Sinclair Books discussion

Hello everyone, please introduce yourself and tell us a little about who you are. Do you write? What do you like to read? What are your hobbies? And where in the world are you from?

I'm Mysti Parker. I'm a full time wife and mom of three kids. I write fantasy romance, currently working on a series based in the world of Tallenmere. Just published the first one--A Ranger's Tale. My favorite books are whatever I have time to read nowadays :)

And I hail from Kentucky in the USA. Thanks for having me!

Hey Mysti, thanks for joining the forum. What got you into writing fantasy romance? Is that a genre you have always loved? Feel free to post an excerpt and link to A Ranger's Tale in the excerpt section. The forum is going to be having an influx of members soon and this will be a good place to tell people about your books.

Hello there. My name is Kay Springsteen. I write contemporary romance with deeply emotional subjects. My debut novel is called Heartsight about a blind marine seeking his new purpose in the world, and his friendship with a divorced mother and her daughter with Down syndrome. My second novel is scheduled for release on April 5, about a firefighter trapped in the rubble of an earthquake and his voice lifeline.

Hello Everyone, I'm Missy Martine. I write contemporary and paranormal erotic romantic fiction. I have 5 books published with Siren/Bookstrand http://www.sirenpublishing.com/missym... and I have my debut book with eXtasy Books coming out the 1st of April called The Magic in Her Gift.

I've only been writing about 2 years so I'm still a bit of a newbie. I retired from nursing back in 2002 for health reason.

I'm a real-life cougar, married for the second time to a wonderfully romantic man who just happens to be 10 years younger than me :)

I'm looking forward to visiting with everyone. You can learn more about my writing at my websit www.missymartine.com

Missy Martine
www.missymartine.com

Hi Kay & Missy,
Welcome to the group. Please feel free to post excerpts and any reviews to your books. Congratulations to you both with your upcoming releases. Are you feeling excited or nervous? Or perhaps a little bit of both?

I'm excited, Alex. Each day closer to the 1st leaves me more and more nervous. This book is a little bit different from my others, and they did really well, plus this is a new publisher. It's like the first time all over again!

Missy

Hi Alex, I'm Jean. I have one contemporary romance out, an ebook from Astraea Press called, "Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights". I have a series to be published by Secret Cravings in a couple of months. The first two books will be, "Now and Forever 1, a Love Story" and the second will be "Now and Forever 2, the Book of Danny". I live in New York City with my family and my rescued pug, Homer.

Hey Missy, I can totally relate to being excited about the release, but nervous as it draws closer. I thought I had become a true professional with my last release. I wasn't nervous. I was happy with the final product. And then the day before the release it hit me! A nervous nuclear explosion, lol. Did you move to a new publisher because this book is a bit different? And what makes this book different from the others you have done?

Hey Jean, glad you joined us here on the forum. You should post some excerpts of your books. How many books do you plan to do in the Now and Forever series?

Alex wrote: "Hey Jean, glad you joined us here on the forum. You should post some excerpts of your books. How many books do you plan to do in the Now and Forever series?"

I plan to do four. #3 will be Blind Love and #4 will be The Renovated Heart. I'd love to post an excerpt. Long or short? I have a short excerpt from Six Sentence Sunday. Would that work? Do I send it to you?

Hey Jean, excerpts can be as long as the forum allows. I think word count is like 12,000 words, lol, so plenty of room. At the bottom of the forum is a section marked excerpts just post it in there. Although they have to be PG because goodreads might get funny with us.

Thanks, Alex. The book is PG, so no worries. I think I'll post the first two chapters as chapter 2 ends with a teaser.

Posted it, I think. Hope I did it right. Thanks for this opportunity, Alex.

Couldn't get through Chapter 2 posted as it only allows 12,000 characters, not words.That's okay. This is enough.

Yeah, I loved the excerpt. I am going to be posting a few more over the next week for some of my other books and maybe a sneak peak of my erotic suspense novel, Five Days Notice, just to see what everyone thinks.

