Group 199 - General - Mod. E.M.

[T.J.]

It is a biography, true story. memoir... https://www.goodreads.com/TJWray

[T.J.]

I can leave reviews on Goodreads and Amazon

[E.M.]

Sorry for the delay getting back here, folks!

Raf, welcome aboard!

Erinn and T,J. - sorry this group is now full, there is still the 18+ group open, which whilst it may include 'adult' books also has a lot of more general reads too. I shall also be opening a new Out of this World Round next week.

Cameron - all will be made clear when I post to commence the round, which I hope to do tomorrow if no one else tells me they have a clash. I will include a post to explain how to do it all :)

[Raf]

Thanks, EM! Hi, Everyone.

[Cameron]

Thanks, EM. :-)

[E.M.]

Looks like we are good to go now so let's get this group rolling into the reading and review stage!

START DATE: 07-Oct-18

END DATE: 30-Dec-18

Round 1 – post your review by 28-Oct-18
Round 2 – post your review by 18-Nov-18
Round 3 – post your review by 09-Dec-18
Round 4 – post your review by 30-Dec-18

As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

199-01__S.L. Shelton
Raf Morgand for round 1
Neil McFarlane for round 2
J.P. Willson for round 3
T.M. Raskin for round 4

199-02__Jolene Grace
S.L. Shelton for round 1
Raf Morgand for round 2
Neil McFarlane for round 3
J.P. Willson for round 4

199-03__Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Jolene Grace for round 1
S.L. Shelton for round 2
Raf Morgand for round 3
Neil McFarlane for round 4

199-04__ Aderonke Moyinlorun
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 1
Jolene Grace for round 2
S.L. Shelton for round 3
Raf Morgand for round 4

199-05__Cameron MacDonald
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 1
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 2
Jolene Grace for round 3
S.L. Shelton for round 4

199-06__ Trish Butler
Cameron MacDonald for round 1
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 2
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 3
Jolene Grace for round 4

199-07__ T.M. Raskin
Trish Butler for round 1
Cameron MacDonald for round 2
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 3
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 4

199-08__ J.P. Willson
T.M. Raskin for round 1
Trish Butler for round 2
Cameron MacDonald for round 3
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 4

199-09__ Neil McFarlane
J.P. Willson for round 1
T.M. Raskin for round 2
Trish Butler for round 3
Cameron MacDonald for round 4

199-10__ Raf Morgand
Neil McFarlane for round 1
J.P. Willson for round 2
T.M. Raskin for round 3
Trish Butler for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

199-01__S.L. Shelton
Jolene Grace for round 1
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 2
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 3
Cameron MacDonald for round 4

199-02__Jolene Grace
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 1
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 2
Cameron MacDonald for round 3
Trish Butler for round 4

199-03__Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Aderonke Moyinlorun for round 1
Cameron MacDonald for round 2
Trish Butler for round 3
T.M. Raskin for round 4

199-04__ Aderonke Moyinlorun
Cameron MacDonald for round 1
Trish Butler for round 2
T.M. Raskin for round 3
J.P. Willson for round 4

199-05__Cameron MacDonald
Trish Butler for round 1
T.M. Raskin for round 2
J.P. Willson for round 3
Neil McFarlane for round 4

199-06__ Trish Butler
T.M. Raskin for round 1
J.P. Willson for round 2
Neil McFarlane for round 3
Raf Morgand for round 4

199-07__ T.M. Raskin
J.P. Willson for round 1
Neil McFarlane for round 2
Raf Morgand for round 3
S.L. Shelton for round 4

199-08__ J.P. Willson
Neil McFarlane for round 1
Raf Morgand for round 2
S.L. Shelton for round 3
Jolene Grace for round 4

199-09__ Neil McFarlane
Raf Morgand for round 1
S.L. Shelton for round 2
Jolene Grace for round 3
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 4

199-10__ Raf Morgand
S.L. Shelton for round 1
Jolene Grace for round 2
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 3
Aderonke Moyinlorun 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. When you have posted your reviews, please post the links to each of your reviews, not the book page in this thread.
The mod of each round will record whether members have posted reviews on Amazon and for the good of all, members who persistently fail to post reviews or DNF reviews to Amazon, will find mods 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 :)

Please consider downloading one of my books and/or one of the round mod’s books as a thank you for all the hard work we put in for the group.

[E.M.]

Please read this especially if you are new to these review rounds.

Quick 'start-up' summary for anyone new who might be scratching their heads. You should PM the four people who will be reviewing you (the four above you on the original list of names) through their Goodreads author pages. Click on the down arrow beside the 'Follow Author' button under their picture and it opens a menu which will allow you to message them.

