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[J.S.]

Welcome, David and Phil!

[J.S.]

David wrote: "Hi, I'm a science fiction author and just love everything dystopian. So glad to be here :)"

David, Congrats on your new book!

[YJ K.]

Hello!! I am Mason. I enjoy reading books and would like to write a book one day. I just started a blog on books and would hope that you guys could look at it and give me some advice. Thank you!!
SerialReaderx.blogspot.com

[V.M.]

Welcome, Mason. I'll take a look at your blog.

[YJ K.]

Thanks Vivienne!!

[J.S.]

Welcome Mason! If you can, put a clickable link to your blog on this thread and your goodreads page.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Mason!

[Eric]

Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If any writers want to try out their kids books on us, we'd be excited to read as a family.

[April]

Hello my name is april i love to read books i am also interested in becoming an author but still working on that part. I also just wanted to let the authors know i would review their books for them in exchange for an ebook, hard copy, or in pdf form i have a kindle. Let me know here or you can email me at aprilkelly21046@outlook.com

[James Alice Edwards]

Hello, my name is James. I am an English person now retired from work. I love to read and have done all my life.

My main passions are historical fiction, Greek/Roman period stories and Science Fiction. Science Fiction is my first love, mainly hrad Science Fiction with the emphasis on Science. However I also adore Terry Pratchett and have all of his books - he can make me laugh out loud, a precious gift. Out side of my comfort zone I enjoy a variety of genre as the mood takes me, hey I have lots of free time if not lots of life left!

I mainly read on my Kindle these days as I travel a fair bit and books can become a burden to pack and carry but I still love the feel of a "real" book.

If any one would like to chat about Science Fiction or anything else - let me knw as I am always oepn to new friendships..

Be well and happy.

James

[V.M.]

Hi, James. I too enjoy Science Fiction, but haven't read much of it recently, having been concentrating more on fantasy and the classics. (I decided I'd not read enough of them!) I am also the author of a couple of fantasy novels. I too am English and retired. Nice to meet you.

[Ram]

Hi everybody! My name is Ram Das Batchelder, and I am the author of "Rising in Love: My Wild and Crazy Ride to Here and Now, with Amma, the Hugging Saint". It's releasing December 12th, and is published by O Books (an imprint of John Hunt Publishing). I've also written 5 other books which have been published by Amma's ashram in India and are sold on Amma's world tours, translated into 4 languages.

Here's the Goodreads page for "Rising in Love":
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

And here's a very entertaining interview I did with Barbara Ford-Hubbard on the OMBS Blog:
http://www.o-books.com/blogs/obooks/r...

And here's a work in progress, a new website I'm designing to promote "Rising in Love", which also has a nice page about my other books and lots of other good stuff: http://www.rising-inlove.org

Very happy to connect with all of you! I'll be so happy to befriend you here and on other social media, and to correspond.
with love,
Ram Das

[J.S.]

James Alice Edwards wrote: "Hello, my name is James. I am an English person now retired from work. I love to read and have done all my life.

My main passions are historical fiction, Greek/Roman period stories and Science Fi..."

Welcome, James!
I love science fiction and historical novels, but I write science fantasy. You'll find kindred spirits here!

[J.S.]

Vivienne wrote: "Hi, James. I too enjoy Science Fiction, but haven't read much of it recently, having been concentrating more on fantasy and the classics. (I decided I'd not read enough of them!) I am also the auth..."

Hi Vivienne. What are your novels? J.S.

[J.S.]

Welcome, Ram! Congratulations on all your books!

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Eric, April, James, Ram, and anyone else I haven't said it to!

[Victoria]

Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If any writers wa..."

Hi Eric,

I write for children - other than a few collections of poetry - and my book "Frank The Friendly Ogre" is free if you want a free sample of my work to read with your children.

If you're interested, my books are available as ebooks in all the main formats (including a read online option) by going here: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/vie...

My books are also available from a few other ebook retailers.

[J.S.]

Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If any writers wa..."

Hi Eric,
In another year your children might like my book, The Dragon Dreamer. Today is the last day to enter the goodreads giveaway for a free copy.

[J.S.]

Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If any writers wa..."

Hi Eric, In another year your children might like my book. Today is the last day to enter the goodreads giveaway to win a free paper copy:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
J.S.

[Stephanie]

I...AM...CHEETAH!

