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[Gary]

Carol wrote: "Hello all!

My name is Carol Fetter and I'm very excited to be part of this group.

I recently published a nonfiction book titled Mommy Can't You See... His EYES Are Always On Me!

Based on..."

Hi Carol.

Welcome aboard, and good luck to you!

I think you are a very brave and courageous woman, and I wish you all the best! Gary Goldstein

[Leo]

Vincent, thanks for the invite.
Hello everyone!! Please visit my site, http://www.infoforabetterlife.com
for an excerpt of my book "Improve Your Relationship 12 Ways In 12 Days". If you are interested, I am running an introductory offer at 50% off! Please contact me to receive a free copy in exchange for a review. Regards, Leo H. Henry

[Demetria]

Hi, nice to see this section.
My name is Demetria Clark. I am the author of Herbal Healing for Children, published by the Book Publishing Company in TN.
www.herbalhealingforchildren.com
www.heartofherbs.com
www.birtharts.com

[George]

I've already introduced my novel, Buried Pasts, to you all a few days ago. Now I'd like to offer a second title of mine up.

In The Long Run

IT'S NOT JUST THE RACE THAT CAN KILL YOU

Against the backdrop of one of the world’s most demanding races, four men must fight their personal battles for survival.

THE RACE: South Africa’s awesome Comrades Marathon – fifty-five miles of physical torture run over a series of massive hills in stamina destroying heat and humidity.

THE MEN: an idealistic British marathon runner duped into assisting with a murderous plan; a world famous American entertainer who unknowingly puts far more than just his career on the line; a Zulu youth with outstanding natural athletic ability but an unknown enemy; and the dissolute son of a wealthy Johannesburg stockbroker competing in a desperate attempt to preserve his inheritance.

Some of these will learn harsh lessons. Some will pay a far heavier price.

None will ever forget.


“A gripping tale from start to finish.” Steve Cram: Six times a gold medallist at Commonwealth, European and World Championships, also Olympic silver medallist and world record holder for the mile 1985 - 1993.

In the Long Run is newly available in Kindle format from USA & UK Amazon websites. In addition,I am offering two paperback copies of this book in a GoodReads giveaway commencing 4th September. The opening two chapters can be downloaded for free as a PDF.

[Spencer]

Hello everyone and all new members! I am sorry for posting this again, but I am doing FREE author interviews for my website: http://www.spencerbrokaw.com

I only interview YA authors because my website is child-adult friendly. You can request an interview by emailing me: brokaw.spencer@gmail.com

[Carol]

Gary Goldstein,

Thank you for the compliment and the best wishes!

I appreciate your comment.

Best of luck to you and your writings also!

Sincerely,

Carol Fetter

[Spencer]

Welcome Carol!

[Carol]

Spencer Brokaw,

Published Author at age 12, how impressive!

And manners too, Thank you for the Welcome, I really appreciate it.

Best of luck to you young man in your writing adventures.

Carol Fetter

[Spencer]

Why thank you Carol! What a nice comment. Comments like yours inspire me to keep writing :)

[Francisco]

Hi Folks,

I've just joined the group and wanted to drop a quick intro. You'll find my book AV EROTICA and author profile here on Goodreads. It's truly a pleasure to be amongst you all. My work revolves around urban fiction, horror, science-fiction, and action/adventure. Don't let the title of my debut mislead you, check out my Amazon listing where you can read the first few action packed adrenaline pumping pages of AV EROTICA for free. Hope to build some friendships and chat to you all very soon. Cheers Francisco
AV Erotica

[Spencer]

Is it erotica? Or is it an action book?

[Francisco]

Spencer wrote: "Is it erotica? Or is it an action book?"

Hi Spencer

It's an action tale about a crew of kamikaze film makers who place their lives on the line to capture the image at any cost. It's a comment on societies relationship with audio-visual eroticism; be it through the 6 o'clock news, or train surfing with a camera in your hand, or sky diving with a camera strapped to your head; it's about the necessity to capture the "real", to find that moment when you felt most alive; when you felt immortal, "turned" on by the experience, so much so that you needed to capture it and play it back over and over again. It's about the search for identity; what is art, what is life, and what is in-between? It's about when the only meaning left, is the one that costs you everything, and you'll do whatever it takes to make others understand it.

