Doesn't fit? Book related? Then put it here!

[Deb]

Brenda wrote: "Has anyone been receiving email notifications today? I stopped getting any at all about two and a half hours ago..."

My last notification was yesterday Brenda. And on GR I have a pretty long list of notifications that did not go through to email.


Actually, I just had another look; my email decided to shift all my GR notifications into spam folder. If you are with yahoo Brenda, that might be what is happening.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Mine started coming through overnight - I had 54 emails at 6am this morning and the earliest start email was over 8 hours old! And not Yahoo Deborah :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

For lovers of Aussie author Malla Nunn (A Beautiful Place To Die, Blessed Are The Dead, Let The Dead Lie, Present Darkness) I just read this fantastic news!


Stacey Barney at Putnam has bought Malla Nunn's When the Ground Is Hard, a novel about being brave, standing against injustice, and the importance of female friendship at a mixed-race boarding school in Swaziland. Publication is planned for spring 2019; Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management negotiated the deal for world English rights.

Woohoo!!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Good but not the same series:(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No it's YA apparently. And I agree - wish she would write some more of that, but at least she's writing something!

[Kerrie]

Thanks Brenda - I will keep an eye out for it.

[marlin1]

Going through my top picks of books for this year has made me realise how much my book tastes have changed over the years and how much I'm embracing Aussie Authors....my list could have gone much longer for aussie authors.
I think we have a unique 'voice' whatever the genre and I'm enjoying it so much.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I agree with the change over the years Marlin. I have so many books here I bought years ago that I'm really not interested in any more. It's quite amazing really!

[marlin1]

I agree Brenda! Do you think the number of Australian Authors has increased too?
I'm not sure if it's my exposure to Netgalley that makes me think it has or digital publishing.....

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I think it definitely has - but our awareness of them is heightened too. I know mine started back in 2012 when the Better Reading program was on; when they started having author talks at libraries. That was when I met my first authors, and really started to concentrate on reading AAs :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

For those of us who use Photobucket, this news will be disappointing - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Not sure what else we are going to be able to use :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Michael :)

[Ace]

Regarding photobucket, does anyone know if pre existing pics will stay up?

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

They say they will, but who's to know!

[Susan]

Years ago - some time before 1976 - I read a book (yes, who didn't!) that took place in Australia. The protagonist was a young woman, there was romance, and she wandered about looking for her destiny. In part of her journey she worked as a photograph tinter. Does this sound even vaguely familliar.

I would love to find this book again.
Thanks

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Susan wrote: "Years ago - some time before 1976 - I read a book (yes, who didn't!) that took place in Australia. The protagonist was a young woman, there was romance, and she wandered about looking for her desti..."

Susan we have a thread for trying to find specific books here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - and there's a group out there in Goodreads land which is devoted to finding "lost" books. Here's their link: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Good luck!

[Susan]

Brenda wrote: "Susan wrote: "Years ago - some time before 1976 - I read a book (yes, who didn't!) that took place in Australia. The protagonist was a young woman, there was romance, and she wandered about looking..."

Thanks, Brenda!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

You're welcome :) Hopefully that group will set you right!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Ace wrote: "Regarding photobucket, does anyone know if pre existing pics will stay up?"

There's a GR discussion here. Seems they may last till 2018, and then Zap! Empty spots in our posts!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ace]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Ace wrote: "Regarding photobucket, does anyone know if pre existing pics will stay up?"

There's a GR discussion here. Seems they may last till 2018, and then Zap! Empty spots in our posts!
https:/..."

Wow. Not nice.
I only have a couple up but I know others that use it quite a bit. I better go warn them :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Patty...we need to find another source!

[Antoinette]

Is anyone attending the Romance Rocks - Romance Writers Australia conference in Brisbane this year?

[Diana]

Ellie Marney posted this interesting blog post about self publishing her next book
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I am really looking forward to this book and have booked for the launch.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Diana wrote: "Ellie Marney posted this interesting blog post about self publishing her next book
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I am really looking forward to this..."

Diana any blog related posts can be popped in this thread here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Thanks!

[Diana]

Brenda wrote: "Diana wrote: "Ellie Marney posted this interesting blog post about self publishing her next book
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I am really looking f..."

