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No clashes at least that I know of (=I haven't reviewed the four above me). Should be all set!

I haven't read any of the books above me, and mine hasn't been reviewed by anyone below me

No clashes

Chris has already mentioned that I've read/reviewed The Mosaic before, and I don't see any others. Thank you!

No clashes for me!

Thanks, E.M. for putting this all together and managing it as efficiently as always! You're the best.

Cecily wrote: "Chris has already mentioned that I've read/reviewed The Mosaic before, and I don't see any others. Thank you!"

I have a collection of short stories set in 'The Mosaic' universe that could use some reviews.

No clashes. Lets go! :-)

All good

Looks like we are good to go - if I've messed up anywhere, please let me know ASAP :)

START DATE: 01-Sept-18

END DATE: 24-Nov-18

Round 1 � post your review by 22-Sept-18
Round 2 � post your review by 13-Oct-18
Round 3 � post your review by 03-Nov-18
Round 4 � post your review by 24-Nov-18

As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

194-01__Stacie Eirich
Joyce Hertzoff for round 1
M.T. Finnberg for round 2
P.G. Fogarty for round 3
Lori Allison for round 4

194-02__Loralee Evans
Stacie Eirich for round 1
Joyce Hertzoff for round 2
M.T. Finnberg for round 3
P.G. Fogarty for round 4

194-03__Cecily Wolfe
Loralee Evans for round 1
Stacie Eirich for round 2
Joyce Hertzoff for round 3
M.T. Finnberg for round 4

194-04__ Chris Keaton
Cecily Wolfe for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Stacie Eirich for round 3
Joyce Hertzoff for round 4

194-05__Vidhya V.L
Chris Keaton for round 1
Cecily Wolfe for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Stacie Eirich for round 4

194-06__ Brin Murray
Vidhya V.L for round 1
Chris Keaton for round 2
Cecily Wolfe for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

194-07__ Lori Allison
Brin Murray for round 1
Vidhya V.L for round 2
Chris Keaton for round 3
Cecily Wolfe for round 4

194-08__ P.G. Fogarty
Lori Allison for round 1
Brin Murray for round 2
Vidhya V.L for round 3
Chris Keaton for round 4

194-09__ M.T. Finnberg
P.G. Fogarty for round 1
Lori Allison for round 2
Brin Murray for round 3
Vidhya V.L for round 4

194-10__ Joyce Hertzoff
M.T. Finnberg for round 1
P.G. Fogarty for round 2
Lori Allison for round 3
Brin Murray for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

194-01__Stacie Eirich
Loralee Evans for round 1
Cecily Wolfe for round 2
Chris Keaton for round 3
Vidhya V.L for round 4

194-02__Loralee Evans
Cecily Wolfe for round 1
Chris Keaton for round 2
Vidhya V.L for round 3
Brin Murray for round 4

194-03__Cecily Wolfe
Chris Keaton for round 1
Vidhya V.L for round 2
Brin Murray for round 3
Lori Allison for round 4

194-04__ Chris Keaton
Vidhya V.L for round 1
Brin Murray for round 2
Lori Allison for round 3
P.G. Fogarty for round 4

194-05__Vidhya V.L
Brin Murray for round 1
Lori Allison for round 2
P.G. Fogarty for round 3
M.T. Finnberg for round 4

194-06__ Brin Murray
Lori Allison for round 1
P.G. Fogarty for round 2
M.T. Finnberg for round 3
Joyce Hertzoff for round 4

194-07__ Lori Allison
P.G. Fogarty for round 1
M.T. Finnberg for round 2
Joyce Hertzoff for round 3
Stacie Eirich for round 4

194-08__ P.G. Fogarty
M.T. Finnberg for round 1
Joyce Hertzoff for round 2
Stacie Eirich for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

194-09__ M.T. Finnberg
Joyce Hertzoff for round 1
Stacie Eirich for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Cecily Wolfe for round 4

194-10__ Joyce Hertzoff
Stacie Eirich for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Cecily Wolfe for round 3
Chris Keaton for round 4


Please remember the commitment you are making to your fellow group members. If you pull out after the start date for any reason it is the other members who will be faced with the problem of finding a replacement, or missing out on reads/reviews, through no fault of their own. Please don’t ask the moderators to chase after replacements as we just don’t have the time.

