Leland & Leslie

The Knight and his Lady

June 9, 2001

    On this lovely Saturday afternoon, Sunset Books is doing a feature on author Elizabeth Rose, promoting her new book The Oracle of Delphi, due for release in November 2001.  Elizabeth is well known for her incorporation of action, adventure, and mythology in her  fantasy romances.

Elizabeth  is also a free-lance artist and a cover photographer . Her work is seen on her own releases Kyros'  Secret and The Oracle of Delphi,  To learn more about Elizabeth visit her at her website at www.scribesworld .com/elizabethrose/

  Also making an appearance that afternoon were the cover models for both books, the famous couple, Leland and Leslie.  After the event, they were very gracious to allow me a few moments of their time for a quick interview.

Deborah:     I’m a little curious as to how you met, how this all came together, how you got involved in romance…

Leland:     “THE STORY OF LELAND and LESLIE"..…

           

First and only blind date, it was set up because I went to a bookstore and was reading a environmental magazine back where they serve coffee, and there was this group of people behind me, and they were laughing, being giddy and silly, and it turns out they were part of a theatre group, and one of the girls says, ”Hay ..hay, want to see my ugly face?” And you can’t help but look when someone says “HAY YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE MY UGLY FACE”, she was talking to her friends of course, and I turn around and look, and she does this cute, cute, little bunny rabbit thing, and I turn back kind of shaking my head, and she caught me out of the corner of her eye. "What!"

All of her friends get really quiet and I know she is talking to me, and sure enough.....

I turn around, she says, “What!”

“What?”

“You didn’t like my scary face?”

“Well, no. Well.. it really wasn’t very scary.”

She got really defensive, she said, “It was too!”

I said, “No it wasn’t.”

And she said , “Yes it was!” and turns to her friends and says, “Was it?” And they say, “No not really, it was kinda cute.”

Which started the whole thing, and we started talking and eventually she said, “I have a sister..”

“Ooo... kay?”

“I want to give her your number.”

“My number? You don’t even know me…”

“That’s ok.”

“I could be an axe murderer.”

She said, “Are you an axe murderer?”

 “No.”

“Well ok then, no problem.” She said, “You work at Medieval Times, you have long hair, that‘s perfect! My sister‘s into all that stuff.”

Leslie:     I was actually living in California at the time, and I was home visiting my parents. And she comes home the next day, and said to me, “Hay I hope you don’t mind, I gave your number to a strange guy I met at a bookstore.” And I’m like, “I’m going to kill you! He could be an axe murderer!”, and she said, “Oh no, he’s not , I asked.”

    A couple days go by, and I was getting ready to fly out of town, my vacation was coming to an end. My dad answers the phone and says, “Ya know Leslie, there’s this guy on the phone calling for you.”

“Oh my gawd! HE called!”

    And we got to talking, and it turned out we grew up in the same area, we kind of knew the same people and everything, but he didn’t ask me out, he says, “Maybe the next time you’re in town?” And I thought, oh sure whatever, two thousand miles away, he’s never going to call. And it was like maybe an hour later, he called back and says, “”I was thinking.. would you maybe want to go to where I work?”

    But he didn’t tell me where that was, and I thought it was probably some bar or something, fine…I figure I’m going to be two thousand miles away…what could happen? So he picked me up that night. I about died when he walked to the door. It was like, “WOW!…who’s this guy?!” And it was my first blind date too, and he brought me to Medieval Times, and said, “see those guys out there, that’s what I do for a living.”

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