Readers who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited pay about $12 a month and can read any ebook listed with them. I was surprised last month to notice that of the 3000 pages read of all six books, a third of them were for Leora’s Early Years.

Leora’s Dexter Stories is usually the favorite, so it was a welcome boost for her early years, as is Joe Crance’s generous review.

This also gave me a chance to discover Joe Crance and his Ryland Creek Saga. I was hooked with the first book and downloaded three more of them. Check them out. I bet you’d enjoy them. I certainly am. BTW, the sixth in the series is the Fifth Anniversary edition of Book I. Joe suggests starting with it “as it more represents my maturing writing style and it has an extra scene in it.” (But when I get around to reading his latest book, A Place Called Painted Post, I’ll get to enjoy that extra scene.)

Meet Joe Crance

Joseph Gary Crance was born in Upstate New York near his hometown of Painted Post. As a youth, Joe spent hundreds of nights with his father, a New York State Forest Ranger, and their coonhounds chasing raccoon through the hills of this scenic land.

After a career in the U.S. Air Force (USAF)—a part of which he spent teaching survival training—he returned with his family to Painted Post and the woodland hollows of his youth to again listen to the nighttime songs of hounds pursuing the wily ringtail.

Admittedly, Joe doesn’t climb these unchanging hills as fast as he once did. But that’s okay. His hounds and the oaks have a great deal of patience.

Mr. Crance is a member of the New York State Outdoor Writers Association and holds degrees in Survival and Rescue Operations from the Community College of the USAF and a bachelors in Professional Writing from Mansfield University.

Please have a look at Joe’s Amazon Author Page.

There’s also a Ryland Creek Facebook page.