Author James C Struck

All set up and ready for my first ever book signing! Prairie Fox Books in downtown Ottawa IL, 3-6pm today!

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Tales with Atticus's review of Children of Dusk 5/5: I didn’t expect to love this as much as I did. I usually have a hard time connecting with teenage boy protagonists (I put down Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson twice for that exact reason), but th...

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Samantha Barrier's review of Children of Dusk 5/5: To James C. Struck, you’ve created a fan! Y.a fantasy is what got me into reading at a young age, and as such will always hold a very special place in my heart. That being said, this coming of ...

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To celebrate the launch of Children of Dusk, my first book, The Curious Snowflake is #FREE on KDP from 12/14-12/16!!! Go get yourself a copy, and if you do, please leave an honest review, it’s the biggest help you can give an #IndieAuthor

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Three days until my #urbanfantasy novel Children of Dusk launches!!!! So as part of my #ChapterCountdown here’s an excerpt from chapter 3.

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#ChapterCountdown time! 5 days until Children of Dusk launches, so here’s an excerpt from chapter 5.

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Day 10 of my Chaptet Countdown!

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Join me for my Chapter Countdown! My #YAFantasy novel Children of Dusk launches in 11 days, so here is an excerpt of me reading from Chapter 11.

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To ramp up for the launch of Children of Dusk, I’m posting a Launch Countdown video each day until the 15th! Each day I will post an excerpt from the chapter based on how many days are left, here’s one from Chapter 13.

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Some people have turkey on Thanksgiving. Others have ham, but us writers?

We're feasting on stories. 😂

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Thanks!

My author copies of Children of Dusk arrived today! Join me for my #unboxing

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#WIPSnips for 11/25: system

How this for the vibe; here’s how the magic system works in Children of Dusk. Enjoy! 🤪

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Since some of my ARC readers asked, here’s a quick pronunciation guide for Housetongue, the completely made up language in Children of Dusk.

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#WIPSnips for 11/21: Crystal

Even in this era of dying belief in magic, our world is crisscrossed with Leylines, conduits of elemental energy. The places where they cross are called leypoints and they are places of great power.

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#WIPSnips for 11/21: direction

Weaving, the magic system in Children of Dusk, consists of drawing in elemental energies from the world and combining them together in different ways. Here, my MC Tim gets his first tutorial on it.

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#WIPSnips for 11/20: special

Seekers like Vee and Gideon search the world for potential Weavers, and new potentials usually can only handle Weaving one or two elements at a time.

Tim is not the usual new potential.

Children of Dusk, coming 12/15!

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Tomorrow, 11/21, as part of the #humanvoicesonly event, @Nicole Fikes | Narrator 🎙️ will be posting an excerpt from Children of Dusk! Also, on Sunday, 11/23 at 8pm EST I will be appearing on a live in... TikTok video by Author James C Struck

I am taking part in the #HumanVoicesOnly event tomorrow and I have a live TT author interview Sunday! Watch the video for all the details!

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#WIPSnips for 11/16: spend

The Duskrealms are dying. As belief in magic and the supernatural fades from our world, so do the ‘Realms, literally. As a side effect, time does some really strange things there, as Tim discovers in this excerpt.

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More reviews dropping for Children of Dusk!!!! I cannot describe how this makes me feel! 🫶🥰😁

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#WIPSnips for 11-16: run

Weavers can sense when someone near them uses magic, though what they sense is unique to each person. For some it’s warmth or heat, for others it’s sound or vibration. For Tim, it seems, he gets goosebumps.

Children of Dusk launches 12/15!

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A long and enthusiastic 5 star review of Children of Dusk

An image describing Children of Dusk: great for all ages, page turner, great world building, unique magic system, fast read, comes out 12/15

FIRST REVIEW OF CHILDREN OF DUSK!!!

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These are the moments authors daydream about. You wake up in the morning, get a cup of coffee, open social media, and there is, a reader absolutely GUSHING over what you’ve written.

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One of my #ARCReaders just reached out to me on Tiktok, and… just WOW! These are the sorts of comments that make an #indieauthor absolutely float off the ground!

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#WIPSnips for 11/15: progress

I had to be very careful about posting this, one paragraph higher would have been a MAJOR spoiler. 😱

Have I mentioned that Naldumiel and his snark is my favorite character in the book? Cuz he’s my favorite character in the book.

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#WIPSnips for 11/14: week

Tim…has some baggage.

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#WIPSnips for 11/13: build

Traveling from our world to the Duskrealms can only occur at certain places and times, and even then it’s not easy, as Tim discovers here.

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#WIPSnips for 11/12: shirt

High school gym class sucks under the best of circumstances. When you’ve got burn scars like Tim, however, it’s a very special kind of hell.

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#WIPSnips for 11/11: burger

Here, our MC Tim has to contend with explaining to his nosy, suburban realtor mom about Vee and Gideon, without, ya know, letting her know they’re magic wielders from another dimension who’ve recruited him to save the world. No biggie. 🤣

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