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[Leonie]

Welcome, Shanaya and Christine :)

[Shanayah]

Thank you all, happy to be here :)
Welcome to you too, Christine!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Christine, great to have you with us :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Welcome to our cheery group, Shaynah and Christine. Hope you enjoy yourselves.

[Ace]

Welcome Shanayah and Christine :)

[MichelleG]

Welcome to the group Shanaya and Christine :)

[Sally906]

Welcome to the group Shanaya and Christine - and to anyone else who joined us while I was away - I am sure I will catch up with you eventually:)

[T.J.]

Hello Aussie readers! I'm a writer who has just embarked on the self publishing journey, writing Australian-themed fiction while stranded in the eternal winter of Scandinavia.

I kind of understand now why writers like Peter Carey and Kathy Lette wrote such great Oz fiction (no comparison!) living in London - the homesickness makes the memory of sights, smells, accents and people even stronger!

As to me, I have had/am having a strange but interesting life, and that's what draw my novels from.

Hope to pick up some good tips for good reads and good company here!

Cheers,

TJ

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome to the group T.J. It's great to have you with us. If you scroll to the Author spotlight section you can create your own thread to tell us about your book/s. Enjoy and happy reading :)

[Ace]

Hi TJ. Welcome. I get homesick too living away from Australia but it's all such an adventure isn't it.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Hi TJ. Welcome to here! ;)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group TJ

[Carolyn]

Welcome Christine and T.J! It's great that we have Aussies popping up here from all over - Eyre Peninsula and Scandinavia!

[Dale]

Hi and welcome Christine and TJ.

[Sally906]

Welcome to the group TJ

[Leonie]

Hi TJ :)

[Suz]

Welcome to all newcomers! I used to keep up to date. Sorry! Hope you enjoy. This is a great, knowledgeable and friendly group.

[nightwing_shawshank]

hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome to Aussie Readers:)

[nightwing_shawshank]

Brenda wrote: "Welcome to Aussie Readers:)"

thanx

[Sally906]

nightwing_shawshank wrote: "hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney"

Welcome.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

nightwing_shawshank wrote: "hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney"

Welcome to the group!

[Dale]

nightwing_shawshank wrote: "hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney"

welcome to the group

[Leonie]

nightwing_shawshank wrote: "hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney"

Welcome!

[Carolyn]

nightwing_shawshank wrote: "hey... I'm from NSW, Sydney"

Welcome!

[Paget]

Hi everyone
I am Paget. I love to read and I love books and I became obsessed with Australia when I was 6 years old. I saw something on the telly, I remember red soil, kangaroos and strange looking trees. I told my mum I going to live in Australia and I did. Now I am back in Europe and I am missing it. Looking forward to talk about books with you.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Paget:) Lovely to have you with us!

[Leonie]

Hi Paget! Welcome :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Peter wrote: "Hi Everyone! I'm a reader/writer from Sydney (originally Perth). I enjoy fantasy, horror, and a bit of mystery. I have written a book, and I'm happy to send an electronic copy for free to any aussi..."

Welcome, Peter. I'm sure you'll find plenty of reviewers here somewhere.

[PattyMacDotComma]

David wrote: "Hi everyone. I'm David Makinson, new Australian author and old Australian reader. (Well, oldish...).

Just published my first book and I've asked to be added to the Author Spotlight list.

Currentl..."

Hi David, and welcome. It's been a long time since I waded through Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, which is how I remember feeling about it all those years ago.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Quetzi wrote: "Hi, I wanted to know if any of you can recommend some Aussie authors who teach you (in a fun way) about Aussie life & living. I'm interested in learning the history of Australia including the lives..."

Hope you've found some good recommendations by now, Quetzl. There's a lot to choose from.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Ed wrote: "Hi Aussie Group
Just want to introduce myself. I'm an avid reader and fledgling author with one book published on Kindle and Goodreads.
Looking forward to sharing in some home grown discussions!
Ch..."

Welcome, Ed, and good luck with the book.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Shanayah wrote: "Hi everyone!

I'm Shanayah, I'm actually a Kiwi, but I've been living in the Gold Coast for about 5 months now, and absolutely loving it! :D
I love reading YA fiction, sci-fi and fantasy!"

