Getting To Know You

[Nicolas]

Nicolas Wilson(though I prefer Nic, generally.)

From Portland, OR area.

I'm mainly a writer because reading is so painfully slow, that I don't have time to do both.

Currently, I'm reading Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy. Well, I keep a copy in the car, and when we do errands, my fiance reads it out loud to me. She's a faster reader, even at a spoken pace, but we've been reading it for several months. That thing is LONG!

Extra fact: I own a Batman costume.

[Mariana]

Hello!
I'm Mariana Llanos
Place: Oklahoma, US (Original from Lima, Peru, though)
Release: My very first children's book!Tristan Wolf
Currently reading: Goodreads for Authors by Michelle Campbell-Scott
Favorite books: The Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland, Herman Hesse's books, Oscar Wilde's books, William Shakespeare's books...and a LOT more!
My FB page: www.facebook.com/tristanwolfofficial
My website: www.marianallanos.com

[Robert]

Hey!

Name: Robert D. Spake

Place: Southampton, England

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: I, Tomorrow? and Other Stories

Reading: Of Human Bondage

Favourite Book: The Odyssey.

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Thurman]

Hello, my name is Thurman Faison. I am an author of two books on Amazon. For the next three days, my recent book, "Be Spiritually Bold," will be available for free, starting tomorrow at Amazon Kindle. Here is the link. http://amzn.com/B008ZEXJ8I

[Paula]

Hello, I'm new here.
Name: Paula Hrbacek
Place: Pensacola Florida
Author of: Stars Shine After Dark (sweet Christian romance) and Day Camp in Hawaii (nonfiction, how-to, leader's guide for summer camp, recreational programs or summer school.) My other three books are out of print.
Reader: Yes, I write a book review column for The Examiner, reviewing sweet and mild romance, mystery and suspense. http://www.examiner.com/book-review-8...
Web site: http://paulahrbacek.weebly.com/

[S.J.]

I am a reader, writer, and wildlife photographer. My latest release is Close Up & Close Encounters. Here is a link to the Close Ups video http://youtu.be/mAZ07VwyTbc

[Ryan]

Hey guys i'm Ryan it's nice to meet you all ! I'd really appreciate it if people would take a look at my writing.
Thank you!
http://www.goodreads.com/story/list/7...

[[deleted user]]

Name: Garrett Dennert

Place: West Michigan

Reader/Writer/Editor

Recently Published: "Rasp" (Kindle Single) -- fiction lying somewhere between a short story and novella.

Favorite Book(s): The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Currently Reading: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Website: dennertwriting.com

Twitter: @garrettdennert

[Hannah]

Name: Hannah Harvey

Place: England

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: After Summer

Reading: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Favourite Book: The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Website:
www.thebooktower.webs.com

[Chrys]

Name: Chrys Fey

Place: Florida

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: I will be coming out with a romantic-suspense eBook titled "Hurricane Crimes". No pub date yet.

Blog: www.writewithfey.blogspot.com I use this blog to help and inspire writers.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/chrysfey

[Sandra]

Name: Sandra, but people online call me Avalon, so I suck with it

Place: Groningen, The Netherlands

Reader or Writer: I write short stories, because I can never quite finish the novel I'm working on.
But mainly I read.

Reading:The Siren

Favourite Books: Paint the Wind, The Secrets of Jin-shei (and anything from Richelle Mead)

Special note: I am born and raised dutch, but I love to write and read in English

[Laura]

Hello everyone~
Name: Laura Camby McCaskill

Place: Asheville, NC

Writer/reader: both

My published work: Her Keepers

Favorite book: The Outsiders

Favorite authors: S.E. Hinton, Christine Feehan, Tanith Lee, & C.S Lewis.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Her-Ke...

Twitter: @LCMcCaskill

Librarything: http://www.librarything.com/author/mc...

