Allen Marc Levy lives in Oregon with his wife, their son, and two dogs, a Husky-Shepherd mix and a Belgian Malinois. He served 30 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Major after a career in Civil Affairs, Intelligence, and operational leadership. Those experiences provided the foundation for the military realism, leadership, and political conflict found throughout the Sovereign Knight series.
Away from the keyboard, Allen enjoys spending time with his family and has a lifelong love of animals, especially horses. Most animals seem to trust him almost immediately; Chihuahuas, on the other hand, have yet to get the memo.
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Allen Marc Levy lives in Oregon with his wife, their son, and two dogs, a Husky-Shepherd mix and a Belgian Malinois. He served 30 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Major after a career in Civil Affairs, Intelligence, and operational leadership. Those experiences provided the foundation for the military realism, leadership, and political conflict found throughout the Sovereign Knight series.
Away from the keyboard, Allen enjoys spending time...
The First House vanished centuries ago. Its machines have begun to wake.
For seven hundred years, the Twelve Houses have ruled the remnants of human space while the Concord Fleet struggles to keep their rivalries from becoming open war.
Commander Teren Vaust expects another routine deployment when the CFS Resolute is sent to investigate a field of...
Read moreOne of the things I’ve learned since publishing Sovereign Knight is that writing the book was only part of becoming an author. Once the manuscript is finished, there is an entirely different world waiting on the other side: publishing platforms, advertising, websites, mailing lists, reviews, book databases, and occasionally discovering that someone else has somehow become the author of your book.
That last one actually happened.
I recently went through the process of setting up my Goodreads...
Independent publishing has a way of keeping your ego under control.
I recently checked the numbers again, and Sovereign Knight appears to be up to about 17 books sold between Amazon and Barnes & Noble. That includes a couple of new Amazon sales in September, which was a very nice discovery.
Then I looked at my mailing list.
One subscriber.
My wife.
So, technically, I have a 100 percent family participation rate.
I am choosing to focus on the positive.
When I started all of this, I knew writing...
For the last couple of weeks, I have been experimenting with advertising for Sovereign Knight, and most of those experiments have been exercises in patience. Amazon gave me impressions without clicks. Earlier BookBub campaigns struggled to deliver at all. At times, it felt as though I was paying for the privilege of learning exactly what did not work.
Today, though, I finally have something that looks like a real pattern instead of noise.
My newest BookBub advertisement has now been shown 392...
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