December update!

Posted byscottatirrellPosted inAbsolution updates

It’s been a while, and I thought I should give a quick update. I know it might seem like it, but I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth. I’m still putting words on the page, but as I’m completing my latest novel, it has been taking all my attention and free time.

So, my first update is the Son of the Mourning, Book 2 of the Absolution of the Morning Star series, is just about done. Currently, it’s at about 124,000 words, and I think I have 3-5 more chapters before the first draft is complete! I hope to bring it home at about 150,000 and do this over the holidays. This would make my goal of having the story done by the New Year. I have these chapters planned out in my mind, it’s just a matter of getting them down on the page. Then, I will begin my favorite part of the novel crafting process and start the 1st read-through and story edits. This is where I check the story’s consistency, flow, and add all those little details that make the tale pop. Even before starting that, I know I need to break up some information dumps and add a bit more action in places, so the writing still has a ways yet, but we’re getting there! After that, it will be my least favorite part, and that is the close editing for grammar and such… ugh. But we won’t worry about that now. Keep an eye out for the second installment of Erikson’s tale around the end of January!

Secondly, for a limited time (until December 24th), all three of my ebooks are just $0.99 for the holidays! This includes Dawn of the Lightbearer, an epic dark fantasy, The Slaying of the Bull, a historical fantasy set during the Mongol invasion of Europe, and the Island of Stone, a paranormal mystery set on an isolated island. I’ve run promotions before with mediocre results, but I felt festive and thought, why not? Check them out, and if you like them, please leave a review. They really help (they’re also a nice Christmas gift for a struggling author).

Well, that’s it for now. I hope you all have just an absolutely splendid holiday season!

Cheers!

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Scott Austin Tirrell writes dark fantasy because apparently the real world doesn't contain enough dead people, ruined faiths, and gods with questionable motives. Most of his stories take place in Lucardia, a world with a long memory and a rather serious problem with its dead. Its people have been taught many comforting things about history, religion, power, and what happens when the reaper’s sickle swings. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong. Scott is less interested in heroes than in complicated people who stumble into mysteries they probably should have left alone—and then have to live with what they find. When he isn’t writing, Scott wanders old cemeteries in search of character names and thinks about fictional people as though they have personally inconvenienced him. He lives near Boston with his wife and maintains a healthy distrust of ravens.

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