Overview: Groups

Writing Readers 504 books / 2841 members / 3077 posts If you're an aspiring or successful writer, this is the group for you. Suggest your favorite books on the craft, discuss past and present challenges, and share some nurture with a growing community of other online-savvy, "writing readers". Welcome! Note: If you want to promote a book or writing website on which you publish, please use the "Shameless Self-Promotion" discussion thread. In order to keep this from becoming a chaotic open bazaar of single-shot marketing, we are deleting book notices, reviews, etc. from other threads and directing all authors to the "Shameless Self-Promotion" thread. Thank you for understanding.

BEA Lit Insiders 175 books / 537 members / 214 posts Welcome to the BookExpo America Lit Insider group on Shelfari! What the hell is a BEA Lit Insider? Well, BEA is the 2nd largest book fair in the world and takes place every June. This year the show is in L.A. and I'd love tohear from any West Coasters that are interested in the show or are planning on going. By the way, I’m the director of BookExpo America and you can check out my blog and learn more about how books are “made” www.mediumatlarge.net -Lance

Your favorite Romance 62 books / 95 members / 37 posts This group is for anyone who likes to read a good romance now and again. Its here so you can share your most liked stories, authors, novels, etc, with others who feel the same.

Gothic Fiction 74 books / 122 members / 25 posts According to Wikipedia, gothic fiction combines horror and romance. "Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses. The stock characters of gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself." A fan of Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Daphne Du Maurier, and others? Come join our group!

Erotic Romance Readers 180 books / 172 members / 88 posts Hello all, this is a place for readers to discuss their favorite erotic romance authors. ALL OVER 18 are welcome. **Readers - Tell us about your favorite stories in circulation, I've found some awesome authors by word of mouth. **Authors - Promoting is ok, but please don't SPAM (i.e. never having anything to say unless it's to promo your work) Please contact me about any covers that you want to put in rotation for this group

Romance Writers 224 books / 428 members / 344 posts If you're a romance writer, published or unpublished, this is the place for you. Tell us the release date of your next book. List your favorite books. Join in on discussions. Ask questions and enjoy your time here. Please feel free to start a discussion. PLEASE PUT YOUR BOOKS ON THE SHELF !

Erotic Romance 204 books / 261 members / 137 posts This group is for erotic romance fans. Come and share your favorite titles and chat with authors!

I Love Action-Adventure 17 books / 94 members / 12 posts This is a group for discussing action adventure novels for guys and gals, both YA and adult.

Night Owl Romance 461 books / 251 members / 111 posts A group that is about romance and erotica - ebooks & Print. A part of the Night Owl Romance Website and Magazine - http://www.nightowlromance.com

Lovers' Of Ellora's Cave Romantica 131 books / 121 members / 460 posts THIS GROUP IS FOR MATURE READERS AGE 18, OR OLDER, ONLY !!! We intend to have a lot of fun with this group. We cordially invite and welcome any Ellora's Cave authors to join this group and encourage them to post excerpts, little snippets, top secret plot info and all of that jazz that we live and breath for........LOL READERS OF ELLORA'S CAVE, THIS IS YOUR GROUP !! Jump in and discuss authors, plots, series and anything your heart desires... within the limits of Shelfari's user agreement of course...... :) This description of "Ellora's Cave Romantica" was copied/pasted from the Ellora's Cave website. Romantica® is the name for the line of erotic romance novels published by Ellora’s Cave Publishing. Erotic romance is defined by us as: any work of literature that is both romantic and sexually explicit in nature. Within this genre, a man and a woman develop "in love" feelings for one another that culminate in a monogamous relationship. In a piece of Ellora’s Cave Romantica® literature, sexual language is typically expressed in frank adult terms, rather than couched in flowery phrases. In other words, rather than describing lust in a woman's body as "a whirlwind of electricity that jolted through her love valley" as is generally found in mainstream romance novels, an author of Romantica™ might say, "intense desire coursed through her body, making her wet with arousal." (E-rated and above titles typically use much more graphic language than that.) Romantica® doesn't begin from the premise that women's sexual experiences are dirty and therefore in need of being perfumed up by flowery phrases. The premise of Romantica™ is that women's sexual experiences are legitimate, positive, and beautiful. Ellora's Cave Publishing offers three levels of Romantica® reading entertainment: S-ensuous, E-rotic, and X-treme. S-ensuous love scenes are explicit and leave nothing to the imagination. E-rotic love scenes are explicit, leave nothing to the imagination, and are high in volume per the overall word count. E-rated titles might contain material that some readers find objectionable—in other words, almost anything goes, sexually. E-rated titles are the most graphic titles we carry in terms of both sexual language and descriptiveness in these works of literature. X-treme titles differ from E-rated titles only in plot premise and storyline execution. Stories designated with the letter X tend to contain difficult or controversial subject matter not for the faint of heart.

