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Cambria - yep, I'm English - come from the North (just near where the Brontes lived actually) but headed South for work. Which means my accent is totally messed up, and I call the evening meal "tea" where my Southern partner calls it "dinner" (which is what I call the meal that he refers to as lunch!).Amy, don't worry; obviously if it does become available I would upload it there but a lot of epublishing stuff is very US-based, probably mostly because of the tax hoops you have to jump through if you live elsewhere. There are whole essays to be written on the subject, but it would bore the pants off you so I shan't!
Ken, welcome! This is a great group, so I hope you'll love being part of it. And watch out for the authors -we're feedback junkies, the lot of us!
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JAC
Hi Ken!! Great to see you on here. Remeber that if you do start writing your reviews post them up so we can all read them!! So glad you are enjoying the groups already. We look forward to getting to know you. :)
J.a. wrote: "Cambria - yep, I'm English - come from the North (just near where the Brontes lived actually) but headed South for work. Which means my accent is totally messed up, and I call the evening meal "tea..."Ahhh. England. Someday i will get over that way and maybe we can have "tea". hahaha. I bet your conversations about food can get confusing in your house. I too call my evening meal dinner and the mid day meal lunch. I have to say though...i like calling it tea. Maybe I'll start calling it that and confuse the heck out of my family too! hehehe.
I think you are right about authors we are all feedback junkies....I am so obsessed with my email now its kind of sad. :)
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Sorry, Cambria, I should stop e-mailing you so much!! (I'm really lying, I don't see that happening!! LOL)
And I always thought "tea" was the mid-day meal, not the evening meal. Boy, I am messed up on my British etiquette!
Ah no well you have tea and high tea. High tea (not something that happens in the North as a general rule) was a kind of snacky cucumber sandwiches and cake with, of course, tea to drink. It was about 5pm to tide you over till Dinner which might not have been till 8 or 10pm.It gets far more complex than that though!!
I like the high tea kind of bit. Sounds relaxing. I wish i had time sit down to a tiny cucumber sammie and some tea. Well, i don't like cucimber sammie's but i might if i lived in england. :)@Amy: You cannot stop emailing me. I would be lonley. :) And anyways...I have to speak to my awesome Editor!!
Everyone Hire Amy to be your editor!!!
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I think tea is way more confusing that I ever dreamed it would be!!
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Hi all! I'm Jen from PA and I've been a member for a whole 10 minutes now :)I am a fairly new book blogger and I look forward to reading everyone's reviews as well as posting my reviews.
Hi Jen!!! So great to see you on here! I used to live in PA before I moved here to NC. Pa is a great state! Sometimes i miss it there. :)I can't wait to read your reviews! Be sure to post them up and feel free to share a link to your blog!!
Ken wrote: "Hi Amy and Cambia. I hope your weekend was well. I had a great weekend. By the way I just finished a non-fiction book regarding journal writing. I posted a review on the book. I wanted to share it ..."Can't wait to read it!
Amy wrote: "We had lots of together time today, Cambria!! And thanks for the great plug! :)I think tea is way more confusing that I ever dreamed it would be!!"
We did have fun!! Great talking to you!
MMMM. I love tea. I drink it all the time. :)
Hello, you seem like a lovely group, unlike some others floating around on this site.Anyone here enjoy bonfires?
Cambria wrote: "Hi Jen!!! So great to see you on here! I used to live in PA before I moved here to NC. Pa is a great state! Sometimes i miss it there. :)I can't wait to read your reviews! Be sure to post them up..."
Hi Cambria, thanks for the welcome :). PA is a nice state. I've never been to NC but my friends in-laws have a place there so we may vacation there at some point.
@Cam, we camped a lot when I was a kid. Bonfires were a must every trip...even in the rain.
JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "Hi Jen!!! So great to see you on here! I used to live in PA before I moved here to NC. Pa is a great state! Sometimes i miss it there. :)I can't wait to read your reviews! Be sure ..."
I love bonfires, too! I think you'll really enjoy this event: http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/1...
