Leander Watts





Leander Watts

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Leander Watts is an author of adult non-fiction and a college English professor. His historical novels provide a welcome antidote to contemporary young adult fiction. He lives in the Genesee Valley in western New York, where he writes and teaches English literature.


Average rating: 3.53 · 226 ratings · 51 reviews · 4 distinct works
Beautiful City of the Dead
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Ten Thousand Charms
2.85 of 5 stars 2.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2005
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Stonecutter
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Wild Ride to Heaven
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003
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“ Relly fired off the opening riff. Butt laid down the beat, old doom and new joy mixed together. "I wait till I, like fire, shall rise," Jerod sang. And then again, louder, wailing sure and true.
I was the last one to join in. I had a bass line all wroked out, of course. I'd been waiting weeks for this momment. My fingers colosed on the strings, pressed them hard to the frets. Butt and Relly were locked in, repeating the four-bar intro. Louder and louder, fierce as a war cry.
"Ok," I whispered into the pounding noise.
I joined in, doubling Relly at first, then splitting off to coil our riffs together. It was great, it was huge, it was endless. The song rose, churning and sucking everything in like a cyclone.
"The will my voice in great goodbyes," Jerod screamed from the speakers. "Join to the chorus of the skies."
Silence was inside me, riding the Ghost Metal tornado. Right at the center, at the heart of the song.
I didn't need a voice. I had a bass. I didn't need to hear myself talk or sing. Jerod could make the words for me.
Or maybe it was Silence herself, pouring out through the PA system. Either way, any way, They were my words. And all the world would hear them. (book ends)

Leander Watts, Beautiful City of the Dead

“He pointed to Butt, behind his drum set. "There he is. Don't smell so good and can't hardly talk. But he can drub those drums better than the best... and this is Mr. Jerod Powers, the Golden Boy.”
Leander Watts, Beautiful City of the Dead



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