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  • Book Review Fahrenheit 451

    Originally published as a mass market edition in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a true treasure of American literature.  I last read it when I was young.  It was a pleasure,… Read more

  • Book Review The Gunslinger

    I finished reading this book and another, and have almost completed a third.  I’ve gotten behind on my reviews.  Going to try and get caught up.  Here is the first…… Read more

  • Book Review Shroud of Dishonour

    In 1201, a Templar goes into a brothel in Acre and accidentally kills a man.  A year later, in the city of Lincoln, England, a secretive figure, with the promise… Read more

  • Book Review The Ancient

    ‘The Ancient’ is the 2nd book in R.A. Salvatore’s ‘Saga of the First King’ series.  I recently read and reviewed the first book in the series, ‘The Highwayman’.  It was… Read more

  • Review of The Highwayman

    Although it’s easy to think, judging by the title, the book cover and some of the reviews, that The Highwayman by R.A. Salvatore is a retelling of Robin Hood.  I… Read more

  • Two Things At Once

    Now that I’ve shelved the Prequel and started working on Book Four of The Crystal Crux series, I decided to try something else as well. The first three books of… Read more

  • Book Review of The Silmarillion

    “I would that I might with minstrels sing, and stir the unseen with a throbbing string.  I would be with the mariners of the deep, that cut their slender planks… Read more

  • A Change Of Plans

    The struggles of a self-published author are many, especially when you don’t have the time or the finances to write and market yourself.  For over a year and a half,… Read more

  • Book Review Lifeblood

    “Lifeblood” by author Werner A Lind is an old school vampire story featuring an old school vampiress dropped in modern day rural Iowa. Dead by all accounts, and part of… Read more

  • Book Review of The Warded Man

    Fantasy books are my preferred form of reading material and every once in a while a fantasy book comes along that makes me stand up and cheer. The Warded Man… Read more

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I’m Allen, the author of the epic fantasy series, The Crystal Crux!

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