I find my topics in odd places. The idea for AV actually came to me during my past life as a student teacher. During my rounds I was working with a high school class of film students. On the return trip during an excursion, one of the lads had a video camera and decided to hang his body out the window of a bus to shoot a close-up of a semi-trailer. He didn't care that we were on a freeway doing over 100kph. He just wanted to know if he could do it; if he could get away with it. The rush I felt watching him was intense; and that's when it got me thinking about the risks film makers and photographers take when it comes to getting "the shot". War photographers have been doing it for decades; always commenting on the necessity to get "the shot"; the one shot that says it all, encapsulates the moment, as well as their own immortality to survive that moment. It's an addiction. We all have it, our entire life is about sense and perception. We live and breathe through the visual and audio cortex; we're peaked by it, plugged in and turned on at all times; even when we're dreaming. It reveals our fears and our anxieties, as well as our own private needs and desires.

I hope you take the time to read my book, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Check it out at: http://www.amazon.com/AV-Erotica-Fran...

Cheers and have a nice day :)
Francisco

[Spencer]

Thank you for explaining that to me. It sounds very cool. I have so many books to read, but I will eventually check it out :)

[Marilyn]

Hello all. I'm Marilyn Holdsworth happy to join you here. I love to read and I write novels.

[Spencer]

Welcome!

[Jenna]

Hello! I'm Jenna. I've been an avid reader of books for as long as I can remember; since 2007, I've also been a Goodreads member and book reviewer. (Most of the books that I review on my Goodreads page are poetry collections; if you're the same way, let's be friends!) Additionally, for the past 2 weeks, I've been able to call myself the author of a newly released book of poetry: SIX RIVERS, published by New York Quarterly Books. I'm happy to be here.

[Kate]

Greetings! I'm Kate Fuentes, author of YA fiction series Elements. Looking forward to hearing from those who read, write, imagine, or a combination of all three. You can check out my 2011 release of ELEMENTS THE BEGINNING here on Goodreads or on my webpage at http://www.katefuentes.com Thanks for letting me introduce myself!

[Spencer]

Welcome Kate! Its nice to meet you :)

[Marilyn]

Spencer wrote: "Welcome!"
Thanks. I hope it's ok to mention I recently published my new novel Pegasus.

[Jessie]

Hi! I'm Jessie. I'm 24 and the author of My Dearest Rose which is the first of a trilogy! It all started with the love of reading at a very young age and evolved into poetry, then songwriting, and the when I was 22 my idea for My Dearest Rose was born. I look forward to meeting all of you!
Jessie McClain

[Meredith]

Hi! I'm Merry. I'm just exploring Goodreads for the first time -- don't ask why it took me so long to get here, I really don't know! I write YA and adult fantasy and am an avid reader of both. I look forward to learning a lot here.

[M.J.]

Hey guys, nice to have you with us. :-)

You arrived Merry, that's all that counts. lol

M J Webb
Jake West: The Keeper of the Stones

[Natasha]

I'm Natasha, an eighteen year old college student, writer and blogger.
I've been reading for as long as I can remember and been working on improving my writing craft for the past six years. I started my blog in March this year; it's over at http://natashamcneely.wordpress.com

I'm currently working on the first novel in my four-part series (more information on my blog), as well as some smaller projects to send off to magazines for potential publishing.

I've been published once before, at the start of this year. One of my short stories appeared in this anthology - Under the Stairs: An International Collection of Flash Fiction

I have other novels planned, aside from my current project, but I want to focus on it primarily, before I start work on other stories. Writing one novel between college and a part-time job is difficult enough.

I love reading Urban- and Dark Fantasy; I especially love novels that center around Egyptian mythology. It's something I adore and research in my free time.

[Meredith]

Hello Vincent and Co!
I'm an author and playwright and the Managing Director of Run Rabbit Run Theatre Company in Loudoun County, Virginia. Recently began turning my previously published work into "Kindle-ing," beginning with my Civil War novel, "Pella's Angel" (http://www.storyroot.com/books.html).
Appreciate this group and its resources and hope to add something to the community.
To Story -
Meredith
Meredith Bean McMath
www.storyroot.com

[RM]

I'm RM Pala and I wrote a science fiction story that was published by Invisible College Press in 2002. The title is "MarsFace" and it is listed with Amazon and B&N.

My husband convinced me to self-publish after a four year search for an agent, so my book "Hollywood and Wine" will come out later this year. So far, the experience with createspace has been very good.

A small illustrated booklet, available on Amazon, was edited by me. Its title is "Dressage Horse Laughs; Silly Riders, Tricks are for Kicks" and should be available very soon.

[Paul]

Hi RM Pala, Your struggle with agents sounds like mine. I had one take me on a couple of years ago, who was very nice but she had alot of ill health and retired, leaving me back to square one. I've self-published now and I'm loving it. I write children's action novels and sites like thi are great for getting in touch with other readers.
Do you have a date for your book yet?
POW

[Marilyn]

Hi, I am Marilyn Holdsworth. I had an agent but no book offers, so I finally went to Authorhouse., who have been great. I just received my first comission check for my novel, Pegasus.

