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[Eric]

http://amazon.com/author/quizmaster has my biography

itinerant polyglot really Really likes words.

[Eric]

Nik wrote: "Lee wrote: ".... are you a supporter of Ukraine in her fight against Russia's invasion? ..."

Yes, that's why you see the Ukrainian flag, as group's banner. Thanks for your interest in my book(s). ..."

I like and admire you; you need to do better book covers.

[Nik]

Eric wrote: "http://amazon.com/author/quizmaster has my biography

itinerant polyglot really Really likes words."

An impressive collection of literary and academic work, mastered languages, published books and geographic locations!

[Nik]

Eric wrote: "....you need to do better book covers ..."

Thanks. And you are probably right about that, especially from the commercial standpoint, however I like them as they are :) They might look self-made and the forth one - truly is, but we (with a co-author of the first book) actually paid some decent amounts to a graphic designer to express our message.

[C.A.]

Good to know more about your background, Eric, having seen your comments on the NATO/Ukraine/Russia group. I worked as a prosecutor and defense attorney for many years before becoming an author full time. My orientation is to compare international politics to battles in the courtroom.

[Nik]

Hi Clark, glad to formally welcome you here on the introduction thread! Your vast experience should really get along well with your interest in international politics, as after a brief period of peaceful renaissance the world seems to be heading into a new confrontational era.

[C.A.]

In college, my major was political science and I studied international relations.

[Nik]

These must come handy too

[Melissa]

Hi, my name is Melissa. I joined because someone invited me and the group sounded like a good fit.

[Nik]

Hi Melissa and welcome!

I guess we should thank the one who invited and you for joining. We'll try to conform with the expectations :)

Hope you'll enjoy & contribute to the discussions

[Scott]

Hi there, I'm Scott from Sydney, Australia. I'm a primary school teacher, but as of February next year, I'll also be a published author, when my book 'Lightbulb Moments in Human History' is released bu Chronos Books. Happy to be here! :-)

[Nik]

Hi Scott & welcome!

Congrats on upcoming publication and best of luck with the book. Till and after that happens, you might want to share your knowledge and participate in the running discussions. We are just a little bit noisier than a primary school and some of us drink :)

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute

[Scott]

Thanks Nik -- the drinking sounds great! I'll just keep an eye on things and jump in when I feel I have a handle on how things work. Who knows after that? :-)

[Yuval]

Hi.
I'm Yuval from Haifa.

If you are interested, have a look:

Frail Earth: Threatened by Scientists

[Nik]

Shalom Yuval & welcome!

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to the discussions in various sections

[Yuval]

Nik wrote: "Shalom Yuval & welcome!

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to the discussions in various sections"

All the best!

[Lorna]

Hi everyone,

Thank you to Nic for inviting me to join your interesting group. I am happily retired from a medical-legal career, living in Denver, while my heart may lie in New Mexico. I’m looking forward to being a part of this group.

[Nik]

Hi Lorna & welcome!

Thanks for accepting the invitation, glad to have you here :)
Heart and body being in different places may result in occasional nostalgia, but I guess a bit of traveling solves that :)

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute to the discussions

[Kris]

Thank You for the Invite Nik Krasno

I am excited to be 'Re-Igniting' my efforts in Creativity after the 2020 collapse and am releasing my New Book listed below. I look forward to learning more, meeting and engaging with New Readers & Fans of my Artistry and Publications.

Florida Retirement Is Murder
Snowbirds do more than just Flock

Florida Retirement Is Murder

[Nik]

Hi Kris and welcome!

Reignition is so much better than collapse. Have a good one and congrats on the publication.

Hope you'll enjoy your membership and contribute to the discussions

[Julian]

Hi everybody, I'm Julian. I grew up in Germany and study business management in the UK, so I was quite excited about finding this group here. Looking forward to interesting discussions!

I mostly read Crime (I love John Grisham and am still looking for a banking equivalent to his legal characters ;)) and Sci-Fi.

I also write, mainly short stories.

Lastly, combining my trade and my passion, I co-founded a book-tech startup a few months ago. It's called snatch and aims to make the reading and writing experience more interactive and easily accessible. We're currently testing everything and slowly introduce it to the public. So if anyone is interested, feel free to check it out on https://snatch.sh
If you have any thoughts or feedback, let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it :)

Lastly, given it's the 23rd of December, Merry Christmas to everyone!

[Nik]

Guten tag, Julian & welcome!

Combined trade and passion is the best combo ever. Well done. Best of luck with the start-up,

Hope you'll enjoy, zusammen trinken and contribute to the discussions

[Richard]

Hi everyone, I'm Richard from Australia.

