// About The Reader’s Place

The Reader’s Place - For Reader’s With Something To Say!

Welcome to The Reader’s Place! We’re an online community for booklovers- of all genres- who are looking for intelligent, informative, thought-provoking discussions. This is your place, so come on in and enjoy!

In addition to our forum discussions,  we offer news, reviews and more, making thereadersplace.com the home for readers around the globe!

To complete the package, you’ll find the convenience of buying books from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble through The Reader’s Place. Our association with these bookstores allows us to offer our members a chance to support TRP. When entering Amazon or Barnes and Noble through one of the links provided,  The Reader’s Place will receive a small percentage of the sales which will only be used to keep this site growing and able to offer new features and benefits to our members. This is currently the only means we have to ensure that The Reader’s Place continues to be free to our members and unencumbered by advertising. Of course, we encourage you to continue to shop at your favorite bookstores too!  We simply offer the convenience of this option for those who may be interested.

What You’ll Discover at The Reader’s Place

TRP Home This is the front page for The Reader’s Place. The main menu, welcome message, and latest survey are shown on this page, as well as the latest announcements and articles.
Discussion Forums This is the heart of our community. The Discussion Forums are divided into sections, or forums, by literary genre. Spend some time reading through the delightful and insightful posts. Genre forums are moderated by our wonderful staff of Librarians. Once you have found a topic of interest, simply follow the reply link and share your thoughts with the community. Subscribe to your favorite forums and receive notification when new posts have been added.  You may also set your viewing preferences on the Discussion Forums page, including which posts are displayed first: oldest or most recent.  Click on “my profile” located on the top center of the Discussion Forums page to set your preferences.

Posts are monitored and edited if necessary. At times, topics may also be moved to a more appropriate forum.

Personal Messenger Read, write and respond to private messages from other TRP members.
Literary News Keep abreast of what is going on in the literary world with these newsfeeds.
Recommended Reading You may have noticed that we display a book on the left-hand side of the page. The Reader’s Place likes to feature books which have been endorsed by our members. On the Recommended Reading page you will find synopses of the titles, and links to purchase them online. If you would like to suggest a title for the Recommended Reading list, please leave a message for Karmonghia.
My Profile Members may edit their passwords, choose avatars and share information about themselves with the rest of the community.  Current reading and To Be Read lists are also options. When you’re done, be sure to look up the profiles of your friends on the Member Profiles page!
Calendar Check here for events and literary historical footnotes. Is your reading group starting a new book or hosting a chat here at TRP? Submit it and let us know!

We are dedicated to creating a friendly, useful and interactive online readers resource and community at The Reader’s Place. If you have suggestions about how to improve this site, or wish to share your ideas, please send us your comments to feedback@thereadersplace.com.

The Reader’s Place - Administrative Staff

The Reader’s Place administrative staff members are:
Karmon Runquist - An avid reader, poetry lover and self-professed web junkie. She’s also known to long-time online friends as Karmonghia.

Connie Starkey - A life-long reader, she admits to a certain fascination with crime. She reads mysteries to delve into philosophical questions of the nature of good, evil, justice and fairness. She goes by the nom de plume of CoCo.