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[Kath]

Hi Terrence. Welcome to the group.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Welcome Gemma, Terrence and Christine. Hope you all join in with the discussions - we have fun as well as the serious stuff :-)

[Kath]

Welcome, Christine. Liked your page.

[Anita]

Welcome Terrence and Christeen, make yourselves at home.

[L.A.]

Terrence wrote: "Hi there. My name is Terrence Perera and I wish to give some details of myself.
I attended Holy Cross College and the University of Ceylon in Sri Lanka. I am also a Chartered Accountant.
As a Char..." Welcome Terrance - just a small greenhouse then! Mine's big enough to keep me amused in the winter with mixed salad leaves and radishes on the go for over Christmas, the lemon tree (can't beat fresh lemons in a lemon tart - or G & T!), and the olive tree. Oh, and fresh chilies growing all year round.

There's loads to do on GR, you just need more time!

[[deleted user]]

Hi i am new to this site and just joined this month . I love true crime, crime, thriller, suspense novels and also the no1 ladies detective agency books but i don't have any on my kindle at the moment.

[Anita]

Hello Carol, welcome to the group, you will find a lot of us like crime and thriller novels.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Hi Carol. Welcome to the group :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome, Carol!

Lots of us share your taste in books.

Check out the 'just finished, just started' thread.

Also, the recommendations threads.

We also have custard, wine and many other fun threads.

[Elizabeth]

Patti! Wot - no mention of bacon?!

[Patti (baconater)]

The bacon is mine. All mine.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "The bacon is mine. All mine."

Aprat from the bacon that is mine.

[Patti (baconater)]

Yes you're a prat.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

How very dare you!

[Kath]

Hello, Carol. Welcome aboard!

[Patti (baconater)]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "How very dare you!"

Quite easily, really. :D

[Sam]

Hello, I'm Sam. I've been lurking here a while and thought it might be time to say hi.

I live in Wales with my partner and two rescue cats. I work for a small software house in one of those nebulous jobs that includes proofreading, editing, research and graphic design, among other things. I volunteer with Distributed Proofreaders, who provide a lot of the books available on Project Gutenberg. And I play a lot of video games, do a bunch of craft stuff and drink a lot of tea.

I mainly read fantasy, but have a pretty broad definition of the genre. If it's set in a different time or place, or has things that (probably!) don't exist, I usually consider it as fantasy, so it covers a pretty broad range including sci-fi and historical fiction.

I'm currently on the third Witcher novel, which I'm loving so far. I switch between reading complicated doorstops and lighter stuff for a break, although my favourites are probably the former - I love complex plots and characters with a ton of good world building, so authors like Jim Butcher, Scott Lynch and George Martin are among my favourites. I've a ton more books stacked up on my TBR, Bookbub and Kindle freebies are a dangerous combination!

[Kath]

Hi, Sam. My husband reads a lot from Project Gutenberg. I'm a tea-swiller too! You'll fit right in here.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Welcome Sam - from a fellow Wales dweller! Enjoy the group!

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome, Sam!

[Roxanne]

Hi all,
Born and raised in Somerset.
Usually reading horror, thriller, crime, dystopia. Bad/good habit of reading books soon to become films and my guilty pleasure is Helen Fielding.
Often forget about GR so put the app on my phone and thought I'd join you guys to keep me in the loop.

[Kath]

Hi, Roxie. Keep your eye on 'Just finished, Just started' to see what others here are reading - and whether or not they recommend them.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Hi Roxie. Enjoy!

[L.A.]

Sam wrote: "Hello, I'm Sam. I've been lurking here a while and thought it might be time to say hi.

I live in Wales with my partner and two rescue cats. I work for a small software house in one of those nebulo..." Hi Sam and welcome. I've spent a lot of time in Wales. Great place and great people so you should get on with most of us here!

[L.A.]

Hello Roxie. There's loads to do here - enjoy!