I work as a public servant, but my passion is personal growth, leadership & asset development, which I'm learning more of in a private mentoring program that I'm a part of.

So I consider myself to be an avid & voracious reader of non-fiction books & podcasts, in order to learn things to better serve myself & those in my team.

Alongside that, I also aspire to be a polyglot. I'm currently learning Spanish, German & Vietnamese. And I definitely want to have more languages in my arsenal in the future as well. My main reasons for wanting to be a polyglot is for personal growth & also to be able to better connect with more people.

Oh, btw, happy & merry all the things. And just, be kind to yourselves.

[Nik]

Hi Richard & welcome!

Like your aspiration for constant expansion of horizons.
Hope all your goals will be achieved. If google translate fails one day, polyglots will save the world 🌎😉

Also hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to the discussions

[Jay]

Hi Everyone, I am Jay Kitamura, a coach, author, and entrepreneur! It is my calling to create awareness of the locks society has put on the doors that lead to our true potential and ability to live our best life. I made a game changing discovery and wrote a book called The Four Keys. I am humbled by the outpour of people who have said it has made a difference. It is now my mission to help as many people as I can with the short time we have on this planet!

Nice to meet you all and hope I can be a resource to help you in any way that I can. Please feel free to reach out!

[Nik]

Hi Jay & welcome!

Good to have someone on board who knows how to open doors 🚪😎
Congrats on publishing and respect for your mission. I guess whoever’s interested can always read the book 📖, however I hope you can share with us parts of your knowledge and discovery within the format of running 🏃 discussions.

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to issues at hand 🖐

[Nik]

Hi Jessica & welcome!

Well done on both masterpieces. I’m impressed by your modesty and humor alike 😎
Beat me to it on the color question.

Hope you’ll enjoy and enlighten us on various economic, inter generational and other threads 🧵

[☆Samantha☆]

Hey Folks.

My name is Samantha and I'm from upstate NY USA.
By no means am I an author, but I do gobble up books and review them respectfully!
I look forward to checking out the chats here.

Take care and stay well!
- Samantha

[Nik]

Hi Samantha & welcome!

Always great to have an insatiably book - hungry 😋 member. Feel free to jump into any thread and conversation.

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to the discussions

[Nik]

Hi Deanne and welcome!

I hope you also like to chat with fellow humans and, who knows, maybe - a few extraterrestrials, for this is what this group is often about :) We, on our part, we'll do our best for you to like the place.

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute to the discussions

[Cinthia]

Cinthia Carolina
Hi,
First-time author of the poetry book: Martinis, Sex, & Poems. I've been a professional chef for over 20 years, raised 3 kids, and finally took the courage to publish my poetry book. Getting here took a lot of vulnerability, but I hope to inspire my readers and stir their fire within!

Thank you for allowing me the space to introduce myself.

[Nik]

Hi Cinthia & welcome!

Thanks for joining our tribe. Martinis, Sex and all sounds good. Well done on overcoming vulnerabilities.

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute

[Espen]

Hi Nik and all of you here! "Born in Chicago, Espen Kjendlie got the taste for travel early when as a young child his parents took him to Europe and left him there", it says in my authors bio.

Apart from my two new books published this month I have worked as a journalist in TV/Newspapers the last 20 years. I now live in Oslo, Norway where I write on my upcoming books, cultivate plants, do sauna and swim in the winter and flow with the flow!

My Books!
The Satirical Encyclopedia of Famous Wars And Conflicts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Stupidity of War:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The Mind-Boggling Encyclopedia of Famous Last Words Before Dying:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Nik]

Hi Espen and welcome!

Sounds like you've got covered large areas both geographically and occupationally. We'd be glad to hear a Viking angle on the running discussions :)
Congrats and best of luck with the Encyclopedias.
Hope you'll enjoy and contribute to the themes at hand.

[Jeff]

Hi, I'm Jeff Emde, a first time author. I was in the CIA for 26 years and only started writing when I retired. I have two books with my co-author, ex-SEAL Don Mann - Black Sun Rising: Book One: Praetorian Series and History's Assassins: Motives for Murder - that were published earlier this year. I am currently working on a spy novel. It started when I asked a contact how long he had been working with the CIA. He said, "Since I was in high school." I thought he was joking but he wasn't! He had kept every scrap of paper, every letter he received from Moscow and every piece of propaganda sent to him and gave it to me. That was the basis for one half of the book. The other half centers on real life Russian Col. Oleg Penkovsky, the Spy Who Saved The World. I blended both stories into one. Almost all of the events depicted actually happened and the majority of the characters are based on real people. I can't wait to finish editing it.

[Nik]

Hi Jeff and welcome!

