Group 129. In this World. Mod L.N.

[Glen]

Hi Emma, I have no connection to any of the authors listed above.

May I submit my novel Companions by Contract: A Weissenberger Romantic Suspense Novel, Book Two for this round?

It is a romantic international thriller.

Thank you.

Glen Weissenberger

[Emma]

Welcome Glen, only one to find now.

[Anita]

Hi Emma, you haven't added me yet. That makes 10 I think.

[Wolf]

I saw (apparently) one more reviewer needed.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Emma]

I'll have a look to see if I can fit Anita in, with the review clashes, that may or may not be possible.
If not, you're first reserve Wolf.

If I don't get the order up today, I'll do it tomorrow. (Got visiting family to do today.)

[Wolf]

withdrawn

[Anita]

OK thanks Emma. If it doesn't work out here I'll try with the 18+ or General group.

[Emma]

Hi Anita, I've had a fun half hour or so trying to jiggle things around so you fit in but it isn't possible with the other members who signed up before you having priority and you only having one book.
You'll have to wait for another group, sorry!

Wolf, you're in.

[Emma]

Still looking for one then.

[Glen]

Thank you Emma; what an ordeal this is on all of you!

Enjoy your family!

Glen

[Emma]

it was a hospital visit to an elderly relative, so not a barrel of laughs, but I appreciate the thought!

[Wolf]

I'm back. All fires extinguished at Ingram and PW.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Emma]

Great! I'll set the order up, so we can get this one going.

[Emma]

Ready, Steady, Go!

START DATE: 09/01/2017

END DATE: 03/04/2017

Round 1 – post your review by 30/01/2017
Round 2 – post your review by 20/02/2017
Round 3 – post your review by 13/03/2017
Round 4 – post your review by 03/04/2017



As AUTHORS you send your book file to:

129-01__ T.S. O'Neil
Laurette Long for round 1
Wolf DeVoon for round 2
W.T. Fallon for round 3
Sonal Panse for round 4

129-02__ Jonah Gibson
T.S. O'Neil for round 1
Laurette Long for round 2
Wolf DeVoon for round 3
W.T. Fallon for round 4

129-03__ Gene Kendall
Jonah Gibson for round 1
T.S. O'Neil for round 2
Laurette Long for round 3
Wolf DeVoon for round 4

129-04__ Glen Weissenberger
Gene Kendall for round 1
Jonah Gibson for round 2
T.S. O'Neil for round 3
Laurette Long for round 4

129-05__ Marie Jo Fortis
Glen Weissenberger for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
Jonah Gibson for round 3
T.S. O'Neil for round 4

129-06__ John Newport
Marie Jo Fortis for round 1
Glen Weissenberger for round 2
Gene Kendall for round 3
Jonah Gibson for round 4

129-07__ Sonal Panse
John Newport for round 1
Marie Jo Fortis for round 2
Glen Weissenberger for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

129-08__ W.T. Fallon
Sonal Panse for round 1
John Newport for round 2
Marie Jo Fortis for round 3
Glen Weissenberger for round 4

129-09__ Wolf DeVoon
W.T. Fallon for round 1
Sonal Panse for round 2
John Newport for round 3
Marie Jo Fortis for round 4

129-10__ Laurette Long
Wolf DeVoon for round 1
W.T. Fallon for round 2
Sonal Panse for round 3
John Newport for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

129-01__ T.S. O'Neil
Jonah Gibson for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
Glen Weissenberger for round 3
Marie Jo Fortis for round 4

129-02__ Jonah Gibson
Gene Kendall for round 1
Glen Weissenberger for round 2
Marie Jo Fortis for round 3
John Newport for round 4

129-03__ Gene Kendall
Glen Weissenberger for round 1
Marie Jo Fortis for round 2
John Newport for round 3
Sonal Panse for round 4

129-04__ Glen Weissenberger
Marie Jo Fortis for round 1
John Newport for round 2
Sonal Panse for round 3
W.T. Fallon for round 4

129-05__ Marie Jo Fortis
John Newport for round 1
Sonal Panse for round 2
W.T. Fallon for round 3
Wolf DeVoon for round 4

129-06__ John Newport
Sonal Panse for round 1
W.T. Fallon for round 2
Wolf DeVoon for round 3
Laurette Long for round 4

129-07__ Sonal Panse
W.T. Fallon for round 1
Wolf DeVoon for round 2
Laurette Long for round 3
T.S. O'Neil for round 4

129-08__ W.T. Fallon
Wolf DeVoon for round 1
Laurette Long for round 2
T.S. O'Neil for round 3
Jonah Gibson for round 4

129-09__ Wolf DeVoon
Laurette Long for round 1
T.S. O'Neil for round 2
Jonah Gibson for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

129-10__ Laurette Long
T.S. O'Neil for round 1
Jonah Gibson for round 2
Gene Kendall for round 3
Glen Weissenberger for round 4


Please remember the commitment you are making to your fellow group members. If you pull out after the start date for any reason it is the other members who will be faced with the problem of finding a replacement, or missing out on reads/reviews, through no fault of their own. Please don’t ask the moderators to chase after replacements as we just don’t have the time.