It is the responsibility of the author to get their book to their readers in a format the reviewer can manage. Everyone must be able to provide and accept PDF. You may buy or borrow the books you are due to read if you wish, and I’m sure the author will appreciate the verified review, but IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. There are no set dates for the start of each round. You can each work at your own pace, within the limits of the round deadlines.

All reviews must be posted to GR. We also encourage members to post on Amazon. When you have posted your reviews, please post the links to each of your reviews, not the book page in this thread.
The mod of each round will record whether members have posted reviews on Amazon and for the good of all, members who persistently fail to post reviews or DNF reviews to Amazon, will find mods less than willing to add them to subsequent groups.

Postings to other sites are by agreement by both author and reviewer.

If I’ve missed something that results in you being asked to review someone who has already reviewed you, please let me know asap.

To exchange book files, my advice is to use PM to give email addresses to each other (save the chance of spammers getting your addies from this open forum). Happy reviewing, everyone :)

Please consider downloading one of my books and/or one of the round mod’s books as a thank you for all the hard work we put in for the group.

Please read this especially if you are new to these review rounds.

Quick 'start-up' summary for anyone new who might be scratching their heads. You should PM the four people who will be reviewing you (the four above you on the original list of names) through their Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ author pages. Click on the down arrow beside the 'Follow Author' button under their picture and it opens a menu which will allow you to message them.

Ask what kind of file they would like or say you can only offer PDF, though unless a publisher uploaded it for you, you can always download a .mobi of your own book from Amazon.

Don't forget to ask where to send it so they can give you their email.

The four people who you are reviewing should be in touch with you in a similar way.

You can, of course, choose to buy any or all of the books instead, or read the books on KU, if you are a subscriber and the books are available there.

Please make sure you have exchanged ALL FOUR books - or have been assured by your reviewers they will buy your book or read it through KU - as soon as possible. Some people read fast and it can be very frustrating to have to wait a long time to get hold of a book you are committed to review.

Finally, recent changes on Amazon mean that we are now asking you to post your review to your own Amazon store and any others you might have access to as well. Please still attempt to post on .com and .uk, but if you can only post on your local Zon you will not be penalised.

I shall be modding this round so PM me with any issues please.

I have sent a message to everyone I need to review and be reviewed! :)

Joyce you have your messaging feature turned off so I can't ask you where to send your review copy?

I also have not been able to contact Joyce.

I have finished reading Chris Keaton's The Mosaic.
Amazon:

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show...

Loralee wrote: "I have finished reading Chris Keaton's The Mosaic.
Amazon:

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show..."

Sorry, it appears the PDF I sent you was from an unedited version. I really don't send out PDFs, so I'm not sure why I thought I had a good one laying around.

Chris wrote: "Joyce you have your messaging feature turned off so I can't ask you where to send your review copy?"

I just turned it on again today. For some reason, although I save the change to my profile, it turns off. You can send me a copy at jhertzof gmail com. I prefer PDF but can handle mobi, or even a .docx

I've read and reviewed Cecily's book, The Competition.

Amazon:

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show...

Joyce wrote: "Chris wrote: "Joyce you have your messaging feature turned off so I can't ask you where to send your review copy?"

I just turned it on again today. For some reason, although I save the change to m..."

I realize that I have reviewed you before, so you can't review me. I screwed up and thought that you had reviewed me before, but nope it was the other way around. If you would still like to read the book, but submit no review I can send it over, but you're excused for this round.

Loralee wrote: "I've read and reviewed Cecily's book, The Competition.

Amazon:

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show..."

Thank you!

I'm still waiting on a book from Vidhya V.L.

Chris, I'm looking forward to reading Mosaic and reviewing it.

Joyce wrote: "Chris, I'm looking forward to reading Mosaic and reviewing it."

