I’m very happy to have an awesome introduction to the fantasy author Cheryllynn Dyess along with the cover reveal for her latest book Calastan. Cheryllynn toiled over my questions for a cover reveal interview explaining who she is and what the new book is about.
Are you sure you want to know?
“Ali’s Bookshelf” asked me this question and left it open ended on how I answered. To answer the question I poked at my photo archives and the answer came with pictures.
(I hope you enjoy my answer)
Thread Strands Golden Threads Trilogy #2 Release Giveaway Click to Enter! Check back for more chances to earn points tomorrow. If you already meet the requirement just click and you’ll get credit.
Lindsay Buroker, Author of Emperors Edge, interviewed me on the creation and initial publication successes for my debut novel Thread Slivers. The article is titled “How Leeland Artra Is Rocking the Amazon Sales Charts with His First Book.”
I just added a Ganxy showcase to my marketing for the books. Check it out.
A number of people are confused by certain title usages within the Golden Threads world. To help relieve some confusion here is the Duianna Empire’s ranking chart which includes the titles, style of address, and shows how the various ranks interact within the kingdoms founded by or separated from the original Duianna Empire. There are some other countries which have only been briefly mentioned that we might explore in future works. However, for those who have finished the first book you will see that the style of address used for all the characters does follow the correct protocols.
This includes additional items being added to the Lexicon for the second book were we have a little more high court interactions.
Nick Stephenson’s interviewed me on how I became an Amazon Bestselling Author in the first month of my publication of Thread Slivers. The article is titled “Magic, Mysticism, and Marketing – success stories with author Leeland Artra.”
Interview Originally Posted at http://bit.ly/YcvnVB Featuring author of The Golden Threads Trilogy, Leeland Artra Hello everyone, today I am talking with Leeland Artra, author of the Golden Threads Trilogy. Leeland, please tell me and the rest of the world about your novel. Who or what was the inspiration behind the Threads Trilogy. Thread […]
A friend asked about the 2013 ABNA process of selection and moving up. I summed up the process and thought it would be interesting to anyone else who doesn’t want to crawl through all the rules and date pages from Amazon to figure it out.
Many people simply click on the stars without a lot of thought. But what if you could be consistent knowing that that five star rating you just gave your most resent book is honest and earned? I am revealing my own book rating system for your adoption, adaption, and use. Now you can know you are consistent, honest and best of all it is easy to do.
Congratulations to all the participants in the giveaway. I am sure you want to know who won. Well the Grand Prize Winners were Ally Arendt, Lori Strickland, Maria Messruther, Nicole Kirstie Gaines, and Shannon Jean Rhea!
I’m giving away over 100 prizes to celebrate the first release of Thread Slivers. Entry into the giveaway is easy and there are multiple chances to get more entries.
One of the “rules” often repeated for authors is to know your audience and to write to that audience. This seems obvious until you start trying to break it down. In reading dozens of articles and books on writing everyone agrees that writing for your audience is important. Yet, I have found zero discussions that provide anything more than descriptive hand waving on this subject. In trying to understand if I am doing this well I have dug down deep into the blogs and interviews of the authors I consider to be doing a good job of reaching their self-described audiences. I have also read with an analytical eye their books paying attention to vocabulary usage, scene complexity, and especially descriptions of internal feelings and internal dialog.
I was so excited when I got back my manuscript from the editor with the joyful review notes and editorial suggestions. The email made my heart leap for joy because the editor was full of praise for the story. I downloaded the edited draft opened it and then started the nightmare of trying to go through four hundred pages of changes using the review panel. After spending nearly a full minute trying to find just the right place to right click to get to the accept change for a comma insert I hit my head on the keyboard. There had to be a better way…
Do I truly reveal my evil genius grand secret plans and goals? Sure. Why not?