Hello thread

[Arthur]

Great review

Arthur

[Linell]

congrats, Tim. I'm really happy for you! Nel

[Jeff]

Well done Mr. Tim.

[Tim]

Thanks, everyone. I've always known I had to be a writer...but it's nice when others think so, as well :-)

[Tim]

Here's my latest post to Paragraph Planet:

Things Change.

She adjusted the noose and tugged it as snug as her favorite turtleneck. Her feet shuffled back and forth across the queen-sized bed her stepfather had bought her two weeks after her mother died, the day after his first midnight visit to her room. She could still remember the pain, the blood…but mostly the shame. Tears streaked her cheeks.

She double-checked the rope. Secure.

“Have another sleeping pill, Bob!”

She kicked him off her bed.

[Sandy]

I just got the most beautiful review for Justice For Emily from Norma Budden on her website. It even made me cry. If you have a moment, please stop by and check it out.

http://bookreviews.normabudden.com/20...

Thank you.

[Linell]

Happy evening to you all...Tim, Sandy, MM, Recluse...Theresa, your books are showcasing now at New Voices Books! Love Nel

[T.K.]

Linell wrote: "Happy evening to you all...Tim, Sandy, MM, Recluse...Theresa, your books are showcasing now at New Voices Books! Love Nel"

Wow that was quick and thank you so much Nel. Have you any photo's that I can use to boast about it?
Best wishes on this wonderful autumn morning.

[T.K.]

A shameless plug -
Since Shasta Summer has taken the world by storm - especially on here

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...

My other book Eye of Erasmus which forms the trilogy has had a bit of a make over with a new book cover. I would appreciate feed back on this please. I couldn't decide how to put the image on here so perhaps you wouldn't mind looking at it here....
http://tgeering.blogspot.com

[Sandy]

Teresa wrote: "A shameless plug -
Since Shasta Summer has taken the world by storm - especially on here

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...

My other book Eye of Erasmus which ..."

Teresa,

I love the cover!

[Arthur]

Hi Sandy, great review.

Regards,
ArthurJohnny Oops

[Tim]

Authors post anything you like as often as you like about your 99-cent books here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/201374...

Tell everyone! Another site for higher priced books coming shortly :-)

[Tim]

Teresa wrote: "I couldn't decide how to put the image on here so perhaps you wouldn't mind looking at it here....
http://tgeering.blogspot.com
"

I like the first two covers. I think you need to make the art image of the eye more like a photograph to match your other two covers :-)

[T.K.]

Tim wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I couldn't decide how to put the image on here so perhaps you wouldn't mind looking at it here....
http://tgeering.blogspot.com
"

I like the first two covers. I think you need to ma..."

Hi Tim
Actually the art one on the left of the blog is yes, a painting and it is now superceeded by the black and white cover with the red writing. Eventually I will take the other one down as that was originally for the YA market.
Thanks for your input though. My publisher was well chuffed with it.

[T.K.]

Sandy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "A shameless plug -
Since Shasta Summer has taken the world by storm - especially on here

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...

My other book Eye of..."
Thanks Sandy so much. I love the way the eyes follow you about.

[Sandy]

Thanks Arthur!

[Linell]

good morning, Peeps!

[Sandy]

Great interview Lynn & Tim! Everyone should go and check it out at:

http://callsignwreckingcrew.blogspot....

[Linell]

Hi Tim...just curious. Am I getting close to a review from you? I know you said it was coming soon. (Holding breath!) Nel

[Tim]

Hi, Nel. I have another one going up tonight. I'll let you know as soon as I look at the list :-)

[Linell]

Thanks, Tim---I won't be a pest; promise!

[T.K.]

Virginia wrote: "@Teresa. Can we talk here about what distinguishes a book as YA as opposed to not? The book I am finishing now starts with a pretty young girl (12)and she is married by the end. It seems to me it..."