[Angelfox]

Hello!
Angelika, occasional editor for renatarollfinkeverlag.eu
twitter @kfoxa

translating english-german, living in Austria,
Mag. Social&Cultural Anthropology, Mag. Political Sciences
Addicted to reading, martial arts, dogs, writing (too perfectionist to share my work now)
and Icame across this link, which seems really interesting especially for young authors!
cheers!
https://iversity.org/c/6?r=16bf0

[Steven]

Name: Steven Scott Williamson
Place: Sandy, Oregon, USA
Reader/Writer: Both
Latest Release: Ohlen’s Arrow
Favorite Books: Heiro’s Journey by Sterling E. Lanier, The Five Fingers by Gayle Rivers and James Hudson

Currently Reading: The River of Dancing Gods by Jack L. Chalker
Currently Writing: Ohlen’s Bane (sequel to my first novel, Ohlen’s Arrow)

Book Blog: http://ohlensarrow.blogspot.com/
Writers Blog: http://ruckerworks.blogspot.com/

[Bonnie]

Name: Bonnie Ferrante

Place: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: The Amida Tree

Reading: Food for the Gods by Karen Dudley

Favourite Book: changes constantly, that's like asking do I have a favourite family member


Website -
http://my.tbaytel.net/bonnieheather/i...


Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Bonnie-Ferrante...

facebook -
Bonnie Ferrante - Author

twitter -
@BonnieFerrante

linkedin -
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bonnie-fe...

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Pinterest - http://www.pinterest.com/bferrante036...

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/Bonnie0904

[Jim]

I am a Canadian writer. I suppose a good deal could be discerned about me on my Goodreads author page.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

This seems like a rich collection of interesting individuals. - Jim Power

[Graham]

Name: Graham Higson

Place: Halifax, England

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: Flither Lass

Reading: Chocolat by Joanne Harris, Firebolt by Adrienne Woods

Favourite Book(s): The Magician's Nephew by C S Lewis, and The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Website: www.grahamhigson.com

Twitter: @grahamhigson

Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrahamHigsonAuthor

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/7173149...

AwesomeGang interview: http://awesomegang.com/graham-higson/

[Anita]

Name. Anita Toss

Place: New York

Avid Reader

Reading: Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

Favorite Genres: Romance, Histrical Fiction, Autobiography.. but will give most genres a chance :)

[Harsh]

Name: Harsh Gupta

Place: India

Reader or Writer: More Writer than a Reader

Latest Release: Fly on the Wall

Favourite Book: The Outsider by Albert Camus

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9...

Website: www.carvingfiction.blogspot.com

[Josh]

My favorite writer is Henry Miller and I love the new movie "Boyhood".

My new novel "The Dude Who Did Dictionaries" is now available on Amazon via Kindle Direct as a KDP Selection - www.amazon.com/dp/B00M0DUI8Y

Frank Flutie is a lexicographer who has waged war on the "perils of adultolescence" by leaving a high-paying job as a copywriter for an advertising company called The Banker and taking a low-paying job in a bookstore instead, ostensibly so he can write the first ever all sexual dictionary.

The "war" (and his dictionary), however, aren't going particularly well and, under the stress of his "self-imposed exile" from affluence, Frank has become petty and fatalistic -- "a shit hoarder whose dictionary would be better utilized as a flyswatter, a doorstop, or a paperweight".

Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Marlene in bed because (or so he believes), "If you got no dough, no woman will love you."

On the mantle in Frank's shabby apartment is a sickly but unkillable pet sea lamprey -- a jawless fish he abhors as the banner of the sort of "clockwork universe" he is fleeing from in his downward spiral.

In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all -- that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself.

"The Dude Who Did Dictionaries" is a behemoth valentine to Boston and a gritty, sprawling, depiction of today's recession-inflicted state of affairs.

You can learn more about my other books on Goodreads - www.goodreads.com/wickid_pissa

Watch my feature film "Helen Keller Had A Pit Bull" here - www.vimeo.com/ondemand/helenkellerhad...

[Devi]

Hi All,
I just published reviews for Royal Institute of Magic and Love's Last Call
You can find my Review Policy and Review Request form here
Do get in touch with me for reviews


Cheers
Devi

[Jorden]

Name: Jorden Leonard http://nedroj.net/

Place: Portland Oregon USA

Writer, just published
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

I was born in California. I grew up in Hawaii. I went to junior high near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I went to high-school in southern Oregon, college in Salem Oregon, and am now living with my wife and five year old son in Portland.

I lived in a redwood house on a volcanic island, and played on a beach of my birth stone. My mother was a belly dancer. I can Cossack dance. I taught myself after I came back from Russia.

I've studied Hawaiian, Latin, French, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese in the classroom, in that order. Now I can't manage much in any of them.

I drowned in the Hilo Bay after being repeatedly thrown in by drunk relatives when I was my son's age. I still remember the moment when I gave up and breathed in the tea colored water. My lungs surrendered, but my heart never stopped. I forgave the foolish swimming lesson the moment a fear sobered relative resuscitated me.

