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[Nik]

Hi Kris and re-welcome!

You've made an impressive return-:)

[Dave]

Not sure how I got here, but the discussion topics look interesting, and I look forward to reading what everyone has to say. But anyway, my name is Dave, and I'm always happy to discuss politics, economics, or other current events. Also working on my first novel, a political thriller set a century from now, which passes through a few other genres as well.

[Nik]

The fate works in a mysterious way - but in the end you've got here, so hi & welcome! -:)
We have plenty of politics, economics and current events going here, so please feel free to offer your input anywhere. Your project sounds interesting too. Best of luck with it!

Hope you'll enjoy & contribute

[Allie]

Hello all,

My name is Allison Barnard. I would love to write my own book someday. Needless to say I am also a bookworm.

I recently started working for a publishing company, so if you have any questions on publishing please do not hesitate to ask. I would love to help you through the process, whether traditional or self-publishing.

[Rita]

Welcome Dave and Allison. You'll be one step ahead Allison when you find time to write that book!

[Nik]

Hi Allison & welcome!

Congrats on your new job and thanks for your readiness to share with us all industry's secrets-:) Hope your writing aspirations will come to fruition one day.

Meanwhile enjoy and contribute

[Nik]

Hi Alan & welcome!

Congrats on launching a new novel & good luck with it. Your kind offer would look more organic in the Announcements section.

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute

[PricePredictor]

Hi my Name is James and I currently join a cryptocurrency price prediction blog name as all coins predictor. It was always my passion to be the part of financial revolution and its just a beginning.

[Nik]

Just wanted to remind members here and benevolent ppl in general to exercise great care in exploring different links and when in doubt - to abstain pressing them

[Graeme]

Hi Nik, if anyone posts a problematic link, I'd ban them.

[P.G.]

My award-winning debut novel, The Internet President: None of the Above goes a lot into technology, politics, and economics. It's an odd mix of a dozen genres. It also parallels a lot of events that were going on in 2016. I even have a "Fact Versus Fiction" section after the end. I just retired to write full time.

My next book is Hot Nights and Cold Wars. A conspiracy by Russian oligarchs and cyber warfare will be big components of the book.

I was invited by Nik and from the description on Goodreads, it sounds like we'll have similar books. I'd totally be down with trading author blurbs.

[Nik]

Graeme wrote: "Hi Nik, if anyone posts a problematic link, I'd ban them."

Yeah, had to delete over a dozen of spam messages lately and ban the spammer. Re: cryptocurrency thought maybe he could benefit from the doubt, but didn't risk to explore the link :)

[Nik]

P.G. wrote: "My award-winning debut novel, The Internet President: None of the Above goes a lot into technology, politics, and economics. It's an odd mix of a dozen genres. It also parallels a lot of events tha..."

Hi P.G. & welcome!

Congrats on retirement and commencement of full time writing. When looking at your profile, thought indeed that we might have common themes to worry about. Glad that I'm not the only one who couldn't remain indifferent in the face of Russian oligarchs -:)

Hope you'll enjoy, contribute and derive benefit from participation

[P.G.]

Nik wrote: "P.G. wrote: "My award-winning debut novel, The Internet President: None of the Above goes a lot into technology, politics, and economics. It's an odd mix of a dozen genres. It also parallels a lot ..."

The Internet President: None of the Above even has subplots about not just Russian oligarchies, but consolidating wealth in the U.S. and has an action scene that lists times banks rigged markets. Message me if you want to read a copy. I'd definitely be up for reading one of your oligarch books in exchange.

I noticed wealth listed as a group component. Perhaps I should share details on my approach to retirement.

[Graeme]

Hi P.G. Welcome to the group.

I look forward to seeing you on our threads.

[Nik]

P.G. wrote: "Perhaps I should share details on my approach to retirement. ..."

Perhaps -:) Feel free

[P.G.]

I've decided instead of writing up a full thing, I'm just going to say that a 1031 into a Delaware Statutory Trust is a wonderful thing if you have rental properties. I own stakes in Passco and RK properties offerings.

