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Hi everyone!Just found this group (by accident really) and I see it has a lot of great things! Can't wait to take a look around.
My blog is Under The Covers and I look forward to meeting you all!
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Hi everyone!Just found this group (by accident really) and I see it has a lot of great things! Can't wait to take a look around.
My blog is Under The Covers and I look forward to meeting you all!"
I don't read the genre of fiction your blog covers, but I think your blog is great!
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Hi everyone!Just found this group (by accident really) and I see it has a lot of great things! Can't wait to take a look around.
My blog is Under The Covers and I look forward to meeting you all!"
Francesca-
I LOVE your blog! It is fantastic. I am now following. It is clear how much time and knowledge you have with your blog and all it features. You have a ton of followers and i can see why!
What is your secret? lol
Welcome to Creative Reviews, we are so glad to have you!
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Hi everyone!Just found this group (by accident really) and I see it has a lot of great things! Can't wait to take a look around.
My blog is Under The Covers and I look forward to meeting you all!"
What a HAWT blog!! I'm following!!!
Thanks everyone! It helps that there's 3 of us or we couldn't handle the workload LOL
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Thanks everyone! It helps that there's 3 of us or we couldn't handle the workload LOL"Yea we know the feeling ;) ( cambria, Amy, me) lol
Welcome to the group, Francesca. I'm another one who's definitely not into your blog's genre but can tell you 3 have put a lot of work into it. I'm actually assuming I've correctly gleaned the genres you 3 gals like to focus on--paranormal, urban, dark, magical, the so-called "epic fantasy" stuff? Yeah, that's the stuff I loathe but the three of you have done a nice job getting the theme across on your blog (if that's really what you meant to promote). If I got something different than you intended, please tell me because I'm a Romantic Suspense author and I'd definitely be interested if you gals ever focus on that genre. Seems like no.
Please be sure to create yourself a discussion topic under the "Reviewers Seeking Authors" area so we authors can post whenever we have something suitable for your review. I run a blog with a weekly Freebie Friday feature and definitely will occasionally feature paranormal fantasy dark urban etc. so I'll post to your discussion area if you make one. Free books are best :)
And this group is the best group on Goodreads! LOL :) Well, it's one of the friendliest anyway.
-sry
Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Welcome to the group, Francesca. I'm another one who's definitely not into your blog's genre but can tell you 3 have put a lot of work into it. I'm actually assuming I've correctly gleaned the genr..."So we are the friendliest but not the best?!?!?!
@Sarah - Thanks for the tip about the Reviewers Seeking Authors I'll do that today! We generally read a lot of paranormal BUT we do review some romantic suspense (mostly me, and one other co-blogger is reading J D Robb) and we also review the occasional contemporary romance or erotica, here's a list of the reviews so you see the genreshttp://underthecoversbookblog.blogspo...
I have played with the idea of doing a romantic suspense themed event on the blog, so if you want to send me a msg.
@Jenn, I'm sure she meant best AND friendliest!
oops, yeah I did. I was ending the msg with the LOL and added the last bit. Just goes to show writers shd never self-edit :)
Hi Tally, welcome aboard. You've come to the right place! The CR group is one of the very best on GR for readers and writers alike--and we have a nice mixture of the two (not either/or). We definitely have fun (as is evidenced by Stephen's sarcastic welcome) butwe are polite and respectful, always, which I think makes the world of difference these days!What kinds / genres of books do you like best? I really need to start using the tools Goodreads provides. I mean I could look at your bookshelf and tell, right? I'm lazy. I've read thousands of books and have what, about 2 dozen on my shelf here It's just a matter of having the time to go find/add/write a review for everything. I'm (nearly) 51 years old and my mother made sure I could read and write before I went to school, so since I was about 4-1/2. That's a LOT of reading. I couldn't possibly add all that to my GR shelf.
Make yourself at home, click around and see what's going on. Just ask if you don't see something. I'm only here once or twice a week (though prolific when I do swing by) but the moderators (Amy, Cambria, Jenn of the Texas Longhair) are pretty good about getting back to ppl right away.
