedule has been corrected. Please review it anew.

R.

Authors:

The review schedule has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Review it and let me know about any conflicts I have missed. I set the start date for Monday to give everyone a chance to check the schedule. Since there were so many conflicts to begin with, please do not start exchanging books until there has been enough time to identify additional conflicts.

R.

Cathleen wrote: "Is it too late to get on board? I just finished my review commitment for the novella round. I did sign up in the original thread, if that helps.

As far as clashes go, Laura can read me, but not th..."

Sorry, but we already have ten participants, which is my limit. Start a new request in the Review Group Requests folder.

Authors:

We now have ten participants. I believe that a schedule of review is possible, considering the known conflicts. Please let me know about any unnoted conflicts as soon as possible. I will be generating a review schedule in the next day or two.

R.

Authors:

A review group has been opened for sign up at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... To sign up, post links to your Goodreads author's page and to your book's Goodreads page under that topic.

In joining this review group you have agreed to review the books 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 Fantasy Group 18. As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the works assigned to you. Assignments will be made after the group sign-up has filled.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. Due to changes in how Amazon enforces its policies, it may not be possible to post reviews on Amazon. We encourage participants to post reviews on Amazon, if and where possible. Authors are welcome to request that reviewers post reviews to other venues, as well. Reviewers are welcome to offer to post reviews to other venues, if the subject book is available there.

Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work or, if the reviewer prefers to give the author a sale, purchase it.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews. Authors may respond to reviews, but any form of harassment or anger directed at reviewers will be treated as a violation of the terms of service for this group.

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.

Please read and adhere to the Code of Conduct at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....


THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 Cyana Scriptora - Lady of Justice

2 K T Munson - North & South

3 Laura Koerber - The Eclipse Dancer

4 Nadishka Aloysius - Raavana's Daughter

5 Alistair Potter - The Last Trollid

6 Melinda Brasher - Far-Knowing

7 Arisawe Hampton - The Mage's Tome: Cry of the Acere Duology: Book I

8 C.D. Tavenor - Legion of Mono

9 Christopher Keene - Gods of the Mountain

10 Chris Keaton - The Mosaic


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

February 11 to March 11

Cyana Scriptora reviews Nadishka Aloysius
K T Munson reviews Melinda Brasher
Laura Koerber reviews Alistair Potter
Nadishka Aloysius reviews Christopher Keene
Alistair Potter reviews Arisawe Hampton
Melinda Brasher reviews Cyana Scriptora
Arisawe Hampton reviews Chris Keaton
C.D. Tavenor reviews K T Munson
Christopher Keene reviews C.D. Tavenor
Chris Keaton reviews Laura Koerber


March 11 to April 11

Cyana Scriptora reviews Christopher Keene
K T Munson reviews Nadishka Aloysius
Laura Koerber reviews Arisawe Hampton
Nadishka Aloysius reviews Melinda Brasher
Alistair Potter reviews C.D. Tavenor
Melinda Brasher reviews Chris Keaton
Arisawe Hampton reviews K T Munson
C.D. Tavenor reviews Laura Koerber
Christopher Keene reviews Alistair Potter
Chris Keaton reviews Cyana Scriptora

Amina wrote: "I am not an author but can I review too?"

This is a peer review group. However, there is no reason why you cannot offer to any of the authors to read and review his or her book.

Tamira:

Please note that J.B. swapped books. You are now scheduled to read My Cat is the Antichrist-A Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance.

R.

Haru wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to send Tamira a private message, but I see no option in her profile.
Tamira, please show me a way I can reach you."

Go to her author's page. Next to the "Follow" button there is a grey down arrow. Click that. A menu will appear that contains a link to message her.

Authors:

No one else commented on my suggestion for about a week, so we will proceed with a single round of reviews. The schedule has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Please review it and let me know about any additional conflicts.

R.

Authors:

It looks like we are not getting another participant. I suggest that we run a single round of reviews. I should be able to generate a schedule for one round without too much problems. Does the group agree? Are there any other suggestions?

