Why not introduce yourself here - August 2012

[D.D. Chant]

Hi Helena! Welcome! I'm DeeDee.

[Jud]

Am I THAT obvious Ems?


Welcome Helena :o)

[Elle]

heh, we got two new holiday destinations now :D

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome Helena!

I'm pleased you've not lost us!

Yep, Elle!

I'm going to have to look into how you lot can get visas for Azerbaijan.

They're not cheap and you have to have one before they'll let you on the plane.

I think Dave's was $160 US.

[Helena]

Hi Patti!

[Patti (baconater)]

Helena wrote: "Hi Patti!"

Hi lovely!

Are you getting around the group okay? Be sure to shout for help if you need it, k? :)

[Helena]

Is this where i might mention my book?? or is it with 'meet the authors' - i'm really trying to find my way around!

[Kath]

Better in Meet Our Authors. This thread is cleaned out once a month so it will disappear. Scroll down the main page - it's about half way down.

[Helena]

OK thanks Ignite yes i just found it. What a labyrinth it all is!

[Patti (baconater)]

Have read of this thread, Helena. Will help you a lot.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

[Helena]

Hi Dee Dee and Jud. Thanks Patti - yes i came across these links earlier but i'm not finding it easy! Hopefully I'll be back ...

[R.J.]

I almost know my way around now. But I still feel like some lost under-Hobit rocking around this crazy kingdom. I just wonder when security are going to throw be out as I become more and more cheeky in my ways.

[Patti (baconater)]

We'll send the rescue services out if necessary. ;)

RJ, you're going nowhere. I like you much too much to ever toss you out. Silly man.

[D.D. Chant]

R.J. wrote: "I almost know my way around now. But I still feel like some lost under-Hobit rocking around this crazy kingdom. I just wonder when security are going to throw be out as I become more and more cheek..."

Patti, how does he know about security???

I thought the normals weren't supposed to be able to see them!!!

[Mago]

Hello and welcome to all the new people!
I've eaten too much cheese and chocolate.
Can I go for a snooze now please Patti?

[Helena]

hello i too have eaten too much chocolate ... it's the stress of finding my way around here - totally justified!

[Mago]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
nighty nighty

and hello Helena.

[R.J.]

I am chocolate. 70% cocoa. dark, rhyming, chymingly luscious. I will now eat myself for an encore *bows*

[D.D. Chant]

Here have a fluffy pillow to ease the stress Helena!!!

[Patti (baconater)]

Deedee, you know there are no 'normals' in our group!

*tucks a blanket round Mark.*

Looks like an angel when he's asleep, doesn't he? Awwwwww

[D.D. Chant]

He does Patti, here just let me wipe the dribble off...yep he's a darling!

[Helena]

hmmm chocolate, fluffy pillow, new friends ... stress is easing ...

[Tim]

R.J. wrote: "I am chocolate. 70% cocoa. dark, rhyming, chymingly luscious. I will now eat myself for an encore *bows*"

Bit sweet for my taste ;)

Were you really born in 1912? You're looking remarkably spry for 100.... :-P

[Nick]

Ok Guys. Hello. I've just joined the group. I'm a crime writer, and an optimist – a rare combination. You asked what I eat. Answer: food. What do I drink? Answer: alcohol mainly, water sometimes, but it tends to make me rusty. I live in Bucks, England, with my wife. I've been writing for fifteen years with mixed success. I've just rewritten all my books and morphed them into ebooks. Apart from that, nothing else much unusual. Oh, I was once shot by terrorists and winched out of the jungle. Scary experience, but good for the current job. More info on my blog, http://nickwastnage.blogspot.com/.
I look forward to meeting up with you all.

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Hi Nick, welcome to the group...make sure you make yourself an authors thread in meet the authors section and get to know us in the morning thread where lots of us hang out amongst other places.

[D.D. Chant]

Hi Nick!!!

And welcome, you're unlikely to get shot here but say away from GL: she has a dungeon.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Oh DD did you not see I shot R J earlier. Well he did ask me to. . .

[D.D. Chant]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Oh DD did you not see I shot R J earlier. Well he did ask me to. . ."

I don't think Nick was talking about an injection GL.

[Philip (sarah)]

Hello and welcome Nick.I really enjoy a good crime novel,must have a look at your author thread

[Lindsay]

Hi everyone new, hope you all find a home here. In the living room we have Miss DD and her fluffy pillows (no that is not a euphemism)
In the Garden you'll find Ignite and Rosemary making the place pretty (and not just with flowers, wink, wink)
In the Bar you'll find a variety of us, tread carefully and stay away from the punch!
Have a look out the window and see Jud and Sarah walking the dogs (Jud is the one dressed like the little mermaid)
Simon can usually be found in the computer room with Patti not far behind trying to get him to clean up.
Vanessa has her own Naughty Room, definitely worth checking out.
Geoff will be down at the duck pond.
If you are looking for our amazing authors, take the second door on the left and watch as they scrabble for their quills whilst minimising the Goodreads window on their laptops.

