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Well, the sun glasses play an important role in the story. Kenny immediately understood they need to be on the cover, which I overlooked.

Kiss

Gacela

Jack:

I've just discovered Headtalker yesterday upon supporting you. How does it works exactly?

Kiss

Gacela.

Cover 2

Dears:

Those who were kind to read my story, would you vote for a cover?

Kiss

Gacela

Awesome improvement Sol! You're a genius.

Kiss

Gacela

Madison

Sure! Hope around May  15.

Kiss,

Gacela

Contrats!!! Very well done. It's an amazing trilogy.

Kiss,

Gacela

These are my thoughts:

1. The changes to the front page are awesome, generally speaking.

2. The thumbnail front-cover images do clutter the page a bit, but I think it's correct to have them there. As aspiring/consolidated writers we must start our marketing right from the very workshop process. A good cover is a must, even if it's only for this site.

3. The part showing our connections' bookshelves might be bit too much. I would suggest to put a button which takes you to another page where the bookshelves are shown rather than to clutter the front page even more.

4. The "Articles" and "Essays" part needs to be reduced to the last 5. It's not that people post articles and essays that frequently. BTW, in the case of articles and essays, I would eliminate the book cover thumbnail. Since they are not books, it's unlikely that there would ever exist a book cover for them, even if they are published. For those arguing that the same might be valid for poems and short stories--which are typically published as anthologies--I would answer that many of them do come with illustrations particular to the poem or short story within the anthology. The latter is seldom valid for essays, even the published ones. Articles... well, if they end up in magazines, many times there's an illustration, but it all depends on the article and the magazine. Anyway, I'd eliminate the thumbnail images for Articles and Essays looking forward to uncluttering the front page.

5. Connections didn't exist in the previous site. However, I'm sure that many of us developed some practical way to check whether the people we reciprocated with had published anything new. So, I wouldn't say that a front-page section showing what our connections have published recently is discouraging the reviewal of material posted by newbies.

6. The above said, I'm in favour or providing extra points to anything published by new member under 3 months. Also, I'd suggest to create a new section on top of the page (right below "New Writing to Review from Your Groups") showing the latest 5 works published by members under 3 months, despite whether they are novels, short stories, poems, essays, or articles. All this would increase the attention provided to newbies.

7. A good idea might be that, once a new person signs in, a sort of wizard pops up asking her whether she wants to post in the Premium forum introducing herself. The wizard can guide the newbie who can fill the blanks with her name/pen name, genre, preferred reading, published works (if any) and stuff of the sort about her literary preferences. Blank extra space for personal, optional info could exist too. In the previous site, those newbies who introduced themselves in the "New members" forum often received more reviews than those who didn't.

Kiss,

Gacela

Madison:

As promised I've just finished reading your novel. I never read it while you workshoped it here, which is sad because I missed a wonderful story. However, it's never late to right a wrong and now that I read it, I'm very glad I did. A nice book to read during sunset and early in the evening when the moon raises. A romantic story with a very particular touch. A story of healing and friendship.

I've already left a comment in Amazon and five stars. Contrats! Great story.

Kiss,

Gacela

Hi all!

I'm new to the group and even to the genre. My thing is young adult, but I've just started writing this story about this "brotherhood" working on destroying the six dark angels who revealed against God at the beginning of time--the devil himself is their commander in chief. There's this  high school girl whom the brotherhood assumes is a reincarnation of the seventh, elusive, and amazingly powerful dark angel (the only dark angel who is female BTW), so they start to plot, and act, against her. But  they're not the the  only ones, there's also a bunch of demons after her,should it be confirmed she is indeed the said reincarnation.

It's not gonna be as creepy as The Exorcist, like Phil said, not even close. Anyway, I want to create a sorta permanent, creepy atmosphere all through the story. Like the reader keeps feeling somebody is looking over her shoulder. Also, the MC should be both as "innocent" as a16 yo is expected to be, but also as malicious and calculating as a demon's reincarnation should behave.

Hope I end up writing something worth of this genre.

Kiss,

Gacela.

Memphis Trace:

You may think I'm stupid, but there are a couple of issues that are not clear to me about this group (which otherwise sounds very interesting). You're talking about a virtual group, aren't you? The question raises because what you explained is a group which gathered three hours once a week, but TNBW group would be a virtual group, am I right?

Second: is the virtual group gathering 3 hours once a week. There are many ways to gather virtually, from a Skype conference (either video or only voice) to be sitting in front of your computer during the appointed 3 hours interacting via forum posts, emails, etc. Is there any plan to gather virtually at a given weekly hour/day?

I am not a full time writer. I work and travel quite a lot because of my job. I know that some of you folks are retired or are full time writers, which means full time dedicated to writing, but it's not my case. Some of you, who besides writing and working are mothers, fathers, caregivers, etc., will laugh in my face because I'm overbooked at 25. Call me a freak, but I don't want to ask to participate only to fail.

Based on your experience with that other group you hosted, How much workload does it represents doing all the reviews you're proposing, ballpark figure? One hour per day, two hours per day, one hour per week, two hours per week, etc?

Again, I wouldn't like to apply to participate in the group only to retire before it even starts. It would be rude. That's why I'm asking these many questions.

Kiss,

Gacela