Group 331. General - Mod. Kat

[Florian]

Fine for me.

[J.C.]

Good to go. No conflicts here.

[Juliette]

I'm good to go. Sorry for the delay!

[Kat]

Excellent! We just need to hear from Loralee and Ann and then we will be all checked in.

[Ann]

Good to go! Thanks Kat!

[Loralee, Admin]

I am good to go!

[Kat]

Here we go! You SEND books to the 4 people ABOVE you, and receive from the 4 people BELOW you. If you think you see a mistake on the list, please leave a comment!

Member Links * Book Links
1. Florian Armas*The Game and the Board
2. Juliette Godot*From the Drop of Heaven: Legends, Prejudice, and Revenge
3. J.E. Rowney*Gaslight
4. Loralee Evans*Raccoons and Rabbit Holes
5. Josie Johnston*Walker
6. Linda Cotton Jeffries*Picturing the Dark
7. Ann Birdgenaw*Labyrinthia
8. J.C. Gatlin*Darkness Hides
9. C.E. Johnson*Bluestone
10. Audrey Driscoll*Islands of the Gulf, Volume One: The Journey

START DATE: May 17, 2023
END DATE: August 9, 2023
Round 1 – post your review by June 7, 2023
Round 2 – post your review by June 28, 2023
Round 3 – post your review by July 19, 2023
Round 4 – post your review by August 9, 2023

As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

Florian Armas
Audrey Driscoll-Round 1
CE Johnson-Round 2
JC Gatlin-Round 3
Ann Birdgenaw-Round 4

Juliette Godot
Florian Armas-Round 1
Audrey Driscoll-Round 2
CE Johnson-Round 3
JC Gatlin-Round 4

J.E. Rowney
Juliette Godot-Round 1
Florian Armas-Round 2
Audrey Driscoll-Round 3
CE Johnson-Round 4

Loralee Evans
JE Rowney-Round 1
Juliette Godot-Round 2
Florian Armas-Round 3
Audrey Driscoll-Round 4

Josie Johnston
Loralee Evans-Round 1
JE Rowney-Round 2
Juliette Godot-Round 3
Florian Armas-Round 4

Linda Cotton Jeffries
Josie Johnston-Round 1
Loralee Evans-Round 2
JE Rowney-Round 3
Juliette Godot-Round 4

Ann Birdgenaw
Linda Cotton Jeffries-Round 1
Josie Johnston-Round 2
Loralee Evans-Round 3
JE Rowney-Round 4

J.C. Gatlin
Ann Birdgenaw-Round 1
Linda Cotton Jeffries-Round 2
Josie Johnston-Round 3
Loralee Evans-Round 4

C.E. Johnson
JC Gatlin-Round 1
Ann Birdgenaw-Round 2
Linda Cotton Jeffries-Round 3
Josie Johnston-Round 4

Audrey Driscoll
CE Johnson-Round 1
JC Gatlin-Round 2
Ann Birdgenaw-Round 3
Linda Cotton Jeffries-Round 4


As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

Florian Armas
Juliette Godot-round 1
JE Rowney-round 2
Loralee Evans-round 3
Josie Johnson-round 4

Juliette Godot
JE Rowney-round 1
Loralee Evans-round 2
Josie Johnson-round 3
Linda Cotton Jeffries-round 4

J.E. Rowney
Loralee Evans-round 1
Josie Johnson-round 2
Linda Cotton Jeffries-round 3
Ann Birdgenaw-round 4

Loralee Evans
Josie Johnson-round 1
Linda Cotton Jeffries-round 2
Ann Birdgenaw-round 3
JC Gatlin-round 4

Josie Johnston
Linda Cotton Jeffries-round 1
Ann Birdgenaw-round 2
JC Gatlin-round 3
CE Johnson-round 4

Linda Cotton Jeffries
Ann Birdgenaw-round 1
JC Gatlin-round 2
CE Johnson-round 3
Audrey Driscoll-round 4

Ann Birdgenaw
JC Gatlin-round 1
CE Johnson-round 2
Audrey Driscoll-round 3
Florian Armas-round 4

J.C. Gatlin
CE Johnson-round 1
Audrey Driscoll-round 2
Florian Armas-round 3
Juliette Godot-round 4

C.E. Johnson
Audrey Driscoll-round 1
Florian Armas-round 2
Juliette Godot-round 3
JE Rowney-round 4

Audrey Driscoll
Florian Armas-round 1
Juliette Godot-round 2
JE Rowney-round 3
Loralee Evans-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 :)

[Kat]

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.

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.

I will be modding this round. Please PM me ongoing with any issues. Thanks.

[Loralee, Admin]

I have finished my first review for Walker
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R907L4I...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Linda]

Here is a link to my review of Black Hole Radion Labrynthia on Amazon. (I put it on Goodreads as well but didn't understand how to show the link.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959096761/...