The expenses are high to get in (about 8.5% of principal), of which I was able to negotiate a 4% commission instead of 6% from the financial broker. However, it gives 4-6% dependable income with risks that aren't correlated with the markets. These investments usually go 7-10 years before needing to be rolled over. Because of the leverage, the depreciation expenses makes the cash flow close to tax free.

It's illiquid, but the point is to roll it over until you die and live off the income. Overall I've been getting 5.5% or so from my investment so far, with appreciation, total returns are probably higher.

[Nik]

P.G. wrote: ".... I've been getting 5.5% or so from my investment so far, with appreciation, total returns are probably higher."

An excellent yield in current times!

[George]

Thanks for the opportunity to join and contribute. For fun, my interests are 20th century America, including early Hollywood and the music industry. Also presidential politics up to and including Ronald Reagan. I also dabble in some historical fiction; Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden are my authors of choice at the moment.

Professionally speaking, my interests are largely related to 19th and 20th century Britain. I'm currently contracted with a UK publisher for a series of political-historical fiction novels set primarily in 1980s of Margaret Thatcher. The first one was out recently.

Thanks again, and it's nice to be part of the group.

[Nik]

Hi George & welcome!

Would be interesting to hear your input on historical & contemporary events. Different times different leaders, if to compare Margo with Theresa, for example. Can only speculate how Margo would've handled Brexit and other issues at hand.
Good luck with the series!
Hope you'll enjoy & contribute indeed

[David]

Hello. I'm David Flin, and have picked up writing now that I'm (technically) retired. I mainly write historical fiction, with occasional wanderings into British myth.

Oh yes, I'm from London. Born in the East End of London. Left when I was 16; did stuff around the world for 50 years. Now live in London. They say you can take the boy out of the city, but in my case, turns out they say wrong.

I still find it odd when my children tell me they're doing a history project at school, and it turns out I lived through it. I guess that's why I write historical fiction ...

[Nik]

Hello David and welcome to Goodreads and this group in particular!
West Ham or indifferent to football? -:)
Hope you have an excellent (technical) retirement and best of luck with your writing.
I might know your feeling of living through history, when around the globe they are talking about Chernobyl series, while for me it's just a part of my adolescence that I lived through..
Hope you'll enjoy & contribute

[David]

West Ham. It's the unpredictability. The one constant in life is that you never know what you'll get; true during the Moore/Hurst/Peters/Byrne era, then Bonds and Brooking, and now.

[Nik]

As English league is most competitive & unpredictable in Europe, hope for you that the Hammers will have another peak of glory sometime soon.
From a more personal angle as a Dynamo fan, hope Yarmolenko will leave a more significant impact than Rebrov at the time, although not sure Premier league is the best venue for his play. What's fans' perception of his game and potential?

[Graeme]

Hi George and David, welcome to the group. I look forward to seeing you on the threads.

[Chris]

Hi all, I'm Chris, and I've been reading most of my life, and recently ventured into the murky realm of writing, self-publishing a book at Amazon-Kindle! I started my professional life in Army Counterintelligence (please don't ask me what I did; you know I can't tell you), and have subsequently done a great deal of security, pizza delivery, and the like, because it turns out nobody knows what to do with that kind of experience! I also have a fair background in science, and have practiced martial arts for 36 years now. I joined this group because I like the broad range of topics you discuss, and the international make-up of the group!

[Nik]

Hi Chris & welcome!

Sounds like you've got an interesting and diverse career and set of skills. Yeah, I guess an adaptation from military to civil career is not always smooth.
Here I read that some intelligence unit's graduates proceed to become high tech entrepreneurs: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forb... , but that's probably more about those dealing with cyber.
Congrats and best of luck with the book.
Hope you'll enjoy and contribute

[Graeme]

Hi Chris, welcome aboard.

[Colin]

Thanks for the invitation to join the group Nik,

My name is Colin but people call me Col. I'm new to Goodreads and am still learning the ropes. I'm in the process of self-publishing my first novel - a Financial Thriller (my wife tells me that's an oxymoron). My other writing is about macroeconomics and I been working in finance and commodity markets since the early '80's.

My fiction tastes include, Thrillers, Crime and historical fiction.

This seems like a very eclectic group, so I'll probably be a little coy at first.

Thanks again for the invite.