Hey, Shanayah - enjoy the GC and the Aussie Readers - welcome.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Christine wrote: "Hi I am Christine and live in Cowell a rural seaside town on the Eyre Peninsula South Australia . Been living here since my early retirement 9 yrs ago. . . I am looking forward to sinking my teeth into some good old Australian literature and one of the reasons for joining this group.."

Welcome, Christine. Everybody reads all kinds of things here, but many of the challenges Brenda and Phyrnne (and others?) design have an emphasis on Aussie authors. I've found some great new stuff. Enjoy it!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Paget:)

[Megalion]

I joined a while back but have been reading too much to spend much actual time on GR.

I'm native California girl but really hope to visit and perhaps even live for a bit in Australia.

My all time favorite movie is the cheesy, campy, musical parody: The Pirate Movie (1982) which was filmed there though the movie makes no geographical claim.

I've made a tag recently to track Australian authors. Hope to beef it up a great deal more from here. Books read so far , tracked mostly starting 2016

Question: Since NZ is "next door " do you track Kiwi authors at all? Maybe a dedicated thread?

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Hello Megalion and welcome. I am sure you will find lots of Australian authors here! Nothing specifically Kiwi though I'm afraid.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome to the group :)

[B the BookAddict]

Although we are known to claim other famous Kiwi people like movie stars as our own, aren't we, ladies?

[Megalion]

Heehee... like Karl Urban and Lucy Lawless for starters?

[Sally906]

Welcome Megalion - Keith Urban was born in NZ but his parent moved to Australia when he was in his teens and still live there (well his mum does - his dad died) So yep we do claim him.

Don't think we've ever claimed Lucy Lawless though - she was married briefly to an Aussie - but they lived in NZ

[Carolyn]

Welcome Paget and Megalion. Hope you find some good Aussie books to read on this site. :)

[Megalion]

Yes that's right, he's Daisy's father.

And I didn't know that bit about Karl. I was so thrilled to see him start picking up roles in decent sized and the big Hollywood movies.

If only Kevin Smith hadn't died in that tragic fall. He was about to start filming a war movie featuring Bruce Willis... Tears of the Sun I think?

And now I'm reminded of Marton Csokas. .. another one to break into Hollywood like Karl.

And should be very obvious now. .. hardcore nutball here as Lucy dubbed us fans.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

B the BookAddict wrote: "Although we are known to claim other famous Kiwi people like movie stars as our own, aren't we, ladies?"

...and the occasional Kiwi expat or longtime visitors, one of my absolute faves Deborah Challinor springs immediately to mind! Aaaaaand...Not forgetting "our" Vicki Tyley ;))

Btw, we have loads of fantastic Australian authors covering a wide range of genre's...especially some of my faves, Historical Fiction and Crime.

Welcome Megalian, and Paget! :D

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

And a big Welcome to all recent newbies I seem to have missed!
I will blame the postal service here on GR, I'm not getting all the emails!?
Welcome all :)

[Leonie]

Hi Megalion, welcome!

[B the BookAddict]

Guys, the biggie who comes to mind for me is Russell Crowe, often claimed or cited as Australian, Russell Crowe!

[Connie]

Hello all, my name is Connie Howell. I live in the Blue Mountains, West of Sydney. I have been a reader all my life and in 2014 I became a published author. I self published Perfectly Imperfect, How to be Imperfect and Remain Lovable and a kindle (small) book called Portable Snippets of Wisdom. Thank God I am married to a computer genius as I find it hard to get my head around doing "stuff" on mine. I am a thinker by nature so writing seems fairly natural and I have been writing in one way or another since school days. It is only in the last few years that I really did anything with it. I love being a member of the Aussie Readers group and Goodreads as it has opened up a whole new world of books and book lovers to me. I am enjoying the book challenges and am now an even more regular visitor to the local library. I can even reserve on line, whoo hoo I can just about manage that. Thanks everyone it is good to be amongst you all.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Connie:) It's great to have you with us and especially participating in the challenges. If you head over to our Author Spotlight section here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... - and click on "new topic" in the top right hand corner, you can create your own thread to tell us all about your books. That way your posts don't get lost in this (or any other) threads! Our author guidelines are here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Enjoy:)

[Carolyn]

☼♄Jülie wrote: "And a big Welcome to all recent newbies I seem to have missed!
I will blame the postal service here on GR, I'm not getting all the emails!?
Welcome all :)"

Me neither Jools. I try to remember to check in every now and again but sometimes there will be a whole bunch of newbies I've missed.