Goodreads Authors/Readers discussion

You're funny! The things we do for our dogs!!

That's great.

Ken wrote: "Jim wrote: "Anyway, we had to blow a child with a small dog off one ..."

The child learned a valuable life lesson and probably got a participation award anyway. No biggie"

Actually, the child and her little dog won the Grand Prize and they got their picture in the newspaper. When the paper interviewed her, she didn't complain about that mean old man and his huge Lab. If we had gotten there in time for the eating contest, Max and I would have had solid gold.

HI. This looks like a great group. May I introduce to you my fantasy-adventure novel, Khe? The Kindle version is free today and tomorrow on Amazon. Check it out, if you like. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00987OLVU

My question is, What are some good ways to get non friends and family reviews?

Alexes wrote: "HI. This looks like a great group. May I introduce to you my fantasy-adventure novel, Khe? The Kindle version is free today and tomorrow on Amazon. Check it out, if you like. http://www.amazon.com..."

Doing a read-to-review here on good reads (or on your own blog) is a good way to get non-friends and family reviews. There are r2r threads all over the place here on goodreads. It's a pretty accepted practice and a good way to start getting your name "out there," even some of the bigger publishing houses do it.

If you are interested, we have started a non-reciprocal review group, so there is no question about ratings being influenced by close friendships or reciprocity agreements. Group 3 is currently forming up for 4 review rounds, author choice of book to be reviewed for each round. Come over and check out the guidelines, and register if you're interested :)
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...

Thanks! I've registered and am looking forward to reading.

Hi,
Is it possible to have a folder for chick lit or rom com novels? Thanks.

Done. You will find a folder for romantic comedy now.

Okay I agree to them!;)

Can anyone tell me in which group or on which page I should mention a book launch? I want to have a contest with the winners receiving a free print book I just published. It seems to me I once read that contests were not allowed. My book is a train travel tip book for travels in Europe.

Hi Mona,

Feel free to post your contest/launch in the Bulletin Board folder in the group.

-Vince (Moderator)

The Trailer for my upcoming novel, Cybersp@ce. Pre-release copies will be available for review soon. Cybersp@ce is expected to be widely available beginning in January, 2013.

Take a look...

To read an excerpt visit my blog at: http://anovelsperspective.blogspot.co...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W-UKh...

Hopefully no one will get mad, but I got my first professional review, so I wanted to share it wherever I could...:)

http://theindiebookshelf.blogspot.com...

We aren't mad, G.

Congrats on the review. :)

Feel free to post it in the Bulletin Board section.

-Vincent (Moderator)

Vincent, dumb question (sigh), but where is the bulletin board section, for future reference?

Hi G.,

It's right below the welcome folder.

You can click on this link: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

gracias...:)

Hi! I need some help: I am a Fantasy Artist Author, my book is about Fantasy & Dark Fantasy artworks and it is heavily illustrated.



I think the category for my book would be "Fantasy", but I know that refers to Fantasy Fiction. Do you think I could introduce my work in that category????

:P Cheers and thanks!Art of Isis Sousa & Guests: Fantasy Digital Painting Techniques & Video Lectures

Hi Isis,

Please post it in the Fantasy folder.

-Vincent

Vincent wrote: "Hi Isis,

Please post it in the Fantasy folder.

-Vincent"

Super thanks, Vincent :)

Hi, this is maybe a silly question and the answer is probably looking at me and waving from the screen, but... what are the rules for posting? :D

Dede x

Please see the first post on this thread for the rules.

-Vincent

Vincent -- I have to chuckle at the consummate skill as a statesman your last line in the original post displays.;D We writers can be an unruly, self-serving bunch.

Lol...Awww, dash it! Foiled!!!

Hi, I'm Delia, or Dede to my friends. Xxx

Hello, how are you? It's nice to meet you. The people on this site are so friendly!
Dede x

I have to protest. Authors are subject to rules as if they were some vagrant tracking mud across your white carpet. Without the unruly, self-serving authors, there is no Goodreads.

Authors!! To the barricades!!