Hi, My name is Stephanie Teer and I just released a chapter book for animal kid lovers. My give aways end Oct. 31 if you like to check it out. It a fun story with friendship, some fantasy weaved with a thread of animal conservation awareness for children. .
Thanks so much,
Stephanie Teer

[Beau]

Hello Phil, David, Mason, Eric, April, James, and Ram.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Stephanie!

[Jack]

I can't remember introducing myself before; perhaps I did, but with 9000 entries, a re-introduction isn't out of place.
I'm Jack L Knapp, lifelong reader, recent novelist. I'm retired (twice, actually) and my new career is writing. I have 5 novels (three in the Wizards Trilogy, two in the Darwin's World series), plus a novella (Hands, a comedy written in Elizabethan/Shakespearean style English) and a short story, Ants, 'scifi' since it's set in the future, all on Amazon. If you have KU, they're all free, which may be best of all! :D
I also do Facebook (look me up!) commentaries, frequently long enough to be mini-essays, blog (http://jacklknapp.com and http://jlknapp505.com), and occasionally comment on Goodreads too!
Reading interests, biographies, military memoirs and fiction, science fiction, fantasy occasionally, and whatever else catches my interest.

[Victoria]

Welcome to the group, Jack!

[Eric]

J.S. wrote: "Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If a..."

=( I am on the west coast and I think I missed clicking the button on time. Thanks for your message!!

[Eric]

Victoria wrote: "Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If a..."

Victoria wrote: "Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If a..."

Hi Victoria! I'm going to read Frank the Friendly Ogre with the kids tomorrow night! Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to it!

[Pam]

J.S. wrote: "Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a children's story. If a..."

Hi Eric. If you send me your e-mail I will send you a pdf. of my book, The Big Brass Band. It is perfect for the ages of your kids! Or you can download it for free this week-end. I am offering a promotion through amazon.

[Pam]

Vincent wrote: "Please introduce yourself! Do you write books? Do you just enjoy reading them?

Let us know a little bit more about who you are:"

Vincent- is it okay to tell about a free promotion on amazon in this group?

[Beau]

Hi Jack.

[Jack]

Hiya, Beau!
Australian, I see; my sales in Australia are better this month than in the US!
I've also had a request to add a book to my 'completed' trilogy and set it in Australia. I think I probably will do that and set at least PART of it in Oz-land. Sigh. I'll have to go back and change the series from 'trilogy' to 'series' on all the titles and covers, though. :D
Got several Facebook friends from there too.
It's good to see that Goodreads is international!

[Victoria]

Eric wrote: "Victoria wrote: "Eric wrote: "Hi there - CPA by day, but also an English literature major back in college. Love books, read daily. Wife, two kids - boy, 6; girl, 4... So, we love reading us a child..."

Thanks for taking the time to grab a copy of Frank The Friendly Ogre to read with your children. I hope you all enjoy it!

[J.S.]

Jack wrote: "Hiya, Beau!
Australian, I see; my sales in Australia are better this month than in the US!
I've also had a request to add a book to my 'completed' trilogy and set it in Australia. I think I probabl..."

Jack,
Congratulations on all your books! I have one sci-fi novel, The Dragon Dreamer. Did you do a giveaway that included Australia? I was wondering how one attracts readers from other countries.
J.S.

[Pam]

Abbie- What a great way to put your AS to work. Tell me when your book is ready.

[Jill]

Hi, I'm Jill Gambaro and I'll be answering questions about carpal tunnel syndrome at this "live" event:

Finding Answer, Getting Well: Author Jill Gambaro answers your questions about carpal tunnel and other RSIs this Sat Oct 25 from 10am-12pm Pacific time at on.fb.me/ZKqNnt

[Jack]

J.S. wrote: "Jack wrote: "Hiya, Beau!
Australian, I see; my sales in Australia are better this month than in the US!
I've also had a request to add a book to my 'completed' trilogy and set it in Australia. I th..."

Couple of things: I have friends from an international group that I interact with. I suspect some of them bought books. I also posted draft versions on a free site that has an international readership, Beyond the Far Horizon. The fellow who wants to show me around Australia if I come to visit, and act as an unpaid consultant, read my books there. I've got Facebook friends from Australia too; I make it a point to invite people from all over if I like their writing style. It all helps. One of those I've interacted on Facebook with bought my books, told her daughter, who ALSO bought books; those are my French sales.
I don't do Pinterest or Tweet, but if you have followers from there, that helps too. And then there are my blogs.
I think the absolute, no question about it, best sales technique is to write good books and write a LOT of books. For example, I have 7 published, 5 novels, a novella, and a short story. All of them sold at least one copy in the US (Hands, the novella; it's a comedy written in Elizabethan/Shakespearean English, no surprise). Of the rest, almost all of the sales have come from my completed trilogy.
Of my 20 Australian sales, only 1 came from the other series, 19 from the Wizards series. But because the royalties are double what Amazon pays for US sales, I'm getting more money for fewer sales.
BTW, when you publish through Amazon, DON'T take the foreign 35% rate. Amazon offers that, but go for the 70%. I probably lost a couple of hundred dollars before I figured things out.

