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Welcome!

[Lenita]

Keith wrote: "Lenita wrote: "Hi, Keith and welcome. I'm not far from you, here on Whidbey Island. Sounds like an interesting book. What's the genre?"

Thanks, Lenita. How fun! I just finished the book on my last..."

I'll see if I can read your book. Where can I find a copy?

[Keith]

I'm waiting for cover art to post. I'm working with Ellie at Creative Digital Studios.

[Victoria]

Lenita: I forgot to tell you... I read your book and really enjoyed it!

[Lenita]

Great! I'm looking forward to the final copy.

[Z.]

Hi everyone, my name is Zach, and not only is the first time I've ever tried to do something for my writing career other than obsess over it, but this is the first time I have ever posted a comment in a forum. In any kind of forum. Please pardon my lack of cyber manners (do people still say cyber these days?), and please feel free to offer any constructive criticism.
I'm stoked to be here!

ps. I wrote a story. It's called "A New Kind of Pet" and you can find it...umm, I hope at the bottom of this post? If not it's an ebook on amazon and it's free through Saturday. God I hope this works.
A New Kind of Pet

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Zach!

Also, congratulations on your first successful forum post! :)

[Lenita]

Welcome Zach. You'll have fun here. I checked out your book. Sounds post-apocalyptic. Quite an idea you have there.

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Hey, Zach, welcome to the circus. Relax and dig in; you're going to be fine here.

[Beau]

Hello Keith and Keesha.

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Welcome Zach!

[E.G.]

Hello everyone! I am brand new to Goodreads and I am not quite sure that I know what I am doing just yet. I just debuted my first novel, Tatiana's Chance.

Men are drawn to her as much as she is to them!

Who says the best years of life are from 20-40? Not Tatiana Kimball, a 40+, hella sexy cougar!! Tired of her humdrum life lacking direction and purpose, Tati soon finds that she wants something more and she wants to be something more. She finds herself at a crossroads and must decide in which direction her life will go.

This diamond in the rough shakes off her “soccer-mom”, “sensible-shoes” and “granny-panties” image in exchange for...something better. She embraces her sensually curvaceous body and her smoldering libido and adopts her new motto, “what panties?”

Amazon for Kindle/Kindle Unlimited:

http://amzn.com/B00LMM3J3A

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Elaine!

[Lenita]

Welcome Elaine.

[Beau]

Hello Zach and Elaine.

[Susan]

Thanks for this thread and hello everyone!

I'm an author, my novel White Feathers is due out with Brandon Press on 25th August. It's a story of passion, betrayal and war, set from the period 1913-1917. The central premise is that a girl's family are trying to push her into giving a white feather of cowardice to the man she loves.

Thanks for this opportunity and nice to meet you all! My site is susanlanigan.com

Best regards

Susan

[Beau]

Hi Susan.

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Hello. My name is Stephen O’Rourke. I am the author of a short story collection, entitled: Pieces & Stems. The 15 stories were inspired by some of my favorite authors (e.g. Borges, Bulgakov, Calvino and Kafka) and the radio plays of Arch Oboler, who once was to radio what Rod Serling was to television. I self-published the book, and received an award for it. I have several other works that I’ve written (novels), but am holding back on self-publishing them, until I am more excelled at marketing. Thank you for reading me (this introduction, I mean).

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Susan and Stephen!

[Jonathan]

Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce myself and figured this was a great place. I am an avid reader and I also have written one novel. You can find it at amazon here: Inevitable

My book is a little bit of sci-fi, a little bit what i'm calling "constitutional thriller," and a bit of philosophy. If you have any questions just friend me. I'm always looking for reviewers.

Those are generally the topics I enjoy to read as well. I like a good bit of dystopian, but I am currently an attorney and a former philosophy major. So, you see where I came from.

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Jonathan wrote: "Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce myself and figured this was a great place. I am an avid reader and I also have written one novel. You can find it at amazon here: Inevitable..."

Welcome to the group, Jonathan. Trust me, you'll be just fine!

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Jonathan!

[Katie Roberta]

Hi, I'm the author of My Mother Killed Christ, But God Loves Me Anyway. I'm offering a free giveaway of my book through Kindle on August 1 thur 3. I hope readers will take advantage of this offer.

Thank you,

Katie Roberta Stevens

[Don]

Hi Everyone,

I'm an avid reader and writer. I joined up with you all to find things to read and, of course, promote my book, The Social Event.

Starting at 12 noon Eastern (EDT) on Friday, July 25, 2014, The Social Event Kindle ebook will be .99 cents. It will remain at this great price until 4 pm Monday, July 28.

Say you were, or are, on the fence about the book. Well, at .99 cents it's hardly a huge financial risk. It is, in fact, a great deal for a book that, in paperback form, weighs in a 350 pages and is also a good read (pun intended).

Click here and check out what others have said about The Social Event.

Regards!

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Katie and Don!

[Don]

Victoria wrote: "Welcome to the group, Katie and Don!"

Thank you, Victoria. A pleasure to be here!

[Lenita]

Welcome Susan, Stephen, Jonathan, Katie, and Don.

[Khristina]

Hi, I’m Khristina. I’ve been writing for years and just joined the ranks of independent publishers at the end of May (this year) with my young adult novel, Straight A's. Navigating this new world of self-promotion is tough. I’m glad to find this discussion group, which looks like a nice community of writers who might be on the same journey. I look forward to hearing the wisdom and lessons you have to share.

[Joseph]

Greetings. WI-based science fiction and fantasy writer here, with 2 books available on Amazon and a third in the works (Both may be found on my list "books-I've-written").

[Lenita]

Welcome Khristina.

[Beau]

Hello Stephen, Jonathan, Katie, Don, Khristina and Joseph.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Christina and Joseph!