Will do Brenda.

[PattyMacDotComma]

And then this.

I have now done another test, deleting an image from Photobucket, but the photo (of the author) is still showing on my GR review, even after I restart the computer and even after I "edit" the review (leaving the original PB html code in place) and repost it.

However, if I click on the photo in the review, I am sent to a spinning circle on PB (meaning the stored PB image is gone). But it seems Goodreads has saved it somewhere.

Update is that I get a broken image link in the app on devices. Maybe I still have some kind of cookie in the laptop - I don't know. That was this review. See if you see a photo of Niki Savva.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Patty!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

The photo is there Patty.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Phrynne wrote: "The photo is there Patty."

Thanks, Phrynne! I guess we just keep watching this space (so to speak). :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I've worked a way around posting photos :)


First I have created a secret group on facebook (which needs min 2 members to be viable so my daughter joined me!!) where no one else can view it. Then I download the photos I want to put in here, into my FB group.

Then right click on the photo you want, click on "copy image address" - go to where you want to post the photo and

< img src="paste the link"> (no space between < and img)

and it's done :)


If you don't have a facebook profile you obviously can't do this, but joining just to be able to post photos (if that's what you want) isn't too hard :)

[Marianne]

Gonna give it a try...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

And it worked didn't it!

[Marianne]

Success!!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Yay! Did you pick a secret group buddy? lol

[Marianne]

I made the group and invited DH in, he didn't even have to accept for it to work...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No that's right... awesome :)

[Veronica ⭐️]

Brenda wrote: "I've worked a way around posting photos :)


First I have created a secret group on facebook (which needs min 2 members to be viable so my daughter joined me!!) where no one else can view it. Then ..."

Very clever Brenda.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Veronica :) I'm pleased it worked!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

For those Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman lovers by Aussie author Kerry Greenwood here's an article from an interview with Kerry.

Scroll to the bottom "Any Other Projects?" to learn a new Corinna will be soon :)

http://www.womensbookreviews.com/feat...

[Marianne]

Thanks for that Brenda, I would have got to it eventually. Good news for Corinna fans!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No worries Marianne :) I knew if I didn't do it straight away I would forget ;)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Good news for Angela Marsons fans, she has announced that she has been contracted to write 16 books in the Kim Stone series, so twice as many as first announced 🤗

https://www.goodreads.com/questions/1...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Yay!! I won't argue with that 😊

[Li'l Owl]

Looking forward to reading this series! Should be starting soon! =o)

[Sue]

Does anyone know whether Minka Kent, the author of The Memory Watcher is an Aussie Author?

Thanks!

[Deb]

Sue wrote: "Does anyone know whether Minka Kent, the author of The Memory Watcher is an Aussie Author?

Thanks!"

I'm going to say; probably not her actual name seems to be Mroczna Strona - and I don't think she writes in English does she?

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sue wrote: "Does anyone know whether Minka Kent, the author of The Memory Watcher is an Aussie Author?

Thanks!"

I agree with Deborah, Sue. I did some searching and her official Facebook site doesn't mention where she's from, and that's the only site with information... sorry :)

[Sue]

Thanks, both of you, Deborah and Brenda. I did as much searching as I could before even asking the question here.

The audio book was Audible's Daily Deal ( in U.S. ) on 11/6; I had not heard of the book or author before; I saw on her Author page under "TOPICS MENTIONING THIS AUTHOR", that she was mentioned in this group (Aussie Readers) in the "Free/low priced Kindle, ebooks & audio" thread, and also in a thread for the "Aussie Lovers of Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense" group ( and not mentioned by a whole bunch of other groups.)

So I tried to find somewhere online that mentioned where she was from, without much success. Where did you find the Mroczna Strona connection, Deborah? If I had seen that I probably wouldn't have asked here.

On the humorous side: What I was kind of hoping for was that I just didn't know much about her because of living in the U.S. I was hoping the response to my question might be something like "Oh, Minka! - everybody in Australia knows about Minka! She just lives right down the road in Whyalla (or wherever ) "

Guess not - LOL :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha!!

[B the BookAddict]

I have an idea that Minka Kent/Mroczna Strona is from Czechoslovakia.