Did I mention we often have muddy feet as well? Oh, you brought that up. Thanks, Ken.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
http://amzn.to/11ypENc Here is my book~

'Tis the first book of the series about two brave American children who unexpectedly appeared in a place where they had to shoulder the burden of the fate of their time, and had to overcome it through a series of training. They were to face a terrifying destiny ahead, as the Archfiend was slowly spawning...

Nice cover Sahid

My romantic suspense novel, You Belong To Me, is available on Amazon Kindle and is free today (Dec 25th) Merry Christmas!

http://amzn.to/UrqEfg

Ken wrote: "I have to protest. Authors are subject to rules as if they were some vagrant tracking mud across your white carpet. Without the unruly, self-serving authors, there is no Goodreads.

Authors!! To ..."

Hey, at least, unlike amazon, goodreads also suspects you authors of being able to read and form an opinion on what you read. Good grief, we'll even let you uncouth fellows write a review!

Ha ha! Nice...

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All the book lover in India now you can buy books online on sedalite.com which is one of the leading book store in India. Go for it guys.

go for www.sedalite.com this is the website for selling books and new authors can contact them to sell the new books in India.

Good to know. This looks like a great group! I'm excited to be apart of it!

Hi Everyone,

After years of contemplation, I finally managed to find both the time and confidence to write my first original novel. The slated trilogy, is titled "Fallen Guardian Saga." It really feels great to unleash a story from my head and put it to paper. Yes, I actually wrote freehand in a notebook! The story was put into two books and they are both available now on Amazon.
Descended (Fallen Guardian Saga #1) & Ascended (Fallen Guardian Saga #2).

If you like a good "Romantasy" Saga, my new coined phrase for Romantic Fantasy Novels, please check them out!

Thanks Vincent for creating a place for Authors to promote their own work. I love Goodreads!!!


Debra Ann Miller :)

Good morning!

I just published my first book, Raven (Raven Series) on Amazon and waiting on B&N. I'm very excited to have the ball rolling with that now.

I love, no I LOVE LOVE LOVE reading a good paranormal romance series. Feel free to add me as a friend if we have any books or interests in common.

Hope everyone has a great day! :)

Hello everyone!
I've just released the second book in my Paranormal Romance series The Wolvers. The Alpha's Choice, isn't your typical werewolf book. It's more of a contemporay romance in a paranormal setting and I hope my readers enjoy as much as the first book.

Kimberly wrote: "Good morning!

I just published my first book, Raven (Raven Series) on Amazon and waiting on B&N. I'm very excited to have the ball rolling with that now.

I love, no I LOVE LOVE LOVE reading ..."

Kimberly,
Congratulations! Would love to hear any trials/tribulations regarding your process on publishing your first novel. I am writing my first right now. :)

Thanks and best of luck!
Jessica

I'm not entirely sure where I fit into the genres out there. While some have slotted me into romance, it's not really that accurate. It's really a humourous literary venture with some erotic elements. Any suggests as to where I should place myself? Thanks! Spank : The Improbable Adventures of George Aloysius Brown

Lol:)

His Father's Sins The Right to Judge

Hello everyone. My name is Kellye Bel Davis Alston and I love to write. I have just finished my second Christian based fictional novel. Just became a member of goodreads last week and giving it a go. Very interesting to see all the different authors on here. Well enough small talk. I hope you enjoy reading my works.

Within My Eyes
It is great to be a part of this group. My name is Dayna Barret, I live in southern California, and I write paranormal thrillers. Within My Eyes was my first book published in 2003, and now it's a 10th anniversary eBook edition on Amazon Kindle as well. This is because the long awaited sequel will be coming around towards year end.
When I am not writing, I am in school working towards a PhD in Psychology.
However, writing is my passion and I have slacked off too long. I am trying to refocus the habit of reading historical romances to reading paranormal thrillers; but old habits are hard to break. I guess a primary reason is that my writing is uniquely different. My paranormal environment involves bi-location, astral projection, and mesmerism. I do not follow the cut-and-paste formula, meaning my antagonist is the star (like Dracula or Hannibal Lecter) and my protagonist just wants a life free of the unexplained.

