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PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO YOUR FELLOW JAMES MASON MEMBERS!
Advanced warning: I am a huge fan of George Carlin and Lewis Black, but I won't aim their caliber of language at anyone here.
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Ray- when I think Belgium - I think Hercule Poirot!!
Welcome to Group!
Very Happy Day to you, Ray. It's my pleasure to meet you here. Please permit me to introduce myself - I am a blogger who blog about motivational stuff with intent to lift people up.
Your profile is very impressive and I write to invite you to participate in my recent Miss BUS STOP Contest, which run till 11pm 11.11.11 ( A memorable day)
http://liftyouup.blogspot.com/2011/09/mi...
You may take advantage to promote your book/novel by being a sponsor for prizes of your book and link it back to your site as a way of advertisment fee.
Please click at the link provided above and make the announcement accordingly if you wish to. If you have done so, please ignore this mail.
Your support to this event is greatly appreciated and look forward to seeing you there. let us combine our resources to make it BIg success for all of us.
James Oh
jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk
John wrote: "Thanks for the invite. My preferred stories are of futuristic society, spaceflight and non-human intelligence. However, writing Squad V let me test the concept that even vampires should be bound by..."Hi John! My name's DeeDee. Wow thats quite a list! I noticed you mentioned that you liked to read about futuristic societies and I wondered if you'd take a look at my book and tell me what you thought of it? I'd like to send you a free PDF copy if you were interested, but if not, I understand. Here's the link:Broken City. Thanks.
Lucky you! I lived in Paris for years and they were the best years...heaven!
Lisa wrote: "Hi my name is Lisa. I thought I would join for a couple of reasons. Some of my favorte authors are part of this group, but also I'm looking to branch out in what I read. Looking for new books an..."Hi Lisa! My names DeeDee and I'm from England. I wonder if you'd be interested in reading my book? I can send you a free PDF copy if you'd like to try it, but if not I understand. Here's the link:Broken City. Thanks!
D.d. wrote: "John wrote: "Thanks for the invite. My preferred stories are of futuristic society, spaceflight and non-human intelligence. However, writing Squad V let me test the concept that even vampires shoul..."A world shattered by a banking crisis. You definitely have your thumb on the pulse of modern civilization. It would be interesting to see how people sustain themselves inside one building over generations.
Sure, I'll try it.
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welcome Mike!!! great to meet another huge Mason Fan!!
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so happy you joined Lisa!!! welcome!!!!
Hello, everyone. Pleased to become a part of this group. About me: My name is Tracy James Jones - Tracy or James is fine. I grew up around Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, and started writing while in high school with the help of a wonderful Journalism teacher. At Navarro College I majored in Journalism / minor in Mass Communication. Before college, I worked as an actor with my local Community Theater, and as an extra/stand-in for award winning feature films, “Places In The Heart” & “Born On The Fourth Of July.” As a freelance writer/novelist, I have four published books.At present time I have one new electronic book, “Secrets & Lies,” recently available on amazon kindle, and two previously published novels under reconstruction for re-release. As well as being listed here, I can also be found on Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, and Wordpress, all featuring my books, reviews, links to author interviews, and other relevant information.
I sincerely appreciate this opportunity to meet and greet you all.
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http://tracyjamesjones.wordpress.com/
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Philip wrote: "Good morning,I would like to thank Lynn for inviting me to join. By way of introduction, I am an author of a fairly well-received science fiction thriller called Falling Star and also released t..."
You're most welcome. So glad you could find time in your busy schedule to come and visit us.
Lynn
Rick wrote: "Philip wrote: "Good morning,I would like to thank Lynn for inviting me to join. By way of introduction, I am an author of a fairly well-received science fiction thriller called Falling Star and ..."
You're welcome Rick. Sorry I haven't been on Goodreads as much. I've had a very scattered past couple of weeks. Hope to get back in a routine soon.
Have a great one!
Lynn
Tracy wrote: "Hello, everyone. Pleased to become a part of this group. About me: My name is Tracy James Jones - Tracy or James is fine. I grew up around Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, and started writing while i..."Hi Tracy,
Glad you finally found time in your awfully busy schedule to come and visit here.
Lynn
Welcome to all the newbies! We're certainly getting a lot of interest to the group.
Just popping in again to say hello. Gosh, so many new faces and from so many places. I can't remember if I said but I'm from Edinburgh. Love James Mason and films and reading and writing books and chatting, which is why I am here ;o)Regards writing - my debut novel, The Blue Suitcase, is an historic fiction, based on diaries I found by my mum after her death, and tells the story of a girl growing up in Nazi Germany from the perspective of a Silesian German Christian. I'm doing a Q and A in GoodReads session on in a couple of weeks if anyone wants to ask any questions about it (I'll remind you again nearer the time but feel free to ask now too.) I'm presently working on my debut crime novel, set in the Republic of Kiribati. I used to live there – anyone heard of it? It's due out next year so am busily writing away.
That's all for now. It's stopped raining at last here in Edinburgh, which has got to be good :o)
The Blue Suitcase
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welcome Tracy- so very happy to haveyou asa member!!