I facilitated a consensus meeting in the middle of a downtown Portland street for several hours with several hundred people. We decided on one thing, to stay in the street indefinitely. Then, almost everyone left and the next morning the police opened it for traffic.

A police man broke my arm and I said, "Motherfucker, I'll kick your ass with one arm."

I organized a rave in my loft when my roommate was out of town. He almost didn't find out. My wife was my student in Japan.

She said, "I love you." Too late we realized she confused "love" and "like". I was considered both the best and worst English teacher.

I was almost an Eagle Scout, but I got burnt out.

I never played D&D until college.

I play Eve Online and exclusively PVP.

I buy too many transformer toys and pretend it's only because I love my son.

I got cauliflower ear from wrestling in high-school and broke a finger doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in college. I broke my hand on my friend's head after he asked me to punch him. We kept sparring.

I burned my face while fire dancing. I am a fire dragon.

[Ron]

Name: Ron D. Voigts

Place: Raleigh, NC (kinda)

Reader or writer: both

Latest release: The Witch's Daughter (A Cavendish Brown Paranormal Mystery)

Reading: The Overlook by Michael Connelly

Guilty pleasure: dark chocolate and ice cream

Website: http://www.authorrondvoigts.com

[Mehreen]

Name Mehreen Ahmed
Latest release Moirae
Reading The Silent House
Both reader and writer
Author page Amazon.com

[Devi]

Name: Devi Nair

Place: India

Reader or Writer: Reader

Reading: Let it Bleed by Francis Yamoah

Favourite Book: All of Dame Christie and Sir Doyle

Goodreads: My Profile
Book Blog: Views She Writes - WordPress Blog

[Suzanne (winterscribbler)]

Hey everyone. I'm new here. :)

Place: U.K

Reader or Writer: Both.

Favourite Book: Curious Warnings by M.R.James

Currently Reading: The Beautiful and Damned.

I've just finished writing my first novel and am just at the beginning of my search for an agent.

I also love to read and review.

you can see more of me on twitter
https://twitter.com/WinterScribbler

[Sophia]

Name: Sophia Newtown

Place: Earth

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: Evelyn - a fairy-tale of a misanthrope with rich imagination who fell in love

Reading: The Host, and A Very Short History of Humanity

Favourite Book: The day of the triffids

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/?q=#/sophian...

Web-site: http://sophianewtown.wix.com/worlds

The published book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012...

[Brian]

Brian Holtz (I write as Brian Holtz and B. K. Brain)
self-published five books, 2 dark fantasy, 1 YA sci-fi, 1 comedy of horrors, 1 middle grade fantasy.
I'm currently promoting the middle grade fantasy.

This looks like a nice group, glad to be here!

[Brian]

Brian wrote: "Brian Holtz (I write as Brian Holtz and B. K. Brain)
self-published five books, 2 dark fantasy, 1 YA sci-fi, 1 comedy of horrors, 1 middle grade fantasy.
I'm currently promoting the middle grade fa..."
friend me on facebook, if you want:
https://www.facebook.com/brian.holtz1

[Natasha]

Name: Natasha Davis

Author Name: N. Davis

Place: South Africa

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: Lost In Time

Reading: A Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Favourite Book: The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/7149610...

Facebook: http://bit.ly/zyOO9w

Twitter: @NatashaDavis101

[Jim]

Name: Jim Vuksic

Place: U.S.A. (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania)

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: Levels, a novel

Reading: Dust by Hugh Howey

Favorite Book: Aztec by Gary Jennings

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Website: http://jimvuksic.tateauthor.com/

Blog: https//goodreads.com/author/show/5085801.Jim...

[Vickie]

Name: Vickie 'Serlina' Telemacque

Place: Calibishie, Dominica

Reader or Writer: Big Reader & Aspiring Writer

Reading: His Island Bride (The Bride Series Book 4) by Shadonna Richards

Favorite Book: The Holy Bible

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7...

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natureislelove/

Twitter: @Natureislelove

Instagram: @Natureislelove

Note: Born & raised in the Village on the North East coast of the island of Dominica. I love Nature, pen-palling, post-crossing, Reading, photography, and writing.

Guilty Pleasure: Steamy Romance Novels :D (African American Steamy hot Romance novels)

Hopes/Dream: To complete & publish my novel(s), poem book - in order to accomplish this I hope I get assistance & help (feed back, constructive critics, & suggestions) from everyone.

