Group 298. 18+ - Mod. Kat

[E.M.]

Colin wrote: "Not to be overzealous but are we ready to start crushing this reading round???"

I wish we could, but I have not heard from A. Claire. She has not responded on this thread since she signed up on 27 December and if she does not respond in the next couple of days I will remove her from the group and we will have to find someone else.

[Kat]

We need to hear back from A. Claire first. EM sent her a message and I sent her one and just tried to contact her through her website as well. Sorry, everyone. Thank you for being patient.

[E.M.]

I have re-opened the spot.

If A. Claire posts to the thread before it is filled then we will proceed right away, but it has been a week now and it is unfair to ask everyone else to wait indefinitely to start the round.

If you are looking to sign up for the spot that is left, please check that you fit in it.

[Arriah]

Hi E.M.

If A. Claire doesn't respond then I would like to participate in this group. I have completed round 300.

Here is my book: Those were not love letters, but still I fell in love

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I look forward to hearing from you :-)

Regards
Arriah

[E.M.]

Arriah wrote: "Hi E.M.

If A. Claire doesn't respond then I would like to participate in this group. I have completed round 300.

Here is my book: Those were not love letters, but still I fell in love

Goodreads:..."

Please let me know if you have any clashes with others in the round.

[Arriah]

E.M. wrote: "Arriah wrote: "Hi E.M.

If A. Claire doesn't respond then I would like to participate in this group. I have completed round 300.

Here is my book: Those were not love letters, but still I fell in l..."

I have no clashes except Laura Koerber who has reviewed this book before.

[Bella]

Hello everyone.

I will join, if it's possible.
This is my first book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
This is my second book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Clashes:
I have read & reviewed Colin's book, and he has read & reviewed my first book
William has read & reviewed my first book. I have not read his book.
Neither of them have read my second book.

Let me know if it works out for me to fit in!

[Mrs]

I'd like to join, if its still possible.
GR link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Amazon Link:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MR7JJSF

I have no clashes with any of the authors.
Please let me know.

[E.M.]

Welcome Arriah.

Bella and MrsClaire - I regret that the round is full.

[Bella]

Had to try, thanks EM ;)

[E.M.]

I have double-checked Arriah fits so no need to do a group re-check. Let's hope this all rolls on smoothly!

START DATE: 27-Jan-22

END DATE: 21-April-22

Round 1 – post your review by 17-Feb-22
Round 2– post your review by 10-March-22
Round 3 – post your review by 31-March-22
Round 4 – post your review by 21-April-22


As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

298-01__Colin Rink
Charles C. McCormack for round 1
Isaac Nasri for round 2
P.I. Kane for round 3
Dillon Jepsen for round 4

298-02__William Hart
Colin Rink for round 1
Charles C. McCormack for round 2
Isaac Nasri for round 3
P.I. Kane for round 4

298-03__Laura Koerber
William Hart for round 1
Colin Rink for round 2
Charles C. McCormack for round 3
Isaac Nasri for round 4

298-04__ Dave Saari
Laura Koerber for round 1
William Hart for round 2
Colin Rink for round 3
Charles C. McCormack for round 4

298-05__ Arriah Kiprujistho
Dave Saari for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
William Hart for round 3
Colin Rink for round 4

298-06__ Ed Morawski
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 1
Dave Saari for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
William Hart for round 4

298-07__ Dillon Jepsen
Ed Morawski for round 1
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 2
Dave Saari for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4

298-08__ P.I. Kane
Dillon Jepsen for round 1
Ed Morawski for round 2
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 3
Dave Saari for round 4

298-09__ Isaac Nasri
P.I. Kane for round 1
Dillon Jepsen for round 2
Ed Morawski for round 3
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 4

298-10__ Charles C. McCormack
Isaac Nasri for round 1
P.I. Kane for round 2
Dillon Jepsen for round 3
Ed Morawski for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

298-01__Colin Rink
William Hart for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
Dave Saari for round 3
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 4

298-02__William Hart
Laura Koerber for round 1
Dave Saari for round 2
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 3
Ed Morawski for round 4

