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[Tracey]

Welcome Kelly,
You'll definitely find lots of new friends here and tons of new books to read - your TBR list will explode :)

[Mish]

Hi Kelly Welcome :)

[Sonja]

Hi all, I am Sonja. 31 yo and from Perth. I am a scientist by trade and love many varied genres. Am not a huge one for horror, but will get there in the end!

I haven't ever been part of a book club type thing before, but thought I would try via the interwebs to start with.

I am currently undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkins, and will be having a bone marrow transplant in the coming months so that will give me loads of reading time!

I have never written a review for a book, but i have been slowly going through and rating some that i have read previously. will work up to a review!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

A very big welcome Sonja...lovely to have you with us! I wish you all the best with your health issues, and hopefully all will be well very soon. Feel free to chat any time you want...as Michael says, we are a friendly bunch!

[Emily]

Welcome Sonja! Have fun in the GR world :)

[Tee]

Hi everyone
I am Tee from Melbourne l love to read and more so now since my hubby bought me an ereader, love getting online and scanning for the next book. l work as a nurse and have 2 gorgeous fur kids who also keep me fit,l also love to bake especially desserts :) the books l like to read are biographies from the 2nd war, chick lit, Titanic and love Marion Keyes, l look forward to getting to know everyone on here.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Tee, lovely to have you with us:)

[Tee]

Thanks Brenda :)

[Mish]

Welcome to the group Sonja & Tee :)

[Tee]

Thanks Mish :)

[Reinette]

Tee wrote: "Hi everyone
I am Tee from Melbourne l love to read and more so now since my hubby bought me an ereader, love getting online and scanning for the next book. l work as a nurse and have 2 gorgeous fur..."

Ohh, you bake desserts!!! What's your speciality?? Curious mind absolutely wants to know. :)

[Emily]

Hi Tee :) Always nice to welcome a fellow Melbournite!

[Zoë]

Hey,
My name is Zoe I will be 19 in a week :) I live in Victoria. I am a Vet Nurse in training so you can pretty much guess I am an animal lover. I also used to do taekwondo where I was a black belt. I don't really have a favourite genre of books and it really depends on what mood I am in at the time.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Zoe, lovely to have you with us:)

[Zoë]

Brenda wrote: "Welcome Zoe, lovely to have you with us:)"

Thank you Brenda :D

[Emily]

Welcome Zoe!

[Tee]

Thanks for the great welcome everyone and Hi Zoe, from one animal lover to another :)

[Tee]

Emily wrote: "Hi Tee :) Always nice to welcome a fellow Melbournite!"

Thanks Emily, always a nice surprise when a 'local'is found from the bag of people from around the globe.

[Tee]

Brigitte wrote: ..."

Hi Brigitte, not sure of my speciality, but l do make a good choc self sauce pudding, tiramisu is one of my favourites, cheesecakes too, made a black forest cake for my dads birthday and l surprised myself how well it came out.......what are yours? :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Tee wrote: "Brigitte wrote: ..."

Hi Brigitte, not sure of my speciality, but l do make a good choc self sauce pudding, tiramisu is one of my favourites, cheesecakes too, made a black forest cake for my dads ..."

Yum!!!

[Mish]

Hi Zoe welcome :)

[Reinette]

Tee wrote: "Brigitte wrote: ..."

Hi Brigitte, not sure of my speciality, but l do make a good choc self sauce pudding, tiramisu is one of my favourites, cheesecakes too, made a black forest cake for my dads ..."

Tee wow, Black Forest Cake! Never tried that one. Hubby is a choc fan, so mousse au chocolat, brownies or american style cookies (with choc chips, nuts and cranberries) are quite the staple in this home.
We have different "baking chocolates" available, plain, with caramel, orange flavoured or with hazelnuts. It's not conventional, but hey, I love to adapt recipes. They are all great to use in a mousse.

Otherwise I love to use fruit in cakes. It's summer over here and it's lemon iced rhubarb cake, apricot cheese cake (not american style) or crumble at the moment. Soon we'll also have plums available. We love them in pancakes or oven tray bakes. Yummy...
Bon appétit. :)

[Matthew]

Greetings! I'm Matthew, and I am a writer. I live in Melbourne, and currently, as I write this it is sunny, but that could change any moment now.
I have been reading and writing since before primary school and am only NOW trying to make a career out of it. I should have started sooner, but you get that.
I am a freelance writer & copywriter, and a recently self-published author of a Steampunk Adventure story- The Girl From Out of Town. Find my profile etc if you want to see where to buy it from. T'was fun to write and is fun to read, I am told.
I have participated in Nanowrimo as 'Wonderdog' for 10 years and have compelted teh challenge each year I tried. It is what motivates me to write a novel every year and without it I would probably still be editing my first ever novel.
I look forwrad to getting to know people, writers, readers and Goodreads.