[[deleted user]]

I love this thread. I'm Joy Jennings, an Australian living in Canada. My memoir is I'm Not Your "Baby": An Australian woman's tortured life of sexual harassment and assault. I'm Not Your "Baby": An Australian woman's tortured life of sexual harassment and assault
I have a giveaway running at the moment. https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Today until 11pm ET tonight I am featured on The Authors Show. Do have a listen because my book and my message are extremely important.
http://imnotyourbaby.com/2015/12/radi...
Thank you all for caring!

[William]

Hi Everyone!
Name: William Chauvin (Bill)
Place: I live in New Hampshire with my wife, Margaret, 4 special needs dogs, 3 rescued cats, 2 cockatiels and a few Rhode Island Reds.
Reader or Writer: Both
Reading: The Kite Runner
Favorite Book: Currently: A Dog's Purpose
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamPChau...

[Zahraa]

Name: Zahraa Daud Hersi
Place: Somalia
Reader or Writer: Reader

[Nadine]

Hi, everyone! Here's my info:

Name: Nadine Galinsky Feldman

Place: NYC and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: What She Knew

Reading: House Broken by Sonja Yoerg

Favorite Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/nadinefeldma...

I'm working on a historical fiction set in late 19th-century Scotland.

[Vickie]

Name: Vickie Valladares

Place: I live in Killeen Texas but I was born and raised in New Orleans.

Reader/Writer: both

Releases: Love,Life, and Fairy tale (coming fall 2016)

Currently Reading: Zeroes by Margo (forgot her last name)

Favorite book(s): The Book Thief, A Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers

[giulia]

Name: Giulia

Place: Milan, Italy

Reader or Writer: reader

Reading: just finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue

Favourite Book: "So many books, so little time.”

I'm 20 and studying foreign languages at university. I don't have a favourite genre, I love reading different kinds of books :)

Nice to meet you all!

[Juliani]

Name: Juliani

Place: Puerto Rico

Reading: Love, Life and the List

Favorite Book: The Giver

Favorite Author: Lois Lowry
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I want to learn how to write professionally and read more, so I hope i get to learn that here ^^

[Medhya]

Name: Medhya R Samarasinghe

Place: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Writer or Reader: Both

Currently reading: The road from Elephant Pass

[Patricia]

Australia is such a unique place. I've always wanted to visit there someday. Did you fair okay in your area with the forest fires earlier last year?


Name: Patricia Elliott

Place: Western Canada

Reader or Writer: Both

Latest Release: The Handcuff Proposal (Desire Me Again Anthology)

Favorite book: A Merman's Choice by Alice Renaud

Blog: https://patriciaelliottromance.com/blog/

Currently Reading: Nora Roberts - The Key trilogy and Lessons on Seduction by Estelle Pettersen.

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPatric...

[Robert]

Hi everyone and greetings from Canada.
Name: Robert Stermscheg
Place: Winnipeg, Mb.
Reader or writer: both
Latest release: Buried Secrets (translation)
Favourite book: Longshot by Dick Francis
Website: www.robertstermscheg.com
Currently reading: Garden city by John Comer
My genre: Historical fiction
Happy reading everyone.

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Name: Ava
Place: united states of america
Wrtter, kind of, and reader I have never published a book before. I'm afraid the people wont like it!

[C.R.]

C. R. BUCHANAN (Author and Feature Film Screenwriter)
New member... and a complete nerd that happened to be a professional fighter for 18yrs. Go figure.
Anyhow, I hope all have an aMaZiNg 2023!

[Rob]

Working on #4 novel. Takes me a couple years to produce one novel. Hoping to shorten the time in the future.

[Heather]

HEATHER BROWNE (Author)
just released my book:

Speaking with the Heart
Transforming Your Relationship and Communication with Compassion and Connection

Anxiety book in progress
Pre-Marital book in progress

[Douglas]

Hello everyone,
My name is Douglas Emerson. I’m a consultant and coach specializing in project management and goal-setting. Over the years, I’ve helped people move from vague ambitions to clear, structured results.

My debut book, Start at the Finish: The Power of Reverse Planning, presents a simple but powerful system for achieving clarity, confidence, and consistent progress by planning backwards from your desired outcome.

I’d be happy to connect with fellow readers and authors here. If anyone is interested, I can share a free copy of the eBook in exchange for an honest review on Goodreads or Amazon.

Looking forward to learning from this community and joining the conversation!

— Douglas Emerson
[See the book on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMK1KKLK)