To become a Dark Lord is no easy thing. The simple ambition to hold dominion over the world and bend all to your will sounds straightforward but it's not. There's armies to raise, fortresses to build, heroes to defeat, battles to be fought, hours of endless soliloquy in front of the mirror – it's a never ending job. Not to mention deciding what to wear. (After hours, days, even weeks of consideration, it will be black.)After many spectacular failures, Evil decided to lend more than inspiration to these would be tyrants. He wrote an easy to follow Dark Lord's Handbook. And yet the next Dark Lord that came along screwed up like all the others.It had been hundreds of years, and the Handbook was seemingly lost in the annals of time, along with all that was mythic and exciting in the world. Then one day a randy dragon had a chance encounter. Nine months later a Dark Lord was born.In time, the Handbook found its way to this new contender, Morden.To become a Dark Lord is no easy thing. Morden had better be a quick study. Paul Dale lives in Bath, England. When he's not writing, he's cycling, which means he doesn't get much writing done. The Dark Lord's Handbook is his first published novel. The arrival of the sequel to The Dark Lord's Handbook is highly dependent on Team Sky, Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish, and the Tour de France, 2012.Paul has a BSc in Physics with Applied Physics from Bath University and a Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.