[Nik]

Since, apart from extraterrestrials, some of us are people too, I guess we can also call you Col :)
Welcome!
Best of luck with airing a novel and other writing!
We offer a wide range of themes indeed and pls feel free to contribute to any discussion.
Hope you'll enjoy

[Manda]

Hi! I'm Amanda, 25 and just trying to figure out more about me and my world. I love meeting new people and trying new things from food to experiences. I am very opinionated but also like to be debated so I don't mind disagreement; sometimes, I encourage it. I read as much as possible but I really wanted to become more involved in the reading community all together so I'm hoping by jumping into a few groups, I can meet new people and explore new books to share.

[Nik]

Hi Amanda & welcome!

Opinionated, inclined to debate, yet able to make do with a disagreement - you sound like a perfect fit for the group and we, in our turn, are glad to greet you here :)
Hope you'll debate, contribute, enjoy and discover

[Manda]

Nik wrote: "Hi Amanda & welcome!

Opinionated, inclined to debate, yet able to make do with a disagreement - you sound like a perfect fit for the group and we, in our turn, are glad to greet you here :)
Hope y..."

Thank you so much! I'm very excited and can't wait to become even more active here.

[Graeme]

Hi Col, welcome to the group. I look forward to seeing you around on the threads.

[Graeme]

Hi Amanda, welcome to the group. I look forward with interest to your comments. There are lots of topics here and varying POVs.

[W]

Hi,just discovered this group.I have varied reading interests,and am also interested in film,TV series and music.

[Graeme]

Hi Wsm, welcome to WWW. I hope to see you around the threads.

[W]

Thanks,Graeme.The group looks very interesting.

[Graeme]

Thanks. You're welcome.

[Nik]

Hi Wsm & welcome!
Hope you'll keep contributing to different discussions and enjoy your membership

[W]

Thanks,Nic.

[Manda]

Graeme wrote: "Hi Amanda, welcome to the group. I look forward with interest to your comments. There are lots of topics here and varying POVs."

I'm also looking forward to it, I think it's going to be loads of fun. Thanks for the welcome!

[Renn]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Goodreads but enjoying it greatly so far.
I've been writing for as long as I can remember but I am also an avid reader. I enjoy humor, satire, the absurd and a couple teaspoons of Fantasy added in for good measure. Currently, I'm working on short stories and have published a couple of them. Music is also another passion so I try to create a rapport between my writings and my playlists.
I can be found here on Goodreads or at https://rennkuhr.com

[Nik]

Hi Renn & welcome!

We wouldn't mind some humor & absurdity splashed onto the threads, if not all of it was consumed by the stories you write:) Best of luck with your writing.
We also have a few music fans and threads around.

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute

[Black Robot Publishing]

Calling all writers!

Black Robot Publishing LTD is now accepting submissions for fantasy novel, fiction novel and graphic novels!

Please contact us on blackrobotpublishing@yahoo.com for more info.

Thanks.

Best regards.

Black Robot Publishing LTD.

Facebook: @blackrobotpublishing

Instagram: @blackrobotpublishing

Linkedin: Black Robot Publishing

[Nik]

Hi Black Robot and welcome!

I guess Graeme's headlines from 2050 happen much earlier :)
Anyway, hope you'd like to add a few more words about the publishing service you solicit submissions for and otherwise participate & contribute

[Graeme]

Hi BRP, what books have you already published?

When do you think you'll get a website?

[Aisha]

I have spent the last 4 years of my life living the dream through high school. I am on the dance team at my school but until recently it was rare that I had time to pick up a book. I used to read on average a book a day when I was in middle school. Now, it's more like two books a week. I am very open and patient. Dystopian novels are my favorite to read along with science fiction. My reason for joining is to simply get more involved with this community. Thanks for inviting me :)

[Nik]

Hi Kierra & welcome!

Two books a week is still an excellent pace. Hope living the dream is not ironic in your case :)
We appreciate involvement, so looking forward to your contribution to the discussions at hand.

[Gjøa]

Hi,

I’m new to goodreads, but not new to books. :) I love reading most non fiction books I can get my hands on. I’ve always had a healthy interest in economics and current events and was delighted to find this bookclub. My gateway book was The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron and I’ve never looked back since. I’m really looking forward to new book recommendations.