-sry
(Sarah with an "h" not to be confused with our two Sara's without)
Stephen wrote: "Mature discussions? About books?You may have entered the wrong door."
Where have you been mister!
Talia wrote: "Hey everyone. My name is Talia, but you can call me Tally if you like. I've been looking for a good group where I can meet fellow book lovers and have fun, mature discussions about books. *waves*"Well I'm going to call you talia cause I love that name!
Welcome to the group!
Jump in anytime in any convo and if you have a blog or twitter add it to the list so we can stalk you!!!!;)
Stephen wrote: "Jenn aka Texas Long Hair wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Mature discussions? About books?You may have entered the wrong door."
Where have you been mister!"
Busy on Twitter, working on a farm, pondering ..."Well we miss you on here!
Amy and cambria and I were just talking about you the other day!
You were one of my favorite commenters when I joined this group.
Then they made me a moderator and you bailed!
:(
Can you add you blog and twitter to the lists again so it's fresh and I can stalk you?
Well I'm gonna be watching out for you now!!!!
Stephen wrote: "I didn't bail. I'm just picky about conversations and when I comment. And moody.Thanks for the compliments! (:o]>
Twitter: @StephenKata
Blog is under mental construction."
Stephen, I think Jenn meant over on the Twitter, Blog etc. thread, here:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/75216?group_id=46156
And you need followers. Go get 'em mister! :) You saw what happened with just a few and one free promo on my Freebie Friday, right? Imagine if you had 50 or 100 followers to whom to RT the link!
The magic of twitter is connections and the way to get them is conversations.
-sry
Talia wrote: "Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Hi Tally, welcome aboard. You've come to the right place! The CR group is one of the very best on GR for readers and writers alike--and we have a nice mixture o..."Cambria is your go to girl!!! She loves to read ya and loved unearthly!
Fun fact: she's also an author with 3 books coming out starting next month 2 are ya!
Stephen wrote: "Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Stephen wrote: "I didn't bail. I'm just picky about conversations and when I comment. And Bl..."
you picked up followers fast! It took me over a month to get those numbers!!!
Stephen wrote: "Jenn aka Texas Long Hair wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Stephen wrote: "I didn't bail. I'm just picky about conversations and when I comment. And Bl..."
you picke..."It's really slow. And frustrating.
I've had a blog since June that I always pimp everywhere and just hit 50 followers this month.
It's a process( sigh)
Jenn, what's the address of your blog?
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Jenn, what's the address of your blog?"Www.indiesupporter.com
Have you added your blog and twitter to our lists so we can follow you?
Following you now! Yes I did. I loved the post you have up people need editors! Even the ones that have editors sometimes need better ones! ;)
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Following you now! Yes I did. I loved the post you have up people need editors! Even the ones that have editors sometimes need better ones! ;)"Thank you so much!!!!! It really means a lot!
Will look you up!!!;)
Talia wrote: "Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Hi Tally, welcome aboard. You've come to the right place! The CR group is one of the very best on GR for readers and writers alike--and we have a nice mixture o..."thats a good looking list talia!!! You should totally read
it is a fav of mine for the year and a great YA!!! I love YA as well....And welcome to the group! So great to have you here!
Stephen wrote: "Jenn aka Texas Long Hair wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Jenn aka Texas Long Hair wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Sarah, The Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Stephen wrote: "I didn't bail. I'm just picky about conversat..."Thank you!
I'm following your twitter!
It won't let me accept you from my phone so one day when my Internet comes back up, you can see my tweets.
Francesca ~*~ Eyelet Ecstasy ~*~ wrote: "Following you now! Yes I did. I loved the post you have up people need editors! Even the ones that have editors sometimes need better ones! ;)"Lol, I've been following you!!!!
But now I'm following you on twitter too ;).
Love your blog!
Stephen wrote: "Probably picks up my bad vibes about phone app's. I don't use any."Lol, I can't live without em.