Morning Virginia
To be honest I was guided by my publisher as I'm no expert on this.
Whilst writing both Eye of Erasmus and Shasta Summer I was concious of bad language use and sex scenes etc. I needn't have worried as it happens the more raunchy/darker the book is the more they love it.
As it happens, to my knowledge it hasn't been read by any teenagers, only adults and they have been rather gushing about it. EOE is darker than Shasta Summer and yet both books have been received well.
Think Harry Potter, JKR wrote them for the YA market and yet endless adults read and love them.
I have male readers read both my books and email me privately requesting a time line for the next in the series as they are desperate to carry on with the series.
So probably not much help but age genre's I always have trouble with.
So with your book Virginia..... Stand away from it for a while and ask your self this - "Is this a book I would pick up as an adult and enjoy, or would I buy it for my son daughter to read?" Which brings me back to the quandary of HP. Is it YA or Adult Fiction .....
I would be inclined to put your book under YA and also whichever other adult genre it would happily fit into.
Tee

[T.K.]

Linell wrote: "good morning, Peeps!"

Morning Nell
It's a dull and grey one here with an easterly wind. Not nice. :(

[Linell]

Yes... not so nice here, either. mid-teens and ice all over the place. I have to drive in it, too! Bleck>>>

[T.K.]

Linell wrote: "Yes... not so nice here, either. mid-teens and ice all over the place. I have to drive in it, too! Bleck>>>"

Personally I love the heat (which we didn't have this summer but hey ho such is the English weather.

[T.K.]

Virginia wrote: "@Teresa. Thanks. That is what I am thinking, also. I started it so long ago and am just getting back to it. I do these mini-sagas it seems, and this one is quite different from my others.

[b..."<
Glad to help out Virginia x

[Lynn]

Sandy and Norma,

Great job Norma on the review. Sandy great job on writing a book that inspired emotions from a reader.

Lynn

[Lynn]

Thanks Sandy for mentioning the Interview with Tim. I will tell you all that Tim is fun to work with. He always has a special spin to things.

For those that might have missed them:

Tim's interview of me:

http://timgreatonforum.blogspot.com/2...

My interview of Tim:

http://callsignwreckingcrew.blogspot....

Have a great one!

Lynn

[T.K.]

Lynn wrote: "Thanks Sandy for mentioning the Interview with Tim. I will tell you all that Tim is fun to work with. He always has a special spin to things.

For those that might have missed them:

Tim's interv..."

Lynn and Tim
Awesome interviews and I have left comments on both.
Tee

[T.K.]

Teresa wrote: "Tim wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I couldn't decide how to put the image on here so perhaps you wouldn't mind looking at it here....
http://tgeering.blogspot.com
"

I like the first two covers. I think yo..."

Hi Tim
I've just seen your comment on my blog. :)
http://tgeering.blogspot.com/
Many thanks for your input.
Tee

[Sandy]

Hey all, Norma Budden posted the most beautiful review of Justice For Emily on her website. She has now posted an interview she did with me. If you have a minute, please check it out. Don't forget to share it while you're there!

http://bookreviews.normabudden.com/20...

[T.K.]

Sandy wrote: "Hey all, Norma Budden posted the most beautiful review of Justice For Emily on her website. She has now posted an interview she did with me. If you have a minute, please check it out. Don't forg..."

Hi Sandy
I tried to open the link, but no luck.
I will try again tomorrow, and of course I'll share for you.
Tee

[Sandy]

Thanks, Teresa!

[T.K.]

Sandy wrote: "Thanks, Teresa!"

Great interview etc. Shared, done and dusted with others. Oh! and also now following you :)

[Sandy]

Teresa, you are awesome! Thanks so much.

[T.K.]

Sandy wrote: "Teresa, you are awesome! Thanks so much."

No worries. We're in the same boat honey. We need to help one another out.

[Sandy]

Virginia, Do you have a link to that site? It sounds really great.

Sandy

[T.K.]

Virginia wrote: "@Teresa. I know I already thanked you, and I am deeply appreciative of your commenting. but I just wanted to add something. Facetiously, I have mentioned on my blog and twitter that some of my pr..."
Actually no I haven't seen that site honey but off now to see if I can't find that link.