[RM]

POW and Marilyn, I'm really glad to hear success stories like yours. I don't have a date, but we're far enough along the process that they are sending me a hardcopy proof for approval. I will also have it on Kindle and plan to price as low as I can.

[Ghunterhanks]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Greg Hanks. It's encouraging to see other writers struggling and succeeding. Writing and teaching are callings. I teach developmental writing at community college, and have published an ebook on Kindle.
Sister Moon: Stories of the Supernatural is a collection of 13 (of course!) urban fantasy stories. A few can be read as fiction; arguably, there's no ghost in one of the ghost stories, for example.
I'm excited to get something out there; an ebook on a virtual shelf seems like a good start.

If you want, here's the blog: http://ghunterhanks.org/

[Meredith]

Ghunterhanks wrote: I teach developmental writing at community college, an..."
Hey Greg, what's developmental writing -- is that like writing 101 to teach students how to write an academic paper? Do you get to teach creative writing as well?
I love the beginning novel writing classes I teach at a local community college -- continuing ed. where I meet the most interesting people! I'm nearly finished writing a text book to go with my class. When I'm done I'll publish it as an ebook on Amazon and Create Space (for less tech savy students).

[Marilyn]

I have a new novel coming out in the spring, named Beautiful American. It is an historical novel about the wife of President Monroe.

[Eryn]

I'm Eryn Lockhart, unrepentant romance addict, chocoholic, and bookworm. I love reading as well as writing, and I'm over the moon for finally making the leap from romance writer to author.

~Eryn
http://erynlockhart.wordpress.com/

[Paul]

Hi Marilyn and Eryn,
That's great news, congratulations. I look forward to seeing you in the best sellers lists.
POW

[[deleted user]]

Hello Everyone!
My Name is Linda C. Mollis and I am a 'new' Author.
I just published my first kind of mystery series,
check it out on my blog: http://www.enigmainyou.blogspot.com

Cheers!
Linda

[P.M.]

Hey Everyone! I'm a lover of YA fiction, mainly fantasy. I'm and avid reader and newbie 'author'. Great to be part of this group :)

[Paul]

Hi Paige and Linda C.
Welcome to the group. I'm a fellow new author. Paige, what are you writing?
POW

[Tracey]

My name is Tracey Smith, I'm a newly published author. My first book Love's Fate is romantic women's fiction. It was published in March 2011 and will be the first in a series. You can read the first few chapters in my sample writings on my author page.

[Tracey]

My publisher has not been the easiest to work with! I am not directly involved with kindle or amazon, it all goes through my publisher. Live and learn. My book is available on Amazon paperback and kindle. I'm working with my publisher on allowing me to participate in the "Look inside the book" program, but don't think it's activated yet. My book should also be available for nook and google ebooks very soon. The paperback is currently avaiable through amazon, barnes&noble and lowest price directly from publisher at www.publishamerica.net/product41596 . I am also still working with my publisher on lowering the paperback price on amazon and bn. They have promised me that that price has been dropped but it takes 4-6 weeks for the websites to update... We're currently at the end of week 3 since I got that email.

[Tracey]

OK well I went to Amazon to check and sure enough the kindle edition has the "look inside the book" tab, unfortunately not actually being on a kindle, it didn't work when I clicked it :(. So not sure how many chapters are viewable before purchase

[Lynn]

Carroll wrote: "Hey Tracey, doesn't Kindle offer free samples for your book? I know they offer a free sample of one and a half chapters for mine. Was just curious."

Carroll, I believe it is 10% of the book is available to be sampled. I don't think there is a choice on that one. The chapter amount varies. Our book people can see about 10 chapters worth on the sample.

I think it is a great way for a reader who is unsure of the genre or the author to see if it is a good match for them.

Lynn Hallbrooks

[Tracey]

Thanks! If you decide to check it out, please write a review. I need reviews! :)

[Carol]

Hello All,

I think all of us authors are looking for promotional help and based on that, I just created a coupon code that I would like to share with all of you.

My book is a true story based on my abused childhood at the hand of a pedophile titled Mommy Can't You See... His EYES Are Always On Me!

I recently challenged the B4U-Act group or any Doctor that believes pedophilia is an acceptable behavior; to read my recently published book and then look me in the eye and say that they really believe that society should embrace pedophilia!

I have had no response from them which does not surprise me at all given the content of my book.