298-03__Laura Koerber
Dave Saari for round 1
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 2
Ed Morawski for round 3
Dillon Jepsen for round 4

298-04__ Dave Saari
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 1
Ed Morawski for round 2
Dillon Jepsen for round 3
P.I. Kane for round 4

298-05__ Arriah Kiprujistho
Ed Morawski for round 1
Dillon Jepsen for round 2
P.I. Kane for round 3
Isaac Nasri for round 4

298-06__ Ed Morawski
Dillon Jepsen for round 1
P.I. Kane for round 2
Isaac Nasri for round 3
Charles C. McCormack for round 4

298-07__ Dillon Jepsen
P.I. Kane for round 1
Isaac Nasri for round 2
Charles C. McCormack for round 3
Colin Rink for round 4

298-08__ P.I. Kane
Isaac Nasri for round 1
Charles C. McCormack for round 2
Colin Rink for round 3
William Hart for round 4

298-09__ Isaac Nasri
Charles C. McCormack for round 1
Colin Rink for round 2
William Hart for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4

298-10__ Charles C. McCormack
Colin Rink for round 1
William Hart for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
Dave Saari 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).

Setting up and modding these rounds is a labour of love, with a lot of emphasis on the ‘labour’. If you want to show appreciation for all the hard work we admins put in for the group, you could download one of our books as a ‘thank you’.

Happy reviewing, everyone :)

[E.M.]

GUIDE FOR THOSE NEW TO THESE ROUNDS.

Quick 'start-up' summary for anyone new who might be scratching their heads. You are reviewing the four books 'below' you on the list.

Firstly please make sure your private message status is set to 'Anyone'. You can find it under Account Settings > Edit my user Profile > Settings > Privacy > Who Can Send Me Private Messages.

You can, of course, choose to buy any or all of the books 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.

However, as not everyone can buy, 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.

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.

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.
Don't forget to post the links to your reviews here so you can be signed off for them.

Please post your review to Goodreads, your own Amazon store and any other Amazon stores you might have access to as well.

The wonderful Kat Kinney will be modding this round and will be by shortly to say hello. Please PM her ongoing with any issues. Thanks.

[Kat]

Hi everyone! I'm happy to be your mod for this round. Huge thanks to EM for getting us all set up and rolling. Please let me know if I can help with any issues.

When posting Amz links, please be sure to delete anything after and including REF in the review link to remove your personal information and create a clean link.

[Ed]

I'll be purchasing all my assigned reads so no need to send me any.

My book is on Kindle Unlimited and also on sale for .99 cents if you want to do the same.

[William]

Laura, Dave, Arriah, and Ed--I've acquired all your books online, so no need to send them to me. I hope you get verified purchases, but that doesn't always happen. Looking forward to reading your books!
William

[William]

Hi Colin,

I wasn't able to PM you, so I'm trying here. You will be reviewing my book Roller Rink Starlight this round. I can send it by PDF or eBook or it's available on Kindle for .99. Let me know and I'll send it. I'll need your email address to send it, if we go that route.

Best wishes,
William

[Colin]

Hi William,

not sure why, I PM'd you.

[Dillon]

I have purchased my first two assigned reads/rounds.
I plan to purchase the remaining two later.

[Laura]

I will buy the books I am reviewing unless the price seems unreasonable, in which case I will ask you to send it to me. So no need to send me anything. Thank you!

Dave Saari for round 1
Arriah Kiprujistho for round 2
Ed Morawski for round 3
Dillon Jepsen for round 4

[Arriah]

William wrote: "Laura, Dave, Arriah, and Ed--I've acquired all your books online, so no need to send them to me. I hope you get verified purchases, but that doesn't always happen. Looking forward to reading your b..."

Sure. Thank you William :-)

[Arriah]

Hi Colin,

Looks like your messages are set to private. :-)
Would you please message me your email ID so that I can send the PDF copy to you?


Regards
Arriah

[Skyler]

Dillon wrote: "I have purchased my first two assigned reads/rounds.
I plan to purchase the remaining two later."

