Team Penguin Random House - Chat!

[Alaina]

Team Penguin Random House:

Aly ✔️
⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚ ✔️
Cindy ✔️
Colleen Scidmore (Colleensreadingadventures)
Avni ✔️
Kade ✔️
Andy ✔️
Simone ✔️
Trisha ✔️

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Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Kade]

Hey all!

[Alaina]

Kade wrote: "Hey all!"

Gotcha checked in!

[Alaina]

Adding Andy to the team everyone!

[Kade]

Quick question - do we claim prompts like with the quarterly new year challenge so one person handles each prompt for the offer or is the goal that we all individually fill as many prompts per author as we can?

[Dr. Andy]

I am here!

[Dr. Andy]

Kade wrote: "Quick question - do we claim prompts like with the quarterly new year challenge so one person handles each prompt for the offer or is the goal that we all individually fill as many prompts per auth..."

no it doesn't matter for this one. What you want to do is pick an author you want to win and get as many prompts for them so they're not eliminated. I'm planning to put as much of my stuff into Aiden Thomas, Xiran Jay Zhao and Tracy Deonn

[Kade]

Andy wrote: "Kade wrote: "Quick question - do we claim prompts like with the quarterly new year challenge so one person handles each prompt for the offer or is the goal that we all individually fill as many pro..."

I thought so, but I doubted myself. lol. Thank you!

[Dr. Andy]

Kade wrote: "Andy wrote: "Kade wrote: "Quick question - do we claim prompts like with the quarterly new year challenge so one person handles each prompt for the offer or is the goal that we all individually fil..."

Of course!

[Alaina]

Andy wrote: "I am here!"

Gotcha checked in!

[Cindy]

Hello all, checking in

[⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚]

Hi Team! Checking in :)

[Alaina]

Adding Simone to the team everyone!

[Alaina]

Got you both checked in!

[Aly]

Whoo I'm here! I'm going to pick authors with prompts that I think are easy lol

[Alaina]

Aly wrote: "Whoo I'm here! I'm going to pick authors with prompts that I think are easy lol"

You mean I made hard ones? lmaaao jk - I know I did.

[Aly]

Alaina wrote: "Aly wrote: "Whoo I'm here! I'm going to pick authors with prompts that I think are easy lol"

You mean I made hard ones? lmaaao jk - I know I did."

Hahaha

[Simone]

Checking in! Gotta make up my mind which author to choose.

[Alaina]

Simone wrote: "Checking in! Gotta make up my mind which author to choose."

Gotcha checked in!

[Alaina]

Adding Trish to the team everyone!

[Trisha]

Yay! I'm here! Checking in!! :)

[Avni]

Hi everyone!
Checking in:)

[Alaina]

Got you both checked in!

[Dr. Andy]

Here are some books I'm hoping to read this month if anyone wants to buddy!

(Maybe?)

BRs planned:
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[Trisha]

oooh love all those covers!! I hope you find a few favorites in there!!

I'm playing Netgalley catch up so I'm hoping to read some old ones and some releasing this month. . . We'll see how many I get through :)

I'll try to join Together We Burn

[Aly]

Trisha wrote: "oooh love all those covers!! I hope you find a few favorites in there!!

I'm playing Netgalley catch up so I'm hoping to read some old ones and some releasing this month. . . We'll see how many I g..."

Ooh that one is good! I love dragons

[Alaina]

LOVE DRAGONS!

[Alaina]

Trisha wrote: "oooh love all those covers!! I hope you find a few favorites in there!!

I'm playing Netgalley catch up so I'm hoping to read some old ones and some releasing this month. . . We'll see how many I g..."

I'm always playing that game with NetGalley... I don't think I will ever win.

[Dr. Andy]

Alaina wrote: "Trisha wrote: "oooh love all those covers!! I hope you find a few favorites in there!!

I'm playing Netgalley catch up so I'm hoping to read some old ones and some releasing this month. . . We'll s..."

that's where I'm at lmao

[Kade]

Probably a dumb question but I want to be sure. Each prompt can only be filled once per the entire challenge, Rivht? Or is it once per week? L. For example - if I fill all of Stephen kings prompts in week one, I cannot fill any of them again in week 3, correct?

[Kade]

Also - for the brackets, if no books are read for either author in that week, do both move on?

And if I finish a book tomorrow, it counts towards week one, right? So does the week start technically on Monday for new weeks?

[Dr. Andy]

Kade wrote: "Probably a dumb question but I want to be sure. Each prompt can only be filled once per the entire challenge, Rivht? Or is it once per week? L. For example - if I fill all of Stephen kings prompts ..."

No you can fill them all whenever you want until that author is eliminated.

So first week: all prompts available. After the first week, if Stephen King (example) is eliminated, his prompts are no longer available to be used for the rest of the challenge

[Kade]

Andy wrote: "Kade wrote: "Probably a dumb question but I want to be sure. Each prompt can only be filled once per the entire challenge, Rivht? Or is it once per week? L. For example - if I fill all of Stephen k..."

Right, but what I mean is - if I fill all of Stephen king’s prompts in week one, I cannot do them again with new books in week two, right? Once I complete an author’s prompts, I have to move on to a new author and prompts? Or can I repeat his prompts as often as I want just with new books?

[⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚]

Kade wrote: "Andy wrote: "Kade wrote: "Probably a dumb question but I want to be sure. Each prompt can only be filled once per the entire challenge, Rivht? Or is it once per week? L. For example - if I fill all..."

Hi Kade! You can repeat them as many times as you want.

[Alaina]

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Round 1 ends in 14 hours and 24 minutes.

[Alaina]

Hello team! I have sent a message to Colleen to see if she is still participating.

[Kade]

Wow really? So I could literally fill “mc in her 20s” over and over again with new books? Just want to make sure I don’t mess up. 😂

[Alaina]

Kade wrote: "Wow really? So I could literally fill “mc in her 20s” over and over again with new books? Just want to make sure I don’t mess up. 😂"

Yes, if that specific author makes it through each round.

[Kade]

What's the final time we can post up til for this week? is it 1159 pm EST or ?

[Dr. Andy]

Kade wrote: "What's the final time we can post up til for this week? is it 1159 pm EST or ?"

I'm guessing PST but can check with Alaina!

[Dr. Andy]

She said midnight your time zone!

[Kade]

Awssome! Thanks! So if I don’t finish a book I started this week in time, I can just put the full book towards next week, Right?

[Dr. Andy]

Kade wrote: "Awssome! Thanks! So if I don’t finish a book I started this week in time, I can just put the full book towards next week, Right?"

Yep!

[Alaina]

14 hours and 8 minutes left of Round 2!

[Alaina]

17 hours and 12 minutes left of Round 3!

[Alaina]

11 hours and 57 minutes left of Round 4!

[Kade]

so i totally messed up and forgot this week had ended earlier than the last ones.. and i forgot to post my review for one of the books i put into the SS.. can i post it now for this new week?

[Alaina]

Kade wrote: "so i totally messed up and forgot this week had ended earlier than the last ones.. and i forgot to post my review for one of the books i put into the SS.. can i post it now for this new week?"

Yeah, if it works for either Xiran Jay Zhao or V.E. Schwab.

[Kade]

So question. The number at the end of the updated review status posted by the mod in the review thread - that’s for the ALL of the teams combined? So how is the winner of challenge determined in terms of the team? The team that read the most books by the “winning” author? Or the team that read the most books period?

[Aly]

It's the team with the most points. Points come from pages read and buddy reads. It doesn't matter which author wins