R.

Authors:

The schedule of review has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Please review it and let me know about any issue before we start reviewing on Monday.

R.

Lucretia wrote: "I can join with Beating Hearts a dark pararomance. It does have horror elements and graphic sex. JB has already read all of my books and I have already read the offering from KT. Also Tamira has re..."

I am afraid that the conflicts are just the ones we are trying to solve.

Authors:

We need at least one more participant for a workable schedule of review. If you know of any authors on Goodreads who might be interested, now would be a good time to see if they want in. Also, consider opening the criterion up to paranormal and/or romance.

R.

Okay. I think we have enough participants to move on to scheduling. If there is a conflict that has not been noted here yet, please post it as soon as possible. A schedule of review will be posted here in a day or two.

R.

P.T. wrote: "Am I too late to join?

If not, I have a supernatural mystery book I just released yesterday that could fit in here. It's not even on Goodreads yet, but it's this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/pro..."

It is not too late to join, but your book has to be on Goodreads. Make a book page for it and post the link here.

Sorry. I missed the comment, when I was updating the list. We now have six, but I doubt that we can make a workable schedule without more participants. I will send out a broadcast message to the GSRG membership.

R.

Authors:

A review group for mysteries has been set up at:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

To sign up, post the Goodreads links to your author page and your book page on that topic.

We will see who signs up, but if it is the same group as here KT may have to wait for another group..

In joining this review group you have agreed to review the books 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 Mystery Review Group 4. As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the works assigned to you. Assignments will be made after the group sign-up has filled.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. Due to changes in how Amazon enforces its policies, it may not be possible to post reviews on Amazon. We encourage participants to post reviews on Amazon, if and where possible. Authors are welcome to request that reviewers post reviews to other venues, as well. Reviewers are welcome to offer to post reviews to other venues, if the subject book is available there.

Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work or, if the reviewer prefers to give the author a sale, purchase it.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews. Authors may respond to reviews, but any form of harassment or anger directed at reviewers will be treated as a violation of the terms of service for this group.

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.

Please read and adhere to the Code of Conduct at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....


THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 K.T. Munson - 1001 Islands

2 D.R. Shoultz - At the River's Edge

3 Bruce M. Perrin - Killer in the Retroscape: A Near-Future Mystery

4 Gregg Maxwell Parker - Murder, She Vaped: The Ironic T-Shirt Caper

5 Laurel Heidtman - A Convenient Death

6 Alistair Potter - Perax Frontier

7 Lucretia Stanhope - Feral

8 P.T. Phronk - Three Incidents at Foster Manor

9 Brian O'Hare - The Coven Murders


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

January 14 to February 14

K.T. Munson reviews Laurel Heidtman
D.R. Shoultz reviews Bruce M. Perrin
Bruce M. Perrin reviews Alistair Potter
Gregg Maxwell Parker reviews K.T. Munson
Laurel Heidtman reviews D.R. Shoultz
Alistair Potter reviews Brian O'Hare
Lucretia Stanhope reviews P.T. Phronk
P.T. Phronk reviews Gregg Maxwell Parker
Brian O'Hare reviews Lucretia Stanhope


February 14 to March 14

K.T. Munson reviews P.T. Phronk
D.R. Shoultz reviews Gregg Maxwell Parker
Bruce M. Perrin reviews Brian O'Hare
Gregg Maxwell Parker reviews Lucretia Stanhope
Laurel Heidtman reviews Alistair Potter
Alistair Potter reviews D.R. Shoultz
Lucretia Stanhope reviews Bruce M. Perrin
P.T. Phronk reviews Laurel Heidtman
Brian O'Hare reviews K.T. Munson

Authors:

We have not had a new volunteer in a while. Our choices are:

1) I can send out another broadcast message to see if there are any other authors out there who qualify.

2) We can open up the genre a bit (either go paranormal or go romance or make it either/or instead of both.)

3) We can do one round of reviews instead of two.

Let me know what you think.

R.