[John]

Hello to all, not long joined and glad to be here. I am an avid reader of several genres: the classics, old style detectives, modern PI offerings, fantasy / sci-fi, and much much more. I look forward to discussing books on here with some of you, maybe even read along with some of you if you do those book of the month type things? I am also a self published author with stuff on Kindle, but in the past couple of years the writing has faded a little allowing reading to take priority. Cheers - John H

[Kath]

Hi, John. Welcome to the group. We have a nice mix of readers and writers here.

[John]

Thank you, Kath. It'll take me a while navigating around but I'll get there!

[Kath]

You soon get to know which bits you're interested in. There are some threads I don't read but I'm here for the general chat and the books/authors.

[Carmen]

Hello,
I am Carmen, a mum entrepreneur, Social Media Expert, Blogger and Self-Published Author. My latest book "Social Media Trends for 2017" was published on Amazon just before Christmas :)
Check-out my Social Media Blog http://carmenlascu.com and sign up to my intensive training http://training4socialmedia.com/

[L.A.]

Hi Carmen and welcome. Good luck with the book.

[L.A.]

John wrote: "Hello to all, not long joined and glad to be here. I am an avid reader of several genres: the classics, old style detectives, modern PI offerings, fantasy / sci-fi, and much much more. I look forwa..." Welcome John and enjoy. Shouldn't take you too long to find your way around as Kath says. I also like the old style detectives and really enjoyed the recent re-showings of Maigret, with Rowan Atkinson (amazingly) playing the lead.

[Carmen]

Thank you L.A. Kent

[Anita]

Hello Sam, Roxie, John and Carmen, nice to meet you all, welcome

[Patti (baconater)]

Hello, newest groupites!

There's plenty of threads in the group for authors to flog their books as well as opening your own author thread. We do expect our chatty threads to remain promo-free, though.

Do have a look around. We have such fun and the more, the merrier!

[Kath]

Hi, Carmen. Join the gang.

[John]

Thanks to all for the warm welcome, much appreciated. On Maigret, I am still waiting to catch up on Rupert Davies' take! Then Gambon, now Atkinson. I am sorry to say 'Er Indoors' is in charge of the box (Law and Order, Lie to Me, CSI, NCIS, so very little chance of watching much). It's partly why I am on here!

[Nick]

I have never read instructions and I've just found this box to type into, so here goes.

I'm Nick Swyft and I've just had a book published on Kindle. The publisher I used directed me here, but didn't really tell me much more, so for now I'm looking around with the innocent curiosity of a hedgehog on a motorway.

So lets hit 'post'. Maybe more people will read this than my book.

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome Nick.

Well done for peeking out of the hedgerow. You'll be fine. We've got traffic calming measures in place. Okay, it's mostly not fixing the potholes but it has the same effect.

Which publisher do you use? It's nice they're aware of us.

[Nick]

Endeavour Press. They only do Kindle, but they do edit, cover design and marketing, which helps a lazy man like me!

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm glad you're pleased with them. I know our authors are always on the lookout for good publishers. There's some dodgy ones out there!

[Anita]

Welcome Nick, please make yourself feel at home, there's lots going on to keep you busy

[L.A.]

Welcome Nick and enjoy.

[Kath]

Hi, Nick. Join the club!

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Hi Nick -welcome to the madhouse!

[Nick]

Thanks for the welcome everyone. As for the publishing experience I wouldn't say I was entirely pleased with Endeavour. Apart from anything else they changed the title without telling me... ah but that off topic for this thread!?

[Patti (baconater)]

Little bit off topic but more importantly, the information will get lost in this thread.
I've opened a new thread within our author zone, if you'd like to share your experience there.
Others have talked of their experiences in various places in the group, but I think a dedicated thread would be rather good.

There's the link.

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

[M.D.]

Hi, I'm Martin. Not sure if it's the New Year, but I've decided to send off my short stories to various magazines, and try some publishers out. The worst that can happen is a deafening silence as I drop my coin into the well. You know the feeling: it usually follows a question to a politician on the Today programme ...

[Patti (baconater)]

Hiya Martin and good luck!
No harm in trying, I say!

[L.A.]

Hi Martin and welcome, Good luck! Nothing ventured nothing gained eh