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[Christine]

It's nice to meet you Denise

[Bonnie]

Hey, Denise -

Sounds like you're over in my favorite state. Izzat right? If so, would love to trade notes on the Hawaiian market: my upcoming sci fi novel is set in Hawaii.

[Christine]

It's nice to meet you Bonnie

[Bonnie]

Ditto, my dear!
What are you working on?

[Christine]

I'm reading this book called defensive wounds by Lisa Black

[Bonnie]

Do you do any writing yourself? Soon to be indie authors want to know!

[Christine]

I don't write books at all

[Paul J.]

Hi Denise, Bonnie, Christine, Jayna, Robyn, and Noree!

[Jayna]

I forgot to add my link! Satin and Steel can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Satin-Steel-Rhi...

[Christine]

It's nice to meet you Mary

[Karl]

I'm Karl. With my left hand I write horror, with my right I pen literary fiction about relationships. Sometimes I get tangled up and someone has to untie me.

[Mark]

Hi Karl, your book Cold Fusion 2000 sounds interesting to me and I hope I get to read it soon. It sounds like you may have used your right mainly for this one!

[Karl]

Mark - you're correct, it is more of a right-handed painting while walking down a sunlit street than my previous work. :-)

[Karl]

Dawn - I think that may happen in the future since there's plenty of darkness in relationships and conversely a need for hope in the darkness. I'll try shaking hands this weekend.

[Adam]

I will have to check it out. As a widow(er) (I hate the er at the end.) I found most books to be on the continuum from just useless to downright awful. I'll have to check yours out for a fresh perspective on it.

Adam

Dawn wrote: "I just joined this group yesterday, an author friend who wrote The Widowhood Series put a post about this site so I thought I would check it out. Hope to get some support for my own book Broken Sha..."

[Jerry]

I am Jerry, living in North Carolina (US). I am retired and an avid reader. I enjoy books of all types. I read all the books by some living authors (Daniel Silva, James Lee Burke, Pat Conroy, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and others. I enjoy historical fiction, current events, psychology, biography, history, religion (especially Marcus Borg and Bart Ehrman). I am currently reading "Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame." I also enjoy John Irving and Geraldine Brooks. I try to read the award winning books each year: Pulitzer, Man Booker, National Book Award, and Edgar. I do not care for zombies, werewolves, and fantasy novels. Always open for suggestions. Almost forgot, I read several Scandinavian authors. Am pleased to make contact with anyone interested. Thank you.

[Willa]

Hi everyone. I'm Willa. This looks like an awesome group! I'm always looking to connect with fellow authors and readers. I currently have an ebook trilogy published: The Garnet Trilogy, a YA sci-fi (mystery and romance)and I'm about to publish my latest ebook, Ridley House, a paranormal mystery/romance. Please feel free to check out my website www.willajemhart.com or connect with me here on goodreads. Thanks!

[Susan]

Hi to Jerry - I love Pat Conroy and just visited Charleston last October - been wanting to go there for years. Just wondering - what is your favorite Pat Conroy novel? I haven't read all of his work yet and a trip to the library is in store!

[Cheryl]

Hello,
My name is Cheryl Rogers and I'm a Christian ebook author from Tampa, FL. I write fiction and nonfiction for all ages. I also publish New Christian Books Online Magazine, a free online publication about the latest wholesome books. It features new book announcements, excerpts, features, digital book news, author marketing news, a storefront and affiliate program. Please stop by and subscribe to the feed!

Cheryl

Cheryl Rogers
publisher, New Christian Books Online Magazine

[Yolanda]

Hi,

I'm a writer/author. My current and most recent blog is Y REID BOOKS? at www.yreidbooks.blogspot.com. It's a blog devoted to women writers and authors. I live/write in the USA.

[Imran]

Writing is something that I never should have stopped doing since when I was a child. Started it again in 2007, and never looked back.

I'm Imran Siddiq. I work in the Health Service, do lots of work and am always trying to improve. The evenings are mine to own, and that's where I come alive with writing and digital art.