[Tee]

Welcome Matthew, nice to have you on board. :)

[Matthew]

:)

Thank you

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

A big welcome Matthew...lovely to have you with us:)

The Girl From Out of Town by Matthew Farmer

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10... - Author profile:)

[Emily]

Hi Matthew, you are on my Writing Buddy list for NaNo :) Nice to see you on here!

[Matthew]

I am? WOO! Then we shall be friends on here as well. Huzzah! How has your nanowrimo experiences been? This book I just launched was from last years nano...

[Emily]

Nice! Last year was my first attempt & I made a little over 40k words. Still a bit to go, turn around from nano to book launch in less than a year is pretty impressive.

[Matthew]

Well, last year was my 10th Nanowrimo, so I've got the whole novel writing thing down. So, I am finding my first drafts are a lot stronger than they used to be. Doesnt mean a lot of re-writing didnt take place. I temoved 1 character, shifted the book from over there to over here etc. :)
That, and being a freelance copywriter, I get a bit of time during the day to write.

[Zino]

Hey everyone, I commented in another discussion and Brenda suggested I introduce myself so I'm Zino :)
I'm 17 and living in Perth, I love to read and mostly read YA books and hate it when I finish an amazing book and realise I have to wait a whole year for the author to release the sequel (anyone else?)
I'm currently in my first year of uni doing a bachelor of science hoping to decide on a specific major by next year
Hopefully I'll find great book suggestions from people in this group and broaden my horizon :)

[Emily]

Welcome Zino :)

[Mish]

Hi Zino & Matthew - Welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Zino! Lovely to have you with us:) Yes, I do that with my favourite authors...it's awful when you've got to wait soooo long for their next book!! Good luck with uni, hope you still manage time to read...all those assignments:(

[Matthew]

And we still love George RR Martin ;)

[Michael]

Only about five years till the next one

[Matthew]

Michael wrote: "Only about five years till the next one"

Noooooooooooooooooo.......

[Dale]

Brigitte wrote: "Tee wrote: "Brigitte wrote: ..."

Hi Brigitte, not sure of my speciality, but l do make a good choc self sauce pudding, tiramisu is one of my favourites, cheesecakes too, made a black forest cake ..."

Welcome to all the newbies here.

Lemon iced rhubarb cake sounds divine. I have a recipe at present for a rhubarb cake I have yet to try. need to convert it to gluten free.

[Karen]

Hi everyone. My name is Karen and I lived in glorious Oz for 10 years, all through the 70's (does that count?) Anyway, I'm an ex-nurse and did all my general training at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. I used to live with my family in Toronto N.S.W. (my brother still lives there) I now live in Cornwall UK, though I do miss Australia. Looking forward to chatting with you all

[Michael]

Welcome Karen

[Karen]

Thank you, nice to be here

[Dale]

Welcome Karen

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

A big welcome to you Karen! Lovely to have you with us:) I live about 20 minutes from Toronto!!

[Mish]

Hi Karen welcome :)

[Tracey]

Very warm welcome to our newcomers. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better,
Cheers,
Trace

[gail_nadezna]

hiya yes i am a newbie - well what can i say my list to read is soooooo long and have so many on amazon i want to get lol currently waiting to get an e-reader have tried to read on an ipod touch with a cracked screen so think its time ! am going to start nicoles alexanders second novel (post thrill of fifty greys lol) and have just ordered justin cronin (saw on holiday) and am wondering what else - not into YA not chick flik ( girl meets boys goes good goes bad gets sorted and then live happily ever after - not my cup of tea !) oh i live in the UK but love australian books - tho seattle sounds good ;o)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Giz:)

[Emily]

Hey there Karen and Giz! Enjoy :)

[Karen]

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. Isn't Toronto a beautiful town Brenda? I went to Toronto high school back in the 70's - really showing my age now!

[Dale]

Welcome Giz