I hope that you will check out The Independent Authors Forum that I have just started at
http://pugetsoundspeaks.com. The purpose of the site is to provide a "safe haven" for authors to talk about their books, review other authors work, discuss the art of writing, and generally have a place that is designated for them to relax and be themselves. This forum is in response to the reader-centric forums that are proliferating all over the web where authors are corralled into tightly confined corners of those sites. Here authors can roam like the free range animals they aspire to be. Readers are definitely welcomed at this site as well, particularly if they like to engage authors in meaningful dialogue about their work and literature in general.