Have written 6 novels, and just released my first last month. I won't spam, so it's up to you if you click and read it. (it's a YA Sci Fi with Romance).

I am still chasing the traditional route, and although I am haven't been lucky, I have received great feedback, and am regularly attending writing festivals.

My ethos is to write and trust the support that so many other writers give to one another. You are not alone. We are here.

[Christine]

It's nice to meet you karl

[Devon]

My name is Devon Herrera and I am a reader and author. I love reading any sort of Romance and I just released my first Contemporary Romance Novel Sapphire Universe.

I am a self-published author with plans to write many many more Novels in other Romance genres including two more to follow Sapphire Universe.

I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming with my husband and daughter. I am new to goodreads and looking to make friends with readers and authors alike. Feel free to contact me!Sapphire Universe

[Beth]

Delia wrote: "Editing editing editing! Just when I think it's done I find I need to do it again!

Hi folks, how are we all today?"

I hear ya Delia! :)

[D.T.]

Hey everyone!

My name is Derek and I've just gotten started in the self-publishing world. It's nice to meet you all!

[Neo]

Hello all! My name is Neo Edmund. I've been writing professionally for several years in the word of film, animation and comics. Here is my Amazon author page.... http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Edmund/e/B0...

Last last year I put out my first novel titled: A Tale of Red Riding, Rise of the Alpha Huntress and it has been reviewing fantastically on Amazon! I hope you will check it out! ttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B009JOLQDI



Here is a little synopsis of the story...

In this action-packed twist on the beloved Grimm Fairytale, Red Riding will not only face dangerous wolves; she will have to face the wolf within herself. Gifted with the power to transform into a werewolf, she will rise to become a legendary warrior known as the Alpha Huntress. Accompanied by bad-boy heartthrob Wolfgang Helheim, Red will lead a tribe of loyal followers armed with mystical powers of their own against a vile lunar deity, who plans to thrust Wayward Woods into eternal night.

[Christine]

Aww thanks Mary

Are you a writer?

[Devon]

D.T. wrote: "Hey everyone!

My name is Derek and I've just gotten started in the self-publishing world. It's nice to meet you all!"

Nice to meet you Derek!

[Devon]

Neo wrote: "Hello all! My name is Neo Edmund. I've been writing professionally for several years in the word of film, animation and comics. Here is my Amazon author page.... http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Edmund/e..."

Welcome Neo! It's nice to meet you!

[Gary]

Hi everyone.

Here is my guest post for my book, "Jew in Jail" on the blog of Iam Jenai, called "Bookingly Yours." http://bookinglyyours.blogspot.com/20...

I hope it can help other addicts or those with low self-esteem and/or self-confidence.

[J.]

Hello. J. Richard Singleton.

I suppose my work speaks for itself. I'm especially proud of "Glyphics," available in just about all ebook formats. Glyphics

[Voss]

I'm Voss Foster, a voracious reader and a young adult and/or speculative fiction author. Aside from my current novel Tartaros I have a circus themed YA trilogy in the works, a stand alone adult sci-fi (soft sci-fi), and a series of undetermined length dealing with puppets.
http://vossfoster.blogspot.com

[Christine]

It's nice to meet you Voss and Richard and J

[Jessica]

Hi All...I just ran across this group and I think it is a great idea! I am the author of "Nobody Has To Know." My name is Jessica Ross. If you like Suspense/Romance, check out my Novel. It can be found on barnesandnoble.com, Amazon.com, and the Kindle.
Website: www.outskirtspress.com/nobodyhastoknow.

