Your Excellency or Your Grace?

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.

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Interview by Nick Stephenson "Magic, Mysticism, and Marketing"

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 by Jein's Journey Blog

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…

How A Novel Navigates the 2013 ABNA Selection Process

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.

Lone Star Book Killer or Five Star Praise, An Easy Way To Honestly Rate Books

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.

Winners of the 2013 Thread Slivers New Release Giveaway

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!

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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.

Targetting That Audience

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.
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Rapid Review of Changes and Comments Using Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word 2010

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...

My Evil Genius Grand Secret Goals For Writing

Do I truly reveal my evil genius grand secret plans and goals? Sure. Why not?

Approaching Beta for Book One

I haven't posted recently because I have been pushing to get the first book done and off to the editors. As of right now I am 1.5 chapters from being done with the beta-draft version. It has been a lot of interesting time and a bit more work…