It seems like I misunderstood the term 'bonfire'. I don't believe in burning books no matter the content.
Cam wrote: "Hello, you seem like a lovely group, unlike some others floating around on this site.Anyone here enjoy bonfires?"
LOL. Are you bringing marshmallows?
JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "Hi Jen!!! So great to see you on here! I used to live in PA before I moved here to NC. Pa is a great state! Sometimes i miss it there. :)I can't wait to read your reviews! Be sure ..."
NC is a nice state too. It is very hot though. LOL. My husband is in the military so we may end up back in PA sometime....or somewhere else for that matter. :)
Yeah, I could never live in NC (no offense). I even hate the heat here and I'm sure it's a lot worse for you!
Yeah, the heat here is so gross. Sometimes I want to hide inside with all the blinds drawn and the AC blarring. (okay sometimes I DO do that.) hehehe.The air just gets so thick sometimes...and my landscaping! Oh my. I have to water like 50 times a day! (okay, not that much, but a lot.) In PA my lawn and plants were beautiful. Here I'm lucky that they don't look like sticks. :)
Cambria wrote: "Yeah, the heat here is so gross. Sometimes I want to hide inside with all the blinds drawn and the AC blarring. (okay sometimes I DO do that.) hehehe.The air just gets so thick sometimes...and my..."
Lolol I hide inside too! I call it hibernating! I'm more of a fair weather gal. I prefer 75 and below...and sometimes 75 is still too warm lol. I should move to Alaska!
I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite season is the fall....I miss that most about living here. I love to see the leaves change and feel the air get chilly.
Here we have trees but mostly they are pine trees and some of the leaves change but nothing like up north. *sigh*
Cambria wrote: "I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite season is the fall....I miss that most about li..."
No fall :( that's sad. I love fall and spring and winter, just not summer haha.
I would love to see Maine in the Fall!
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Welcome Jen, to the group!! It is great to have you!
I'm hoping I get more than 10 minutes to put up posts today!! :)
JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite season is the fall....I miss tha..."
Mu hubby is from Maine. It is beautiful there.
Cambria wrote: "JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite season is the fal..."
Hello everyone! I've just this group a few moments ago, and while not an *expert* reviewer, I do have a blog where I do toss in a review now and then. I'd love to share my reviews here as well, once I figure out where I'm going (I tend to get lost frequently).
http://dalesplace-dale.blogspot.com/
Dale wrote: "Cambria wrote: "JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite se..."
Hi Dale. I'm new too and still finding my way around. I'm also a fairly new book blogger :)
Goodness, I'm SUCH a numpty! I have a Links page on my blog where I put - well - links. I just discovered how to make the Blogroll work and it's REALLY easy! DUH!Cambria, I think we have some spare rain here you can have.... heheheh...
Hey Dale, welcome to the madness! Don't forget to leave a gross ice-cream flavour on the giveaway page!
JAC
J.a. wrote: "Cambria - yep, I'm English - come from the North (just near where the Brontes lived actually) but headed South for work. Which means my accent is totally messed up, and I call the evening meal "tea..."I know I am super behind on this little discussion, but I have just always "heard your voice in my head" (lol) as English...so, glad I wasn't wrong ;-)...
I like the rain & the cold too!!! I SO live in the wrong place...
Dale wrote: "Cambria wrote: "JenLR wrote: "Cambria wrote: "I'm telling ya. :) I actually really like the rain. I kind of like the cold too. Nothing too cold but enough to wear a sweatshirt.... :)My favorite se..."
Hi Dale!! So great to see you around here! Feel free to post any review you would like! All you have to do is select the folder that your review fits into and post away!!! We look forward to seeing you around more often. Feel free to poke around and make some comments! Also, check out Amy's gross ice cream flavor contest and maybe win a free book!
Cassie wrote: "I like the rain & the cold too!!! I SO live in the wrong place..."I think you are one of the first people I have ever met that actually likes the cold and rain too!! Everyone else is always like "i want to live at the beach' and 'i like the sun." LOL. I like those thins too but the rain and cold are way better for writing. :)
J.a. wrote: "Goodness, I'm SUCH a numpty! I have a Links page on my blog where I put - well - links. I just discovered how to make the Blogroll work and it's REALLY easy! DUH!Cambria, I think we have some spa..."