[[deleted user]]

I enjoy reading books and I want to be an author soon. I love Cats and Kittens! My name is Jacob but call me Cat Man. I am a librarian on goodreads (so if you need any help ask me). I am really crazy about cats and kittens! I have a cat named Bella, she is 7 months old and spayed and micro - chipped. Meow!
Nice to meet you guys!
Meows & Purrs,
Jacob Tepsa "Cat Man"

[Roarin']

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:"

Hey everyone! I'm new to the site, but I wanted to let you all know that I am an avid book reader.
I'm actually trying to get my new book review site off the ground. I do not specialize in any certain topic or genre. That being said, I am not into reading Erotica, non-fiction, self-help, or autobiographical works.
However, I am looking for a few people who will help me help them.
I'm offering to write free reviews (posting on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Goodreads, etc.) for the first few people who ask about them.
If you're interested (or would like more information regarding reviews), feel free to reply back, or visit/message me on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RoarinIndies
Also, visit my website (currently under construction):
http://www.roarinindies.com/
Pleased to meet you all, and thank you for the welcome to the group. -The Roarin' Indies Book Reviews

[Mitsy]

Hi! I'm a reader. I read everything. I love discovering new authors and reading their books. For a few months I was reading young adult/new adult until all the characters blended together. Then I fell in love with dystopia/science fiction. Now I'm reading a mix of genres - nonfiction, unhappy chick lit (don't know what else to call it) and an intriguing mystery. Glad to be a new member and hope to find more new authors! :)

[Paul J.]

Welcome, Jessica, Jacob, Roarin' and Misty!

[Christine]

It's nice to meet you Jessica and Jacob and Misty

[S.R.]

Hi! My name is S.R. Grey and I just heard about this group. It looks like a great place for authors and readers to connect. I am the author of Harbour Falls. It's available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Plus, I just lowered the price. :)

[Devon]

Gary wrote: "Hi everyone.

Here is my guest post for my book, "Jew in Jail" on the blog of Iam Jenai, called "Bookingly Yours." http://bookinglyyours.blogspot.com/20...

I h..."

Welcome Gary!!

[Devon]

Mitsy wrote: "Hi! I'm a reader. I read everything. I love discovering new authors and reading their books. For a few months I was reading young adult/new adult until all the characters blended together. Then I f..."

Welcome Mitsy!! I love your name by the way!! I may be borrowing it for a future character!!

Welcome to the group it's nice to meet you!

[Devon]

Roarin' wrote: "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:"

Hey everyone! I'm new to the site, but I wanted to..."

Hello Roarin!! I absolutely LOVE that you are trying to create a new website that promotes Indie Authors. That is fantastic. I would love to be one of your first reviews if you are interested. My book is a Contemporary Romance titled Sapphire Universe. Let me know if you would like a copy to review. Here is the link to the blurb.

[Rohan]

Hi all

I'm Rohan Quine.

I've just published my second novel, The Imagination Thief. THE IMAGINATION THIEF celebrates some of the more extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and language, exploring the darkest and brightest flavours of beauty living in our minds.

I'm very excited to be heading to the Author Revolution Day at Tools of Change in New York City on Tuesday.

I'll be tweeting lots of insights throughout the day @RohanQuine.

Say hello if you're going too!

Love

Rohan

[[deleted user]]

My turn. I give you my official bio.

I've always had a creative side. Growing up I imagined myself a movie director. Even went so far as to create a short creature feature about an alien space craft crash landing in the woods behind my house.

There was no script. The spacecraft was aluminum foil wrapped around a wooden frame, (Don’t tell my mom) and the alien was my brother in some pretty lame make-up chasing me and my sister through the woods.

Shot it on my Dad's 8mm camera and used my allowance to have it developed. The night of the world premier the only audience was my mom and dad. But it was pretty cool to see something I created on the screen. Writing was a natural outgrowth of that desire. Add to that the fact I've been a voracious reader since I was seven.

My tastes lean towards the macabre. Growing up I read Creepy, Eerie and Weird comics. It wasn't long before I graduated into horror fiction books from the library. Had to get my parent's permission to check out many of the books I read as they were exclusive to the adult section. Here I discovered Lovecraft, Smith, Burroughs, and a host of others whose names currently escape me., it’s only natural that after consuming well over three thousand books I would turn to writing.

