Just a reminder.  The Dark and Forbidding Land is available free at Smashwords this month.  If you haven’t picked this book up,  Follow this link to the book page.  Be sure to use the following code at checkout: RG66K.

Two years have passed since Senta, the sorceress Zurfina, and Bessemer the steel dragon arrived in the strange land of Birmisia. Now it is up to the settlers to build a home in this dark and forbidding land, ruled by terrifying dinosaurs and strange lizardmen. Ten year old Senta must discover which is the greater threat, a would-be wizard or the ever-increasing presence of the tyrannosaurus.

Just a point: you can read this book as a stand-alone, self-contained story.  I think it still holds up.  Try it out.