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I would like to thank Lynn for inviting me to join. By way of introduction, I am an author of a fairly well-received science fiction thriller called Fall..."
thanks Lynn!!!
Faith wrote: "Welcome to all the newbies! We're certainly getting a lot of interest to the group."
Well put, Faith! The list of wonderful members just keeps growing.
Well put, Faith! The list of wonderful members just keeps growing.
Hello everyone, and many thanks to Rick for the invitation!I'm Julie K. Rose, and I write mainstream and historical fiction with a touch of the fantastic. My novel The Pilgrim Glass is here on Goodreads, and
is the story of an artist, a priest, and a photographer, and the restoration of a stained glass one summer in Vézelay, France. This is no ordinary glass, however; it has a strange, almost hypnotic effect on them, changing them in positive and destructive ways.
I enjoy reading in a variety of genres, from classics to contemporary mainstream to fantasy to historical, as well as their many sub-genres. I'm also a former reviewer for the Historical Novels Review.
So looking forward to checking out your reviews, recommendations, and discussions!
Rick wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Rick wrote: "Philip wrote: "Good morning,I would like to thank Lynn for inviting me to join. By way of introduction, I am an author of a fairly well-received science fiction thrille..."
You're most welcome. As you can see, my friends come trickling in as they have time.
Have a great one!
Lynn
Thanks to Rick for the introduction -- what a gracious host! I'm an avid reader -- tend to read 5-6 books at one time. Right now, I'm reading some 19th century books like Emma, and Dracula (the original), as well as more contemporary writers like Margaret Atwood and Anita Diamant. If you like these writers, drop me a line, and we can catch up!I also write books -- my novel Sinful Folk (a novel set in the middle ages) is coming out in 2012 -- the first 2 chapters are available in a Sneak Peek at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
If you like what you read, you can get a Preview E-Book of the entire book by "liking" the book's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SinfulFolk
There's a lot more about me and my bookish interests up at http://SinfulFolk.com -- I look foward to reading more about your books and your interests here!
-- Ned | NedNotes.com
Ned wrote: "Thanks to Rick for the introduction -- what a gracious host! I'm an avid reader -- tend to read 5-6 books at one time. Right now, I'm reading some 19th century books like Emma, and Dracula (the o..."It's a great book -- thanks for writing Sinful Folk -- I really enjoyed it. Good to have you in the James Mason Community Book Club!
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thank you so very much Ned! easy to be gracious with such wonderful members!!
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I would like to thank Lynn for inviting me to join. By way of introduction, I am an author of a fairly well-received science fi..."
terrific Lynn!! friends of yours and friends of all our members are so very welcome- as are all those who love books!!
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I'm Julie K. Rose, and I write mainstream and historical fiction with a touch of the fantastic. My novel The Pilgrim Glass is here on Go..."
Ned wrote: "Thanks to Rick for the introduction -- what a gracious host! I'm an avid reader -- tend to read 5-6 books at one time. Right now, I'm reading some 19th century books like Emma, and Dracula (the o..."
Rick wrote: "just a great big welcome to all our new members!!"
welcome Ned and Katie!!! forgot to mention you two by name earlier!! so happy to have you here!
Greetings! What kind of books do you read? Best wishes,Clark
Hi there,Thanks for the invite! I'm a horror and thriller author and look forward to meeting as many of you as I can. If anyone is interested in knowing a bit more about me, you can visit my blog at: http://griffin-hayes.blogspot.com/
Best,
Grif
Hello all, I have been a member of this group for a while now but never actually got around to looking at any of the content - I could be here for years! I am an avid reader of all aspects of SF/Fantasy, with a little YA thrown in. I was a member of a Paranormal Romance group but it got taken over by the teens and the posts are lacking in punctuation and full of spelling errors. I know that is picky but it is one of my bugbears. This is a site for readers and I would assume that anyone who is passionate enough about books to be on this site can certainly string a sentence together! OK now I've had my rant I can relax. I do manage to write some reviews but I mostly just read, read, read. I try to at least rate everything I finish (which I sometimes don't do as I often read several things at once and get bored very easily)
My reading interests have changed over the years and I think I will eventually find myself old and grey wanting to read mysteries with not an inch of the paranormal about them :)
If you are still reading this I want to be your friend!! Hello everybody
Hello everyone. Thanks so much to Rick for the invite.I'm the author of two books of fiction. The most recent, The Countess, came out in paperback last week from Broadway Books. A "retelling" of the life of notorious Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth (Erzsebet) Bathory, it's been nicely received in the several countries where it's been published so far, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Romania.
My first novel, Icebergs, was a 2007 PEN/Hemingway Finalist. The story of the families of two men who both survive a plane crash in WWII Labrador, it was a genuine labor of love for me, since it was based on the real-life story of my grandfather. (More about my books at rebeccajohns.com)
I teach full-time as a creative writing instructor at DePaul University in Chicago, where I live with my husband and daughter. We're native Chicagoans and happy to be home after many years of traipsing around the country, including New York, Iowa and Michigan.