It is the responsibility of the author to get their book to their readers in a format the reviewer can manage. Everyone must be able to provide and accept PDF. You may buy or borrow the books you are due to read if you wish, and I’m sure the author will appreciate the verified review, but IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. There are no set dates for the start of each round. You can each work at your own pace, within the limits of the round deadlines.

All reviews must be posted to GR. We also encourage members to post on amazon .com and .uk. When you have posted your reviews, please post the three links to your reviews, not the book page in this thread.
The mod of each round will record whether members have posted reviews on amazon. I set up all the groups, and for the good of all, members who persistently fail to post reviews or DNF reviews to amazon, will find me less than willing to add them to subsequent groups.

Postings to other sites are by agreement by both author and reviewer.

If I’ve missed something that results in you being asked to review someone who has already reviewed you, please let me know asap.

To exchange book files, my advice is to use PM to give email addresses to each other (save the chance of spammers getting your addies from this open forum). Happy reviewing, everyone :)

P.S. This is Layla's first round as a mod. Please be nice folks or I'll be back with my paddle.

[L.N.]

Hello everybody! I only have 2 rules, as Emma has covered the rest. Be nice to each other, and enjoy the round. Let's get this show on the road! =). Happy reviewing x

[L.N.]

Garfield wrote: "L.N. wrote: "Hello everybody! I only have 2 rules, as Emma has covered the rest. Be nice to each other, and enjoy the round. Let's get this show on the road! =). Happy reviewing x"

Interesting com..."

I'm sure it will, Garfield...thank you.

[Garfield]

L.N. wrote: "Garfield wrote: "L.N. wrote: "Hello everybody! I only have 2 rules, as Emma has covered the rest. Be nice to each other, and enjoy the round. Let's get this show on the road! =). Happy reviewing x"..."

Did you delete my comment?

[Emma]

I did.
And I will continue to do so. You are not involved in this round.
I have messaged you privately.

[L.N.]

Thanks Emma =)...hopefully we'll have no more disruptions!

[Gene, Admin]

Okay this may seem like a ridiculous question but...

We're supposed to be sending and receiving books per Round One, correct? Do we send to all four people who are supposed to receive the book *now*, or wait until the round is over? I ask because I've received requests from people not listed for me in round one. (Which is fine; I'll send it to anyone.)

So, to be clear...I'm to send my book to Jonah Gibson for Round One, and Glen Weissenberger will send me HIS book for now?

[Wolf]

blush ... I confess to requesting all four, and sending as well, trying to make life easy (for me)

[Gene, Admin]

It's cool, Wolf. Sending all 4 now does make sense. Just wanted to make sure the process is clear, and we all start in the right order.

[L.N.]

Do the sending and receiving as you feel comfortable. I for one, prefer to get them all at once...and if you've got KU, it's even better, you can snap them up without having to ask.

[L.N.]

Also, you don't have to read the books in round order, as long as you read all 4 books. If you do read out of order, just mention it when you post your review links so that I can keep tabs.

[John]

I was notified that my books link to Amazon is broken. The book is there but you have to search for it.
I've searched but can't find where I can correct the broken link without duplicating the book within the system. I contacted the Librarians to see if they could help.

So if you are willing to buy the book you have to search for it.
Just want to give everyone a heads up that my links are broken.

Shout out to Jonah for letting me know there was problem.

[L.N.]

Have you got any of the original copies? The one's you sent to be published. You can send the other authors mobi, PDF or ePub files, if you have them... they don't have to get it through KU.

[L.N.]

If you've, at least, got a PDF copy, that will do.

[John]

Yes I have all original copies of all files (mobi, pub, pdf) that went to publishers. Those that are requesting copies I'm sending them requested versions for the device they have (Kindle, Kobo, iPhone, or generic).

Just frustrating that my link is broken, and wanted to let others know.

[Emma]

For those wanting to post a review of a book with a broken goodreads to amazon link, just copy the name of the book into the amazon search bar. Or go to the author's amazon page and find it from there.