I look forward to it. A good excerpt is like a taste of fine chocolate or wine,it makes you want more.

Hello to Alex and everyone here.
My name is Francis Ray and I enjoys writing fiction, where intelligent women through hard work and perseverance triumph over adversity, just as they do in real life.

Free reads at www.FrancisRay.com

Thank you

Hi Francis, welcome to the group. Please feel free to post excerpts and reviews of your books. I hope you enjoy your stay here with us.

Alex, thank you for the welcome.

All the best

Hello to all here!!! My name is Jaime, on this site I'm known as Lady J. I love reading all kinds of books and talking about what I've read.

Thank you Francis.

Welcome to the group Lady J, you love reading all kinds of books? Do you have a favourite genre you lean more towards? Have you read anything good as of late? We are always open to book recommendations. The last few books I have read were very disappointing.

Thank you, for the warm welcome! Right now, I'm on an urban fiction kick. I'm currently reading White Lines by Tracy Brown.

Last month, I read I Beat The Odds by Michael Oher and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I highly recommend.

Loved Michael Oher in "The Blind Side" also liked to watch him play football (American style) for Baltimore.

Hello,

My name is Barbara
I am a reader and reviewer.
I love urban fiction.
I just finished reading Black Widow and The Sandman by LL Reaper, and I loved it ( 5 stars ). I mostly will read anything except for horror mystery books. I usually read 10 to 12 books a month. I love book challenges

Barbara, do you read romance?

Jean wrote: "Loved Michael Oher in "The Blind Side" also liked to watch him play football (American style) for Baltimore."

I Beat The Odds is by Michael Oher, himself. Basically it's his own story in his own words. Whereas, The Blind Side is by someone else.

Does it differ a lot from the movie?

Jean wrote: "Does it differ a lot from the movie?"

Yes, he even discusses his thoughts about the book and movie.

Sounds like I should read it. His story is incredible.

Hi Barbara, welcome to the group. You read 10-12 books a month!!! Don't think I read that many a year, lol. I wish I could do that though, but I am the slowest reader in the world. Then again the last few novels I have picked up really let me down and I just couldn't get into them.

Hi my name is Sharon and like the rest of you I write, my first book is a little black dress romance and I am currently searching for an Agent/Publisher for the same. I have almost completed my second book a thriller with a twist it gets a bit steamy in places, where that idea came from I can't say, other than it seemed like a good idea at the time!

I'm a widow and I live in Brittany, France.

Hi, Sharon, nice to meet you!

Jean wrote: "Hi, Sharon, nice to meet you!"

Hi Jean, nice to meet you too, I went out to the beach for the day yesterday with my daughter. I can't believe its only the beginning of April and we are already into the beach season!

Bought some Clams (well at least I think that's what they are 'palourdes' in French) I am going to make a sauce and serve them with pasta tonight!

Weird spring weather though it gave me time to read my book, I picked it up in a swap never heard of the author before Greg Iles, Blood Red, another forensic expert murder book along the lines of Kathy Reichs even down to the alcoholic forensic expert though this one is into dental forensics. I'll let you know my opinion in a couple of days.

I sometimes wished I didn't read so quickly because English novels are like gold dust here, there is only one supermarket with a good selection.

A friend in Normandy said she buys her books as a mystery box, about 50 books in each box but she forgot to tell me who sells them, is anyone able to help me out with a name or http address?

Hi Sharon, welcome to the group. Please feel free to post some excerpts of you books and tell us about it. How long have you been looking for a publisher/agent?

Hi Alex, I found you here through a post you made on Amazon inviting readers to post to your blog for the April Book of the Month. Thanks so much for that, and for this. "Appalachian Justice" is my first novel, and I'm currently working on my second.

I'll be back later to explore - right now it's time to feed the kids. :-)

Melinda

Hi Melinda, I am really glad you found us. Please feel free to post excerpts and reviews for your book. The site is here to showcase your work. What is your second novel about?