Swap reviews will get the attention of the Zon Gods and we can see our reviews vanish, so no worries about the review. But message me your email and I'll send you a copy for your enjoyment.

Chris - I’ll send one over first thing tomorrow! Thanks for checking!

I'm also waiting for Vidhya V.L.'s book.

Hey All - I have sent everyone a copy! I wanted to apologize to Chris, Stacie and Cecily. I found the alignment terribly off when I converted my PDF to mobi/epub online. So, I have sent you all my PDF version.
I will be happy to try converting it again if you know a way or a link that does it perfectly.
Thanks,
Vidhya

I've read and reviewed Brin's book -

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ - /review/show...

Amazon -

I have finished Vidhya's book, Incensa.

Amazon:

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show...

Oh, and Calibre is helpful to get, if you don't have it. It converts word documents to mobi and epub. I've found it helpful.

E. M., Chris brought up the fact that he read another of my books and I'm due to read one of his this round. We're concerned that the 'zon gods will strip one or another of those, but the requirement here is that we do a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ review AND an Amazon one and post the links when we're done. Can I skip the Amazon one? What's your recommendation?

I recommend you don't do the review, Joyce. These rounds are very fixed on reviews being non-reciprocal in order to ensure no one can impugn the honesty of the reviews.

Chris admitted it was his error and whilst I do feel for him, I can't see a way around it unless you happen to have a friend willing to do the review instead of you, which is a solution another person has come up with in a similar situation.

Thanks. So not even on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ? I still intend to read the book and post my review on my blog.

Joyce wrote: "Thanks. So not even on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ? I still intend to read the book and post my review on my blog."

Thanks, I appreciate that.

I have read and reviewed Lori's Book -

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ - /review/show...

Amazon -

I have read and reviewed P.G's book -

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ - /review/show...

Amazon -

My Round 1 Review: Raccoons & Rabbit Holes by Loralee Evans.

/review/show...

Amazon link pending. Will update when I get confirmation.

-Stacie

Here’s the Amazon link for my R 1 Review:

-Stacie

I'm apparently the slow poke as I'm still reading the first book.

Chris wrote: "I'm apparently the slow poke as I'm still reading the first book."

me, too!

I posted my reviews of P.G.'s book for Round 1 ...

Amazon:


Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: /review/show...

I have read and reviewed M.T's book -
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ -
/review/show...

Amazon -

Here is my Round 1 review for Vidhya's 'Incensa'.

AZ

GR
/review/show...

And we are off to a good start!

Thanks to Loralee and Vidhya for already completing your commitment to this round and to Chris, Stacie and Lori for submitting your first reviews.

Those of you have yet to get off the mark, please note that the first round deadline is 22 Sept

In another important note, please be aware when posting links to Amazon that you need to delete everything after and including the letters 'ref' in the URL. If you don't, Amazon know anyone clinking on that link is in some way connected with you as that information is your personal account link information.

Oh - I did not know that! Thanks for letting me know. I'll take care of that going forward.

My reviews for Bear Kingdom and the Golden Sword:

/review/show...

My reviews are posted for MT's book.

/review/show...

Joyce wrote: "My reviews for Bear Kingdom and the Golden Sword:

/review/show...

"

Thank you so much for your review, Joyce! I'm glad you enjoyed the book. :-) -Stacie

My review for Round 2: The Competition, by Cecily Wolfe

/review/show...

I am unable to post to Amazon at this time due to the book still being in pre-order status. I will add my review there after the book releases.

-Stacie

Stacie wrote: "My review for Round 2: The Competition, by Cecily Wolfe

/review/show...

I am unable to post to Amazon at this time due to the book still being in pre-order status..."

You can post to Amazon, since the paperback is available. There are already a few Amazon reviews posted for it.

Review for Brin's Crosstrees, round 2

GR
/review/show...
AZ

Reviews for Toys in the Attic:
/review/show...


Reviews for A Father's fire:
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Reviews for So You Want to be a Dragon:
/review/show...


Reviews for The Swooning Moon Saga, Wing Walkers:
/review/show...


Thanks everyone for some interesting reads, and to everyone who's reviewing mine.