Congrats on publication with Don and best of luck with your spy novel. Sounds promising. This world needs saving too 😎
While 💵 🔥 (Bill Burns) still has some time to serve and little time to contribute to our discussions, feel free to weigh in on any subject at hand. Just don’t tell us secrets 🤫
Hope you’ll enjoy and participate thus undoubtedly attracting more attention to your literary work - not a small thing allowing for how many fine tomes collect dust on endless Amazon’s bookshelves

[Jeff]

Thanks Nik. Dust gathering is a growth industry I'm afraid. I write for fun. If someone reads it and likes it, all the better. Sometimes its about the journey, not the destination. I would like to upload a sample chapter or something so people can see if they'd be interested before dropping $20 but I don't know how or where. Any ideas?

[Nik]

Fun is a realistically achievable objective 👍 Goodreads limits post’s length, but it’s still long enough for an extract. You can use an announcement section for this purpose

[Jeff]

Thanks!

[Muad'Dib]

New to the group. But have to ask is that a Ukrainian flag on top? And if so, don't you think a group like this should be politically neutral?

[Nik]

Hi Muad’Dib and welcome!

Well done on recognizing the Ukrainian flag. It’s not about politics, it’s about the raging war. I can’t be neutral when a country close to me is under a brutal attack, people are killed en masse, more injured , dam blown up, so much is being demolished. Don’t understand how anyone can.
Indifference sometimes enables atrocities to happen.

[Alan]

I'm a retired lawyer who, naturally enough, writes legal thrillers. I've just published my eighth: "The Spiders Web." I'm looking for reviews.

I also teach Creative Writing at my local college and work as a developmental editor. I have also just published a comprehensive reference book on novel writing. "The Story is NOT Enough!"

Alan P Woodruff

[Nik]

Hi Alan and welcome!

Sounds like a busy retirement 📈Congrats on the eighth and good luck with all of them.

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute to the discussions at hand or add from your own

[Valentina]

Hi I´m Valentina, and the oline things i do debate is when I was in high school I participate as delegate in the united nations that make mike school (Mun).

[Nik]

Hi Valentina & welcome!

If you want to recall high school activities - feel free, although debating is not a must of any kind 😎

Hope you’ll enjoy and contribute

[Igor]

Good day, readers!

My name Igor Shnayder, I'm noobe author.

I'm from Ukraine, marine engineer and professional photographer.
Loving books from childhood, classic world and ukrainian literature from school time, but my favorite genre is fantasy and science fiction.

And how it happened, that my first book children's fairy tale? I promissed my childrens that I write them a fairy tale story )

[Nik]

Hi Igor & welcome!

Congrats on publishing the first. Good luck with it and many more to come.
You are a good father keeping that promise. I wish politicians followed your example :)

Hope you'll enjoy and contribute and share with us how things are in Arcadia this summer :)

[Shane]

Hello

The book I authored, WHISTLEBLOWER: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. A true-crime non-fiction record whose release/Launch untimely coincided with the lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020.

This is a soft re-launch of the book, and I want to invite everyone to take a read. I have chosen to keep the ebook free-of-charge until the end of the year. Everyone should be free to share the ebook to friends, Family and if you have colleagues in the press/media or independent bloggers.

Should you decide to own a hard copy, you should know all proceeds from the book will be directed to advance the cause of Independent Media, Truth, Justice and Free Speech.

I will be grateful if you can leave a review on Amazon.

Download your free copy:
https://staging.shanethawer.com/wp-co...

Enjoy the Read! & More Info On www.shanethawer.com

Shane Thawer
A Nomad Re-Writing Odds On Uncharted Territories!

Editor-In-Chief Preneurs.com | Author of WHISTLEBLOWER | Entrepreneur | Tech, Media & Telecoms | Tech-Nomad 15+ Years. Altruist Working for Public Good .::. Plant trees…

[Nik]

Hi Shane, if you want to tell a few words about yourself, this is the place. We have an announcement section, where the details about a launch and a relaunch will be fitting.

[Kat]

Hi, My name is Kat Medina. I am an entrepreneur, world traveler, and public speaker, and author of The Joys of Jet Lag: How to Use a Traveler’s Mindset to Not be an A-Hole in Daily Life. I have traveled to more than 35 countries, and lived in Ecuador, Argentina, France, and Spain. I draw upon my passion for travel to inspire joy in others, teaching people how to show up and live fully by embodying a traveler’s mindset in daily life. I am a contributing author on Optimal Living Daily and Optimal Relationships Daily podcasts, I have written for TripSavvy and Verywell Family, and was featured in Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler’s New York Times best-seller, Rebooting Work. I currently live in South Lake Tahoe, California with her husband, son, and giant Golden Retriever named Donut.