Genre Specific Review Groups discussion

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THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 Natalie Vellacott -
Reuben's Choice
Reuben and Joseph
Reuben's Big Test


2 Scott Spotson -
My Wizard Buddy
Wizard Planet
Target Earth


3 Ronit Tal Shaltiel -
Where Are the Numbers? The Adventure of the Numbers
Travel the world with the numbers
Coloring Book - The Adventures of the Numbers: Multiplication and Addition.


4 Tonya Duncan Ellis -
Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee
Sophie Washington: The Snitch
Things You Didn't Know About Sophie


5 Sonal Panse -
The Panchatantra Retold: Part 1 - Mitra Bheda
The Panchatantra Retold: Part 2 - Mitra Samprapti
The Panchatantra Retold: Part 3 - Kakolukiyam


6 Bonnie Ferrante -
Rayne Shines
Monkey's 100th Day
The Amida Tree


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

January 2 to January 23

Natalie Vellacott reviews Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee
Scott Spotson reviews Rayne Shines
Ronit Tal Shaltiel reviews The Panchatantra Retold: Part 1 - Mitra Bheda
Tonya Duncan Ellis reviews Where Are the Numbers? The Adventure of the Numbers
Sonal Panse reviews My Wizard Buddy
Bonnie Ferrante reviews Reuben's Choice

January 23 to February 6

Natalie Vellacott reviews Travel the world with the numbers
Scott Spotson reviews Sophie Washington: The Snitch
Ronit Tal Shaltiel reviews The Panchatantra Retold: Part 2 - Mitra Samprapti
Tonya Duncan Ellis reviews Monkey's 100th Day
Sonal Panse reviews Wizard Planet
Bonnie Ferrante reviews Reuben and Joseph

February 6 to February 27

Natalie Vellacott reviews Target Earth
Scott Spotson reviews Things You Didn't Know About Sophie
Ronit Tal Shaltiel reviews The Amida Tree
Tonya Duncan Ellis reviews Coloring Book - The Adventures of the Numbers: Multiplication and Addition.
Sonal Panse reviews Reuben's Big Test
Bonnie Ferrante reviews The Panchatantra Retold: Part 3 - Kakolukiyam

I'll assume only series are allowed up to three, and that the books are short so reading three isn't a big challenge.

Here are my books, 20,000 words each.

My Wizard Buddy

Wizard Planet

Target Earth

Hi Coloring Book - The Adventures of the Numbers: Multiplication and Addition.

please sing me up, here are my books:
Where Are the Numbers? The Adventure of the Numbers

Travel the world with the numbers

Coloring Book - The Adventures of the Numbers: Multiplication and Addition.

words count: 2000 for the first two the third non

Hello,

I would like to sign up. I have a four book series. These middle grade chapter books are 90-100 pages each. My books are:

Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Washing...


Sophie Washington: The Snitch
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Washing...

Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Washing...


Sophie Washington: The Gamer
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Washing...

I think to be fair, the limit of books in the series should be three... but Tonya can pick three of the four books she offers... maybe the first three.

Ok that is fine.

I'd like to join too, with a single book, Keena the Brave. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0767MS9W5/

I'd like to join with

Thanks!

Please sign me up with

Rayne Shines

Monkey's 100th Day

The Amida Tree

Authors:

We now have six and are moving on to the scheduling phase. Let me know about any conflicts as soon as possible. Also, I would like to hear from the participants about whether they would prefer scheduling three rounds one for each book of each author or two rounds each participant reviewing all three books by the author assigned in each round. I think the latter option would be better, but I want to know what the participants want before I decide.

R.

I would prefer reading three books by three different authors for the reasons Natalie mentioned, but will be happy to go along with the majority as well.

Happily, the only book I've reviewed is Rayne Shines. Everything else is new to me, even the other two books Bonnie's throwing in. Except I've reviewed Rhian's single book.

I prefer to read one author at a time, three books for that author. I feel it would be a bit jarring to read, for example, Book Two by one author (and not read the first in the series), Book Three by another author, a short book by one author, and a long book by another author. Sort of like a hodge podge stew.

Though my books are in a series they can each be read as stand alones.

Yah, true, Natalie, but also the author's style is pretty consistent, even if they're stand-alone books.

As mentioned, it would be hard to read Book Three of some series, as well as a logistics nightmare for the administrator to figure out the order, assigning Book One to some, Book Two to others, and Book Three to more.

Whatever the majority decides is fine with me. This is my first experience with this so I want it to be a smooth process for all.

I have a conflict with 2 authors. I reviewed Bonnie, and Scott but not the books that in this review round. I can review them, they can't review me.

I think that it will be fair to have mix the short and long books.

I can't review Ronit.

I can give Scott a different third book to review. I can't review him.

Bonnie has reviewed my picture book 'Good Morning, Chickalina'. So I can't review her.

I have reviewed Scott's books before, but not the ones here.

If it isn't too late to sign up to review, I'm happy to read and review any of the children's books. I used to teach 3rd, 5th, and in middle school as a science teacher and as a Literacy Coach. Not fussed on which books to review, fit me in wherever.