At the very beginning I thought what's so hard about writing. String together a few sentences and viola, you have a story. Boy was I in for a surprise. I quickly learned that writing is hard work. The description of the lonely writer staring at the blank page until until blood forms on his forehead is not that far from the truth.

I started writing before the internet was around so I followed the course of write and submit, write some more, submit some more, and collect a ton of rejection letters. I probably had a file drawer stuffed with rejections. At first they were your typical form rejection letter Dear “Add Authors name here, blah blah blah not for us. blah blah blah.

I persisted, refusing to give up, and a strange thing happened, the form rejection letters became personal notes from editors, close but not quite what we’re looking for. Nice try, looking forward to seeing more. That sort of thing.

Then it happened. I got a yes. A small fanzine wanted one of my stories. They couldn’t pay anything more than one contributor copy, but who cared. They wanted my story. A total stranger wanted to publish one of my stories. I was ecstatic. I was now a published writer.

At about this time I was just finishing a novel. “Adversary, Some Things Are Better Left Undiscovered.” I signed up for the Maui writer’s conference marketplace where you sent the first page of your novel, along with a hundred bucks, to the conference to be passed around to the major publishers and agents. The first night of the conference I received a long distance phone call from Kimberly Cameron a literary agent requesting first right of refusal for Adversary. I was on cloud nine. A week later I received a written request from an editor with Random House asking to see the entire manuscript. I was on my way.

Sadly it was at this junction that I screwed up royally. Random house was talking no advance, 8% royalties with a 3% reserve against returns. Research indicated my book would probably be classified as a C title with a three month shelf life. By this time I had already written a second book and was working on a third novel. We had gotten the internet less than six months earlier and I found a place called iUniverse where for $99.00 I could publish my book, get it listed with all the major retailers and collect a 20% royalty on each sale with the book being available forever. What could be easier than that?

Live and learn.

When the dust settled I was thoroughly disgusted with myself and writing in general. At this time too we had just bought a house and the added responsibilities, along with the loss of a hard drive that contained twenty years of hard work pretty much put the final nail in the coffin of my desire to be a writer.

I struggled to live the normal life, work hard, get promoted at work and I succeeded. I worked my way up from field rep to regional trainer, to district manager with thirty two direct reports. But there was still something missing from my life. I tried a few times to start writing again, but my responsibilities at work would intrude.

Then, in February of 2008, I was unemployed, the housing market tanked, and the economy went south. At the age of fifty I had to start all over again. To say I was bitter would be an understatement. So I returned to the only thing that has remained constant in my life. My writing. Now I'm older and wiser and have learned a valuable lesson about myself and my desire to write.

It is not the lure of riches or fame that drives me. Rather the desire to connect with the reader on an emotional level, to share with them my unique vision of the world around us. To tell them a story in the old tradition.

I share my home with my wife of twenty plus years and four furry, four legged children. Between us my wife and I have four grown children and eight grandchildren, the oldest is proving to be a very capable basketball player on his middle school team.

I'm on FB, Twitter, I have a blog and a website, all of the things a writer is "supposed to have". But I don't participate very much as it's a drain on my writing time, something I have very little of since I work a full time job as well.

So here I am in all my glory.

[Paul J.]

Hello, Tom!

[Christine]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

[Abigail]

Good morning, Christine!

[Desiree]

Morning, everyone. Can I take a moment of your time to let you know that two of my books, JUNGLE INFERNO and COYOTE HEAT are currently FREE on Amazon? Hope you check them out.

[Nicholas]

Hello, all! My name is Nicholas Trandahl, and I'm an author of The Azure Wizard: A Legend of the Fallen Baronies (Swyers Publishing) .
I've been a writer and artist since I was a small child, and began to become an avid fantasy fan after stumbling Tolkien as a child. In addition to my life as an author, I'm a father of two adorable little girls and work as a writer for a newspaper. My favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, Henry David Thoreau, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and I'm currently enamored with Oliver Potzsch.