I hope to "meet" many of you here at the James Mason Community Book Club.
Rebecca Johns
Hi Rebecca! Wow! That was quite an entrance! My names DeeDee, I'm 24 and live in England. I write too but my books are adventure romance. What sort of genres do you read?
Thanks D.d. Nice to meet you. I read all genres, "literary" and mainstream as well as fantasy and sci-fi. I teach a speculative fiction class here that's a lot of fun, Ursula LeGuin and Stephen King and David Mitchell. Some of my favorite books include Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Atonement by Ian McEwan, The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard, (hmm, apparently I have a preference for novels by British authors or set in GB) Lolita, and A Confederacy of Dunces. You?
Rebecca wrote: "Thanks D.d. Nice to meet you. I read all genres, "literary" and mainstream as well as fantasy and sci-fi. I teach a speculative fiction class here that's a lot of fun, Ursula LeGuin and Stephen ..."I like pretty much anything with romance and adventure. Georgette Heyer is my favourate regency romance author and I liked 'The Sooner' it's a sci-fi by S.G. Alan, an indie author. I like my books PG which can make finding novels a little difficult!
Ha! I know what you mean by looking for pg. The x-rated stuff doesn't interest me much either. The best sex scenes, I've found, tend to be awkward and/or funny. Otherwise they just end up florid.
Rebecca wrote: "Ha! I know what you mean by looking for pg. The x-rated stuff doesn't interest me much either. The best sex scenes, I've found, tend to be awkward and/or funny. Otherwise they just end up florid."I think that it takes away from the story as well as being embarrassing, the characters are so busy that the plot never really happens!
Rebecca wrote: "Hello everyone. Thanks so much to Rick for the invite.I'm the author of two books of fiction. The most recent, The Countess, came out in paperback last week from Broadway Books. A "retelling"..."
Hey, Welcome i hope u enjoy
Rebecca wrote: "Ha! I know what you mean by looking for pg. The x-rated stuff doesn't interest me much either. The best sex scenes, I've found, tend to be awkward and/or funny. Otherwise they just end up florid."exactly!
Hello everyone, and thanks to Rick for the invite! I'm a New Zealand author writing fantasy fiction for ages 15 and up - you can find out more about the series on maryvictoria.netLooking forward to chatting with folks on this message board.
Best, Mary
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Griffin wrote: "Hi there,
Thanks for the invite! I'm a horror and thriller author and look forward to meeting as many of you as I can. If anyone is interested in knowing a bit more about me, you can visit my blog..."
Rebecca wrote: "Hello everyone. Thanks so much to Rick for the invite.
I'm the author of two books of fiction. The most recent, The Countess, came out in paperback last week from Broadway Books. A "retelling"..."
Mary wrote: "Hello everyone, and thanks to Rick for the invite! I'm a New Zealand author writing fantasy fiction for ages 15 and up - you can find out more about the series on maryvictoria.net
Looking forward ..."
welcome to all of you!! hope I did not leave anyone out!!
I joined awhile ago, but haven't been able to jump in until now and am enjoying all the postings and discussions. You can drop by my blog "In Reference to Murder" for crime fiction news and links and also my author site, where you can sign up for a newsletter, if you'd like, @ http://bvlawson.com (with hopefully some giveaways, too). Keep up the good work, Rick, and thanks again!
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appreciate that B.V.- great link!
Marianne wrote: "Just popping in again to say hello. Gosh, so many new faces and from so many places. I can't remember if I said but I'm from Edinburgh. Love James Mason and films and reading and writing books and ..."Hello to a fellow East Coast of Scotland dweller! (though I'm a bit further north than Auld Reekie). Good luck with the crime novel!
Hello everyone. My name is Gabriel Beyers. I'm a 34 year old father of two. I love to read, write, build just about anything, and tinker with marine fish tanks.I am an indie author, writing in mostly the horror and paranormal thriller genres. My novel Guarding the Healer is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
I love to talk books or movies, so feel free to throw me a line.
My name is Gabrielle, and I love literary fiction, well written mysteries, classic noir fiction, and more. I'm also a lover of classic film, and baroque violin (just to listen to, I can't play). I also love to cook and bake.I love the outdoors and go hiking, ride a bicycle, garden, and I love animals.
I'm an independent fiction editor, and like most of the members here, I love to talk about books.
To all the Europeans here, I spent many years living in Switzerland and France, and I loved my time in Europe.
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exactly- VERY WELL PUT JAMES!
there have been only a few instances in which I have had to delete posts because of utterly inappropriate language, ect- Diversity of thought and membership is a keystone of James Mason group- civility and respect for the fact that with so many members- we have folks from their early teens to their 90's - and yet with tens of thousands of posts- over the past two years- only a small handful have required me to take action- and these were ones by people who seemed to be trying to provoke (WITH SOME PRETTY TERRIBLE WORDS) - rather than express their thoughts - a KEY difference- As I have such respect for our membership- I truly cannot recall the last time this issue came up- hence- I do not see an issue and leave it to each member to decide. and to use a cliche...end of issue! LOL
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