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Tim McKay
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Fantasy Author | Editor | Writing Prof 🏴 Here to create meaningful experiences for others — through writing.

🔥 The Fall of Selvandrea
⛈️ Skyfold (WIP)

https://linktr.ee/timmckay
🗡️ Pre-orders are live!! 🗡️

Check out the cover for The Father of Shadow and Death 🔥

What to expect:

☠️ Grisly murders
🐕 A mangy pup vs. evil foxes
👥 Chosen people gone wrong
👻 Myths, monsters, and madness

Want a free review copy? Comment YES, and brace yourselves!

Launches on Nov. 7, 2025
October 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🥳 Book birthday!! 🥳

The Fall of Selvandrea turns 1 today!

So hey, today only, grab it for $0.99 🔥

What to expect:

🛞 Ships and cannons
🧙‍♂️ Magic and mayhem (+ sci-fi)
🐉 (Lots of) Dragons and monsters
👴 Bickering old men who know too much

mybook.to/thefallofsel...
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Including audiobooks, I've now sold 554 copies of The Fall of Selvandrea.

And excluding freebies and Skyfold pre-orders, I've sold over 700 books since my little author journey began.

500 and 700 both feel like pretty big milestones.

Next up: 30 ratings on Amazon and 100 on GR
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
⛈️ The Skyfold pre-order is live!! ⛈️

Grab it while you can for just $0.99!

What to expect:

🥷 An epic heist
🪽 Angelic overlords
🐺 Monsters and beasts aplenty
❤️‍🔥 Lust, love, and deceit

Or, if you want a free review copy, ebook AND audio, comment "YES" below 🔥

mybook.to/skyfold
August 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
⛈️ Skyfold revealed at last!! ⛈️

A fantasy heist novella where every game has a cost.

What to expect:

🥷 An epic heist
🪽 Angelic overlords
🐺 Monsters and beasts aplenty
❤️‍🔥 Lust, love, and deceit

If you want a free review copy, ebook AND audio, comment below 🔥
August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📚 Any day with bookmail is a good day 📚

Did I say good? I meant GREAT.

This absolute gent sent me hardbacks — and they're gorgeous.

Can't wait to read 'em — thanks E.L. Montague!!
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🥳 Just hit 30,002 pages read on Kindle Unlimited! 🥳

Woot woot!

And I happen to know that's not the only good news coming today.

After a few intense and stressful months, this upward swing is quite welcome, I have to say!
July 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
⛈️ Skyfold is coming ⛈️

Officially scheduled for August 15, four weeks from today!

What to expect:

🥷 An epic heist
🪽 Angelic overlords
🐺 Monsters and beasts aplenty
❤️‍🔥 Lust, love, and deceit

Journey where every game has a cost, and every dream a price to be paid.
July 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🔥 Off to a great start! 🔥

The Fall of Selvandrea is already #1 in Military Fantasy for free books, and climbing elsewhere too!

224 downloads so far!

Expecting a big spike tomorrow through The Fussy Librarian, which I highly recommend for free book promos.
July 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
💥 FREE this week only!! 💥

Grab The Fall of Selvandrea for $0.00!!!

What to expect:

🛞 Ships and cannons
🧙‍♂️ Magic and mayhem (+ sci-fi)
🐉 (Lots of) Dragons and monsters
👴 Bickering old men who know too much

And yes, there's an audiobook!
July 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🔥 The Fall of Selvandrea is now available for $3.99 🔥

And with the audiobook right around the corner, now is the time!

What to expect:

🛞 Ships and cannons
🧙‍♂️ Magic and mayhem (+ sci-fi)
🐉 (Lots of) Dragons and monsters
👴 Bickering old men who know too much

mybook.to/thefallofsel...
June 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
💰 Just crossed the $1,000 mark from book sales 💰

Closer to $1,500 including direct sales and my first book signing.

Granted, that's revenue, not profit, but this still feels like a big milestone.

This may actually be going somewhere 😅
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Another fun little milestone!

I crossed over 600 books sold through Amazon today, and including sales from a Chapters event a while back (I should really do more of those) and some direct sales, that puts me at 634 total (actually, I think I've missed a few, but close enough!).
June 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔥 ONE WEEK ONLY: 80% OFF The Fall of Selvandrea! 🔥

Get the ebook for just $0.99 from May 28 to June 3!

What to expect:

🛞 Ships and cannons
🧙‍♂️ Magic and mayhem (+ sci-fi)
🐉 (Lots of) Dragons and monsters
👴 Bickering old men who know too much

Audiobook coming soon!!

mybook.to/thefallofsel...
May 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🔥 New illustration from the amazing Joe Requeza 🔥

I'm almost done editing the audiobook, so I figured we're all due a little treat.

Meet Seddram Peltan and the salamands.

I'll be including this as an internal illustration in book two.
May 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🔥 We did it!! 🔥

400 copies sold of The Fall of Selvandrea!!

That was a nice treat to wake up to!

Thanks to everyone who's taken a chance on this story.

As Valdaris Drascar would say, may you face the dark with courage and throw your enemies to the sharks!
May 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🎉 Just hit 20 ratings on Amazon US!! 🎉

It's been a long time coming.

By far the most challenging part of author life is getting reviews and ratings.

And the wait is even longer if the book is a chonker like this one 😅

Thank you so much to everyone who's taken the time!
April 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎉 I love hitting milestones 🎉

20,000 pages read on Kindle Unlimited!

Upcoming milestones for The Fall of Selvandrea:

5 ratings shy of 50 on Goodreads 👀
14 sales shy of 400 copies sold! 🤩
April 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🔥 Over 18K pages read on Kindle Unlimited 🔥

KU feels like you're looking over everyone's shoulder:

"Oh, they're reading again today!"

"Oh, just wait for the next part! Things are about to get dicey!"

"600 pages in one day?? How does that—oh, right. More than one reader. Duh."

Fun times 😅
April 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🎉 Woohoo!! 15K pages read on KU! 🎉

Another fun little milestone.

Now, if I could hit 20 ratings on Amazon (or 50 on Goodreads) by my birthday, that'd really make my day 🔥

In the meantime, such a blast seeing these numbers climb. Cheers all! 🍻
March 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🤑 Well, you asked for it!! 🤑

The Fall of Selvandrea is now available for $4.99 USD.

That's $6.99 in Canada (those exchange rates are killer)!

But hey, that means if you buy my book, you get to both read an awesome, dark, action-packed story AND support an indie author.

Win-win.
March 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ran a vote elsewhere and decided it's time.

Today's the last day to buy The Fall of Selvandrea at $0.99.

I'll be raising the ebook price to $4.99 before midnight.

Grab it while you can!
March 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Update: Can't even log in to appeal now.

Hopefully this all gets sorted soon.

What happened:

Like one month ago during my cover reveal, someone apparently reported my account on X.

This time, they did it right after my free book promotion (which "sold" over 1,300 copies).
January 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This just keeps getting better and better.

On the bright side:

Turns out the cure to writer's block is getting your socials accounts suspended.

Who knew 😅
January 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I got suspended on "the other place."

Here's what happened:

I ran a free book promotion on Amazon over the weekend.

And it blew up. 1,371 copies "sold" over two days.

I'd have been happy with 30 😅

BUT someone reported my account as "inauthentic (fake or impersonating).

No idea why.
January 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM