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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author
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Author of the post-apocalyptic western novel Sorrow Draw and the Goblins of the Moors series.

Signed copies at https://timothybrumbaugh.com

Sorrow Draw - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587

The Mapmaker's Husband - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRWJFM1C
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Sorrow Draw is my post-apocalyptic alternate history western novel set in the aftermath of a comet impact in 1863.

It's been called "Tombstone meets The Road."

Available in multiple formats. Free to read on KU. Audiobook on Audible and iTunes. #BookSky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587/
An image of a dust covered landscape with a river flowing down the center and the words "When the comet struck, the wild west became the last refuge for humanity"
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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A post apocalyptic alternate history western novel with:

✅ Gunfighters and bounty hunters
✅ Comet impact
✅ Multi POV
✅ Chase through the Wastelands
✅ Your new favorite characters
✅ Morally gray characters
✅ A band of hunters with a dark past

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587

#BookSky #western #books
A desolate frontier landscape with the caption "When the comet struck, the Wild West became the last refuge for humanity."
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social
I've got a handful of free Audible audiobook codes for The Last Goblin Shaman and The Mapmaker's Husband. If you want a free download credit, fill out this Google Form and I'll send one to you. No newsletter signups or anything shifty, just hoping for a few reviews.

docs.google.com/forms/d/1nZE...
An image of a goblin woman and a nephilim woman with the caption "Get a FREE Audible Audiobook code while they last."
June 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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So the wife decided to start fostering #kittens and at first I was like, "Nooooooo" but just look at them.
Three gray kittens sleeping in the sun.
June 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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So I'm at Thy Geekdom Con this weekend. I had no idea it was an anime convention until after I bought the booth. I don't think I'll be making table this time, but I'm sticking it out regardless.
My indie author booth at a comic con with copies of my books and displays advertising them.
May 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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My post-apocalyptic alternate history Western novel is called Sorrow Draw and is available in most places you can buy books. My TikTok shop has signed copies, but here's the Amazon link. It's also on KU and audiobook is available, too!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8H5TYFH
Cover for the book Sorrow Draw by Tim K Brumbaugh.
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Trying to publicly celebrate my wins, which is something I don't do well. So here it is. I'm 3 days past my one year anniversary of being an indie author, but today I finally broke 100k KU page reads!

#writingcommunity
A chart showing the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Reads showing 100,223 pages read from March 15, 2024 to March 18, 2025
March 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I've been sitting on a stock of about 100 copies of my book for the last 6 months. In that time, I've whittled it down to 60 selling at cons and my website. On Friday, I made a new account to run my TikTok shop and sold out my stock in 24 hours.

Here's the first batch, off to the post office!
A table full of shipping boxes with labels on them
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social
Well, unless I get 1,604 page reads by tomorrow, I won't hit the 100,000 KENP milestone for my first year as a published author.

But that's ok. 98k page reads are more than I thought I'd get when Sorrow Draw debuted. If you're one of those readers, thank you for taking a chance on an indie debut!
A graph showing the number of Kindle Unlimited pages read of my books so far for my first year as an author (98,396).
March 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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😊 refreshing
Someone drinking the water from a can of Vienna Sausages
March 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This is how I wrap up my book orders on my website and on my TikTok shop! Sorrow Draw gets the 19th century treatment. My fantasy books get my custom wax seal.

Visit timothybrumbaugh.com to order. Or, unsigned editions and ebooks on the Zon. KU included.

#bookrecs #BookSky💙📚 #booksky #indieauthors
March 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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For #WorldBookDay, consider listening to an #audiobook like Sorrow Draw, available on Audible and iTunes!

✅ Multiple POV
✅ Gunfighters and Dandies
✅ Wasteland Apocalypse
✅ Alternate History

www.audible.com/pd/B0DFMR7J7T
An advertisement for the audiobook version of Sorrow Draw by Tim K Brumbaugh
March 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Y'all, help me reach 100,000 page reads on KU before the one year anniversary of my debut novel!

I've got 3 books to choose from:

1) Sorrow Draw - post-apocalyptic western
2) The Last Goblin Shaman - Spicy Goblins
3) The Mapmaker's Husband - Cozy Fantasy

#BookSky📚💙 #bookrecs #KindleUnlimited
A graph from Amazon showing the authors Kindle Unlimited page reads at 97,898.
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for March 6 is "reputation"

In this scene, Barsam has just emerged from his cursed exile (trapped in an amulet - he gets ten days of freedom every five years) and is chatting with his friend and former captain, Warren.

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
Barsam smiled again. A soft, sad smile. "It went well, I think. We have an understanding, Jakk and I. Em is understandably lonely. She is a goblin and has her needs. I knew very well what that meant when we met. I never fancied Em to be mine and mine alone. To be honest, I'm surprised—and somewhat flattered—that she still is. Goblins are notorious in their…appetites. Still, she has assured me that she intends to remain faithful, as arduous and unnecessary as that is. Jakk is understandably heartbroken, but he's accepted it gracefully." "Gracefully?" Warren asked. His mammoth friend's reputation for jealousy had been something of a legend in his time as Captain of the Black Isle Company. They had all known him to be a jealous leader, a jealous lover, and a jealous friend. Barsam laughed. "Of course." He sat back down on the cold stone bench. "You might not notice the change in a man when you are so close to him. You see him every day, and change comes slow. It is imperceptible from one day to the next. Like a child growing up, it doesn't happen all at once but in a thousand small and indiscernible ways over the months and seasons and years. I, on the other hand, have seen five years of change in an instant."
March 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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✅Standalone In A Series
✅A Bit Of Sword And Sorcery
✅A Little Spice
✅These #Goblins Are *Different*
✅Redemption Arc
✅Polyamorous Relationships

Free to read on Kindle Unlimited. Paperback, hardcover, and eBook available.