Hi Dillon,

I sent you a PM before seeing your post, just ignore it.

Cheers

[Kat]

Colin wrote: "Hi William,

not sure why, I PM'd you."

Colin, your PM's are set to private. Could you please go into your Goodreads settings and change them so that anyone can send you messages? Thanks!

[Dave]

Laura and William: Thank you both, and please ignore my PMs -- I didn't see your posts until after sending them.

Dave

[Charles]

Colin wrote: "Hello!

Colin, just to let you know I'm reviewing your book for round one. I bought it several days ago. You might want to turn on the ability to send you messages on your profile page. Charlie

[William]

Dave wrote: "Laura and William: Thank you both, and please ignore my PMs -- I didn't see your posts until after sending them.

Dave"

No problem, Dave. Just sent you a PM.

[Laura]

I was not able to send a message to Colin Rink so I posted a question on his page instead, I hope he sees the question!

[Kat]

Hi all. I found an old PM I had sent to Colin previously and goodreads allowed me to reply to it. Hopefully Colin will shortly adjust his settings and everyone will be able to get their books exchanged. Sorry for the hold up.

[Colin]

Hello all,

I apologize sincerely about not being able to message me. I'm not sure what happened, I believe people had the ability to message me before, but maybe I was wrong. Anyways, I have updated / changed my preferences, please let me know if it does not work.

Happy Reading.

Colin

[Kat]

Looks like you're all good now, Colin. Thanks so much for getting that taken care of and happy reading to all :).

[Charles]

I have completed my review of Chase of the Rising Sun: an enjoyable read. Here are the links.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

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

[A. Claire]

Hi everyone, I apologize. I made a mess due to a personal thing that happened. My focus was somewhere else. I'm back now and as I see I'm rightfully not on this group anymore, I'll join another one and this time will be there.

[Dave]

Here are my Round 1 reviews for Arriah Kiprujistho.

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/R22GQ0G...

[Laura]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... The Amazon link to follow. Thank you, Dave, for a fun read.

[Laura]

https://www.amazon.com/review/R30B80S... Albatross.

[Colin]

My Review of Roller Rink Starlight - 4 Stars.

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

Really liked it, good read. Amazon link to come.

[Skyler]

Here is my review of Into the Violet Gardens

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...?

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

Isaac, I love sci-fi and your book was fascinating.

[William]

Colin wrote: "My Review of Roller Rink Starlight - 4 Stars.

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

Really liked it, good read. Amazon link to come."

Thanks for the perceptive and thoughtful review, Colin! May you prosper.

[Dave]

Here are my Round 2 reviews for Ed Morawski:

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/R17OYJU...

[William]

My reviews for Wild Hare's Daughter:

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3RGY4T...

[William]

My reviews for Albatross:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Albatross-Dave...

[Kat]

A quick reminder... most are already doing this, but with your Amazon reviews please shorten the link and remove everything after and including the letters "ref" in the link. This removes your personal identifying information and creates a clean link.

William's link in the post above mine is an example of how a correctly shortened link looks.

[Arriah]

My reviews for:

Chloe Dolls
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A State of Mind
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

Into the violet gardens
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

[Isaac]

Completed my review for Roller Rink Starlight

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

Amazon will update: https://www.amazon.com/review/RY4J4D9...

[William]

Isaac wrote: "Completed my review for Roller Rink Starlight

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

Amazon will update:"

Thanks for the good review, Isaac! Much appreciated.

[William]

Here are my reviews for Those Were Not Love Letters But Still I Fell in Love:

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/RNT4M69...

[Ed]

Anyone else experiencing long delay on amazon usa review posting?

I've been waiting six days for one and three days for another. They are not rejected, just not posted.

And I don't think it's me because I have over 830 reviews on amazon.

[Colin]

Sorry for the late reply. Amazon link for review of Roller Rink Starlight

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2L9SRW...

Cheers

Colin

PS - had some delays with Amazon on reviews lately.

[Isaac]

Appreciate it

[Isaac]

No problem