For me, writing the synopsis and blurb are the most difficult. I think I would prefer to have someone else do it because I over-think everything. It took what seemed forever for my publisher to get me to release the book to them. I am hoping my time in school has taught me new ways of handling the separation anxiety of letting another book-child go off into the world.

My biggest pet peeve would be self-published writers who have no intellectual knowledge of the true writing process. They throw something together, then submit it for self-publishing on Kindle, without revising, editing and polishing. I do not see how the Big 6 publishers could ever feel a threat from Amazon when these processes are ignored. Amazon is not reading these books in advance. The only process the book goes through is their editing software, much like Word, but I feel strongly that the Kindle software is not even as good. I want to cringe when I get asked to review a book anymore because the first paragraph alone is riddled with errors. Just because you CAN publish, does not mean you should.

Hi All,
Just wrote a book 'Oops the mighty gurgle'. A laugh out loud wacky sci fi. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

Hi there! I am glad there is an author forum! My name is Amanda Cowen and my NA Novel BETWEEN FRIENDS is being published on Amazon on March 22nd!!! And I am so very excited!!! Here is the blurb below!!!

The only way to have a friend is to be one…especially between the sheets…

When neurotically challenged and unlucky in love Megan Daniels is propositioned by her life-long friend Ben Romano with a coin toss (heads, they sleep together, tails they don’t) the night before they are about to attend their friends destination wedding, she drunkenly accepts his challenge. But when Megan wakes up the next morning with a bad hangover and Ben in her bed, she is more than mortified. It isn’t until the tropical heat begins igniting emotions Megan never ever believed or thought she could possibly have, making her question if risking their friendship is the answer to finding true love.

Romance/Fantasy

The Dance of the Spiral Virgins

Time is an infinite circle. Beautiful, dotted with every moment, every remembrance, every joy and every pain. On that circle, in its gorgeous folds and colorful portraits, among its mysteries and its horrors, we stop for an instant to survey the breath of a city. In that city our eye is caught by a man. An indigent. An alcoholic by the looks of him, sitting in a dumpster eating God-knows-what. He will soon be dead, but before that moment of passing a bit farther down this ribbon we call time, he will rise higher than the stars.

I am Anselm, and I have been given the command, "Raise him out of the ashes of his life." But how, you may ask, am I to accomplish such a task? Look at him. Filthy, muttering, in his customary drunken condition. And yet I see a spark in him—a spark that I will make into a flame. I also see a young woman nearby who knows nothing of his pitiful life, but soon enough she will. In a moment, inches away on this ribbon, he will meet her. We shall see just how strong love really is. Thus will begin the redemption of Marvin Fuster.

And so we begin his miraculous story. It is evening…

They used to live in a city with a sun and two moons. No one was allowed to leave except the four young ultimate warriors once a year. The first one who returned to the City was acclaimed as the Champion. Nina was determined that she would be triumphant, but nothing could have prepared her for the horror she discovered outside the City Walls. This is "their" story, but is it our story too? We can come and go as we please. Can we? Will we KNOW what is going on if we live in similar times as these? They didn't know ...Is the story history or prophecy? According to all the Beta-readers In the Reign of the Ilev is a visual feast. Can it come true? You decide …




As the ultimate outsider, Mary Meddlemore is not impressed with life on Earth, but she has a plan, an impossible plan. But what if it is possible? Andrew, the lonely young lawyer from Stonecity sees a woman everywhere, but she can't be real, because she can walk through glass. One step is all that is needed for love to become real. A quirky story, celebrating the regenerating power of stories. It can be seen as an allegory or a fable, but stories, like humans, cannot be labeled. This story will change your perceptions of stories forever.



An unusual collection of four short stories, which may be defined as fables, sending up certain aspects of human behavior, both humorous and somewhat sad, as well as short discussions on the gifts and joys of stories by Mary Meddlemore, an expert on stories as she, herself, is a character and inhabits the Story Dimension. According to Mary, stories cannot be labeled just as humans cannot be labeled. We are not rows of tins on a shop shelf and stories defy labeling and do just what they want!

Oh, this just answered the question I asked in another thread. Ignore it Vincent. :) Sorry about that. I will put a link for my books in soon.