[Kim]

deleted user wrote: "Hello! My name is Christina and im Just a reader lol"
Hi Christina!

[Lenita]

Welcome David, Mason, April, James, Ram, and anyone else I have missed. Hi April, I will email you.

[John]

Me? John Rachel, author of eight novels, six of which were #1 bestsellers on the third moon of Neptune ...

http://jdrachel.com/books/

Here is my most recent (coming November 9th!) ...

Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn’t help much, except the time he got his first kiss from an atheist nun. Home life was dismal. Was his father capable of anything but drinking beer and farting? And what was with that neighbor who made puppets and tried to molest Billy? Golly! Detroit was sucking the life out of him. At such a young age. Then adolescence swirled around him. Like water in a toilet bowl. High school was a B movie. Only without a plot. So finally he did something about it. Billy ran away … to college. Cornell University. That was a good move for sure! He studied hard, lost his virginity, met the love of his life. Things were definitely looking up! What could possibly go wrong?

Pre-order this groundbreaking epic literary fail. ONLY 99 CENTS!

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[Pam]

Jack wrote: "J.S. wrote: "Jack wrote: "Hiya, Beau!
Australian, I see; my sales in Australia are better this month than in the US!
I've also had a request to add a book to my 'completed' trilogy and set it in Au..."

Thanks for all the great info, Jack. I will try to change my Amazon to the 70%.

[Pam]

BTW Tomorrow and Sunday I am offering my children's book, The Big Brass Band, as a free Kindle download. Here is the link. It's a fun book that is sure to entertain your little ones.

https://amazon.com/The-Big-Brass-Band...

[Victoria]

Welcome to today'snew members!

[Gloria]

"Hello All,"
I've been away from Goodreads for a while - I've begun some new projects and refocused on some old - the results - REMvision -
'This is why I write'
check out my website - www.fantasy-author.com
and my blog - www.desire4fire.blogspot.com

Here the link to my Amazon novel - REMvision - http://www.amazon.com/REMvision-Kyand...

Here is the link to Kindle: REMvision -
http://www.amazon.com/REMvision-The-K...

I hope to visit more often and I do support indie authors all the time - I wish everyone success in achieving their dreams.

[Ram]

J.S. wrote: "Welcome, Ram! Congratulations on all your books!"

Thank you J.S.! I appreciate your welcome note! Would you like to tell me a little about yourself?

[Ram]

Victoria wrote: "Welcome to the group, Eric, April, James, Ram, and anyone else I haven't said it to!"

Thanks Victoria! Nice to hear from you.

[Theresa]

Hi to everyone who's joined in the last week or so!

[Ram]

Hi Theresa! Nice to connect with you. Here's a website I'm designing to introduce my new book, Rising in Love:

http://www.rising-inlove.org

Does the site work for you? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Theresa]

Ram wrote: "Hi Theresa! Nice to connect with you. Here's a website I'm designing to introduce my new book, Rising in Love:http://www.rising-inlove.org
Does the site work for you? Any suggestions? Thanks!"

Hi Ram! Your site is beautiful! I clicked around several links on your site and all of them worked. My only suggestion is that you might want to change the font color to a darker one on the review sections "What People are saying about Rising In Love" etc. The colors seem to blur together which might make it difficult for visitors to read the reviews. Other than that, I think you did a great job!

Theresa

[Heather]

Hello everyone. I have been away for awhile working hard on my new book and it's great to reconnect with all of you.

[Ram]

I put a couple of posts up on my new Goodreads blog, both entertaining interviews I've done, one with Rev. Myron Jones, a New Age Christian minister and Course in Miracles expert, and one with a well-known author, Barbara Ford-Hammond. Enjoy!

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

[J.S.]

Jack wrote: "J.S. wrote: "Jack wrote: "Hiya, Beau!
Australian, I see; my sales in Australia are better this month than in the US!
I've also had a request to add a book to my 'completed' trilogy and set it in Au..."

Thanks for the ideas!
J.S.