Ask what kind of file they would like or say you can only offer PDF, though unless a publisher uploaded it for you, you can always download a .mobi of your own book from Amazon.

Don't forget to ask where to send it so they can give you their email.

The four people who you are reviewing should be in touch with you in a similar way.

You can, of course, choose to buy any or all of the books instead, or read the books on KU, if you are a subscriber and the books are available there. If you can buy it adds weight to your review as it gives the 'Verified Purchase' stamp on Amazon.

Please make sure you have exchanged ALL FOUR books - or have been assured by your reviewers they will buy your book or read it through KU - as soon as possible. Some people read fast and it can be very frustrating to have to wait a long time to get hold of a book you are committed to review.

Finally, recent changes on Amazon mean that we are now asking you to post your review to your own Amazon store and any others you might have access to as well. Please still attempt to post on .com and .uk, but if you can only post on your local Zon you will not be penalised.

I shall be modding this round so PM me with any issues or post them here, please.

[J.P.]

Just a note- Neil, Raf, S.L., and Jolene...I have all of your books.
Happy Reading People!

[S.L.]

J.P. wrote: "Just a note- Neil, Raf, S.L., and Jolene...I have all of your books.
Happy Reading People!"

You rock, man!

[S.L.]

Stjepan, Aderonke, and Cameron...I've purchased your books already. No need to send to me.

Jolene Grace, I'm sorry, but $10 is a bit steep for a read review. If you have a Kindle copy you can send me, or have a Kindle Countdown starting soon let me know and I'll buy.

Raf, Neil, and T.M. I've just dropped the price on Broken Betties to 99 cents. Should be active in a few hours.

JP. sorry man, you were too fast on the trigger. If you want, I can send you a redeemer code for one of my other books to make up for it. I have a few out there.

[J.P.]

My round 1 review for -Pathetic Sick Sniffy Pants- Neil McFarlane
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3BPFDQ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3K6S...

[Jolene]

S.L. wrote: "Stjepan, Aderonke, and Cameron...I've purchased your books already. No need to send to me.

Jolene Grace, I'm sorry, but $10 is a bit steep for a read review. If you have a Kindle copy you can send..."

Hi, you can give me your email and I will be happy to send you the pdf file. Thanks

[S.L.]

Jolene wrote: "Hi, you can give me your email and I will be happy to send you the pdf file. Thanks..."

Sent to your GR mailbox

[T.M.]

Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!

[Trish]

T.M. wrote: "Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!"

FYI, it looks like Cameron is in New Zealand, so bear that in mind when you are waiting for a reply.

Trish

[T.M.]

Oh thanks for letting me know! Sorry I butchered her name! Ooppps😊

[J.P.]

Trish wrote: "T.M. wrote: "Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!"

FYI, it looks like Cameron is in New Zealand, so bear that in mind when you are w..."

T.M. wrote: "Oh thanks for letting me know! Sorry I butchered her name! Ooppps😊"

Okay, I gotta ask, why would being in New Zealand be an issue when waiting for a response? Did I miss a memo?

[Trish]

T.M. wrote: "Oh thanks for letting me know! Sorry I butchered her name! Ooppps😊"

His name

T

[Trish]

J.P. wrote: "Trish wrote: "T.M. wrote: "Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!"

FYI, it looks like Cameron is in New Zealand, so bear that in mind ..."

15-hour time difference - well for me on the US East coast and I messaged him earlier when it was probably the wee hours over there.

:D

T

[J.P.]

Trish wrote: "J.P. wrote: "Trish wrote: "T.M. wrote: "Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!"

FYI, it looks like Cameron is in New Zealand, so bear ..."

Oh, that, I guess I'm just used to it with messaging the UK all the time and the 12 hour difference, being on the west coast of Canada...

[Trish]

J.P. wrote: "Trish wrote: "J.P. wrote: "Trish wrote: "T.M. wrote: "Camron, Aderonke and Stjepan, if you PM me your email address I can send a PDF copy for your review!"

FYI, it looks like Cameron is in New Zea..."

Just me butting my nose in! Better than nosing my butt in! LOL

T

[Raf]

Just to let you know, I'm in Thailand and that's an 11 hour difference with the east coast of the US so I'm basically sleeping while everyone except Cameron is awake and vice versa.

[Trish]

Raf wrote: "Just to let you know, I'm in Thailand and that's an 11 hour difference with the east coast of the US so I'm basically sleeping while everyone except Cameron is awake and vice versa."

I think it's great that we are such a diversely located group!

We have West coast of the US and of Canada covered, and Neil is in the UK. Anywhere else anyone?

