Moderator Discussion Thread

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Let me know if you'd like to be a moderator. We'd be glad to have you.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Hey, Danielle! I'm soooooo looking forward to this group. I love The Wallflowers and can't wait to learn more about Lisa Kleypas' books!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I'm glad to hear it, Dhestiny!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I'll sign you up. It's our group--for the fans.

Dhestiny, are you volunteering as well?

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "I'll sign you up. It's our group--for the fans.

Dhestiny, are you volunteering as well?"

You bet! I am at your service!!!

[Anne]

Hi everyone! Thanks for the invite, Danielle! You were the one who got me hooked on Kleypas, so I should have guessed you'd be one of the moderators. LOL
Make sure there is a thread for the discussion of how dreamy St. Vincent is, and I'll be happy to spend the majority of my time here!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Okay, I will sign you ladies up. There will definitely be a St. Vincent Thread!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Thanks for volunteering, Vale, Dhestiny, and Anne. I think we have enough moderators for now.

I guess I should have said what a moderator does first.

Moderator Role:

1. Keep conversation flowing
2. Organize folders and topics
3. If conversation turns into squabbles, take control and keep things polite.
4. Change picture (perhaps monthly or every two months we can rotate pictures of LK books to use, or if you have a nice foreign cover-by all means).

[Anne]

Huh?! I thought I was just saying hello! How did I end up as a moderator?! Eeeeeek! LOL
Danielle, I'm an idiot, as I'm sure you can tell from our correspondence. You can't put me in charge of anything! I don't know anything about being a moderator! Help!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. I can unmake you a moderator. Sorry, Anne!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Vale, I'd like to keep this open for the moderators to discuss things they need to talk about.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Vale and Dhestiny, would you mind creating threads for the different books? You can check her booklist or the poll to see what her different books are. If you're really motivated, you can post the blurb in the thread, and a picture of the cover. Thanks!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

OK, I'll do that. I was trying to figure out how you wanted it done. Can you spell it out? I need it.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

OK, I see it now. I'll start with Wallflowers. You want a seperate thread for each book, right?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

You can model them after the thread I created for Devil in Winter

The thread is called by the name of the book.

You can put a picture of the book in the first post, and if you want, copy the blurb from the Goodreads description. You don't have to. You can just put something general like, "Let's discuss Again the Magic in this thread."

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Danielle, don't you want your Devil In Winter thread in the Books folder? That's where I was going to start, or do you want the individual books listed in General with Devil In Winter?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

It should be in the books thread. I think I just forgot to put it there. I'm very absent-minded, if you hadn't noticed. :)

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

LOL Ok, Do you want me to create a new one and you can delete yours or do you want to move yours?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I moved it. Check it out and tell me what you think. :)

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Nice, I'll finish up that series for you.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Thanks, Dhestiny!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

You're welcome!! Check and make sure I'm doing it right. LOL

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

It looks great, Dhestiny!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Thanks! What would you like me to post next? I'm not familiar with her other series', but I am sure I can get it from Good Reads. I know, I'll do Bow Street now.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

That sounds good. If you do the Bow Street books, I can tackle her older books, and we'll go from there. Thanks!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

I THINK I've got them all. Let me know. I used Fantastic Fiction as well as Goodreads to put it together. I didn't do the anthologies, though.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I appreciate it. I didn't expect you to do all them, but hugs for you doing it!

[Anne]

Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. I can unmake you a moderator. Sorry, Anne! "

THANK YOU! Lord! I thought I was going to have a heart attack!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I'm so sorry about that, Anne. I guess I should learn how to read!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Vale you're doing great. Thanks for volunteering!

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

I'm available if you need anything Danielle. Just let me know.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

If you are interested in being a moderator, I'd be happy to make you one, Bekah.

No worries, Vale. I understand busy. :)

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

Sure, it would be an honor! :-)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Thanks, Bekah! You are a moderator now. Welcome aboard!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Danielle, how would you feel about making a folder called "A Day In The Life Of..." and moving Bekah's thread (the furniture, tools one) to that folder. I want to make a thread for vocabulary and things like religious beliefs or laws of the time. I love the idea of having some educational information there as it will make reading even more fulfilling.

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

Good idea...maybe this will fit under the lifestyles folder?

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Bekah wrote: "Good idea...maybe this will fit under the lifestyles folder?"

I want to move the lifestyles thread to the new folder as well. I feel like the more organized we keep things, the easier it is for new members to find their way around, as well as older members. I don't think Danielle will mind at all, but I'd rather discuss it as mods before just moving things around, you know?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Go for it!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Thanks! I'll do that on Sunday... ummm... can you tell me how to move a thread to a new folder?

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Danielle, I've been trying to create a folder called The Folder of Higher Education or Class Is In Session. Each time I create it, I click "save" and it says the folder was created, but then it can't be found anywhere. Is there a setting that allows only certain people to create a folder or am I doing something else wrong?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Hi, Dhestiny. You have to create the folder and then go back to the thread and click on edit, then move it to the folder. That's the only way I know how to do it. Does that make sense?

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Kinda, but I can't even create a folder and have to stay. As soon as I close out, after it says folder created, the folder is gone.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I looked and found the thread you created. When you go under a topic, click on edit, and then click on the box for folder and scroll down. It should be in there. I went ahead and moved the thread under the Higher Education folder you made.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Thank you. Was the folder "Folder of Higher Education already created? I gave up after several tries last night, but I see it now. Did you create it?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I think you must have created on one of your tries. Good for you.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

I have mixed feelings about suggesting this, but here goes. How about challenges - but not very specific. I was thinking of monthly themes like for March, we could do St. Patricks Day. Choices could include

Books with green covers
Books about faeries or leprchauns
Books about Ireland or featuring Irish characters
Books with Irish or Ireland or Patrick or etc... in the title.
Books about snakes (St Patty rid Ireland of snakes) etc...
I love challenges, but some are too constricting so I thought something with very loose requirements might be fun.

What say yous all?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I like those! I'm a March b-day girl, and proud of my Irish heritage, so that works for me!

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

I'm a March baby too!! And love the thought of challenges!

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

oh..but i'm kina out on the snakes one....deathly afraid of snakes! :-)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Bekah, when is your birthday?