I'll grab my umbrella!
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Hi Cassie - good call! I am indeed English though with a comedy accent. In the South they think I'm unspeakably Northern but once I get past Derby (about halfway up) I sound like a right Southerner....go figure!Everyone: I've been wondering if my blurb for my book is too boring and am working on a more interesting version. If you have 2 secs would you mind awfully checking out the comparison on the Dark Shores Review thread
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...
and letting me know what you think please? Comments / improvements / brickbats / bouquets etc all welcome!
Pretty please?
With a cherry on the top?
(And for the Father Ted fans among you) G'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan,etc....
Thanks all!
JAC
Thanks for inviting me to this group! I love writing reviews on my blog! I have been lucky enough to meet some great authors and make connections with a few publishers!
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Hi everyone! I hope this is the right place to introduce myself. My name is Sarah Renee, I'm 15 years old, and I am an author and, recently, a book reviewer. I have written three middle grade fiction books--The Tiger Princess, Dash, and Hunted Home--and I am working on several other books in the series.I also just started a blog where I review other books and talk about some of the news about my books and writing: http://sarahrenee-saderiaseries.blogs.... I would be happy to review any books within the middle grade/young adult/children's genre, and I would really appreciate some more reviews for my first three books. This looks like a really great group and I can't wait to meet some other authors and readers!
Thanks for the invite, Amy!I posted for anyone who wants to review Richelle Mead's Storm Born issue #1 & #2 as well as Aron Warner's Pariah issue #1 on this link:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...
Thanks again, Amy!
Sarah wrote: "Hi everyone! I hope this is the right place to introduce myself. My name is Sarah Renee, I'm 15 years old, and I am an author and, recently, a book reviewer. I have written three middle grade ficti..."Well Hi Sarah! to have so many books published at such a young age is awesome!!! Welcome to the group! I am so glad you joined and we are all excited to see you here. You will get losts of opportunities for reviews and probably some readers for your own material. Feel free to post your reviews whenever you write them!! :)
The Book Posh wrote: "Thanks for inviting me to this group! I love writing reviews on my blog! I have been lucky enough to meet some great authors and make connections with a few publishers!"I wanna call you "posh" too. That sound good!
And welcome to the group!!!
Sarah wrote: "Hi everyone! I hope this is the right place to introduce myself. My name is Sarah Renee, I'm 15 years old, and I am an author and, recently, a book reviewer. I have written three middle grade ficti..."I'm impressed! :-)
I'd be glad to check your books out...
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Great to have Sea Lion Books here as well, everyone should definitely check them out...they are on their way UP!! :)
Cambria wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Hi everyone! I hope this is the right place to introduce myself. My name is Sarah Renee, I'm 15 years old, and I am an author and, recently, a book reviewer. I have written three midd..."Thank you, Cambria! I'm really glad I found this group and I hope to post some new reviews as soon as I can!
I am looking forward to reading your reviews!!
J.A. wrote: "Ah no well you have tea and high tea. High tea (not something that happens in the North as a general rule) was a kind of snacky cucumber sandwiches and cake with, of course, tea to drink. It was ab..."Hi, J.A. Where I was raised, the three main meals were breakfast, lunch and tea, in that order. But if we dine out for the evening meal, it's "going out for dinner" -- go figure.
Guess it doesn't matter what you call it so long as you enjoy it.
Amy wrote: "Welcome to the group, Sarah! I'm glad to have you here! That is quite an achievement! Congrats on that!!Great to have Sea Lion Books here as well, everyone should definitely check them out...t..."
Amy wrote: "Welcome to the group, Sarah! I'm glad to have you here! That is quite an achievement! Congrats on that!!
Great to have Sea Lion Books here as well, everyone should definitely check them out...t..."
Hi, Sarah, welcome to the madhouse -- where the inmates run the asylum! Look forward to reading your reviews.
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