Books on the Nightstand discussion

Books on the Nightstand is a community of readers.
And we know that authors are readers, too.
As such, we welcome your participation in and contributions to our discussions, and we invite you to become part of the Books on the Nightstand community.

We do not invite you to spam us.

We like to think of the BOTNS Goodreads group as a cocktail party. Please behave as you would at a real cocktail party. Do not walk in the door and start shoving your book in people's faces. Don't go up to someone and yell, "Hey, I'm an author!". Don't set up a table at the front of our living room and try to sell your book to everyone who passes by it on the way to the bar.

If your first, second, or even tenth post is a message promoting your book, we consider it spam. In fact, any message that blatantly promotes your book is spam. Our community members will see through it, and your post will be flagged and marked as spam.

Our community loves and supports authors, but as human beings first. Be human.

Thanks.

Ann

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Thank you!

"cocktail party"? Never been to one of those.Ger

Agreed!

Thank you!! Amazon discussion groups are similar (but without a kick-booty moderator); you see a thread you think might be interesting but the 3rd post in is by someone trying to sell her/his book. Sheesh! (By the way, I'm an author--and I find it annoying when other authors do such a thing. If I'm ever guilty, kick my booty!)

"We like to think of the BOTNS Goodreads group as a cocktail party. Please behave as you would at a real cocktail party."

Excellent. A milieu with which I am quite familiar.

Still never been to a cocktail party but I do not care for spam.

Call me a snob, but I do not care for cocktail parties where SPAM is served.

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "Call me a snob, but I do not care for cocktail parties where SPAM is served."

LOL!

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "Call me a snob, but I do not care for cocktail parties where SPAM is served."

I would avoid hotels in Waikiki if I were you.

There's a great author blog post about this very issue. Now, I don't read the kind of books Heidi Belleau writes, but I would put her at the top of my list if I liked that genre.

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...

Callie wrote: "Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "Call me a snob, but I do not care for cocktail parties where SPAM is served."

I would avoid hotels in Waikiki if I were you."

True story: When I was about eight years old, my family went to Hawaii and stayed at the Waikiki Sheraton. For two weeks, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I ate nothing but pineapple. Oh, wait. I take that back: I tried poi. Didn't like it. Went back to pineapple! :-)

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "Call me a snob, but I do not care for cocktail parties where SPAM is served."

LOL!

Spam and eggs are great but computer spam stinks.

Gerald wrote: "Spam and eggs are great but computer spam stinks."

Especially with eggs.

Callie wrote: "Gerald wrote: "Spam and eggs are great but computer spam stinks."

Especially with eggs."

eeeewwwww!

Boomers got spam in many different ways. It's also great fried.

This is very sensible. However,I wanted to clarify one point. I am a listener and short story read-along participant who happens to be editing an anthology of short, short stories by women. I was thinking that short story readers make the best short story writers, but don’t want to spam people. It be would be uncool to invite submissions from members via the general announcement thread of our BOTNS group, yes?

Hmmm .. I would say that in this particular case, with our prior approval, and since you were kind enough to ask first, it would be best to create a special thread. Why don't you go ahead, start a thread that doesn't read too spammy (you know what I mean) and I'll hop on and post that I gave my OK.

Because I'm curious. And have a few stories here... :)