Roy Lester Pond Inspiring Mystery Writing: A random picture on the net sparks a train of thought

Friday, February 7, 2025

Roy Lester Pond: Roy Lester Pond (who also writes as Roy Pond) writes mystery, adventure, archaeology and mythological fiction - novels that focus on exploring mysteries, mythology and secrets. Roy is a prolific author of possibly the largest collection of ancient-Egypt inspired fiction under the sun today. His depth of knowledge as a writer of fiction on Egypt comes from a lifetime spent studying ancient Egypt and Egyptian archaeology and makes numerous research trips. Roy is fascinated by the mystery of ancient Egypt and its potency and relevance for today’s world. ‘The Smiting Texts’ was his first archaeological thriller, followed by a series featuring renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter, as well as other stand-alone adventures. Roy spent much of his life in Africa and now lives in Australia. (See his Australian titles on Amazon, (Roy Lester Pond and Roy Pond.) Roy Tweets regularly about Egypt and adventure fiction writing under the Twittername “Egyptsnippets” and writes a blog ‘Ancient Egypt Fiction&Facts’. Email: roylesterpond@me.com