t.n. vitus

Queer Indie Award winning author of SACRILEGE (2022) and HEIRS OF DESTRUCTION (2024).

[vitusvital]

welcome

thanks for checking out my website! you can read about my books here or contact me here.

[iustuspeccator]

I bet it feels good as hell to be the prophet who goes to the king's hall and tells him he's disobeyed the Lord

[manorofshepard]

Can I just say something honestly and very seriously to all you writers?

With the Internet going down the "nothing adult, no death, no nothing. Make it kid friendly" route,

Please don't ever stop making art or writing wips that are gruesome, horror, other things like that. Don't let the Internet sanitize how you wanna tell a story. Channel your rage into your art and keep going and don't give up

[goqmir]

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

[dialupmodern]

it feels so good loading the gun when you're Chekhov

[itstimetodrew]

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

[farewell-to-lorien]

One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die.

Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur

[vitusvital]

new author portrait just dropped 🪞

[vitusvital]

Hi! I would love to read your books but don't know where to find them. What's the best place to purchase your books so that you get as much revenue for the sale as possible?

Thank you for the this question! I mainly sell through Kindle Direct Publishing, though I do have expanded distribution on so you should be able to find the book on other virtual retailers like Barnes and Noble, Target website, etc. I think my revenue rate is pretty much across the board that I retain the most through paperbacks. However, if ebooks are more accessible to you, then the Kindle version or Kindle Unlimited are there for you as well!

I hope you enjoy the book!

[contremineur]

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

image from here

[vitusvital]

Sacrilege is a Bestseller

All I ever wanted was to sell 251 copies of Sacrilege. I read some arbitrary statistic before publishing that said most self published books only ever sell 250 copies, so I made it a goal to sell just one more. Last time I checked, after the Dark Mode event wrapped up, it was over 10,000 copies sold. I don’t even have words.

My best friends made me a cake and sang to me. I’m very blessed.

My life already feels changed. If even a fraction of those buyers read and review Sacrilege, it may completely alter the course of my career. Only a few days ago I had been considering pulling my books from shelves altogether. It just goes to show what having faith in yourself and your work does.

Thank you to my new readers, and to the ones who have stuck around.

[vitusvital]

my book baby finally hit 50 sales :’) thank you everyone

[abiteofhoney-deactivated2025030]

i want to read more books from people on here, and unfortunately, i struggle a lot with online reading. it’s much better for me to actually have the text on page in front of me.

SO!!!! this is an open call for all my tumblr writer friends to link/promote their published, purchasable books here! let me buy them and put them on my bookshelf please

[authoralexharvey]

I'm swooping in with my list as well cause wynaut.

Cammie ( @aninkwellofnectar ) has When The Stars Alight, a GORGEOUS romantic gaslamp fantasy featuring mouth-watering food descriptions, doomed lovers, people born literally from the stars, and so much more. She also has The Sanguine Sorceress, a prequel, as a physical release, and she'll soon be releasing the sequel, We Will Devour the Night! All of these are available on her payhip.

Jo ( @joannekwan ) has wrote several comics that I'm unsure are physical or not. Besides these, though, she's wrote Secunda, a romantic historical fantasy novel featuring a queer polycule as its cast! She's also going to be releasing the sequel, Copula, soon!

T.N ( @vitusvital ) writes queer fantasy and has two books out on physical form! Sacrilege features spooky woods and a messed up village. Heirs of Destruction was recently released and is a high fantasy series with complex politics and hot spymasters. Need I say more? It's also the first of a series.

Meg ( @i-m-p-a-v-i-d-u-s ) wrote the Impavidus series, a fantasy romp with a lot of moving parts. She also recently ran a new physical release with updated covers that are to die for.

Andi ( @andromedaexists ) has a series that my keyboard does not like to let me type out, but regardless. Δάιος (pronounced dye-ohs) is the first of a planned trilogy of books that take the myth of Icarus and plop them into a future Cleveland.

If I may be so humble, I have a couple of publications myself! When the Stars Were Brighter is my short story collection and is available on Barnes & Noble in physical form. I'm also working on setting up a shop to sell signed copies. I also have my debut novel (A Sharper, More Lasting Pain) coming out in October as a physical and ebook release!

[tigerdragon1001]

Sick of characters who are simply Cool or Badass or Horrifying or Edgy all the time. They need to be pathetic too. It elevates them. It’s like adding a bit of salt to a sweet dish to bring out the flavour. Tbh, I think a character can only be truly horrifying, badass, etc. WITH a lil bit of pathetic in 'em.

[vitusvital]

Asriel Veservus

[vitusvital]

Musings

Hi y'all, I haven't been able to post from mobile in days now, which is irritating since I am away from my computer for most of the day. If you want to keep up with me until I figure out what's wrong with mobile, my other socials are pinned to my page.

Thank you for a wonderful release week for Heirs of Destruction! All my love, T

[vitusvital]

If you like these oddly specific things, then you should probably read my book.

A spymaster forced to train with Adristan’s most secretive order. A war commander disgusted by death. A lord damned to repeat history if he cannot master it.

Asriel Veservus is not ready to inherit power. Though he is heir to the noble house dedicated to documenting history, his High Lord father has left him to his own devices. Regarded as a fool, he stumbles through congresses, coasting on his charm as he attempts to find allies in a very fragile political landscape. Rather than attempt to offer wisdom, his father chooses instead to build up Asriel’s half-sister into a weapon.

Rhaella cannot inherit power. As her father’s bastard, she is relegated to relative obscurity, though she has more potential. Her keen senses combined with her low societal status allows her to go unnoticed as the spymaster. The nobles condescend to her, even as they fear the secrets she keeps. While she is content to keep to the shadows, it is those talents that catch the attention of her house’s ally, the justice-keeping House Midar.

Virgil Midar does not want power. He abhors the necessity of violence as their nation sinks deeper into a bloody conflict. Charged with fighting toward peace, he grasps for humanity amongst ambitious and scheming nobles. When his father’s chief advisor begins pushing for Virgil to marry, his focus narrows on ending the war so he can levy the victory against it. His feelings begin to shift when House Veservus’s spymaster comes to his aid with strategy.

With the threat of battle ever-looming on the horizon, they band together to uncover just how deep traitorous blood runs in their houses. Traitors wish to see a tyrannical monarchy put back into power at the expense of the noble houses. Around them, their peers are just as ill-prepared and vulnerable to the corrosive nature of power. The collective future of the nation lies on an uncertain foundation, and it may only take one whispered secret to dismantle the entire thing.

Heirs of Destruction is the first book in The Crownkiller Saga, a new high-fantasy series by award-winning indie author T.N. Vitus.

[vitusvital]

IT’S RELEASE DAY!!!!!!

SHE’S HERE!!!!!

My sophomore novel, Heirs of Destruction, is now available. High fantasy with court politics, risky romances, and dense world building. The book is no longer mine. It is, at last, yours.

Join the fray.⚔️

[heya-there-friends]

WAIT THIS LOWLEY LOOKS SO GOOD??? IS THIS GOING TO BE A SERIES BY CHANCE OP?

[vitusvital]

yes, six books 🙂‍↔️

[vitusvital]

thank you for all the love and support on Heirs of Destruction’s release day🩶the book of my dreams now belongs to you