Indie Book Club discussion

Hey, everyone. This month's vote will be a slightly different kettle of monkeys to usual. To help speed things up and hopefully foster more interest, we're just going to have a single phase of nomination/voting.

In short, you can nominate a book of any genre (except straight fantasy, which still belongs in the Fantasy Book of the Month category).

In the event of a three-way (or more) tie I'll use random.org to pick one. If there's a two-way tie there'll be a brief tie-breaker poll [if only two books are nominated and they tie I'll use random.org instead of re-running the exact same poll].

So, after nominating your book please do note its genre.

Any nominated book requires seconding to be added to the poll list.

In addition, a reminder that a book that wins because of brand new members who have done nothing but join and vote or 'sleeper' members who are similar but have been around a little longer may be disqualified.

The poll will begin on the 25th of this month.

Remember, kids, it's a very good thing to participate. Not only can you find good books you might not otherwise read, the more contributors we get in these threads the better the feedback for the authors. It'll help potential readers to be warned off bad books and encouraged to read a lesser known but good book.

I've found good books this way, and it is good promotion for authors.

Yeah, it's also useful to get good feedback for authors, and I've read a few books outside my usual comfort zone.

I'll second that, Mika.

Apologies for recent quietness, computer's been off having adventures with another man.

Thaddeus wrote: "...computer's been off having adventures with another man."

I'm not quite sure what to say to that.

Anyway, I'm taking a break from this reading group for a while (sorry). Not enough hours in the day and so on. I'll still drop in now and again, but at the moment I'm struggling to find time to read the books. I'm sure featured authors won't miss my reviews...

A Computer Man was fiddling with her.

Come back soon, Steph :)

I haven't been as active either. Sorry about that.

Alexandra, whilst delightful when you're here there's no need to apologise for when you're not. Everyone has many demands on their time. I only wish every member could be as active as you, or Steph, or Mika.

Then we'd have more discussion, more publicity for authors and more readers finding good books they otherwise wouldn't.

So far the enormo-list is:
Time Shifters

Ok I'll nominate Veil of the Dragon as it is on my list in the next couple of books anyway.

Ignore me it is fantasy - I'll put it on the other list...

Mika, more nominations would be good. On the other hand, I'd rather have a good book from one nomination rather than a bad one being the winner of a vote.

And cheers for the Countdown Deal info. Is that an Amazon thingummyjig?

Countdown is another KDP select thing - basically you reduce the price to - say 99c for a day then it goes back up to 1.99 then full price, counting down the days until it is back to normal. I haven't used it myself and I've heard mixed results, but it is the same as any marketing strategy in that it works for some.

I'll nominate Palanquin Of Heaven. It has been on my list a while - and seems to be an Indian story filled with 'magic, mystery and romance'. I am not sure if it is available outside of Amazon, though.

I'll second that. Sounds a bit off the beaten track.

So that's:
Time Shifters
Palanquin of Heaven

And the poll is up:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

It's a tie at the moment, so if you want to cast your vote so I don't have to do a tie-breaker that'd be very helpful...

Thaddeus wrote: "It's a tie at the moment, so if you want to cast your vote so I don't have to do a tie-breaker that'd be very helpful..."

I apparently tried to vote just after the poll closed.

:(

It's always irksome when something like that happens. Still, we'll have another vote next month.

We can always do the other next month, or let people read either.

With only two nominations and a pretty low turnout I think running both together will just spread participation even more thinly. I'd prefer to just have one OBOTM.

Fair enough. I'll read the OBOTM when I have finished my current read, which should be tomorrow.

Mika wrote: "Which would you have voted for J.D.?"

Palanquin of Heaven, only because time travel is something I very rarely find to my taste.

As it isn't actually available then it probably doesn't matter;)