This is the recording of our first coffee hour meetup. Thank you to everyone who could make it as the conversation was fantastic! To everyone who came, please be sure to link your Website, Youtube Channels and Books for all of us to find!

Hello Big Book Lovers, Today we will be having our first New Member Coffee Hour Meetup at 5:00pm central time. We invite all of our old and new members to join us as we begin this new Skool journey for our Author Community. The link to join is https://www.skool.com/live/4b4j4NLn6ct If you are going to join us, you will have to be inside Skool either on your laptop or on the Skool mobile app. Please invite anyone you know who is an author or someone who loves reading to come and celebrate with us! If you have any questions, please leave them below in the comments. See you This Evening! Paul Roberson Community Executive Director www.bigbooklove.com/paul-l-roberson/

Hi, Everyone, I'm the author of mystery/thriller suspense for YA and adult books. YA suspense/thriller, RISKY PURSUIT, is nominated for a 2026 Agatha Award! I'm thrilled and grateful!

I just released my first book, An Invitation to Shine: From Invisible to Invincible, and I’m finding myself in that familiar place of having done the thing and now sitting with what comes next. I am about to publish the workbook and have guided meditations embedded with QR codes and next I will work on the audio. The book is out. People are reading it. Sales are coming in. And alongside the gratitude, there’s a lot I’m still learning about this part of the process. They say writing a book is hard, I found getting it formatted and ready to published and now marketing to be a bit more of a challenge I’m working with a publicist and have been on several podcasts, which has felt like a good way to speak from the heart of the book. At the same time, I’m handling all of my social media myself, and I’m noticing how easy it is to overdo it or lose the quiet thread of why I wrote the book in the first place. I joined this group because I wanted to be in conversation with people who understand books as living things, not quick wins. I’m here to listen, learn, and understand how others have navigated this season with steadiness and care.

Hello all, nice connecting! I've written 35+ books: the Summer Beach, Coral Cottage, Crown Island, and Sunshine & Second Chances series, many of them USA Today bestsellers. Standalone historicals include The Chocolatier, The Winemakers, etc. I'm in San Diego, and lived in Austin and Boston. Travel feeds my soul. Love connecting with fellow authors and readers!