If anyone would like to read a disturbing firsthand look at the abuse of a pedophile, please use the coupon code I just created LE35S which drops my book price to $1.99 at check out.

You can download it in many formats at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view.... I appreciate any feedback or support from any of the many authors or readers associated with this website.

Please feel free to share the coupon code with any of your friends or family.

Sincerely, Carol Fetter

[Grace]

I'm Grace, from Montreal. Reading is my favorite thing in the world. I work as a neonatal transport nurse, and with the pressures of work and life (raising 2 teenage girls), reading is my escape,lol I read both for pleasure and to learn. I can't pinpoint a particular favorite genre of book because I enjoy reading a little of everything, depending on my mood. I joined this site because I like seeing what other people are reading and what they think of certain books.

[Angie]

Hi guys! I write a little bit of everything, with a particular focus on romance. Incubus was published this month by Cobblestone Press and I'm represented by The Gilbert Agency (2 fantasy novels 63K and 67K, a children's manuscript, and a non-fiction).

I blog and post updates at www.angiewest.wordpress.com
I post photos and some updates at www.aurorasbell.com

It's great to be here.

[Meredith]

Thank you for letting me join your group! I'm Meredith Mileti and I've written a culinary novel that could be described as Ruth Reichl meets Nora Ephron. It's called Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses and it was just launched. I'm starting an Author Q&A on Monday at http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5... Please join me! We can talk about food in books and anything food/book related. Read an excerpt of the book here: http://meredithmileti.com/sample-afte... also a giveaway of my book going on here: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho.... Thanks.

[Barbara]

Good morning. I'm Barbara Ebel and I'm so happy to be a part of GoodReads. Goodreads is so well known, there are local people I've seen on here, and I live quite remote!

I am an author and I just finished a giveaway of my books last week. Since there were almost 600 people who put them both on their TBR list, I want to follow up with a Q&A. I'm doing one book at a time and already put the first one up on Goodreads. It's called Q&A with Barbara Ebel so please come by! For folks to have time to read, the real book discussion starts later, but there's time to come by and introduce yourself.

I'd love to meet you! You can read about me there also (an M.D. turned author). Also, the book in question for this Q&A is Outcome, A Novel: There's more than a hurricane coming... I'm getting super feedback so I hope you take a look if you haven't already. It is general fiction/historical fiction.

Besides looking it up on Goodreads, here's my website which is also a good start if you aren't familiar with Outcome, A Novel from the giveaway.

http://barbaraebel.weebly.com

Thanks. Hope to meet you!

[Richard]

I was born in Ilkeston in Derbyshire and live in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands.
I work as a General Practitioner with a North Birmingham practice. I am 43 and married
with two children.

I am a Young adult sci-fi, historical fiction and historical fantasy writer. I own
my own small publishing house Mercia Books and I am part of a board game design house
Medusa Games.

A keen player of board games and other games I am one of the directors of UK Games Expo
(the UK's largest hobby games convention). I am a board game designer and my first Board Game 'The Great Fire on London 1666' was published by Medusa Games and Prime Games in October 2010.

[Ruby]

Hi. I'm an author and avid reader based in Kilkenny, Ireland. My first novel is an independently published e-book Peril. It's a quirky thriller that is causing me some difficulty to classify into a clear genre.
I blog on http://rubybarnes.blogspot.com and spout nonsense on Twitter @Ruby_Barnes
Delighted to join the group.
Cheers
Ruby

[Carol]

Paul wrote: "Carol wrote: "Hello All,

I think all of us authors are looking for promotional help and based on that, I just created a coupon code that I would like to share with all of you.

My book is a true..."

Hi Paul,

Thank You Paul for purchasing my book. I look forward to your review.

I appreciate your reccomendation to help with my nightmares, but since I've written my book, the nightmares have stopped.

Writing has been self healing for me and I hope to inspire other victims to write it all down. First for their sake and then possibly to share their story with others, like I finally am.

Again thank you for purchasing my book, I appreciate your support.

I am sharing Coupon code LE35S to be used for a limited time for all Goodreads authors and readers. Enter the code when you check out at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/... to receive a discounted copy of my book Mommy Can't You See.. His Eyes Are Always On Me! for $1.99. Please feel free to share this coupon code with friends and family.

Sincerely,
Carol Fetter

[Mary]

I'm Mary Findley, and I travel with my husband in a semi-truck. We have ten titles in e-book format, two illustrated versions, fiction and non-fiction, cross-generes and ages.

http://elkjerkyforthesoul.com is our blog and booklink page.

I have a standing offer of a free .pdf file to anyone who will promise to read and review a title.