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The two novels in the TALES OF CONOR ARCHER series continue to garner many awards. SKELLIG was able to become a #1 best seller in the Christian Fantasy Category  and #1 best seller in Teen/Young Adult Ancient Civilization Fiction Category.  The Independent Author Network bestowed to ROAN the First Place Award as the Outstanding Fantasy Novel for 2020, and SKELLIG was a finalist […]

Coming this March is the first in a brand new series. It’s called Gods In The Ruins, the inaugural thriller in the Vatican Archives Series. I wanted to try out the thriller genre and I think I have succeeded in giving you an action filled mystery with supernatural overtones. It takes place in the Conorverse—that means the […]

Hello Everybody—E. R. Barr here. You know, when Michelangelo carved his great statues out of marble, he made it known that he was not creating anything. Instead, he saw a block of marble and revealed the form that was encased with the stone. Some authors do something similar with their characters. I do not create […]

Finally, it is here! SKELLIG: THE TALES OF CONOR ARCHER, VOL. 2 has been published! The sequel to ROAN is available from Amazon and other book outlets as an e-book and a paperback.   . People always ask, “How long did it take you to write it?” They certainly gasped when I told them it […]

I first heard the whisperings of Conor Archer’s story when I went back home one summer in 1991 and visited Effigy Mounds National Monument on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River. It’s a great place to see what the Mound Builders, a vanished Native American people, constructed about a thousand years ago.  The burial […]

Conor Archer grew up in the big city of Chicago.  Cool place, full of action and adventure.  But his home is in Tinker’s Grove, Wisconsin, just about 250 miles away.  I grew up in that area, and let me tell you, we thought it was the boonies.  That means that we thought Saturday night in […]

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