[The Author Visits]

My name is Veena - I run www.theauthorvisits.com, a site supporting authors!

Each week, we spotlight self-published, indie and traditionally published authors across most genres. We feature interviews, book reviews, guest posts and host giveaways.

We also blog about books, providing reviews in the following genres:
- Paranormal Romance
- Urban Fantasy
- Dark Fantasy
- YA Paranormal
- YA Romance
- YA Fantasy
- YA Contemporary
- YA Dystopian
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Erotica
- Thrillers

We kicked the site off in June and are booking up fast. Please check out the site. We work for good karma!

Thanks,
Veena

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The Author Visits wrote: "My name is Veena - I run www.theauthorvisits.com, a site supporting authors!

Each week, we spotlight self-published, indie and traditionally published authors across most genres...."

Welcome, Veena. Looks like a great thing you are doing over at your site; keep it up, and the indies may build a shrine to you one day!

[The Author Visits]

Thanks Jack!

[Lenita]

Welcome Veena and thanks for letting us know about your site.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Veena! And thanks for everything you're doing to help indie authors!

[Xavier]

Hi to the new members over the last week.

[Beau]

Hello Veena and Michelle.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Michelle!

[Lenita]

Welcome Michelle.

[Mary]

Jack wrote: "Hi, Mary, and welcome to the group. I see your post on here twice, once in italics 50 minutes ago, and the other in normal print 47 minutes ago."

Thanks. It's taking me some time to learn how to operate this site! Has anyone had any experience with giveaways?

Starting July 31st to August 31st,I'm giving away ten autographed copies of The Drawing Lesson and The Fate of Pryde the first and second in The Trilogy of Remembrance to celebrate the publication of the third in the trilogy Night Crossing for which there will be a giveaway in September.

Please enter because you might just win. For any cautious souls, you can sample the first fifty pages of all my novels on my page.

[[deleted user]]

I have done a giveaway. I set it up to award about six weeks after publication, and about 350 folks added it to their to-reads, which unfortunately doesn't mean much. But it is free publicity, beyond the cost of the books. Not much happens at first (at least in my experience), but the closer the date gets, the more people sign up. Just be sure you aren't in the hospital on the giveaway date! There are people here who will give you a 1-star review if you don't deliver quick enough to suit them...

[Tom]

message 1: by Tom (last edited Jul 26, 2014 02:59AM) Jul 26, 2014 02:56AM
Hi everyone -- I'm Tom Hoffman, author of The Eleventh Ring, the first book in the Bartholomew the Adventurer series. I've been fan of fantasy and a creative my whole life, working with ad agencies and freelancing for 35 years. And I love Goodreads. Such an awesome site! I'm looking for readers to review The Eleventh Ring. The one thing I've heard over and over from readers is "this is not your normal fantasy adventure book", and I would have to agree. This is not swords and dragons. There is a great deal of symbolism and depth hiding between the words. Please read my bio before you start reading this book, and also the reviews. Oh, I also have a degree in psychology from Georgetown University. Here's the blurb:

The Eleventh Ring is a new full-length surreal metaphysical fantasy adventure novel chronicling the very strange world of Bartholomew Rabbit and his transformation from a sedate and naive country rabbit to Bartholomew the Adventurer, the most powerful shaper on the planet Earth. Set in the far distant future long after humans have vanished, this is a new world where rabbits and rodents have evolved to become the highest form of intelligence. If you like heroes, intrigue, talking trees with a thousand eyes, evil kings with villainous schemes, weird science, metaphysics, 10 foot tall robotic rabbits, infernal machines, dismal swamps, mystical islands, and the ever popular True Love – then this is the book for you.

Sooooo... if this sounds like a fun book to you... let me know and I'll give you a .mobi Kindle file of the book.(please include a good email address where I can send the file) I can't even tell you how much fun I had writing it. I'm having even more fun writing book 2 in the series, titled The Seventh Key.

Tom

PS I don't want to boast or anything, but The Eleventh Ring won first place on Listopia for "Best Books with a Green Rabbit on the Cover". Very impressive indeed!

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[Tom]

Michelle wrote: "Hello, my name is Michelle Dalson!
Just a few things about myself: I have been writing stories since I was 5 years old., I love reading sci-fi/fantasy books, I am fascinated with the life sciences..."

Hi Michelle, I just happened to notice your intro near mine and thought you might like my book. I have a degree in psychology from Georgetown University (1972) and love animals and metaphysics. And don't even get me started on the miracle of the human mind! Here's the blurb:

The Eleventh Ring is a new full-length surreal metaphysical fantasy adventure novel chronicling the very strange world of Bartholomew Rabbit and his transformation from a sedate and naive country rabbit to Bartholomew the Adventurer, the most powerful shaper on the planet Earth. Set in the far distant future long after humans have vanished, this is a new world where rabbits and rodents have evolved to become the highest form of intelligence. If you like heroes, intrigue, talking trees with a thousand eyes, evil kings with villainous schemes, weird science, metaphysics, 10 foot tall robotic rabbits, infernal machines, dismal swamps, mystical islands, and the ever popular True Love – then this is the book for you.

If you'd like to read to review I'd be happy to send you a .mobi file. It's a fun story with a lot of symbolism and spiritual depth hidden between the words.

Best regards,

Tom

[The Author Visits]

Thank you for the warm welcome.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Tom!

[David]

Hello,
My name is David and my upcoming book is a combination of fiction and non-fiction. Not sure if it's been done before but hey-ho, I'm hoping it's worth a try! It's called Ghost Writers and should be published around October.

Thanks, hope everyone is having a good day.

David Shaw.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, David!

[[deleted user]]

Welcome David