Hi to all, again!

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up, in case folks are wondering what on earth your humble mods are up to in the coming days: We'll be closing down new memberships, just for a day or two, while we catch up on archiving the massive number of posts we've been getting each day. (I've been sick & am the main reason we're behind at all - my apologies!) I don't think we'll need to moderate post submissions while we're at it, but on the off chance you do submit an entry and you get a note saying it's been put into the moderation queue, that's why. It's a very temporary measure, as I said - a couple of days, probably - so no worries!

In the meantime, my co-mods have been working like crazy to add more tags to incoming entries (and you're welcome and encouraged to tag the entries you post with the keywords we've made available, too - that helps keep it more accurate, since you know more about the book than we do!); that means that you'll be able to find a ton of recs for each topic we have listed so far. For that reason, we ask that the posts asking for general "what should I read next?" or "can someone tell me a good book about...?" be eliminated whenever possible. The reason for this is twofold: 1) That's what the tags and Memories are for! and 2) You might run into some displeased members who've just recommended some good titles in the last page or two, which are easily find-able before posting to ask. Just looking to keep things as simple and organized as possible!

Also likely of interest to many of you: We've been discussing setting up a sister community that will act as a "book club" of sorts, or a reading group/book list. One of our enterprising members approached me with the suggestion, and it's a great one; it would allow for any of us who are interested to join and read the same twisted books at the same time, and be able to discuss them with fellow members. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted as this develops, and we'll post a link once it's been created.

It's back to bed for this sickly mod, but I hope everyone is finding some great new reads here, and I extend a big "WELCOME!" to all of our new members, as well as a huge THANK YOU to our original clan who've weathered this past week's changes graciously and, in some cases, very helpfully!