Four year anniversary!

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Wow, it’s been four years since I re-started my writing journey by publishing Island of Stone on Amazon after a ten-year hiatus from writing. At the same time, I created this website and blog. The Slaying of the Bull soon followed the Island of Stone (both reworked drafts from my youth), and then I embarked on my fantasy series, Absolution of the Morning Star, with Dawn of the Lightbearer (book 1), The Mourning Son (book 2), and Noonday in the North (book 3). I followed this with Koen (a stand-alone prequel to the series), and now I am working on both Destiny of the Daystar (book 4) and The Order of Thanatos (a new project). It has been a long journey, filled with highs and lows, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I have learned so much about the publishing world, the craft, and myself, and it allowed me to make new friends just like you!

To celebrate, I am making the ebook of Dawn of the Lightbearer free for a limited time (the offer expires April 7th at 3 AM). I am always apprehensive about making my books free, and this is my first time doing so with Dawn of the Lightbearer, but I’m feeling generous. Grab a copy while you can, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review!

Cheers!

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Scott Austin Tirrell loves dark speculative fiction, conjuring isolated worlds where ancient mysteries, the raw power of nature, and the paranormal entwine. His work is steeped in the arcane, drawing from the forgotten corners of history and the unsettling grasp of the supernatural. With a style shaped by Clive Barker, Frank Herbert, and Joe Abercrombie, he crafts narratives that pull ordinary, flawed souls into the extraordinary, where reality frays, shadows lengthen, and the unknown whispers from the void. He has self-published eight books, with Koen set to come out in 2025 under Grendel Press. Residing in Boston with his wife, he draws inspiration from the region’s haunted past and spectral folklore. Scott invites readers to step beyond the veil and into his worlds, where every tale descends into the deeper, darker truths of the human condition.

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    1. I actually plan to write a blog post about this over the weekend. But in sum, it’s more apprehension that nervousness, though there is some of that, too. There aren’t many businesses where you give your product away for free, a sample yes, but not the whole product. Dawn of the Lightbearer was the quickest book I’ve ever written with an average of 2000 words a day, but it was during the pandemic so I had about our hours a day to work on it. It still took about 500 hours to write and another 500 to edit. The hope is that with a free book promotion you may get some reviews, or with a series, some will like the first book and then buy the others in the series, but this doesn’t happen as much as it used to. So many authors give their books away now that you could easily never pay for a book again and still have enough to read for several lifetimes. I, too, am guilty of filling my Kindle with books that I think I will get to but never do. For me, now, I have no delusions that it will make any tangible difference. I just enjoyed the thrill of seeing the copies fly off the shelf and my rank increase, if even momentarily. But that is much as I expect from it and that’s okay. It will never compare to a true sale where someone is willing to exchange their hard earned money, for my story. That is extra neat.

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