Book Reviews aren't just for the NY Times

GMTA by Dave Diamantes

You meet some great people on sites like Good Reads (www.goodreads.com). I met Kitty Bullard there. She is the founder of Great Minds Think Aloud. She’s also a mother and wife, who is working on a degree in business. How you do all that, find time to read lots of books, and write detailed, concise reviews is beyond me!

Kitty started Great Minds Think Aloud in early March of this year. In only 8 months, the site has 200 registered members, 700 Face Book followers and scads of readers who read reviews and author interviews without registering. Stop in and check the site out. GMTA staff has grown to seven reviewers in 8 short months!

You can find her on the forum at: http://www.greatmindsliterarycommunity.moonfruit.com/ OR email her at: greatmindsthinkaloud@gmail.com.

Great Minds Think Aloud by Kitty Bullard

Great Minds Think Aloud started as a conversation and became something much larger. In March of 2011 we started Great Minds as a book club that was originally designed just for women. Over the course of that month it quickly evolved into a place for everyone. Great Minds is now a hub for not only readers, but authors, publishers, publicists, artists and anyone that has interests in the literary world.

Great Minds has an established presence on virtually every social networking site on the internet. They have their own Facebook pages that include the initial friend page, group page, and like page. To find them all you have to do is type in Great Minds Think Aloud on Google and they are the first thing you see.

Membership has been growing rapidly over the past few months, they now boast over 900 members on Facebook and over 200 on the forum not including the followers of their blog as well as the numerous other sites they are associated with. Their main website can be found at: http://www.greatmindsliterarycommunity.moonfruit.com/ and was established late last month, already there have been close to 2000 hits.

Their work includes doing PR for numerous publicity firms, publishers, and authors. They also do reviews on books that are posted on every site where they have established a web presence, and they hold monthly contests and exclusive interviews to heighten the knowledge of the many talented Indie Authors out there today.

One of the largest draws at this point are the themed e-book giveaways they have begun starting Halloween of 2011. Each holiday through Easter they will host a new event where lots of different authors offer a donated e-book to create packages for the lucky winners.

Their reviews have become some of the most followed reviews on the web, and their process is one formulated to be honest, precise, and intellectual. They review all genres and have what they call the "Raven" system set up to rate the books they receive. Being a long time fan of Edgar Allan Poe, Kitty Bullard the creator of Great Minds, chose the Raven to be an integral symbol of the literary community. Interviews with authors are always done on a personal basis by researching the author and their works before forming questions that are for them alone. At the bottom of the home page on their website you can find all the various hubs where reviews, interviews, blogstop posts and any other correspondence with authors, publishers, and publicists are found.

Great Minds also prides themselves on their versatility, as they have made a point to work with well-known publishing agencies as well as Indie publishers which they take a special interest in. Please feel free to contact us: greatmindsthinkaloud@gmail.com