Goodreads' Author Group discussion

I would like to thank everyone for joining this group!

I do hope you have fun and enjoy learning from each other, exploring and reading each other's work!?!

Let's build a wonderful community where we support, follow, read, review and rate each other's work ... as we all know, marketing and promoting can be a very difficult task, so let's help ease some of this and unite with one another on our publishing journey!

Don't forget to add your books to the bookshelf!

Please feel free to invite your friends to join!

Sincerely,
Ali Marsman

Ali wrote: "I would like to thank everyone for joining this group!

I do hope you have fun and enjoy learning from each other, exploring and reading each other's work!?!

Let's build a wonderful community wher..."

Thank you for the invite Ali. I look forward to interacting with other Authors in the group.

Eugenie wrote: "Ali wrote: "I would like to thank everyone for joining this group!

I do hope you have fun and enjoy learning from each other, exploring and reading each other's work!?!

Let's build a wonderful co..."

Welcome, Eugenie, I am happy you are here!

I see that you have already added your books to the bookshelf - please think about which book you would like members to read in our, 'Book Swap'

Congratulations on your success!

Please be sure to add the link for your group within the discussion topic, 'Group Links'

:)

Thank you for adding me this group! I appreciate it.
I'm the author of 14 novels. Here's the link to my Amazon author page.
www.amazon.com/author/leegimenez

Regards,
Lee Gimenez

Lee wrote: "Thank you for adding me this group! I appreciate it.
I'm the author of 14 novels. Here's the link to my Amazon author page.
www.amazon.com/author/leegimenez

Regards,
Lee Gimenez"

Welcome, Lee! I am happy you are here and am looking forward to you sharing within this group!

Please add your books to the bookshelf, and think about which book you would like members to read in our, 'Book Swap'

Congratulations on your success!

Sincerely,
Ali :)

Thanks, Ali!

Hello Everyone,
Thank you for inviting me to join your group. Per your request, I'm including my bio below....
Deborah LeBlanc is an multi-published, best-selling author from Lafayette, Louisiana. She is also a licensed death scene investigator, a licensed private investigator and has been an active paranormal investigator for over twenty-five years. Deborah is currently the house ‘clairsendium’ (clairvoyant, sensitive, medium) for the upcoming paranormal investigation television show, Through the Veil.
She served four years as president of the Horror Writers Association, eight years as president of the Writers' Guild of Acadiana, and two years as president of Mystery Writers of America's Southwest Chapter. In 2007, Deborah founded Literacy Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting illiteracy in America’s teens.
For more information, visit www.deborahleblanc.com and www.literacyinc.com

Leo wrote: "Hello Everyone,
Thank you for inviting me to join your group. Per your request, I'm including my bio below....
Deborah LeBlanc is an multi-published, best-selling author from Lafayette, Louisiana. ..."

Thank you for joining, Leo & Deborah, welcome! I am looking forward to you joining in on the conversations!

Please add your book(s) to the bookshelf, and keep in mind which (1) book you would like to offer in our 'Book Swap!'


Sincerely,
Ali :)

Community is so important for authors, whose role in the corporate world is known as "individual contributor." So much of what we do, we do alone. Thanks for the invitation!

I'll be adding my novels and other works to the bookshelf. Meanwhile, here's an abridged bio and link to my website:

Robin Reardon is an inveterate observer of human nature, and her primary writing goal is to create stories about all kinds of people, some of whom happen to be gay, transgender, or intersex—people whose destinies should not be determined solely by their sexual orientation. Her secondary writing goal is to introduce readers to concepts or information they might not know very much about.

Interests outside of writing include singing, nature photography, and the study of comparative religions. Robin writes in a butter yellow study with a view of the Boston, Massachusetts skyline.
http://www.robinreardon.com

Robin wrote: "Community is so important for authors, whose role in the corporate world is known as "individual contributor." So much of what we do, we do alone. Thanks for the invitation!

I'll be adding my nove..."

Yes, absolutely, Robin! Thank you for joining, welcome!

I am grateful for your words. This is precisely the reason I wanted to create this group - so we have the support of fellow authors during our published journey, and to help each other rise to the success we wish to see with our work!