[T.K.]

Virginia wrote: "Umm. How about googling Smart Bitches, Trashy Books? I suck at the link thing. It is a peculiar form of genetic techno-laziness. Untreateable.

It is a fun place, USUALLY.(SB,TB, that is)"

Here ya go then sweetie http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/
I agree it does look fun.

[Sandy]

Thanks Virginia & Teresa,

Apparently they are updating their site, so I've bookmarked it to check it out later.

[T.K.]

Virginia wrote: "Yeah. I just read about that. I am also the one that misses her bus stop."

Smiles - me too. Usually because I have my nose in a book!

[Sandy]

Today I'm introducing you to author Kristie Leigh Maguire on my blog, Sandy's Spotlight. I am featuring her western romance novel, Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found. Stop by, check out my review, read an excerpt and please share this blog post on Twitter and Facebook. If you're an avid reader, subscribe to the blog and you'll get an e-mail every other week introducing you to a great new author.

http://sandywolters.weebly.com/2/post...

[Linell]

Hey, if I don't watch it this thread drops off for me and I have to search for you again...anyway you are found now! I wanted to share something- two earth shaking things happened this morning! First we had a 4.6 earthquake about 40 miles away from here and quite close to Grand Coulee dam! My novel, Story Time addresses what would happen if an earthquake tore the dam down so, I got a little chill! (no worries though- they did a thorough search and all is well). The second thing... my publisher finally put the art up on The Hunt, and Story Time in e-books! I have already sold 6 books (just this morning). It's strange, because I was starting to get really upset with her and her practice of using the company logo on my cover pages for ad space. I wonder if she heard me somehow? Hmmm... Anyway if you have a moment please go and give a like to the art on The Hunt, and Story Time, by Linell Jeppsen (Amazon, and Kindle) Thanks, Nel

[Lynn]

Linell

That must have been a little scary to have an earthquake so relatively close to you. Oklahoma City had one a couple weeks back and we felt in North Texas. It was like a little shake - shake feeling. That's probably a hundred miles from here. Glad the dam is all right.

If you post the link to where to find your cover art, I'd be happy to go and admire it.

Lynn

[Linell]

Hi Lynn---it felt kind of like a really hard gust of wind hit the house...the tin roof shook for about 10 seconds, and all the china and crystal in the hutch vibrated. I didn't know what it was until it came on the news ten minutes later! Whew!

[Lynn]

Linell,

Oh my that does sound scary. Especially with the china and the crystal rattling.

We don't have cable here. It felt like maybe the cat learned a new trick of pushing on my chair. Then my friend came in and asked if I felt it. That's when we both knew something happened. So I jumped on FB and twitter to see if anyone else had felt it. It took a little bit but my sister confirmed that it came from Oklahoma City where they had a 5.6 Earthquake this after having another similar one the previous day so we weren't exactly sure until we got it verified. Several of my friends in Oklahoma then confirmed that they felt it where they lived as well.

Glad you are all right.

Lynn

[Arthur]

Hi everyone, just posted the following review on Tim's Santa Shop on Kndle. Great read.

A wonderful heart warming story that had me alternately feeling good and on the verge of tears as we learn of Skip’s travails. Tim Greaton’s The Santa Shop has a message for all of us at this special time of year as the holidays draw near. A wonderful mix of fantasy and fact, we are lessoned with the meaning of living a full life, and reminded of how much we have to look forward to. With a straightforward yet descriptive style, Tim puts us at the scene and in fact in the scene. This wonderfully well told story deserves five stars. You won’t be able to put it down. I smile when I think about it.

[Lynn]

Arthur,

That's a great review of The Santa Shop. I agree worth 5 stars.

Lynn

[T.K.]

Arthur wrote: "Hi everyone, just posted the following review on Tim's Santa Shop on Kndle. Great read.

A wonderful heart warming story that had me alternately feeling good and on the verge of tears as we learn ..."

Hi Arthur is their a link please?

[Arthur]

Hi, just go to Tim's Amazon Kindle page for the Santa Shop.

Regards,
Arthur