Group 376. In This World - Mod. Gene

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Miriam!
So, the tentative list...

Member Links * Book Links
1. Gene Kendall * Ten Tiny Tales: Stories of Broken Elevators and Other Mundane Things
2. Amber Daulton *Arresting Mason
3.Balroop Singh * Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart
4. Thomas A. Burns Jr. * To Keep Our Honor Clean: A 3M Detective Agency Novel
5. Matt Savino * Land Without a Continent: A Road Trip through Mexico and Central America
6. Charles C. McCormack * Healing of a Psychotherapist: A Journey of Rebellion, Reflection and Redemption (Newly Revised 2nd Edition of "Essence."
7. Clive Hawkswood * Cutter's Feud
8. Miriam Schwellnus*The Millennial and the King: How to Become a Legend
9. Todd Iverson *Joe Hill For Congress: A Novel
10. Yatska Sokuleva * From Dating To Wedding 2: Comic Book Based on a True Story The Man A Practical Guide to Online Dating

Everyone - please post to tell me if you have reviewed any of the four people above you on the list (the list wraps around so (10) is 'above' (1) ). Please also check that if you have already reviewed any of the four people 'below' you on the list they have more books available that you have not yet reviewed and post to tell me if they have not.

If you write under a pen name or have additional Goodreads profiles, then you'll have to follow these instructions for every pen name or additional Goodreads profile.

Remember that you can check if you have reviewed anyone before by going to your reviews through your profile (the link is under your portrait), and searching their name. You can check if someone has reviewed you in the same way through their profile and searching for your name.
Please check all those who are the 4 above and 4 below you.
If you have no review clashes - or if you are scheduled to review someone who you have reviewed before but can see they have another book available just post 'Good to go :)' or words to that effect.
If you spot a clash or someone in the four below you who has no book you can review, please say.

When everyone has posted 'Good to go' we will be :)

If you are new to these rounds do not worry, full instructions will be provided at every stage.

[Miriam]

good to go

[Todd]

Good to go

[Balroop]

Hi Gene,
Charles has two books and the list shows I've reviewed both. Please check that.

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Balroop.

Charles -- do you have an alternate book to offer Balroop?

[Yatska]

Good to go!

[Gene, Admin]

EVERYONE...
Thanks to those who have responded to so far. Given that we can't get started if Charles and Balroop have a conflict, let's wait to see if that's resolved before anyone else responds.
Thanks!

[Thomas]

Ive reviewed Clive but not this book

[Amber]

I know you want to wait until Charles and Balroop has taken care of the conflict, but as the list is now, I'm ready to go. I won't have internet access again until Tuesday, so if the group gets started before then, please know I'm ready.

[Charles]

Hi Gene, Sorry to be late getting back to you. I'm traveling and internet access has been intermittent at best. In answer to your question, I do not have another book I am interested in offering. So, I guess that means I'm out. Correct?

[Charles]

gene, I thought I understood there was a conflict I had with Balroop. But Idon't see that messaging here.

[Balroop]

Hi Gene, If Charles has another book, I am good to go.

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks for getting back to me, Charles.
Since Balroop signed up first, that means we have to remove Charles and go back to "one needed."

[Fiona]

Hi Gene,

Can I join? I have updated my settings.
It's my first time, so I haven't given not received a review here.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Fiona.

Since Fiona has no reviews, we don't need anyone who's already checked in to respond. However, I believe Matt and Clive need to confirm they have no conflicts.

Remember that you can check if you have reviewed anyone before by going to your reviews through your profile (the link is under your portrait), and searching their name. You can check if someone has reviewed you in the same way through their profile and searching for your name.
Please check all those who are the 4 above and 4 below you.
If you have no review clashes - or if you are scheduled to review someone who you have reviewed before but can see they have another book available just post 'Good to go :)' or words to that effect.
If you spot a clash or someone in the four below you who has no book you can review, please say.

When everyone has posted 'Good to go' we will be :)

If you are new to these rounds do not worry, full instructions will be provided at every stage.

Member Links * Book Links
1. Gene Kendall * Ten Tiny Tales: Stories of Broken Elevators and Other Mundane Things
2. Amber Daulton *Arresting Mason
3.Balroop Singh * Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart
4. Thomas A. Burns Jr. * To Keep Our Honor Clean: A 3M Detective Agency Novel
5. Matt Savino * Land Without a Continent: A Road Trip through Mexico and Central America
6. Fiona Soutter * A Scientific Approach to Rewiring Self Love: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Neuroscience: Understand Your Patterns, Release Your Blocks, and Create Lasting Self-Worth
7. Clive Hawkswood * Cutter's Feud
8. Miriam Schwellnus*The Millennial and the King: How to Become a Legend
9. Todd Iverson *Joe Hill For Congress: A Novel
10. Yatska Sokuleva * From Dating To Wedding 2: Comic Book Based on a True Story The Man A Practical Guide to Online Dating

