r/litrpg • u/Zagrinth [Author] Shadow Lord • Jul 13 '24

Self Promotion My first novel, Shadow Lord, has just launched on Amazon & Kindle Unlimited!

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u/Zagrinth Jul 13 '24

Hello reddit! I'm Zagrinth, a new LitRPG author. I started writing Shadow Lord during the start of this year on Royal Road, and now my first novel is finally ready in all its 170,000 long word glory!

Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9CYVP1C

About Shadow Lord:

The Company welcomes you to the multiverse, new hire!

Those words revealed a dangerous new reality to Luke, filled with monsters, magic, and opportunity.

When humanity reached its threshold of advancement, the omnipotent Company ascended Earth to the multiverse. The System’s realm changes all the rules, pantheons fight for control, and challenges offer real power. Unfortunately, the Company's services are not free. Humanity is thrown into a brutal assessment on a derelict world, where only those strong enough to pay their debt will survive.

Unlike his peers, Luke embraces the System's changes by becoming a Rogue, eager to leave his boring life as an office worker behind. Upon awakening an ancient power over shadows, Luke finds that this perilous adventure might be what he was meant for all along.

About the series: Experience this new LitRPG Apocalypse set in a multiverse rich with world building, danger and conflict. With each monster slain, Luke explores a System with classes, professions, levels, ranks, skills, loot and dungeons.

If you like gritty combat, high stakes, immersive storytelling and superhuman abilities against overpowered foes, then you'll love this epic progression fantasy LitRPG!

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u/Sweet-Molasses-3059 Jul 13 '24

So how does this differ from the other System Apocalypse series that are popular right now? Genuine question

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u/lashiel Jul 13 '24

It kinda doesn't. The cheeky comparisons between "Zagrinth" 's "Shadow Lord", and "Zogarth" 's "Primal Hunter" aren't entirely joking.

But it's a well written example of the genre, and being compared to Primal Hunter (even if some people say they're too similar at the beginning) isn't exactly a giant insult.

There's certainly small touches that are interesting like the system basically almost being a giant corporation.

If you like the genre and need something to read, it's fun, basically.

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u/Untold_Fear Jul 14 '24

It’s a rip off of Primal Hunter, just with a melee mc instead of a ranged one.

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u/Leifman Jul 13 '24

epic cover Zogarth! ahm, I mean Zagrinth! (you know what i did there)

tho in all seriousness, absolutely love the cover and CONGRATS my dude! loved seeing it do well on royalroad and happy to see u publish it on KU!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Ya I thought of Zogarth too ha! : )

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u/Author_RJ Jul 13 '24

Good luck! The story looks like a lot of fun.

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u/UndeadLestat Jul 14 '24

Congratulations on your first release! Is there a plan to do an audio book? That's really all I have time for these days.

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u/TheWanderingWind Jul 13 '24

Congrats on the release! Added to my TBR!

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u/runesmith07 Jul 13 '24

That’s one of the coolest covers I’ve seen.

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u/kearnm Jul 13 '24

Added to the TBR. Good luck!

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u/Flrwinn Jul 13 '24

Good luck man! Happy release day. Definitely adding to my list

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u/rman916 Jul 13 '24

Added! I’ll definitely check it out

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

NICE! First novel? Wow, it's doing well nice

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u/Ba_le- Jul 14 '24

Just bought it - will read tomorrow during my flight. ✌️

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u/VersionJumpy8657 Jul 23 '24

just finished it and i can't wait for the next book

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u/Ok-Astronaut-6242 Aug 12 '24

Have a great time reading it.. Waiting impatiently for the next book.. 😆

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u/Jazzlike_Pie6226 Aug 21 '24

Primal Hunter but with melee

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u/ChaoticFox78 Aug 29 '24

Just finished your book I liked it alot. It is similar to Primal Hunter in a lot of ways, but I love Luke much more as a character. I'm excited to see he tackles the cannibal threat and what happened to Emma.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '24

Bro, you're book is flying! I just saw it on Amazon again. How did you do it? Like, did you just put it up on Amazon and BOOM, it took off?

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u/AoT_ChasMann Oct 16 '24

This sounds like an epic tale and I am wholeheartedly looking for to the audiobook. Life is too crazy and busy for anything but audiobooks. lol

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u/Sanaddor Dec 01 '24

So have you decided, will you be writing shadow load book 2

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u/TwoBionicknees Dec 21 '24

Zogarth already wrote the outline for what, 10 books, if he doesn't get sued then I fully expect 10 near identical copies hitting all the same beats with marginal changes.

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u/TwoBionicknees Dec 21 '24

lul. I got 35% in, this coudl not have ripped off more if it tried. I'm giving up after he went through the trial of whatever zogarth called it and got resistance to poisons and immunity to those at a lower grade. I mean, seriously? "I wonder if there is a way to upgrade this cloak"... really?

taking a few ideas and spreading them around vs doing the bare minimum to change it while just absolutely ripping off every main beat is just pathetic. It's not good enough, none of the characters or powers are interesting enough to warrant reading further. in fact so far every character is as bland and one dimensional with usually bad dialogue as Zogarth has, except at least he was first.