I am looking forward to you joining in on the discussions!

Sincerely,
Ali :)

Ali,
Thank you for inviting me to join the group. I look forward to sharing comments, ideas, and information with all of the other members.
Jim
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Jim wrote: "Ali,
Thank you for inviting me to join the group. I look forward to sharing comments, ideas, and information with all of the other members.
Jim
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..."

Hi Jim! Thank you for joining, welcome!

I am looking forward to you joining in on the discussions.

Please be sure to add your book to the bookshelf.

Sincerely,
Ali :)

Ali wrote: "I would like to thank everyone for joining this group!

I do hope you have fun and enjoy learning from each other, exploring and reading each other's work!?!

Let's build a wonderful community wher..."
Thanks so much for the invitation, Ali. You are an inspiration to me! I look forward to future interactions in this group. Everyone has so much passion for their work. May your efforts be rewarded!

Hi, folks

My name is Jamie. I live in Northern Ireland and I am a writer. I write in multiple genres and I am currently working on supernatural horror novel at this moment in time. I have published a short story called Insular that peaked at Number 1 on the Amazon's Best Sellers List within less than a week. Happy to be here.

Susan's wrote: "Ali wrote: "I would like to thank everyone for joining this group!

I do hope you have fun and enjoy learning from each other, exploring and reading each other's work!?!

Let's build a wonderful co..."

Hello Susan!

Thank you so much for joining, welcome!

An 'inspiration?' well, I never expected to read that, Susan, and am honoured that you would say something so wonderful ... it has made me smile with tears welling :)

I do hope you have great success writing your book, and that you will be able to add it to the bookshelf in the very near future!

Thank you for the well wishes for the authors here, I do hope they read your posts, for you are the inspirational one with the words you use and the encouragement you give within all of the groups you are in!

Sincerely,
Ali :)

Jamie wrote: "Hi, folks

My name is Jamie. I live in Northern Ireland and I am a writer. I write in multiple genres and I am currently working on supernatural horror novel at this moment in time. I have publishe..."

Hi Jamie,

Thank you for joining the group, welcome!

We have been friends for a few months on Goodreads and I am so excited for your work and having the opportunity to be one of the first people to read both, 'Insular' and 'Mr. Jones!' I am excited for 'Mr. Jones' to be released again for it is truly a wonderful story.

If you haven't already placed, 'Insular' on the bookshelf? Please do so now, this is how I am managing what books authors would like us to read, so I apologize for removing your post in the folders, but I want to manage this group a bit different than the other groups. We will have the opportunity to read everyone's work, and so we don't have to ask in a 'mass' post, simply placing your book on the shelf lets all members know this is the book you are choosing for us!

Sincerely,
Ali :)

P.S. Please place your giveaway in the events' folder for us.

Hi! Thank you for the invite. I'm a reader/blogger and my fav genre is contemporary romance . Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Natalie wrote: "Hi! Thank you for the invite. I'm a reader/blogger and my fav genre is contemporary romance . Looking forward to chatting with you all."

Hi Natalie,

Thank you for joining, welcome!

I am looking forward to you participating within the group and hope you will blog about your experiences here, and participate in our readings ... and blog about the books!

Sincerely,
Ali :)

Thanks Ali for the invite!!. Looking forward to the discussions!!

Thank you for the invite! wonderful to be part of this group! I'm an author and reader, former educator and coffee lover! I especially love poetry, historical romance and classic literature though I'm open to reading other genres :)

Thanks Ali for the invite. I am happy to be here.

Thank you for the invitation to join this group, Ali. I am the author of 23 novels and novellas (historical romance and historical mystery/intrigue). Please check out my website to learn more about me. www.patriciacatacalosnovels.com
I love coffee, pinot grigio wine, traveling with my loving husband and collecting art in our travels. I always begin my day in an hour of prayer to deepen my spirituality.
Looking forward to learning about other writers and supporting their works.

Hi, everyone. My apologies for being so late to the party!

Anyway, here's the bio, with blog and website links to follow.

Sharon E. Cathcart is an award-winning author of fiction featuring atypical characters.

A former journalist and newspaper editor, Sharon has been writing for as long as she can remember and always has at least one work in progress.

