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Thanks, C.J.!

Hey, we're not dealing with teenagers here. Talk about spoon-feeding. If newbies don't get how to review and how to respond to reviews, they don't belong here. Sorry for being blunt, but that's the way I see it. We're not here to mollycoddle neophytes, but to suggest how they might improve their writing. The model of the site has already been made clear to all those who are considering joining. So Sol, if you want to add some small print and point to this thread, make sure this post is also included.

I've got FB friends who don't do Twitter, so, yeah, I use FB for book marketing. And to participate in my publisher's active author group.

Thanks, Randy, Marilyn. Now that the writing, and the editing, and the cover art decision is over, it's time for my favorite part (not!): the marketing. (Sigh)

Sorry to hear about that, Bill. Follow the doctor's orders so you can get back in stride again. I agree that doling out computer time in separate sittings is a good idea - one I should follow!

If we're going to be libertarian here, sure, anyone can form any group and hope to attract members to that group. Sol wants to create a new group - fine. Members can join it. But what the practical benefit that would be escapes me. I created the Thriller, Mystery, Suspense group, but I didn't intend for members who joined it to post only in that group. It was meant only for a place for like-minded readers/writers to go for discussions or whatever. As it turned out, the only thing I've seen coming out of these myriad groups I'm associated with is the occasional quiz. Perhaps I should be more active administering my group (and if anyone wants to take it over, let me know), but my focus has been posting and reviewing in the Premium group, where the action was and (so far) is. I'm not privy to all the other groups' activities, but I'm not aware of any that have postings only to that group. That would kind of defeat the purpose of this site, IMO. Sol, though, seems to want postings for like-minded writers confined to this new group and for like-minded reviewers to seek those postings out. I guess we could change the mindset of the site and have all the subgroups serve as a minor league, as it were, where genre postings would first go to the applicable group before advancing, if warranted, to the majors (Premium). I don't know, this edict from on high has a "who cares" quality to it unless Sol is pursuing a radical change in the TNBW model, and this is the first step.

Great list. I've never used any of those in my books but am considering inserting "callipygian" when the opportunity arises.

Yeah, it's amazing what those twenty years of American history have done for the culture.

Whew! It sounded like TNBW was being disbanded, and I wondered how I missed it. It wasn't trending on Twitter.

I grew up in Vermont, where cold weather like this was par for the course and I accepted it, even went skiing in it. Of course, I was much younger then!

Randy and Mark - You're getting mentions in the Acknowledgments. Thanks for your support!