If you need me try the kitchen, it is the room with lots of black smoke coming out, don't worry i totally did that on purpose.

We are a fun, crazy and super supportive group, so come in, take your shoes off (we just vacuumed) and make yourselves at home.


Oh and see those stairs leading away in to darkness? that is GL's dungeon, only the bravest souls venture there.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

D.D. wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Oh DD did you not see I shot R J earlier. Well he did ask me to. . ."

I don't think Nick was talking about an injection GL."

Neither was I. R J said 'Shoot me now' and I went 'BANG!!'

[D.D. Chant]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "D.D. wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Oh DD did you not see I shot R J earlier. Well he did ask me to. . ."

I don't think Nick was talking about an injection GL."

Neither was I. R J s..."

O.O


Oh.

[Roz]

Hi, I'm Roz.
I love fiction that cares about characters AND plot. Although I'm a sucker for beautiful language, I like a story too, dammit. I'm a slow reader because I'm easily trapped by lovely sentences and ideas, and when I love a book I'm reluctant to leave its world behind.
I live in London with my writer husband, and our house is mostly decorated with bookshelves - so much so that different rooms are devoted to different categories, like a shop. My study, where I'm writing this now, is the fiction room - and when I look up from my keyboard I love to see the spines of novels that have been important to me.

When I don't have my nose in a book I'm either running (which is really an excuse to listen to music or books podcasts), or I'm at a dance class (which is really an excuse to fling myself about and not worry about looking daft) or I'm on the back of a horse (can't find an excuse for that, I can't resist a saddle).

The rest of the time I'm a journalist, ghostwriter, editor and writing coach, and I'm also coming out from behind the ghosting curtain with novels of my own.
I've got two books in circulation (books that I can admit to, that is!) One is about writing - Nail Your Novel: Why Writers Abandon Books and How You Can Draft, Fix and Finish With Confidence. Book 2 is under construction. The other is a nailed novel, My Memories of a Future Life - a contemporary reincarnation story with a twist that asks as many questions as it answers. Second novel is with my agent.
I bet that was all WAY too much info...

[Elle]

Hi Roz!!!

[Roz]

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Hi Roz!!!"

Hi Louise! Wow, that was fast. Good morning!

[Lindsay]

Morning Roz

[Philip (sarah)]

Hello and welcome Roz,have a virtual coffee and make yourself at home!If you set up an author's thread you can arrange your books on virtual shelves and we can all pop in for a peek :@)

[Tim]

Hi Roz, welcome :)

[D.D. Chant]

Hi Roz!!!

I'm DeeDee, welcome to the group!!!

[Roz]

Hello, lovely people! I've followed Philip's suggestion and started an author thread, although it made me pick just one of my books as the thread title. That possibly means I've put it in the wrong place and not where Philip intended I should... in which case, do correct me.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

[Elle]

tis in the right place. and it's not philip, it's sarah. philip is her husband :)


ps: it's not the thread title you pick the book for - that is used to discuss a single book. you don't actually have to pick a book though

[Jud]

Lindsay wrote: "Hi everyone new, hope you all find a home here. In the living room we have Miss DD and her fluffy pillows (no that is not a euphemism)
In the Garden you'll find Ignite and Rosemary making the plac..."


Lindsay I totally love that! You forgot the study though, where all our budding authors pretend to be working hard when really they are on GR.

[Jud]

Welcome Roz :o) and Nick :o)

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome Nick and Roz!

I'm really pleased you've joined us.

...we fall apart frequently, you see...

[Patti (baconater)]

Lindsay wrote: "Hi everyone new, hope you all find a home here. In the living room we have Miss DD and her fluffy pillows (no that is not a euphemism)
In the Garden you'll find Ignite and Rosemary making the plac..."

Lindsay, that was awesome! You should be a writer.

[Lindsay]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Lindsay wrote: "Hi everyone new, hope you all find a home here. In the living room we have Miss DD and her fluffy pillows (no that is not a euphemism)
In the Garden you'll find Ignite and Rosemary..."

I forgot about the study! I will need to edit!

[Andrew]

Hello to Roz, Nick and all the other new members - good to see that the group is still growing and thriving in spite of the summer break and the Olympic circus...

[Roz]

Lindsay wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Lindsay wrote: "Hi everyone new, hope you all find a home here. In the living room we have Miss DD and her fluffy pillows (no that is not a euphemism)
In the Garden you'l..."

Lindsay, who is in the ballroom with the candlestick and the murder victim?

[Roz]

Andrew wrote: "Hello to Roz, Nick and all the other new members - good to see that the group is still growing and thriving in spite of the summer break and the Olympic circus..."

Andrew, the Olympic circus? It's going on a mere six miles from where I sit. A surreal time for London, but I'm happier absorbed in my books.

[Andrew]

I live in Barnes and work in the City, so I've been surrounded by the madness without really experiencing it directly. It's been a weird couple of weeks, and I've been getting a lot of reading and writing done as well.