LeRoy's Blog

Cold Knights is getting rave reviews and terrific emails so far. Any help with a review left on Amazon for me is appreciated. Sales are not as good as I had hoped, but are picking up. Thanks to my beta readers, the next book, (with a dragon) is coming along very well. Good setup, plot, and wry humor. We can't seem to get the cover just right, but each try is an improvement. People ask, "What books do you read?" and I thought I'd make a short list. The Name of the Wind is the best, and on my Kindle now are the Alex Carew series, Ancient Shores, Al Clark Avalon, and The Rooster Bar. In other words, I read about anything with imagination and good writing. Within two weeks I hope to have a revised copy of The Last Dragon out to beta readers, and we'll see where it goes from there. Assuming there are not too many errors, it should be released near the end of Feb.   

Anybody interested in being a beta reader (proofreading books prior to publishing and offering comments, corrections, additions, deletions, and suggestions for improving) message or email me. I can use one or two more. That said, I need to credit those I already have! They did such an amazing job on the last book that I one last person I had to try and find errors only found two extremely minor things. It makes me feel much better to put out a product that is near error-free. Next up is a few thoughts on my new project because many have asked about this process. It is the first of a series, about a dragon. From there, I had to develop a main character, and a side-kick to talk to. Then . . . I built and rejected a dozen possible "worlds" and finally created one readers would like. Then I modified it another dozen times, and finally expanded it. I drew a map. Placed a river on it. And a sea. I gave the main character a personality and a job. Would he or she be kind, ornery, t