Sad I know.
Hola peeps - I have a new halloween blog up if anyone's passing? Guest post by the lovely Lee Sinclair regarding a social faux pas to avoid when being sworn at by the Undead....
Take a look, leave her a comment and be guaranteed Zombie-free for 364 days*!!
http://jaclement.wordpress.com/2011/1...
JAC
*T&C apply, not necessarily concurrent days.
J.A. wrote: "Hola peeps - I have a new halloween blog up if anyone's passing? Guest post by the lovely Lee Sinclair regarding a social faux pas to avoid when being sworn at by the Undead....
Take a look,..."
It's a hoot! I'm following, at least as much as I can while looking over my shoulder for invisible undressed mummies. (Sigh ... if only!)
Phil
Kodai wrote: "Hello,My name is Kodai Okuda, and I am happy to be a member of the GoodReads Creative Review group.
I'm a recently published author with Yesod Publications llc who is looking for military SF, ..."
Hey Kodai!
Welcome to the group!
Make sure to add your book to the topics of looking for reviewers and browse our reviewers too!!!
Also you may wanna check out our member Sarah R Yoffa I THINK your book might fit in a category she's looking to put on her website to offer up to her followers as a free book to check out on her Freebie Fridays!
Kodai wrote: "Thank you Jenn aka Texas Long Hair. :)"No problem ;)
Way to go Stephen, what was your secret?Splitter
We need a creative reviews hash tag....Splitter
C.S. Splitter wrote: "We need a creative reviews hash tag....Splitter"
Ja brought one up months ago it's #crnews ;)
C.S. Splitter wrote: "Way to go Stephen, what was your secret?Splitter"
Planning on a blog post for this for days IF no one steals my idea ;)
hahaha there before you Splitter!!We could just use #creativereviews as well but that's a bit longer....
#crnews is better! Shorter and that counts on twitter. I am going to start using it.Splitter
C.S. Splitter wrote: "#crnews is better! Shorter and that counts on twitter. I am going to start using it.Splitter"
We all really should I keep forgetting!
Welcome to all those who've arrived since I got here. I'm slow on keeping up! :)~Mysti
Hi everyone. Figured it was time to quit lurking and to get involved. It's nice to have an extra place to post reviews and looks like a bunch of very friendly folks within the group.Denise
D.g. wrote: "Hi everyone. Figured it was time to quit lurking and to get involved. It's nice to have an extra place to post reviews and looks like a bunch of very friendly folks within the group.Densie"
Hey densie!
Don't feel intimidated, chime in whenever you want!!!
So glad to meet you!
Hi everyone, I'm Shannon. This looked like such a good group. So here I am. I love to read and write and look forward to sharing with everyone.
Shannon wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Shannon. This looked like such a good group. So here I am. I love to read and write and look forward to sharing with everyone."Hey Shannon!!!!! Welcome to "group"!
Feel free to hop in any discussion and if you have a blog or tweet add those to the threads if ya want!!
Wow, haven't been to this thread lately! LOL!!Welcome to all our new members! you all rock!
Stephen wrote: "Cambria wrote: "Wow, haven't been to this thread lately! LOL!!Welcome to all our new members! you all rock!"
Some of us older ones rock in chairs."
Thanks for the giggle...
I am so lame at figuring my way around this site. I have an ebook coming out December 2 published by Musa Publishing. I would like to get some exposure on it, but I'm not sure where on this site to go in order to do that. Anyone with info please let me know. I'm lost on here. Thanks.
I'd start by asking for reviews in "Authors Requesting Reviews"...and then under "Exciting News" (I think that's the right heading), you might announce the release date with all the pertinent info :-). I think everyone is crazy busy right now, so if you've already put out some feelers, it might have gotten overlooked. I know I have not had time to be here in forever, so...
Anyway, hope that helps get you started :-).
Thanks Cassie. I'll check into those areas.
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Hey Ashelynn! Welcome! I am now following your blog and twitter!!! Great to see you here.