Thanks, Alex! It feels really weird to be invited to post excerpts...not my usual experience!

The second is a sort-of sequel to the first, following up with some of the main characters but fitting more into a mystery genre.

You've invited all of us to post, but what about you? How many novels do you have out there? What are they? And thanks again for your kindness.

Melinda

Hi Melinda, it can be a bit odd being asked to post excerpts, but it is why I created the group. I wanted to give people a platform to post excerpts, trailers, reviews and talk books. The group is still very young and still finding our feet, but we are starting to move in the right direction. You can find reviews, trailers and excerpts posted by other authors about half way down the forum.

I currently have... five books out. Two through my publisher and three I have put out myself. I have a new release with my publisher next month and about five more books coming over the next year or so, lol. My favourite one would be, Under The Midnight Sky, which is a short historical romance novella that refused to go away until it was written, lol.

Hello. I'm new so I'll introduce myself. My name is Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy and I'm a romance author. I have two works currently out (and here on Goodreads), Wolfe's Lady and Love Tattoo. I also have seven more coming that are under contract. The sequel to Love Tattoo, Love Scars will be out in June, in July I have a romantic suspense release from Champagne Books, Kinfolk, and a sweet historical from Astraea Press. My contemporary romance Love Never Fails will be out in September from Rebel Ink Press, November will be A Time To Love from Champagne and next year, Witness Protection Program (Rebel Ink) and Long Live The King (Champagne). I expect to add more to the list.

I also love to read - when I have time!

My name is Elizabeth Black. I was referred to you by Jean Joachim. I both an author and a reader. I write erotica, erotic romance, dark fiction, and horror. I read just about everything but westerns. Absolutely love horror!

My hobbies are watching movies (esp. horror movies of course), playing with my cats, and reading. I also like walking on the beaches near my home, but not when it's 50 degrees outside. Brrrr!!!

Hello Lee, Elizabeth & Adrienne, welcome to the group. Please feel free to post excerpts and reviews of your books, as I would love to learn more about your stories.

Hi all~

I am the author of Foolish Endeavors ~ An Erotica, currently working on my 2nd and 3rd novels simultaneously. I'm excited to be a part of this group. www.jaylijazpublishing.com. I'm an avid reader, so my reading selections are limitless.

hi! i'm therese gilardi. i am a romance novelist, essayist and poet, living in the hills above los angeles. my sweet paranormal romance, "matching wits with venus", about a hollywood matchmaker and the roman god cupid, has just been released by astraea press. i'm looking forward to learning about everyone else's books.

Hi R.F & Therese, welcome to the group. It is great that you managed to find us. Feel free to post any trailers, excerpts or reviews of your books. What are you both currently working on?

thanks for the warm welcome. my sweet paranormal romance, "Matching Wits With Venus", about a hollywood matchmaker and the roman god cupid, has just been released by astraea press. i am working on a contemporary romance, a chapbook of poetry, and a memoir about my years in paris, france. i look forward to this group -i have heard great things.

http://www.amazon.com/Matching-Wits-w...

Wow that is a really wide variety of different types of book projects. I found poetry absolutely impossible to write. Such a beautiful art and I am rubbish at it, lol.

i used to look at poetry the same way. a little over two years ago i moved from france to southern california - part of my intent was to become part of an amazing writers' collective in L.A. that was organized by a very gifted poet. i began to write poetry, and much to my surprise others began to like what i wrote. believe me no one was more surprised when i began to have poetry accepted in poetry journals. it's funny, isn't it, that as writers we tend to concentrate in one or two little fields (short fiction or novel, etc). i bet your work is not the rubbish you believe it to be.

That is a pretty big move from France to the U.S. It is an amazing feeling when people have such a positive interest in what you write. And my poetry was very rubbish, perhaps the worst, the police deemed it so rubbish that I was banned from writing it by the law... that last part may not be true, lol.

Hey im Georgiana and im from australia i love reading but hate writing and english (as a subject) weird i know and i love animals and heaps of other stuff