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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 interest's in the literary world and can be found here:

http://www.greatmindsliterarycommunity.com.

As of January 1st, 2012 Great Minds has also become an Independent Publishing Company. We are currently accepting submissions to find out more about this service you can visit our site: http://www.greatmindsindependentpublishing.com.

So far we have five titles available on Amazon and Createspace; “Conversations With a Dead Man” by Doug Lucas, “The Man in the Mountain” by Doug Lucas, “The Spirit Archer” by Mike Evers, “Queen Emily’s Enchanted Kingdom” by Lee-Ann Graff-Vinson, and “Forgotten” by Doug Lucas. We also offer services for authors outside of publishing such as manuscript editing, book cover creation, advertising, and book trailers. You can find out more about our prices by visiting this site: www.gmtapublishingservices.com.

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 2000 members on Facebook and over 200 on the forum not including the followers of their blogs as well as the numerous other sites they are associated with.

Their work includes doing PR for numerous publicity firms, publishers, and authors, e-book publishing on several major e-book distributing sites, and they also do reviews on books that are posted on every site where they have established a web presence. They also 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 hosting starting Halloween of 2011. Each holiday through Easter they will host a new event where lots of different authors offer a donated 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 'Review Policy' page on their website you can find all the various hubs where reviews, interviews, Blog Stop 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

Please visit our publishing site at:
http://www.greatmindsindependentpublishing.com/

If you have a special request for one of our reviewers please feel free to email them by clicking on the name of the reviewer you are interested in corresponding with.

Kitty Bullard - CEO/Reviewer/Editor/Publisher/PR
Emily Tuley - Partner/Senior Reviewer
Mallory Anne-Marie Forbes - Senior Reviewer
Lee-Ann Vinson - Senior Reviewer
Susan Mahoney - Senior Reviewer
Saewod Tice - Senior Reviewer
K. Trepidatio - Horror/Drama Reviewer
Arlena G. Dean - Senior Reviewer
Tela Wallen - Senior Reviewer
Linda Lucas - Senior Reviewer
Karen Lucas - Senior Reviewer
Debbie Yukifuri - Senior Reviewer
Tracy James Jones - Senior Reviewer
Shannon L. Dearing - Senior Reviewer
Tom Williams - Senior Reviewer
Carrie Ardoin - Senior Reviewer
Kriss Morton - Senior Reviewer
RB Clague - Senior Reviewer
Kristina Yeager - Senior Reviewer
Mark Lee - Senior Reviewer
Tam Owens - Senior Reviewer
Mark Matthews - Senior Reviewer

Below is a slideshow list of books we have reviewed, if you see your book on this slideshow it means someone on our team has reviewed your book. You can find this review by clicking the "Reviews & Interviews" link on the menu at the top of this page. If you have sent us a request know that your book is in our queue though we cannot guarantee a date we can get to it due to overwhelming demand. We work as hard as we can to get reviews out in a timely manner. Please know that reviews done for blog stop tours, publishers, and publicists come first as they need their reviews done by a certain date. We do promise to get to your book as soon as we can and get a review out there for you. This slide show will be updated once every two to four weeks. Thank you for your patience.