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Leeland Artra

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I live in the Emerald City (Seattle, Washington) with my beautiful wife and seriously idea-inspiring son.

The first half of my life was "wasted" (as my mother said once) on endless hours of roleplaying games. I was also an avid science-fiction/fantasy reader. Then real life came along, and I had to earn money. I joined the US Navy to "see the world". The Navy trained me to be a computer scientist, and I got to see Chicago, Orlando, and San Diego (not quite the world, but a fun chunk of the US).

With my personal time I worked on "more important" projects (aka my long-running table-top games). For all the gaming time (roleplaying, table-top, and video) I spun stories about the games just to add color. I told my friends the stories and even wrot I live in the Emerald City (Seattle, Washington) with my beautiful wife and seriously idea-inspiring son.

The first half of my life was "wasted" (as my mother said once) on endless hours of roleplaying games. I was also an avid science-fiction/fantasy reader. Then real life came along, and I had to earn money. I joined the US Navy to "see the world". The Navy trained me to be a computer scientist, and I got to see Chicago, Orlando, and San Diego (not quite the world, but a fun chunk of the US).

With my personal time I worked on "more important" projects (aka my long-running table-top games). For all the gaming time (roleplaying, table-top, and video) I spun stories about the games just to add color. I told my friends the stories and even wrote some of them down on paper. Everyone enjoyed it and said I should publish game modules. (I did, but, only for friends.)

After twenty years of thinking, I should publish I finally got serious in 2012, pulling out all the notes and ideas stored away, and set down to learn how to be a professional writer. I spent 4 to 8 hours almost every day reading on how to write, exploring the publishing world through articles and books. I liked the idea of being an "Indie Author" so I started chatting with more and more Indie authors developing some wonderful friendships. They encouraged me and in only a year of hard labor, I had my first book and enough materials for dozens more ready.

I learned that I get as much joy from writing my books as I do from reading books by other authors. My goal is to be a full-time author. For now, there is the reality of mortgage, student loans, and family.

By day, I'm the humble code janitor, endless pushing my digital broom around cleaning up the electronic crud messing up the brilliant halls of the internet. At night, I help people take fantastic trips of the imagination.

If you like, Fantasy and Science-Fiction feel free to drop me a note I'd love to hear from you. I am still an avid science-fiction/fantasy reader and enjoy finding new books and authors to talk about and friends to enjoy talking about such things.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 1,213 ratings · 110 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Thread Slivers 4.01 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thread Strands (Golden Threads Trilogy #2) 4.12 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thread Skein 4.14 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impossible Paradise (Endless Horizons Sagas #0.5, World Without End #0.5) 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return of the Vibrius (Endless Horizons Sagas #1, World Without End #1) 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Center of the World (Endless Horizons Sagas #2, World Without End #2) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Service to the Empresses (Endless Horizons Sagas #3, World Without End #3) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in Transit: Endless Horizons Sagas, World Without End, Book 5 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Series by Leeland Artra

Golden Threads Trilogy (3 books)
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Endless Horizons Sagas (3 books)
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World Without End (3 books)
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The Eden Plague (Plague Wars, #0)

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“when a woman says ‘what’ it isn’t that she didn’t hear you; she’s giving you a chance to change what you said.”
― Leeland Artra, Thread Strands: Golden Threads Trilogy

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