[Clive]

Thanks, Gene - good to go

[Loralee, Admin]

Hello! *quick peek in the door* Fiona, since you're new, you might not have noticed this yet. You're good in this group, since it's the only one you're in, but please remember rule #6 from Gene's first post. You can participate in one group at a time in these reading rounds. Once you've finished your obligations in one group, then you can join another. (So even if group #378 wasn't out of this world, I couldn't have let you in since you joined this group first.)
"6. You have completed your reading if you are currently in another review round in this group. You can be involved in the ‘one for one’ list whilst you are in a round."

[Matt]

I have no conflicts and I'm good to go.

I kept refreshing this post, but just realized it had moved to page 2.

[Gene, Admin]

It's not an April Fool's prank. We can begin.

1. Gene Kendall * Ten Tiny Tales: Stories of Broken Elevators and Other Mundane Things
2. Amber Daulton *Arresting Mason
3.Balroop Singh * Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart
4. Thomas A. Burns Jr. * To Keep Our Honor Clean: A 3M Detective Agency Novel
5. Matt Savino * Land Without a Continent: A Road Trip through Mexico and Central America
6. Fiona Soutter * A Scientific Approach to Rewiring Self Love: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Neuroscience: Understand Your Patterns, Release Your Blocks, and Create Lasting Self-Worth
7. Clive Hawkswood * Cutter's Feud
8. Miriam Schwellnus*The Millennial and the King: How to Become a Legend
9. Todd Iverson *Joe Hill For Congress: A Novel
10. Yatska Sokuleva * From Dating To Wedding 2: Comic Book Based on a True Story The Man A Practical Guide to Online Dating



START DATE: April 1, 2025
END DATE: June 24, 2025

Round 1 – post your review by April 22, 2025
Round 2 – post your review by May 13, 2025
Round 3 – post your review by June 3, 2025
Round 4 – post your review by June 24, 2025

Remember -- you're SENDING your book to the four names above you (the list wraps so 10 is above 1) -- and you're RECEIVING books from the four names below you.

As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

-01_Gene Kendall 
Yatska Sokuleva  for round 1
Todd Iverson for round 2
Miriam Schwellnus for round 3
Clive Hawkswood for round 4

-02_ Amber Daulton 
Gene Kendall for round 1
Yatska Sokuleva  for round 2
Todd Iverson for round 3
Miriam Schwellnus for round 4

-03_Balroop Singh 
Amber Daulton for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
Yatska Sokuleva  for round 3
Todd Iverson for round 4

-04_Thomas A. Burns Jr. 
Balroop Singh for round 1
Amber Daulton for round 2
Gene Kendall for round 3
Yatska Sokuleva  for round 4

-05__ Matt Savino 
Thomas A. Burns Jr. for round 1
Balroop Singh for round 2
Amber Daulton for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

-06__ Fiona Soutter 
Matt Savino for round 1
Thomas A. Burns Jr. for round 2
Balroop Singh for round 3
Amber Daulton for round 4

-07__ Clive Hawkswood 
Fiona Soutter for round 1
Matt Savino for round 2
Thomas A. Burns Jr. for round 3
Balroop Singh for round 4

-08__ Miriam Schwellnus
Clive Hawkswood for round 1
Fiona Soutter for round 2
Matt Savino for round 3
Thomas A. Burns Jr. for round 4

-09__ Todd Iverson
Miriam Schwellnus for round 1
Clive Hawkswood for round 2
Fiona Soutter for round 3
Matt Savino for round 4

-10__ Yatska Sokuleva
Todd Iverson for round 1
Miriam Schwellnus for round 2
Clive Hawkswood for round 3
Fiona Soutter for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

-01__ Gene Kendall 
Amber Daulton for round 1  
Balroop Singh for round 2
Thomas A Burns Jr for round 3
 Matt Savino  for round 4

-02__ Amber Daulton 
Balroop Singh for round 1
Thomas A Burns Jr for round 2
Matt Savino for round 3
 Fiona Soutter for round 4

-03__Balroop Singh 
 Thomas A Burns Jr for round 1
 Matt Savino for round 2
 Fiona Soutter for round 3
 Clive Hawkswood for round 4

-04__  Thomas A Burns Jr.
 Matt Savino  for round 1
 Fiona Soutter for round 2
 Clive Hawkswood for round 3
 Miriam Schwellnus for round 4

-05__  Matt Savino 
 Fiona Soutter  for round 1
 Clive Hawkswood for round 2
 Miriam Schwellnus for round 3
 Todd Iverson for round 4

