Introduce yourself and say 'Hi' this is the thread to say hello in

[Arutha]

I'm back and tons has happened since I was last on that I want to talk about, hello to all the new people who have joined you have come to the best place for books and just general talk.

Arutha

 

[SusanRae]

Greetings All,

My name is Susan and I am from the prairie lands of Illinois. I was surprised that I hadn't discovered this board sooner when I joined last month. I love talking books to death so this is the perfect place for me. I imagine I'll be spending most of my time in the fantasy forum, but occasionally I do read some science fiction.

Glad to be here!
Susan

 

[kater]

Welcome Susan I lived in Illinois for a year, on exchange to the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Quite a pretty place but not much between there and Chicago, other than fields

 

[Space Trumpet]

Hi, I'm Space Trumpet...probably the only musical instrument amongst the stars without a spacesuit.

I like a mix of sci-fi fiction, fantasy, and some general stuff, sometimes history. Looks great here. Really liked Imajica by Clive Barker.

 

[SusanRae]

That's very interesting! I'm a student at the University of Illinois studying English and Rhetoric. We get a lot of international students here, I always wonder if they feel slighted because it's such a distance between here and many of the more exciting places in the United States (other than Chicago and St. Louis. However, I made friends with a guy from Reading, England and I believe by the end of his stay here he'd visited more places in the United States than many of my American friends have!

Anyways, thanks for the welcome.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Hi there. I live in England and I'm going to university near the end of the year (To study Business Studies).
So...uh....Hi!

 

[Beorn]

Hi. I'm from Brissie in Australia and am looking forward to visting the many joys of SFF. Favorite author is Feist followed by Tolkein, looking to mabye find a meeting place in Brissie for other lovers of Fantasy spose i will search the forums. Chow

 

[Eldanuumea]

Greetings Reyna, Arutha, SusanRae, Cloud Strife and Beorn. It's a great thing to see such a constant influx of newbies.

 

[Grey_Wind]

Does anybody ever feel like going outside and yelling up into the sky "WHY!!!!" I do.

 

[Eldanuumea]

Sounds like you're having a bad hair day, my dear.....but do try to keep the thread on topic.

 

[Grey_Wind]

My applogies, bad hair day was a little understated, for future reference, where would that kind of post go (besides on a mental asylum forum)

 

[kater]

The Funzone is a mental asylum forum and although you'll need to register there as well You can do and say anything to relieve the stress

 

[Grey_Wind]

Last thing i need is more profiles, but I'll give it a look around. Thanks Kater

 

[gertie]

Hello. I'm gertie. I am a native Californian. I'm a writer - no, probably nothing you've read yet (although it is something I do get paid for sometimes) but I'm working on it. I do freelance non-fiction mostly right now, but I've got an intereting urban fantasy that I'm working on.

I read more science fiction than fantasy, but I came to fantasy a bit late. I also read a lot of non-fiction, and I'm a sucker for a good mystery or police procedural, but I mostly outgrew romance novels in junior high and I don't think I've ever read a western - well, I did read Louis L'Amour's The Haunted Mesa, but that was really more fantasy than western.

Other interests include anthropology (which is what my degree is in), history, belief systems (religions, philosophies, political systems, and the like), music (all kinds), and films.

 

[Eldanuumea]

Welcome to our little corner of the world, Gertie, and best of luck with the urban fantasy.

 

[Capt Dick]

First time novel..publisher?

Hi guys:
Finished a love and adventure novel about Cuba and South Florida. I'm an experienced writer of cruising and sailing magazine articles but this is my first novel. Tell me how to find a publisher not a preditor! I'm very reluctant to spend money on self publishing if I don't know the company. Do I need an agent if so who? Any ideas?
Dick

 

[Vendetta]

Hi,
My name is Vendetta and i'm not to be mistaken as a female..lol..anyways I was wondering if ya'll could help me me by telling me what popular and whatnot on the site.

 

[Grey_Wind]

Hi vendetta. Let me be the first to say welcome. It all depeneds on your preference.

 

[Vendetta]

I appreciate the welcome.I like books like Lord of the Rings and Regina's song.

 

[kged]

Hello all - I'm feeling slightly intimidated by the size of this place, as usual when I join a new forum, but please make allowances if I reopen old discussions/repeat things that have been said many times. I'm delighted to see that George RR Martin has a little sub-forum of his own - that'll be the main hang-out for me, I expect.