👉https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1H3G7J/

#BookSky #BookSky💙📚
A lovely goblin woman sitting against a rock with the title The Last Goblin Shaman by Tim K Brumbaugh. Book one of the Goblins of the Moors Series
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The Mapmaker's Husband

Warren is trying his best to raise his kids after his wife's untimely passing, but the mystery of her maps is threatening the life they had once built together.

#cozyfantasy #BookSky💙📚 #booksky #fantasybooks

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS2JRLYV
A picture of the book The Mapmaker's Husband by Tim K Brumbaugh with a list of tropes: Cozy farm setting Getting the gang back together for one last job Retired heroes Found family Moving beyond bereavement Career change Standalone in a series Aging heroes
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for March 4 is "annoy"

An excerpt from Sorrow Draw. Which is technically no longer a WIP, I suppose. Hasn't been for almost a year, I guess.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Erasmus cursed himself silently. His laughter brought them here. “My father shouldn’t concern himself with my comings and goings. And neither should his goons. I’m no child to be fretted over.” Ransom pulled down the dust scarf that covered his face. “What was you two doing in the parsonage?” “I was showing my friend here the spot where the old minister died. You know, the one that shit himself to death in this very house. A tragic tale. The mood was so somber afterward I attempted to bring in a little levity with some jokes and laughter.” Erasmus feigned annoyance, but his heart threatened to beat out of his chest. This is just what the Paluxy Boys would use to justify hanging Lupe. Why wasn’t I more cautious? Ransom smacked his lips. “You know what they say about you, don’t you? I mean, you have to know. And yet you still put yourself in this position. Doesn’t the Bible tell us to abstain from the appearance of evil? Yet here you are, decidedly not abstaining from a goddamned thing.”
March 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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King of Ithaca
Sean Bean as Odysseus
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Happy Monday!

The #WIPSnips word for March 3rd is "ring"

I feel like I cheated with this one, but nowhere in my draft did the word "ring" appear in its own.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
His lamp bounced in the wind and with each careful step his horse took. Though it did little to pierce the veiling dust, the light was a source of comfort to him in the darkness of the wastes. He rubbed the glass lenses of his goggles with a corner of his keffiyeh, but it did little to help his vision. The fog of Calamity grew thicker than usual tonight, and it made finding the cairns difficult. Conny feared, more than once, that his horse might drift on the trail, and he would be lost on the wastelands, wandering directionless until thirst devoured him. Yet every time this fear became a burning, consuming thing, he would see the shadow of the next cairn behind the obscuring dust, and he would be safe again for a time. He chided himself for his childishness. Had he not wandered these wastelands for months, tracking a single girl through the endless dust? Yes, he told himself. But I didn't do any of it alone.
March 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A Multi-POV novel that made one reader say, "No matter how hard I try, there isn't a single character here that I don't absolutely love."

And another say, "I fell in love with these characters the moment they were introduced."

#booksky #BookSky💙📚 #postapocalypse
Post-apocalyptic Western novel Sorrow Draw with the tagline "Your new favorite characters are waiting."
March 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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In 1881, in the heart of the American wastelands, a young woman finds a treasure that shouldn't exist - paper money from the Republic of California.

Now, she's on the run from a group of bounty hunters who will stop at nothing to find her.

#sorrowdraw #BookSky #BookSky📚💙 #indieauthor #bookrecs
An advertisement for Sorrow Draw by Tim Brumbaugh with the tagline "I am in awe at how much I loved this book." And a list of genre tropes including Western Setting, Multi-POV, Ensemble Cast, Dead Post-apocalyptic World, Memorable Characters, Gunfighters and Bounty Hunters, Alternate History, and Chase through the Wastelands
March 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This was nearly a year ago when Sorrow Draw first debuted. Sold out on TikTok lightning quick back then.

#indieauthor #BookSky💙📚
Me in a black T-shirt signing a bunch of copies of my book Sorrow Draw
March 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Got my booth set up for Happy Valley Comicon!
A booth set up in a warehouse for comicon A promo for Happy Valley comicon that says "I'll be at HVC3, will you?"
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for February 21 is "whim"

Wu can sometimes make up things on a whim.

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Farhad said nothing. Wu disliked her people, and their beliefs, and she would often make up her own beliefs, almost on a whim, usually to be contrary. To everyone Farhad had ever known, crows were a sign of trouble. “Come my love,” Wu said. She held him in her gaze with her narrow eyes that Farhad found intoxicating. “He is alright, too. He is alright, too.” But this bloody trail and the hoof prints in the dust didn’t tell the full story. He might have been alive when he left the battle, but did he make it the long way back through the woods and to the safety of the lodge? And what was the fate of Crowkiller? The big Indian had always been almost as close a friend to him as Conny.
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for February 19 is "sense"

Conny and Nikki are sharing a moment together before Conny leaves for Sorrow Draw.

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“Nonsense. You’re the only reason that all these men and women who ain’t dead yet, ain’t dead yet. Even with your bum leg, you outgunned all of us.” “I sat at a window and shot at men from a hiding spot like a coward.” Years ago, he would have stood up to any man that hid in the shadows and killed men from the cover of darkness and called him out for being yellow. “A coward? What them men did was cowardly. They came here and shot up a bunch of innocent people who was only minding they own. What you did was the noble thing. Coward my ass, Cornelius White.” “Well ain’t you a daisy for saying so,” he said. “How’s it looking? The leg, I mean.”
February 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM