Eric’s Comments (group member since Jan 12, 2023)

Eric’s comments from the Reviews and feedback for self-published/indie authors - fiction group.

Hey Joseph thanks for joining! If you’d like for us to add your book to the group bookshelf to be reviewed, go ahead and post under the Feedback Requested folder. Looking forward to it!

A Sword of the Three Rivers: A book as fast and wild as a torrential river.
You can read my review below:

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

Hello BA, Steve, and John! Thanks for joining.

To BA: I’d love to add your work to the shelf, please follow the instructions on Feedback Requests to include the information if you want to add your book to the group.

To Steve: we are only in the fiction genre, sorry. I assume there are other groups that read non-fiction and you would get much more traction there. Good luck!

To John: if you go to ‘Your Books’, you will see a list of the books you’ve added. Next to the book, is an ‘edit’ button. Click that and you can change the ‘shelf’ to ‘to-read’ if you want to read it later. If you don’t want to read the book at all, instead of clicking ‘edit’ you can just click the ‘x’ and it will delete the book from your section.
To fill out the feedback form, you can list your name and book title under 1. If you don’t fill it out fully, I can also message you and get the information needed.

Haha, that’s awesome! Well, good luck on book 3!

Hi John, thanks for joining!

Very cool! Yea the two characters of the Sendyne empire that you introduce at the end of Book 1 are very interesting so I’m glad to hear that they are featured even more in book 2.

It sounds like A Sword of the Three Rivers was wild, but chaotic, exploration for a much younger you that you detailed over 7 years. That makes me curious, how long did it take to write book 2 and how long, assuming you finish book 3 later this year, will that one have taken?

As a book is featured, I’ll post a topic here for the book. I’d love it if the author would be open to discussing the book with us and answering questions.

Hey Seth, I’ve finished my very enjoyable read of A Sword of the Three Rivers and will review it soon! Here are some questions I’d love your thoughts on.

How did the idea of this book come to you?

You mention there’s more to come, and you’ve already written a sequel I believe. What are your plans for the series?

I liked the strange gladiator game they played for their wager - is that based on an actual gladiator event or did you make it all up?

Hey Gary, thanks for joining! Looking forward to reading your work - go ahead and post on the feedback requested and I’ll add your book to the bookshelf!

Hi CL and Dave, thanks for joining! If either of you want to request specific feedback on a book, please post in the feedback requested topic. Looking forward to reading your work!

Hey Jonathan thanks for joining! I actually already have Arm & Hammer in my KU so I’m excited to get to it. I’ll add it to our bookshelf so others can enjoy!

Thanks for joining Lynn! We’ve got a few readers who have joined who have expressed interest in fantasy. Please feel free to add a book or two of yours on the feedback request and I’ll add it to the bookshelf. I gradually work through the books there, giving one at a time a spot on the currently reading list which features it on the front of the group to make it more accessible to the other readers to view.

that's awesome, thanks for your support Caroline! you can check out our current featured book which is shown on the main page. I also know that our next one, Through Hell and Highwater by Victoria Liiv, is a fantasy story you might like as well!

Hey Susanne, this book definitely sounds interesting. I do think the blurb is a little too long. With so many details, it’s hard to keep track of everything. I think you could reduce this to 2 paragraphs and make it much more compelling by not revealing too much. Below, I’ve just copied your blurb but cut out the middle parts and rearranged a bit to illustrate what I mean:

Elizabeth Reading and Scarlett Harding travel to Blue Harbor, Maine, hoping to purchase a bed-and-breakfast in a peaceful town. After settling in, they visit a local ice cream parlor where a man dies in a pool of blood at Elizabeth's feet. Elizabeth packs her bags to leave, but Scarlett pleads with her to keep the appointment at the inn. The next day, they fall in love with the quaint inn and sign the papers, despite Elizabeth's misgivings.

After they move in, they hear rumors of a curse. And of residents dying in unusual circumstances. On their first weekend as innkeepers, a violent storm hits. Two guests are slashed to death in their beds. As Elizabeth and Scarlett struggle to survive, they search for answers to the growing pile of bodies, but what they discover is much more sinister…

I will be cycling through the books that have been posted in the Feedback Request folder. As I personally read through the book, I will put it on the ‘Currently Reading’ folder of the bookshelf which will feature the book on the main page of this group.

I read daily and have a minimum goal pace of 20 pages/day. Thus, each book will be featured by the following formula: total pages/20. This will give how many days it will approximately take me to read the book. I will then round that up to the next week.

For example: 165 page book —> 165/20 = 8.25 days —> round up to 2 weeks on the ‘Currently Reading’ section to feature the book.

Note: this will be capped at 4 weeks (which would roughly equate to a 600 page book so not that common).

I will be selecting the books in order they are submitted with one MAJOR caveat. If I see that a member has been active and reviewed other people’s books and posted their review as a reply to the initial review request, and then this generous author submits their own book - they will be bumped to the top of the list. This is meant, in some small way, to reward people who help others in this group.

Hey thanks for joining! I’m looking forward to checking your books out!

Hey all! I’m deciding on a book cover for my epic fantasy and am torn by some designs which all look so good. I’d really appreciate any of your thoughts on which cover seems most appealing. Here’s the link to view the designs: https://99designs.com/contests/poll/9...

Some context: it’s an epic fantasy (found family off to save the world). The two characters you’ll see are a man, the Shadow Spinner who can control Shadows, and N’Halia, a young woman who uses Lightning.

Thanks for your feedback!

Wow, the character art of the locations for Through Hell and Highwater is crazy realistic! I’m excited to read and will add it to the group bookshelf.

Hi Victoria, thanks for joining! If you add your books to the Feedback Request folder, I’ll add it to the group shelf. Please refer to the guidelines for how to format the info. I’ve added Through Hell and Highwater to my KU and I’m looking forward to digging in soon!

Thanks for joining Nicole!

I read her book, “Conquer Stress” today and enjoyed it a lot! As she said, it is a nonfiction work, but it deals with info we can all benefit from. Plus she advocates guided imagery to relax which is half of coming up with fantasy books anyway!

If you want to know more, you can check out my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...