Sharon lives in the Silicon Valley, California, with her husband and an assortment of pets.

Learn more at https://sharonecathcart.weebly.com/ and https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/

I look forward to everyone's posts.

Welcome, Authors, Kimelene, Patricia and Sharon .. friends of authors, Kathleen and Rochelle, thank you for joining!

I do hope we turn this into a great group and I am still coming up with ideas on how to make this work.

:)

Hello everyone! I am a new author to fiction works. I have written poetry for years and published two books and had my poems featured in anthologies in online magazine publications.

I have always loved writing and held onto my fiction ideas for a long time. But not anymore! :) My first release is in the romance genre. I also just published two more works, two short prequels to my upcoming book series Chroma Chronicles, that are in the scifi romance.

Elani wrote: "Hello everyone! I am a new author to fiction works. I have written poetry for years and published two books and had my poems featured in anthologies in online magazine publications.

I have always..."

Good day, Elani! Thank you for joining ... welcome!

I am really looking forward to you and your books being part of this group. It is a very new group, but I am hoping to do a book swap shortly, so I hope you will add your 'favourite' book to the bookshelf!

Thanks again, Elani!

:)

Thank you so much for this invitation, Ali!
I believe that the creation of this group has a great value to all authors who want to share their work with other authors and write reviews for each other.
To introduce myself I would like to invite you to my website: http://www.mariatzoutzopoulou.com/

Happy March to all of you!

Maria wrote: "Thank you so much for this invitation, Ali!
I believe that the creation of this group has a great value to all authors who want to share their work with other authors and write reviews for each ot..."

You are most welcome, Maria ... thank you for joining!

Yes! I do hope the bookshelf will have each author's choice, and I am thinking it might be a good and fun idea to have non authors add 1 book of authors within this group that they would like to read?!

I will send another message and ask for suggestions, but for now, I am happy people are joining!

:)

Hello my beautiful souls.

Firstly I would like to say Thank You.

Thank you for adding me to your group.

I’m a first time author and just independently published 1 of the 5 children’s books I have written and I wanted to introduce myself.

My name is Medea Kalantar, I live in Ontario Canada, I’m a Reiki Master and Practitioner, I’ve been married to my wonderful husband Esfandiar for over 27 years and we have two beautiful children Shanaz who is 26 and Jean-Diar who is 25 years old.

I was inspired to write these books as I’m about to become a grandmother. My stories are all based on my own family, whose members come from many different ethnic backgrounds. This unique mix is a perfect recipe, and it’s the reason why I call my grandchildren my little Honeycakes.

My first book Honeycake - A Family of Spices introduces readers to a diverse, multi-cultural family that is full of love.

The grandmother explains why she calls her grandchildren “Honeycakes” while she teaches her granddaughter how to bake a honey cake.

Through imagination, the grandmother details how each delicious ingredient represents a different family member and his or her unique ethnic background.

This charming book also includes a recipe and step-by-step instructions on how to bake your own delicious batch of honey cake with your Honeycakes!

With more lovely stories to tell, Honeycake will be followed by a series of books. Each one tells valuable life lessons and gives parents and children the tools to overcome obstacles in their everyday lives.

These books will teach children how to do random acts of kindness, have honest and open communication, and practice gratitude. Children will even discover how to meditate and manage their emotions when things don't go their way. I wrote these stories to help young readers count their blessings and to share positive messages.

I am passionate about my books because it will help caregivers teach their children to become more balanced, kind, grateful, honest people and will help them manage their emotions when things don’t go the way they hope. I always say there is no such thing as wining or losing, there is only wining. You win when you reach the goal you wanted to achieve or you win by learning a very valuable lesson. It’s all about perspective and how you look at things. This is what I try to teach through my stories.

My vision is that my books will be in all the schools as part of the curriculum. How amazing would it be for our children to learn how to meditate, live in gratitude be honest and be rewarded not only if they win a race or competition or if they got an “A” but by showing compassion and doing random acts of kindness. How much more of a better world we would live in if we didn’t focus on everything we don’t have and be grateful for all the wonderful things we do have. Giving children these valuable lessons at a early age, will help them grow into happy adults that aren’t stressed out and live with a healthy mind, body and spirit.

