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I know that I am not the first to notice this, nor the first to comment on it, but it has been bugging me lately so I am going to take a few moments to rant and let it all out.

 As of late, I have been running across invincible characters with increasingly frustrating frequency. If you are unfamiliar with the term, picture Superman without kryptonite. Sure he may get tossed around a bit or take a grenade to the chest or whatnot, but at the end of the day he is walking out without too much difficulty.

 This makes for an incredibly boring story. I don’t want to read about an innocent princess who happens to be a hand to hand expert that never gets nervous but is afraid of thunderstorms and can defeat an “unbeatable” monster with minimal effort (whew that

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I have an essay in the new eBook Zombie Writing. More info here:

www.amazon.com/Zombie-Writing-ebook/dp/B...

I’m very proud to announce that my Forgotten Realms novel The Spectral Blaze won Diehard GameFAN’s 2011 Tabletop Gaming Award for Best PRG Based Fiction. Full info here:

 

diehardgamefan.com/2011/12/26/diehard-ga...

The ebook version of my novel Unclean is part of the publisher's December promotional campaign. They suggested I post an interview I gave when the novel first came out. If you missed it before, here's another chance to check it out:

rleebyers.livejournal.com/ 

Here's a little essay about how I came to write my Forgotten Realms novel Unclean:

www.facebook.com/rleebyers/posts/2500270...

I'm writing a few new fantasy books, horror and a mystery book. No not all at once, that would be impossible.

I recently got rid of Eloquent Book's my last publisher and have launched and renamed it with createspace. It's entitled ' The War of Twilight: The Resistance' and this time around it filled with adventure and I'm happy to say there isn't any spelling mistakes.

It's slightly longer and with a new beginning.

The prequel book Shannon's Evolution will not happen for a while since it needs a rather good read and fixed before anything happens.

The two fantasy books will be indepth with better writing, a lot more discribition  and a solid plot to keep readers grasping for more. This time around, I intend to get an agent and hopefully be able to get Wizard behind the books one day. The...

I have a story in LORE: a quaint and curious volume of selected stories. Full info here:

lore-online.com/

This is an open call for readers/reviewers. If you are interested in recieving a free book in exchange for posting a review of said book on Amazon, Good Reads, and the like, please message me through this site.  The number of people will be limited, of course, and if you fail to post a review, you'll be out of the running for free books in the future.  If you don't like the book, that's fine. Post a bad review. 

Anyway, send me a message if you're interested and we can discuss specifics.

For anyone who's interested, I now have a Q&A with Richard Lee Byers group on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/group/show/57592.Q_A_w...