I'm off to bed, so goodnight/good morning! LOL

T

[Stjepan]

I am from Split, Croatia :)

[T.M.]

Los Angeles California here!

[Cameron]

Wellington, New Zealand, the coolest little city in the world!

[S.L.]

Ritu wrote: "Hi I am Ritu Kakar from India"

Hello Ritu

[T.M.]

Here are my Amazon and Goodreads reviews for J.P. Willson's book "Through the Minds Eye; A Journey of Self Discovery" https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[J.P.]

T.M. wrote: "Here are my Amazon and Goodreads reviews for J.P. Willson's book "Through the Minds Eye; A Journey of Self Discovery" https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re... https://www.goodread..."

Interesting...
Thank you T.M.

[Cameron]

Here is my Goodreads review on Ctrl+Alt_Deleted

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

The same worded review is applied to Amazon and scored accordingly which is under moderation before Amazon post.

C-

[Trish]

Cameron wrote: "Here is my Goodreads review on Ctrl+Alt_Deleted

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

The same worded review is applied to Amazon and scored accordingly which is under moderation befor..."

Thank you, Cameron!

Trish

[Stjepan]

Has anyone contacted Aderonke Moyinlorun?

[Cameron]

I managed to make contact and send her my manuscript on the weekend via email.

C-

[Stjepan]

Cameron wrote: "I managed to make contact and send her my manuscript on the weekend via email.

C-"

Thank you, Cameron, for your information. I sent her a message because I need to read her book, but I have not responded yet. She'll probably contact me soon.

[Stjepan]

My review of the book "Voyage to the Heart: The Nature of Love"
by Cameron MacDonald

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1HZB...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1IEZ1P...

[E.M.]

Thanks to J.P., T.M., Cameron and Stjepan for starting us off.

T.M. - Please make sure you are linking to the actual review on GR and not to the book page as it can be hard to track down individual reviews for me when there are a number already.

General note: please be aware when posting links to Amazon that you need to delete everything after and including the letters 'ref' in the URL. If you don't, Amazon knows anyone clinking on that link is in some way connected with you as that information is your personal account link information.

First deadline for those still to turn in a review is 28 October.

[T.M.]

No problem. Sorry about the mixup!

[Stjepan]

E.M. wrote: "Thanks to J.P., T.M., Cameron and Stjepan for starting us off.

T.M. - Please make sure you are linking to the actual review on GR and not to the book page as it can be hard to track down individua..."

I did not know about that detail with the ref attachment. I delete ref :)

[Trish]

Here are my reviews of Pink Tootsie. I can also post in Amazon.co.uk, let me know if you want me to T.M.

Trish
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R343Z5Y...

[T.M.]

Thank you for your honest review. Please do share it on Amazon UK.

[Trish]

T.M. wrote: "Thank you for your honest review. Please do share it on Amazon UK."

All done. Here you go...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3NDW...

As a fellow 50+-year-old with a book published later in life, I wish you all the best personally and professionally.

Trish

[T.M.]

Why thank you Trish, same to you😊

[Jolene]

Hello,

here is my GR review for the Dream of the Forest.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

The Amazon review was also posted and is currently being reviewed.

Thanks

[Stjepan]

Jolene wrote: "Hello,

here is my GR review for the Dream of the Forest.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

The Amazon review was also posted and is currently being reviewed. ..."

Thank you for your review of my book :)

PS When you set up a link it must be a link from your book review :)

[Jolene]

You are welcome and I must be missing something. The link a shared is from my book review. Is there another way to share a GD link review? I’m new at this, sorry.

[Stjepan]

Jolene wrote: "You are welcome and I must be missing something. The link a shared is from my book review. Is there another way to share a GD link review? I’m new at this, sorry."

Enter your book reviews below the author's image, and you will open all of the books for which you made the review. At the very end of the review, there is a written view. You will be pressed on it and will open this link to your review. I hope I helped you :)

[Aderonke]

Hello,

I was scheduled to review JP, but I already reviewed him and that same book in a previous round. I apologize for not checking in earlier. My work schedule has been crazy.

[Jolene]

Thanks!

[Stjepan]

Jolene wrote: "Thanks!"

You are welcome :)

[J.P.]

Aderonke wrote: "Hello,

I was scheduled to review JP, but I already reviewed him and that same book in a previous round. I apologize for not checking in earlier. My work schedule has been crazy."

Hi Aderonke,
I am aware as is E.M. that you have reviewed this book and therefore have another book that you can review. If your email address has not changed I can send it to that address, if it has than I will need an address to forward the book to.
Thanks,
Joseph