We all come from many different cultural and religious backgrounds but we are all one race. The human race. We are all one.
My passion is to help young readers count their blessings and to share positive messages.

My first book is now for sale online on Amazon, Barns and Noble, and Indigo. I'm so excited to have you all part of this journey.
I believe that if we instill these valuable lessons to our youth at an early age, we can shift the universe into a positive direction.

Blessings of Love and Light

In Warmth,
Medea
Author of Honeycake Books Series

#Honeycakebooks

Medea wrote: "Hello my beautiful souls.

Firstly I would like to say Thank You.

Thank you for adding me to your group.

I’m a first time author and just independently published 1 of the 5 children’s books I hav..."

Welcome, Madea ... thank you so much for joining! I do hope you will enjoy your visits here!

I believe congratulations are in order for the arrival of your first grandson? I am sure he will be very happy hearing you read such a beautiful story inspired by your family! Have you read it to him yet?

:)

Hi everyone!

I live in Alberta, Canada. My debut mystery 'Tied to Deceit' was published last August. It's whodunit/police procedural set in 1970s India. If you love Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, P D James, Elizabeth George, Louise Penny (specifically character-driven mysteries), you will love Tied to Deceit.

Kirkus has recently selected my book for 2018's Indie Authors' Worth Discovering List (for June Issue).

Tied to Deceit

From the Blurb:

On a drizzly August morning, the inhabitants of the hill town of Sanover, Himachal Pradesh, wake up to the shocking news of the murder of the exquisite, secretive, malicious, and thoroughly immoral Devika Singh.

As Superintendent of Police Vishwanath Sharma begins to sift through the hidden secrets of Devika Singh's life, it becomes evident that everyone who knew her seems to have a clear-cut motive for killing her.

Faced with the investigation of a crime that appears to have as many suspects as there are motives, Vishwanath Sharma probes the sinister web spun around a tangle of lies and deception.

Praise for Tied to Deceit:

"A remarkable whodunit that's as sharp as it is concise.
Brar enhances her taut murder mystery with an engaging setting that effectively incorporates the local culture. The smart, believable denouement will have readers looking forward to Brar's next endeavor."
-Kirkus Reviews

"A literary mystery saga that includes far more depth and psychological and cultural insights than your typical murder mystery's scenario."
-Midwest Book Review

"Tied to Deceit definitely is a book to recommend to crime fiction fans, especially if you love ‘’who dunnit’’ mysteries! "
-San Francisco Book Review

Neena wrote: "Hi everyone!

I live in Alberta, Canada. My debut mystery 'Tied to Deceit' was published last August. It's whodunit/police procedural set in 1970s India. If you love Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, ..."

Welcome, Neena, thank you for joining!

Congratulations of your first book, and the success you've had with it thus far ... that's exciting news!

I hope you enjoy your visits here :)

My name is James, and I self published my first book about two years ago. I have been writing since, but have put no work into marketing my book, so I have only sold a couple dozen copies. Recently, I retired from being E.D. of a small charity working with ex-offenders. I am just now trying to launch myself as a writer. I am new to Goodreads and am trying to figure this community out.

Welcome, James, thank you for joining! I do hope this group will be a great place for you to begin really marketing and getting excited about your book!

I hope you enjoy it here :)

Hi everyone

I've just joined the group today & hope that I'm doing this right! I guess I'll know eventually :D

I've recently starting self-publishing children's picture books. The nice thing about that is...they're only 30 pages long & are much quicker to read & review.

I'll try to add one book to the bookshelf for anyone who's able & willing to review it. It's available on Kindle Unlimited: "I'll Just be a Tad", written by me, Gill Marshall.

Thanks and have a great weekend everyone,
Gill.

Marie wrote: "Hello!
I'm new to the group - my name is Marie and I write poetry. I have 4 books out right now on Amazon and a few more in the works. I am self-published but have had individual poems published in..."

Hello Marie, thank you for joining!

Gill wrote: "Hi everyone

I've just joined the group today & hope that I'm doing this right! I guess I'll know eventually :D

I've recently starting self-publishing children's picture books. The nice thing abou..."

Hello Gill, thank you for joining!