What are you reading? 2290 books / 5334 members / 12183 posts A place to talk about books you have read/reading of any genre, or any book talk in general.

Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy 1158 books / 1372 members / 2229 posts If you spend all night curled up in bed with your favorite dark hunter, carpathian, witch, jaguars or werewolf, this book club welcomes you! Here we can discuss the books that give us chills & thrills. If Paranormal Romance is your cup of tea this is the place for you.

Romantic fantasy 509 books / 193 members / 122 posts For readers of fantasy books with erotic or romantic undertones. They may take place in the past, present or unique milieu, but fantasy themes (ie. magic, supernatural etc.) must be central.

Shelfari Discussion 334 books / 1699 members / 4940 posts This group is about everything Shelfari. Let's talk about site improvements, issues encountered, and the next great feature we should build. If you have questions about how to use Shelfari, check out the Shelfari Questions group: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/15217/about NOTE: Please don't post topics not related to Shelfari features and requests in this group . They will be deleted.

ParaNormalRomance 1051 books / 494 members / 407 posts A group designed for lovers of the paranormal romance sub-genre. The groups meet via YahooGroups. Members share an interest in science fiction, fantasy, and romantic fiction with paranormal elements, including time travel, futuristic, magical, ghost, and shapeshifter themes. The home of ParaNormal Romance Reviews - the official book review site of the paranormalromance list; and PARAPHERNALIA, our monthly feature containing romance news and interviews with top genre authors and INKLINGS FOR EARTHLINGS with topics of interest to genre writers The proud presenter of The P.E.A.R.L. (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature). This is a readers' choice award, conducted annually by the PNR listers, naming the best of year in ten categories related to paranormal romance and romantic science fiction. Register to vote at PNR Reviews: http:paranormalromance.org/reviews Join us.... If you dare!

Readers of Romance 1139 books / 701 members / 1997 posts Welcome if you read romance this is the place to be. Come in grab a good book to discuss. It can be anything from Classic Romance to Paranormal Romance. So if you read all, some or one the romance genres come in and share your passion. Or if you are looking to venture out and read other genres in romance come in and join us. Join our new ROR challenge group where we will do four challenges a year: Spring-Summer-Fall-Winter. There is no commitment hope to see you there: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/25176/about

Book Talk 56 books / 78 members / 16 posts I decided to make my own group. I will be asking questions and talking about books. Hope you will join me I promise it will be fun. Come on talking about books is fun isn't it?

Realms on our Bookshelves 578 books / 387 members / 122 posts Hello, This group of ladies are active on the boards of Realms on our Bookshelves. We're book addicts of the first order trying to control it but have found no cure or remedie against it. But then again, do we want too? The website www.realmsonourbookshelves.com is our home where reviews of all the books we read are found. As I always say: Come on over and join us in the addiction! Love, Dark-Huntress

EC to Cozies 145 books / 27 members / 464 posts This group is for the readers that like to read anything from Ellora's Cave to Cozy mysteries, and anything between. You are welcome to join with your book list and your opinions about the books that you have read,or any other topic that you may have. Feel free to post what you would like to discuss.

Contests: Win Books & Good Stuff 69 books / 446 members / 48 posts Readers: take a look at what authors are offering you for free. Everything from books to trips could be the prize, who knows? Take a look and see. Be sure to look at contests on all the pages, not just the first. Contests will be deleted when they close, so don't overlook any! Authors: enter your contest here, and put the contest deadline in the header information. Don't forget to mention your current release. :)

erotic romance 21 books / 42 members / 9 posts

Romance novel lovers of America 628 books / 180 members / 61 posts This group is for fellow romance novel lovers all over the world. You can come and talk about your favorite author or favorite book. Everyone is welcome, if you have a book you wish to discuss stop by and sit a while.

Book Chat 682 books / 1839 members / 5303 posts Rather than being about a particular genre or author or book this group is about books and reading in general. Topics have ranged from such things as favorite bookstore, whether you re-read your favorite books, what kind of bookmarks you use, where you read, what you read, i.e. stand alone or epics or short stories or poems and how you arrange your bookshelves at home as well as how you arrange your Shelfari shelves, to name a few. It's fun to see how much we have in common with others and maybe learn some new ideas at the same time. Bullying, trolling and spamming will not be allowed here.