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Welcome to Praenèste!

We are T.S. Austen.

We’re a husband-and-wife writing team—Timothy and Sarah Austen—based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By day, Sarah runs a music studio, Crescendo Music Academy. Tim works in marketing and draws a comic strip.

Together we created Praenèste, an original fantasy world full of heroes, villains, and magic. This website is a place where we post original short fiction, artwork, and blurbs from finished and in-progress novels.

We write compulsively.

Tim co-created Praenèste with a friend when he was nine or ten years old. Thirteen-odd years later, in the midst of two simultaneously graduate degrees at Villanova, Tim found himself shipwrecked on Praenèste’s god-forgotten shores. He was grateful to find a fellow traveler there, Sarah, whose expertise and patience have made exploring Praenèste for the past eight years an absolute joy.

While we have updated many of the original world’s features and inhabitants, the nature of our projects set in Praenèste have been, firstly, to remain as faithful as possible to the spirit of that original creation and, secondly, to explore the themes and stories of our childhood imaginations from an adult perspective.

Ready to embark? Check out our novel, Fury’s Ashes. It’s an unpublished novel for adults (complete at 91,000 words), for which we are currently seeking representation.

There are also a couple of short stories, as well as original artwork throughout the site. Consider reading some of our material and subscribing to the email list. It means a lot!

Thank you for reading!

T.S. Austen

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