Ask the Author: Leo .
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Leo .
hi Helen,
I was originally inspired by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Fighting Fantasy was a major part of my youth and really plunged me into the Fantasy genre. Stephen King and Peter Straub and James Herbert and Clive Barker also. :-)
I was originally inspired by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Fighting Fantasy was a major part of my youth and really plunged me into the Fantasy genre. Stephen King and Peter Straub and James Herbert and Clive Barker also. :-)
Leo .
Not really. People are unique and each individual has their own perception of what is written on the page they are reading. A certain scene may be seen differently in one's minds eye than the next person. We all have our own imagination, this is why a book is what the reader makes it. 👍🐯
Leo .
Awe!! Going through the wringer with my mental health and being stalked by horrible nasty hateful neighbours.
Apart from that I have been struggling to promote my book, not a lot of success currently. Kind am desperate to raise enough funds to move say from this suburban jungle the council has created around me.
Any how it is a pleasure to meet you.
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Apart from that I have been struggling to promote my book, not a lot of success currently. Kind am desperate to raise enough funds to move say from this suburban jungle the council has created around me.
Any how it is a pleasure to meet you.
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Leo .
Hi Lucy
Unfortunately there is not an audio version of Kandor The Warrior
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Unfortunately there is not an audio version of Kandor The Warrior
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Leo .
Hi Elizabeth. I really have no advice as I could do with some myself. Last August I took out a bank loan; I have no income and my girl had to sign guarantor, to raise the funds to self- publish my first book. Since then I have borrowed more money to do an ad campaign on Goodreads. I have also given away quite a few free e-books for review and I know it is a waiting game for readers to get back to me. I have sold 21 books in almost a year! It is demoralizing Elizabeth, I can tell you that. What with my mental health and all but, we plod on, do we not? It is very, very difficult to self- promote one's work. I have to sell at least five hundred books just to break even. It is ironic that I have two more books waiting to be published but just do not have the funds to pay for it.
I was told that one's second book sells the first. Fine if one has the money.
All I can suggest is stick with it and hope you get a lucky break. I am still waiting for mine. 👍🐯
I was told that one's second book sells the first. Fine if one has the money.
All I can suggest is stick with it and hope you get a lucky break. I am still waiting for mine. 👍🐯
Leo .
A very vivid imagination and an urge to put it onto paper, or in the ether as it were. I hope, with luck and determination, my writing will make me enough to live a contented life.
A sentence appears in my mind, and then another in the blink of time, and before I know it they seem to rhyme, words that flow that are Leo's, that is my inspiration to write my prose. 👍🐯
A sentence appears in my mind, and then another in the blink of time, and before I know it they seem to rhyme, words that flow that are Leo's, that is my inspiration to write my prose. 👍🐯
Leo .
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Leo .
Hi Stutley, excuse my ignorance but, what is a beta reader?🐯👍
Leo .
Hi Alan. Yes I do live near an estuary. It separates Wales from Bristol in UK and is the second fastest tide in the world. The first is in China. From 1993-1995 I worked in the estuary, during the construction of the second Severn Crossing, For Laing/GTM. It was, let us say, an experience.🐯👍
Leo .
I like to read about most things, thriller, horror, philosophy, science, ancient history, philosophy, meta physics,my favourite is fantasy and fiction. 🐯👍
Leo .
Yes of course. Tolkien. Stephen King. Peter Straub. James Herbert. Jules Verne. Robert Louis Stevenson. Keats. The list is long.👍🐯
Leo .
I have purused and written reviews on many books that I have read on the esoteric. I will have a better look when my PC is fixed/updated. If you would like to converse on esoteric knowledge and bounce some ideas and thoughts off each other I will gladly welcome any correspondence. Feel free to send me a private message.👍🐯
Leo .
I will have a look. Sorry for my ignorance I do try to answer all questions and requests. I am using the Goodreads app on my Kindle at present and I find the interface limited compared to my PC. When my computer is ready; having a software rebuild at present; I can navigate around Goodreads with no limitations.👍🐯
Leo .
I am a new author of fantasy and fiction and poetry👍🐯
Leo .
Sorry Mchael I am a bit confused. Is it my reviews you are enquiring about or do you want me to read your reviews? I just looked at your profile and I can't actually see any reviews you have written. Drop me a message if you like to clear this up. 🐯👍
Leo .
I have an open mind on most subjects. I cannot though abide child abuse or animal cruelty, bullying or usury, bigotry, discrimination or violence in any way shape or form.
I live by these simple principles. Universal law. Don't harm steal or kill.
I also think that truth and information should not be hidden. We live in a world whereby the majority is scrutinized and monitored 24/7 and a tiny miniscule percentage of the really powerful and rich are not.
I live by these simple principles. Universal law. Don't harm steal or kill.
I also think that truth and information should not be hidden. We live in a world whereby the majority is scrutinized and monitored 24/7 and a tiny miniscule percentage of the really powerful and rich are not.
Leo .
I go for a walk in the woods near my home. I sit and listen to the birds and the babbling brook. I wonder at the flowers and the structure of the petals and their sweet smelling aroma. I sometimes climb a tree and look out over the horizon where the estuary floods in. Writers block sucks but, there is a world of inspiration just outside. I find writers block lifts its ugly head when one is stuck in a study and stares at four walls. I will go out in the garden and take my Kindle with me. I have often written ideas down on a beer mat in the past. When Otis Reading had the hit with Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay; one of my favourite songs; I imagine him and Steve Cropper sat on the dock of the bay with a pencil and paper and writing that song.
Leo .
When I look at say Stephen King I often wonder that if a writer like Stephen never quite had the skills he has to put his imagination into print, would he go mad? I see writing as a kind of venting. Like when we breathe we vent out the used air and the new air is recycled. I see that same scenario in writing. If I could not put my imagination onto paper then all those ideas and words and scenarios stay swirling around in my head with no where to go. It is like I am metaphorically breathing stale air. I am very impatient and impulsive. Some writers compose their work in a more relaxed and methodical way. It can take years to write a book. I myself am a manic writer. My fingers or my tongue cannot keep up with my imagination. I often resemble The Phantom Of The Opera manically tapping away at the keyboard. The difference is he plays wonderful music and I write a lot of gibberish. I often have to read through what I have written and do a manual spell check whereby I have tapped the wrong keys. I sometimes have to try and work out what I have written. LOL! It is the fun of reading back what I have penned and then trying to decipher it. Writing is therapeutic for me.
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