I would love to have you review my books!

Natalie wrote: "Holly wrote: "If it isn't too late to sign up to review, I'm happy to read and review any of the children's books. I used to teach 3rd, 5th, and in middle school as a science teacher and as a Liter..."

I agree. This is an organized peer review group. Participation is not required, if a member would like to read and possibly review a book on Goodreads without reciprocation.

R.

Authors:

I have worked out two schedules:

1) Three rounds, one book per round. Every author reviews books randomly selected. Most participants are assigned two books from one of the authors. It is the only way this worked.

2) The standard two round review cycle with each author reviewing three books by one author in each round.

Please let me know which arrangement you prefer.

R.

Number two

#1 is my preference

choice number 1

Natalie wrote: "Holly wrote: "If it isn't too late to sign up to review, I'm happy to read and review any of the children's books. I used to teach 3rd, 5th, and in middle school as a science teacher and as a Liter..."

Ah okay. I'm a recently published author, but not of children's books. I write adventure/sci-fi.

Authors:

The votes are in, and we are going with option 1. The review schedule has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Please review it and let me know about any problems.

R.

Sonal wrote: "What am I reviewing between January 23 to February 6?"

Sorry about that. It was a typo. The error has been corrected.

R.

Hi Scott,

I am having trouble accessing your email on your website. Could you email me with an epub or pdf copy of your book My Wizard Buddy? I have been assigned it for the first round of reviews.

Tonya Ellis

Sure, I'm surprised you're having trouble as my author account on Goodreads is set to public and long has been. I'll try contacting you first through your Goodreads author account.

Hi R.

Scott can't review my books, I reviewed his book this year.

Authors:

We have another conflict. So hold off on exchanging books until I resolve it.

R.

Authors:

The schedule has been redone. I hope all conflicts have been resolved. Let me know if there is anything else I have missed.

R.

Natalie wrote: "R. wrote: "Authors:

We have another conflict. So hold off on exchanging books until I resolve it.

R."

I've already read my first round book by Tonya..."

Well, we lucked out on that one. You are still scheduled to read Sonya's first book in the first round.

Natalie wrote: "Ronit, I cannot contact you, can you change your settings to allow private messages or just send your book, Travel the World with Numbers to natalie.vellacott@gmail.com, Thanks Natalie"

Natalie:

Ronit can be contacted through her Goodreads personal page at https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6....

R.

Wow... so many changes from one conflict. Thought tinkering was okay... but every book I'm reviewing and every reviewer reviewing me has changed totally. All right, I'll get this show on the road!

Hi Ronit,

I'm assigned two of your books (Where are the Numbers and Coloring Book Adventures With Numbers) You can forward them to me for review at tonyaellis@live.com. Looking forward to reading them!

Can we still review books from authors in the group if they aren't assigned to us and we haven't read them yet?

Tonya wrote: "Can we still review books from authors in the group if they aren't assigned to us and we haven't read them yet?"

The only issue about publishing reviews on Amazon is if it seems to be reciprocal. I believe the theory behind this is that two authors might agree to high-rate each other's books to improve their standing on Amazon. We avoid this by insisting on honest reviews and attempting to keep from having authors review other authors who have reviewed them previously. If you want to read someone's book, you should. If you are going to publish a review, take this into consideration.

R.

Scott wrote: "Wow... so many changes from one conflict. Thought tinkering was okay... but every book I'm reviewing and every reviewer reviewing me has changed totally. All right, I'll get this show on the road!"

When we first tried arranging review schedules by human thinking, there were constant errors. In particular, attempts to tweak a schedule almost always failed. So I developed an Excel spreadsheet that automates generating the schedule. This has proven to be more effective and introduced fewer errors. When adding a conflict to the input, we have to run the program again, randomizing the selections.

Thanks for the explanation about the reviews. That makes sense.

Round 1 Where Are the Numbers - Ronit Shaltiel

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Round 3 Coloring Book The Adventures of Numbers: Multiplication and Addition - Ronit Shaltiel

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.amazon.com/Coloring-book-...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coloring-boo...

The two Sophie Washington books:

I didn't leave any review on Amazon U.K. for one of them as it had no other reviews and I didn't want to stand out too much. If requested, I certainly can post it there.

The Snitch

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2IVQCG...


Things You Didn't Know about Sophie

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

https://www.amazon.com/review/RBGJ7QP...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RU4GE...

Thanks Scott!

Monkey's 100th Day. Also posted to Amazon.

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

All done! Thanks.

I see Scott reviewed Monkey's 100th Day. I also reviewed this book. I posted my review in Goodreads but for some reason my review is not showing on Amazon. I emailed Amazon this morning to see what is going on.

Goodreads Review
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Here's my final two reviews of Monkey's 100th Day:

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Monkeys-100th-...

I also reviewed in Amazon UK but it's not listed yet.

I reviewed Reuben's Choice.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

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

I reviewed Sonal Panse's #3.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...