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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."

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.

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.