I have a book in the amazon dungeon (I'm soo bad!) and it doesn't come up in a normal search, even if the exact name is posted, but it does come up via my author profile.

[L.N.]

I feel you, John. I think I know why the link is broken. You need to update the link on Goodreads, because you have two versions of the same book on Amazon, and it looks like the old link is on GR.

[L.N.]

Have you recently cancelled a version out on KDP?

[John]

I didn't go with KDP because of the distribution restriction.

The links are now fixed and the versions are now combined. From what was told to me was the Kindle version was not linked, just the print. Thank you Librarians for such a quick response.

The two version issue is because one of the versions was uploaded by me. The other came from the distributer ($1.99 version). Same content even though the page count is different, weird how they did that.

[L.N.]

A nice, easy fix =)

[Marie-Jo]

L.N. wrote: "Do the sending and receiving as you feel comfortable. I for one, prefer to get them all at once...and if you've got KU, it's even better, you can snap them up without having to ask."

I agree with the KU. It makes life so much easier for both author and reviewer. And those are rough times we live in. For ten bucks a month, we can have a bit of easiness. (And bury ourselves in as many books as we want if needed.)

[L.N.]

I use it all the time, and it helps boost the royalties of my fellow authors.

[Marie-Jo]

I meant to add that. Forgot. Thanks for mentioning it, L.N.!

[L.N.]

I know it's not much, but every page turned is another penny earned.

[W.T.]

I believe I have sent my book to everyone who was supposed to get one, and have received all the books I'm supposed to read. If I have missed anyone, please message me and I'll get it straightened out. I'll get started reading right away.

[Emma]

If I enjoy a book I also tend to 'like' the four and five star reviews. This helps those reviews rise to the top of this list on both amazon and goodreads.

[L.N.]

Emma wrote: "If I enjoy a book I also tend to 'like' the four and five star reviews. This helps those reviews rise to the top of this list on both amazon and goodreads."

I tend to do that as well, and finding a review helpful on Amazon should have the same effect.

[Laurette]

Sorry folks I appear to have dozed off...all messages now received, replies, addresses, and pdfs on their way, Please note Hot Basque is also on Kindle Unlimited so anyone who's a member can just 'borrow' it for free as per comments above. Also thanks for reminder to 'like' reviews Emma and LN, good point.
Looking forward to meeting you all in prose...
Happy reading!

[Laurette]

Hi Emma and L.N. Sorry to ask a question which may have been thrashed out before. If I’ve understood correctly, (Emma's message Dec 18) Amazon is not hot on authors supplying published books in return for reviews:
“The new Amazon rules state that authors/publishers are no longer allowed to specifically supply published books in return for reviews on amazon. To comply with this new rule, we no longer insist members review on amazon. However, we are all in the same situation, we want reviews”
BUT if one of the authors we are assigned to review does send us a gift copy of the book, we can still post a review on Amazon (they are important I think) so long as we put the following disclaimer:
“I received a free copy from the author without an obligation to review”
(Just trying to navigate the Amazon jungle without getting eaten by crocodile robots.)
Thanks in advance.

[L.N.]

Laurette wrote: "Hi Emma and L.N. Sorry to ask a question which may have been thrashed out before. If I’ve understood correctly, (Emma's message Dec 18) Amazon is not hot on authors supplying published books in ret..."

Yeah, I've just read the comment thread that was started around this issue. It would appear that the only problem is if you put 'in exchange for a review', instead of what you have suggested. I think everything else is fine, as we don't engage in giving reciprocal reviews, as the guidelines are suggesting. I hope that made sense =).

[Wolf]

Review of Laurette Long's Hot Basque:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R39XR3Z...

[L.N.]

And Wolf is off the mark. Good review...thank you, Wolf.

[Wolf]

Sorry about this, I have all 4 reviews queued up, losing my web connection day after tomorrow. Here's Gene Kendall's yeah, shut up (I gave it 6 stars)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R32E3S8...

[L.N.]

Wow! Okay! I think we've found someone who can give E.M a run for her money...gooooo Superwolf!!!!

[Wolf]

Review of TS O'Neil's Mexican Hat Trick
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R36S88K...

[Wolf]

Review of Jonah Gibson's A Cup of Pending
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3P7F42...

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I want to thank the authors for an opportunity to see your work, which reminded me that each voice is unique, as strange as that may be. All good wishes.

[L.N.]

Thank you for all of your reviews, Wolf. Hope to see you in another round soon =)