[Kat]

Hi Linda :)

To get the GR review link, click on your GR profile. Then you will see in your feed, a list of your latest activity. The review for that book is listed. Right click where it says "see review" and you will get a link you can copy here.

For your Amz link, please edit it so you remove everything after and including the letters REF in the link. This will remove your personal identifying information and give you a "clean link."

[Linda]

Thank you for the directions Kat!
Here we go again for Labrynthia.

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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959096761/

[Kat]

Perfect, thanks, Linda! :)

[Loralee, Admin]

Here are links for my second review. Picturing the Dark.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R96LYJP...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Loralee, Admin]

I still do not have PDFs from Ann or J.C. If the two of you could send PDFs of your complete stories to me at the email address I sent in my pms to you, I'd appreciate it.

[Kat]

Everyone, please make sure you have sent all four people who are supposed to review you copies of your book.

[Loralee, Admin]

Ann got her book to me several hours ago. Here is the review now.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2H4BBT...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[C.E.]

Gaslight:

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

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

[Linda]

Darkness HIdes (Still waiting on the amazon version to go through.)

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

[J.E.]

C.E. wrote: "Gaslight:

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

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

Thanks so much!

[J.E.]

I haven't heard from Ann yet. Would be grateful to receive contact as soon as possible.

[J.E.]

My review for Loralee Evans - Tabby Cats and Trap Doors (as I had read the one listed for this group,
GR -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kat]

All, please ensure that you have made contact with all four people who are to review your book and sent them a pdf copy unless they have specifically indicated to you that they are reading through KU.

If you have still not received a copy of someone's book, please PM me and I will contact them as well.

[Ann]

Loralee wrote: "Ann got her book to me several hours ago. Here is the review now.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2H4BBT...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Thanks for the review, Loralee!

[Kat]

All, one suggestion when using the goodreads private messaging system for getting information to exchange books, is to avoid keywords or anything else that might make you look like a spammer. So I have found that if I include things like pdf, epub, mobi in the message, sometimes the person I'm messaging doesn't get it. I find that if I break up an email address like bob ( at) suchandsuch (dot) com that also seems to work better too.

Goodreads also seems to get angry and me and want me to defeat a bunch of captchas if I try to message multiple people the same day, or post multiple reviews the same day. YMMV.

[Ann]

Here is my first round review of Darkness Hides.

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

Amazon pending

[Kat]

Thanks for the link!

[Ann]

Here's the Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.ca/review/R28OLGUA...

[Linda]

Here's the amazon link for Darkness Hides.
https://www.amazon.com/review/RYTPPH8...

[Linda]

Here is my review of The Ammolite Adventures: Bluestone for Goodreads. I'll post the Amazon one once it goes through.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kat]

Thanks so much, everyone!

[Linda]

Here is the link to the amazon review for Bluestone.
https://www.amazon.com/review/R22LI3W...

[Loralee, Admin]

My final review is done. Here are the links for Darkness Hides.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2JT7KR...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thank you so much Kat, for organizing this!
Thank you, everyone!

[Kat]

Thanks, Loralee! You're all done. See you in a future round. :)

[Josie]

Here's my review for Linda's Picturing the Dark:

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...

[C.E.]

Florian Armas:

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

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

[Kat]

Thanks, everyone!

[J.C.]

My review of C.E. Johnson's Bluestone:

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

Amazon: Amazon is still pending

[Florian]

C.E. wrote: "Florian Armas:

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

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

Thank you, for the review.

[C.E.]

Islands of the Gulf:

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

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

[Kat]

Thanks for those links, everyone!

It really helps me when posting links, if when you don't post your Amazon and GR links at the same time (Amz can sometimes take up to a week to approve reviews), you please make a new post for your Amz link so I see a separate notification. If you want to update the old post to keep the two links together, that's fine too, but please also make that new post with the Amz link so I don't have to hunt back through lots of old posts. Appreciate it! :)

[Audrey]

Here is my review of The Game and the Board by Florian Armas:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/review/R30QG7AT...

[Kat]

Thanks, everyone!

[Linda]

Here is the Goodreads review for Islands in the Gulf.

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

[Linda]

Here is the Amazon review for Islands in the Gulf.

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2IQCSR...

[Linda]

I believe I'm done Kat. Thank you for all of your help!
Linda

[Kat]

Thanks, Linda, you're all done! See you in a future round. :)

[Ann]

Here's my second round reivew for Bluestone

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

Amazon
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/customer-rev...

[Kat]

Thanks!

Just a quick reminder that round one reviews should please by submitted by 6/7. Happy reading!

[Ann]

Amazon link was fast

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/customer-rev...