“After reading Samantha Evans’s The Land of the Four series, I was excited to learn that she was starting a new one. Having just finished reading the first book, THE DRAGON MASTER, I now can’t wait to read the next book in The Journey series. THE DRAGON MASTER is thrilling, fast-faced, and filled with beautiful writing. Fantasy fans will not be disappointed. Highly recommended!”
I have been writing since early 2019. Published my first book in November 2019 and is 1 review away from 150 reviews. Check out all my books. Avaliable on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Blurb: Arabella is a girl of high standing, and her father wants her to marry someone she barely knows. But she wants to be someone more than just a member of the court. With the help of some new friends and her curiosity, will she get her to wish to become what she wants, or will there be barriers along the way. Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B091DZ94WX/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b091dz94wx
Blurb: Prince Liam of Derzeli believes differently in what honor means. King Breen, Liam’s father, and Cullen, Liam’s brother, believe that real greatness is achieved once they slay a dragon. Liam thinks that dragons are majestic and do not deserve to die. King Breen, Liam’s father, brings Liam along on an expedition to slay a dragon. On one of the nights of the journey, Liam rescued a dragon’s egg. Liam decides to care for it, and it hatches on Liam’s birthday. Tragedy strikes, which leads to Liam having to leave Derzeli, and Liam goes on the run with the help of Ella, the dragon. Ella helps him escape and runs to a barren wasteland, where he saw himself to becoming a hermit for the rest of his life. But due to an event happening with the help of a new friend and a childhood friend, Liam has no choice but to return home. He has to decide to run away from his destiny, or embrace it, the chance of a king. LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Ella-Land-Four-Book-1-ebook/dp/B08224GMZF
Book blurb: Years have passed since the falling out of what happened to Henry. Now Liam’s daughter’s birthday is approaching, and he wants to make her happy. While planning to have his daughter’s birthday go without a hitch, he learns his trustful advisor keeps a secret. A secret that can lead to the one thing Liam does not want. To have once more adventure that leads to him protecting his home and the people he loves. Can Liam face one more adventure and succeed?
1. What inspired you to write? I’ve been a writer in the tabletop roleplaying game field for over two decades now, but I started writing (very poorly) all the way back in grade school. I’m inspired by the usual things for geeks like me: Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek, Star Wars, and so on… At first it was fascination with the fantastic, but then I realized that you can tell some very engaging stories in these worlds, and I wanted to try my hand at it.
2) Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites? Absolutely! I grew up reading JRR Tolkien, R.A. Salvatore, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. More recently, I’ve enjoyed the Star Trek tie-in fiction from David Mack, Dayton Ward, and Peter David. I enjoy reading in shared universes, even if a lot of people don’t consider them literary.
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future? I actually have some exciting news right now. I wrote a roleplaying game book called Battlemasters & Berserkers, which did pretty well as a Kickstarter. Part of the KS was a piece of original barbarian themed fantasy fiction called Rathorn: Savage Adventures. It’s a novella approximately 19,000 words long, which is the first of many. I’ll be releasing new episodes at a rate of one per month for the foreseeable future. These will be going out through my Patreon, which is located here: https://www.patreon.com/Rathorn and possibly Kindle Vella.
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors? Yes. Don’t be in a rush to publish (which also means, don’t follow my example). If you want to compete, the book needs to be of professional quality, and that means it needs to be polished. Clumsy writing is endemic in the indie publishing realm, and readers pick up on it. It’s more than just fixing misspellings and correcting grammatical errors. You need to have style, and that means eliminating redundancy, extra words, and not phrasing things clumsily. Unless you have an English degree and a ton of editing experience, you’re not going to be able to find and fix all these issues yourself, and frankly even professionals shouldn’t edit their own work anyway (again, follow my advice, not my example).
5) What influenced you as a writer? It was the realization that writing is the only professional endeavor I want to pursue, and it’s the only thing I feel like I have a decent amount of talent for. If it wasn’t for writing, I’d probably be asking customers if they want fries with their order, or locked into some dead-end soul-sucking desk job, like telephone debt collecting. Honestly, it doesn’t matter if I’m writing fiction or hammering out a book full of rules for Dungeons and Dragons, for me it’s the thrill of creation; of bringing something into the world with my name on it. Long after I’m gone, my books will remain, in both physical and digital form.
Blurb: Arabella is a girl of high standing, and her father wants her to marry someone she barely knows. But she wants to be someone more than just a member of the court. With the help of some new friends and her curiosity, will she get her to wish to become what she wants, or will there be barriers along the way.
Arabella is a girl of high standing, and her father wants her to marry someone she barely knows. But she wants to be someone more than just a member of the court. With the help of some new friends and her curiosity, will she get her to wish to become what she wants, or will there be barriers along the way.
Samantha Evans--Author 