The official L.H. Leonard author blog is up and answering as of tonight at https://lhleonard.com. This means Rootstock Saga can go back to being a book fan’s indulgence without the obligatory marketing posts. This is where I’ll continue to grow the Rootstock world building, inspiration, and book extras....

Writers are, generally speaking, introverts. We prefer hanging out with the imaginary characters in our heads over dealing with real folks. Y’all are usually not quite as interesting. No offense, but seriously, when’s the last time you flew through a swift gate? On the other hand, Nigel has never,...

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Sortable, scrollable, searchable list of named characters appearing or referenced in Legend of the Storm Hawks....

Writing an entire epic fantasy saga, start to finish, and not in one-book increments, while working a day job is…maybe a bit harder than I expected. Actually, it’s a lot harder than I expected. Being a perfectionist doesn’t help. Does that math work? Could Tobias and Lothor have met...

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Better than the working mock-up map I used while writing, just to keep me honest about distance and travel times. This one’s more presentable. Still need to move the mouth of the Abeldown River a bit north, I think, but otherwise, this is the Innis that will make it...

The crescent walls still aren’t quite right, and there would be more terracing, but this attempt turned out close to what was in my mind’s eye as Glenayre. A proper nest for a hawk....

Responses from the first round of query letters wasn’t soul-crushing. I had braced for the worst. I expected to shed a few tears and spend more evenings than anyone would consider healthy wallowing in wine and self-doubt. Didn’t happen. In fact, those agents who did reply were kind, encouraging,...