LeRoy's Blog

Beta Readers are ordinary (or not so ordinary) people who help authors by pre-reading books and offering their suggestions for plot flaws or spotting typos and errors. They get a free book when it is published and I publicly thank them inside the book and hope they give my book a review on Amazon and Goodreads. I can't have too many Beta readers and you are interested to try doing it, just email or message me. The process is simple and a good way to get free books. ARCs are Advanced Reader Copies which are sent out in hopes of getting reviews. Large publishers may have a thousand reviews before the first book is sold. They often print some of those reviews on the dust jacket. Independent authors need reviews too, and offer books for reviews--without demanding "good" reviews. They should be honest. Again, if this sounds good to you, email or message me. Why are these important to an author? Well, Beta readers saves me thousands of dollars in hiring editors and allows m

New Books! Two of them. The first is the Eden Wormhole written with veteran author Paul Eslinger, a Science Fiction book due out on Amazon about April ten. It is old fashioned SF with a modern twist. Paul and I managed to get it done without a single fistfight. He did much of the writing and I sat back and told him how it aught to be. Then we compromised and the result is pretty good. The second will be out around the first of May. Another Science fiction book, called The Light of a Another Sun--which is about a sleeper ship reaching a planet called New Haven. I haven't written a pure SF novel, but I like this one.