-06__  Fiona Soutter 
 Clive Hawkswood  for round 1
 Miriam Schwellnus for round 2
 Todd Iverson for round 3
 Yatska Sokuleva for round 4

-07__  Clive Hawkswood 
Miriam Schwellnus for round 1
Todd Iverson for round 2
Yatska Sokuleva for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

-08__  Miriam Schwellnus
 Todd Iverson  for round 1
 Yatska Sokuleva for round 2
 Gene Kendall for round 3
 Amber Daulton for round 4

-09__  Todd Iverson 
Yatska Sokuleva  for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
Amber Daulton for round 3
Balroop Singh for round 4

-10__  Yatska Sokuleva 
 Gene Kendall  for round 1
Amber Daulton for round 2
Balroop Singh for round 3
Thomas A Burns Jr 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 labor of love, with a lot of emphasis on the ‘labor’. 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 :)

[Gene, Admin]

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.

Please PM me with any issues with the thread.

[Gene, Admin]

PLEASE ALSO PAY ATTENTION TO THESE FINAL TIPS:
Some final things: Please shorten your Amazon link, removing everything after and including the letters "ref" -- that will give you a clean link that doesn't include any of your personal information.

It's important to respond to messages and send your book files as soon possible, as some reviewers read faster than others and they shouldn't be held up waiting for their review copy.

And just a tip from me -- since Amazon can take days and days to post the review, you might want to wait until the Amazon review appears, then post your Goodreads review, and post both links together in one message on this thread.

If you don't have the Goodreads and Amazon links on the same date, please do not edit your post to add the second link. I likely won't see that, so create a new post with the link.

[Gene, Admin]

Also, I need to remind Todd Iverson to change his settings so that he can receive PMs. It looks like your settings have switched back since joining the round.

[Amber]

Thanks, Gene!
I've made contact with everyone except for Todd.

[Yatska]

Todd Iverson Todd Iverson! We can't get in touch with you. Please open access to your messages!

[Balroop]

Hi Gene, Todd's profile is not open to sending a message.

[Thomas]

Here's my Goodreaads review of Matt's book

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

I'll post the Amazon review link when it's up.

[Todd]

Ok sorry was offline for a couple days. I should be able to accept messages

[Amber]

I still can't contact you, Todd. Messages are still turned off.

[Loralee, Admin]

Todd, when you are signed in on your author profile, (not your reader profile that you have commented on this thread from) you need to go to this link:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?t...
once there, scroll down a little way until you see "Who Can Send Me Private Messages:" When you find that, click the circle beside "anyone" then scroll to the bottom and click "Save Account Settings".

[Todd]

ok, I believe it's set for people to message me!

[Amber]

Todd contacted me. His message access is now open (at least for me).
Thanks!

[Thomas]

My Goodreads review of Fiona's book:

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

[Thomas]

Here's my Amazon review of Matt's book:

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

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Thomas.

[Matt]

Thanks Thomas!

[Matt]

My Goodreads and review of Fiona's book:

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

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

[Balroop]

Here is my first review: To Keep Our Honor Clean: A 3M Detective Agency Novel by Thomas A. Burns Jr.

https://www.amazon.com/review/R36UL09...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Balroop]

I am still not able to send a message to Todd.

[Todd]

just email me at toddiverson@hotmail.com

[Thomas]

Thank you for the review, Balroop.

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks for the reviews, Balroop and Matt.

Balroop, click "More" next to the "Add Friend" button and you should see "Message" on Todd's account.

EVERYONE -- please DO NOT edit your post to add the second link. Mods aren't notified when posts are edited, so create a new post with the link.

[Gene, Admin]

My Round One reviews for Arresting Jeremiah (Arresting Onyx, #2) by Amber Daulton
https://www.amazon.com/review/R32IJLM...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Thomas]

My Amazon review of Fiona's book:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R19LY1Q...

[Miriam]

My round one reviews for Joe Hill for Congress by Todd Iverson:

https://www.amazon.de/review/R3TBH3E6... (I actually bought the book to give a verified review, but unfortunately doesn't show)

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

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Thomas and Miriam.

[Yatska]

My round 1 - Gene Kendall DOGTEETH AND OTHER TALES OF THE PARANORMAL
https://amazon.com/gp/customer-review...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Gene, Admin]

Thank you, Yatska.

[Amber]

All done...

Balroop Singh 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://amazon.com/gp/customer-review...

Thomas A. Burns Jr. 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/RGVRJCX...

Matt Savino 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://amazon.com/gp/customer-review...

Fiona Soutter 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://amazon.com/gp/customer-review...

[Thomas]

Thanks, Amber.

[Gene, Admin]

Thank you, Amber. That wraps you up.