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The Swithen Arthurian Book Series
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The book series that remains completely faithful to the medieval Arthurian legend as laid down 1136-1485. 25 novels to tell the full saga, 7 out now. Here you will find insights about the Arthurian legend and the book series. www.theswithen.com
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Reviews of the new installment slowly trickling in and my panic that everyone will hate it slowly draining away...
Book 7: shorturl.at/H9ozv

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October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Re: Book covers, I kept seeing advice saying "Make it look EXACTLY like all the others in your genre." I tried for a while. Then I decided to go for the cover I WANT and the genre I'm going for; light literary. Can't call it a winning strategy, but I do like my covers!

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October 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The saga continues as we move out of the King Arthur origin story and into the adventures of the knights in his court, starting with the mysterious adventures of Balin le Savage. Ebook out Monday, paperback soon after!

Get your copy: a.co/d/bhavUzq

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October 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We are up to Book 7 of my 25-novel telling of the medieval Arthurian legend. This one begins the Balin/Balan story, one of my favorite parts of the legend... dark, evocative and mysterious. Preview this installment here:
theswithen.com/book-7-previ...

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September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Arthurian legend offers a mind trip unlike any other... if you're looking for a world of magic and beauty to get lost in... join a saga that has endured for a thousand years.

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August 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Book 7 is available for pre-order... When you do, you'll save $4 off the price it will be at release. That's ALMOST a cup of coffee!
Pre order: shorturl.at/GaouD

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August 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Coming in September.

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August 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Ever tried to read Le Morte d'Arthur without making it very far? My new guided reading and easy translation will open it up for you, telling what's going on and what it all means in clear, unpretentious launguage.
Try it: shorturl.at/nVDW8

#Arthurian #kingarthur #literature
July 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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With everything going shorter and more surface-level, why not go deep, long, complex, rich and suffused with meaning?

#books #bookseries #fiction #fantasy
June 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This 5-star review at #bookshelfie really gets what I'm going for in my series... to get beneath all the encrusted Arthurian lore to see King Arthur as a normal, confused person.

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May 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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At a novel per year and 19 left before the series is complete, we're looking at a book series you can lose yourself in until 2044.

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May 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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King Arthur's first years of rule... free to read for Kindle Unlimited users. Although it is Book 6 of the series, it's easy to pick up here.
Get it: shorturl.at/AIE7f

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April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Book 7 is almost ready to move from writing into revision. Thanks to the new readers losing themselves in the saga.

#booksky #reading #Arthurian #legend
April 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Did you know that in the legend, Merlin is NOT around for King Arthur's childhood? In fact, Arthur's childhood is not depicted in the legend at all... which shows the influence of T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone. I had to be sure my version was different.

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March 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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THANK YOU to whoever bought the entire series in paperback today! You're my new favorite person!

#bookseries #lovereading #books
March 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Merlin of my series is not the nice guy we're used to, but a ruthless wizard who manipulates kings to force his vision for Britian.

#arthurian #fantasybooks #wizard #medieval
March 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Not sequels, but the next installment of one time-tested ongoing saga... only 19 more novels to come.

#bookseries #novels #Arthurian
March 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Arthurian legend doesn't always make literal sense, but in a larger way makes poetic sense.

#poetry #sciencefiction #legend
February 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Imagining Guinevere's upbringing and childhood has been a pleasure.

#queen #Arthurian #lovereading
February 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The entire book series is planned all the way to the end. No making it up as we go along!

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February 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We're 6 novels in to a 25-novel interpretation of the medieval Arthurian legend.
Here: shorturl.at/GEd6h

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February 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Vortigern did not make friends easily.

#Arthurian #Historicalfiction #reading
February 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Ya have to have those moments. In Le Morte d'Arthur it says that Arthur was red with blood all over and stuck with clumps of brain!

#Fantasybooks #Arthurian #Novels
January 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hey Chase... I like your art! I am 6 books in to a 25-novel retelling of the Arthurian legend with the proviso that I have to stay completely faithful to the legend of 1136-1485, so it doesn't veer too far away from the original material. Check them out! shorturl.at/XArZc
January 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It's been surprising how consistently character conundrums and logistics can be solved by delving deeper into the legend.

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January 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM