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In joining this review group you are agreeing to review any book assigned to you within a two month time period. If you do not agree, please do not sign up below.This is the Young Adult review group, which will include all types of novels classified as young adult. As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you.
Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher), the review should be posted to Amazon 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.
THE AUTHORS AND NOVELS ARE:
01 A.E. Albert - The Time Sphere
02 Rachel Barnard - At One's Beast
03 Estée Kessler - My Partner Jakup the Jay
04 G.J. Griffiths - So What! Stories or Whatever!
05 T.B. Markinson - Marionette
06 Taylor Lavati - The Thousand Year Curse
THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:
November 5 to December 5
A.E. Albert reviews Estée Kessler
Estée Kessler reviews G.J. Griffiths
G.J. Griffiths reviews Rachel Barnard
Rachel Barnard reviews T.B. Markinson
T.B. Markinson reviews Taylor Lavati
Taylor Lavati reviews A.E. Albert
December 5 to January 5
A.E. Albert reviews G.J. Griffiths
Estée Kessler reviews Rachel Barnard
G.J. Griffiths reviews T.B. Markinson
Rachel Barnard reviews Taylor Lavati
T.B. Markinson reviews A.E. Albert
Taylor Lavati reviews Estée Kessler
Brady and Phronk:Thank you very much for your reviews. They provided me with insights into how to improve my writing.
Thanks,
R.
Dale wrote: "How do we handle series?"The author should submit one book in the series. Other arrangements can be made by agreement between the author and the reviewers.
R.
Authors:Please update this topic with a short acknowledgement that you have received your first round book.
R.
Melissa wrote: "I totally put the wrong book for this! I meant Traffic Jam"No problem, Melissa. Your book has been changed to Traffic Jam.
YA Authors:The schedule for reviews has been listed in the initial post of this topic. If you have any issues, please let me know.
R.
Okay. We have six. This group is closed for sign-ups. I will publish the review schedule before tomorrow.R.
Bonnie wrote: "When does this begin?"We are in sign-up now. As soon as we have six books, the review cycle will begin allowing a couple of days for authors and reviewers to make arrangements. We have four books already. If you submit a book, we will need only one more to move on to the review cycle.
R.
In joining this review group you are agreeing to review any book assigned to you within a two month time period. If you do not agree, please do not sign up below.This is the Young Adult review group, which will include all types of novels classified as young adult. As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you.
Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher), the review should be posted to Amazon as well, if the book is available there. This makes having accounts with both Goodreads and Amazon.com a requirement.
If the first 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 and 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. If you cannot complete your assignments on time, please contact me so that we can make other arrangements.
Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews.
THE AUTHORS AND NOVELS ARE:
01 Aric Carter - Saga of Lyn: The Reawakening
02 Jacob Carlisle - Small Fish Big Fish
03 Dean Ravenola - Aether Warriors
04 Melissa Groeling - Traffic Jam
05 C.A. Wittchen - Behind Locked Doors
06 Steve Vernon - Big Hairy Deal
THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:
October 6 to November 6
Aric Carter reviews Jacob Carlisle
Jacob Carlisle reviews Dean Ravenola
Dean Ravenola reviews Melissa Groeling
Melissa Groeling reviews C.A. Wittchen
C.A. Wittchen reviews Steve Vernon
Steve Vernon reviews Aric Carter
November 6 to December 6
Aric Carter reviews C.A. Wittchen
Jacob Carlisle reviews Steve Vernon
Dean Ravenola reviews Aric Carter
C.A. Wittchen reviews Jacob Carlisle
Steve Vernon reviews Dean Ravenola
I received a message today From Stuart Taylor indicating that he is at least delayed in completing his commitment to this group and might have to drop out due to personal issues. We should know more early next week. If he has to drop out, we will work out some arrangement to see that everyone gets reviewed.R.
Fantasy Review Group 5:This review group should be done. If you have not completed your reviews or if your book has not received its reviews, please message me, and I will look into it.
R.
Reminder:First round reviews are due on September 27.
R.
Bonnie wrote: "R. wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "R. wrote: "If the first reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues,"Can you please clarify that for me? Is thi..."
That is up to you. The moderators discussed this and felt that reviewers should be given this option. No one is suggesting that reviews be inflated. Reviews should be honest. If you feel that you should post a negative review, you should do so. Withholding a negative review is an option not a requirement.
Jonas wrote: "My review of R. Leib's A Negative's Tale: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Jonas:
Thank you.
R.
Bonnie wrote: "R. wrote: "If the first reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues,"Can you please clarify that for me? Is this saying
1. If the book ..."
Bonnie:
It can be either 1 or 2. If a reviewer feels that the work is not good enough for a decent review (3 or higher), the reviewer should give as much feedback as possible privately to the author but is not required to post a negative review. I encourage reviewers to try to finish reading the work just so that the reviewer can give the author as complete feedback as possible. The whole point of peer review is to provide exposure for Indy works that merit it and to help fellow authors improve their art. Honesty is critical to accomplishing this, but it does not have to be public.
The reviewer and the author should come to an agreement to not post the review.
S. wrote: "Just wondering where and when we post our reviews :-)"Reviews should be posted on the Goodreads and Amazon pages for the work being reviewed. Then the reviewer should post to this topic that the review has been completed. This should include a link to the Goodreads page for their review.
R.
Reminder to the group:Second round reviews are due today.
R.
