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Scott P. Southall

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Scott is an American author and banking executive who lives in Sydney, Australia. He grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and attended Georgetown University.

While he loves his job as a global banker, his true passion is making up stories with his children. His debut novel, The Order of Time, reached #1 in it’s category on Amazon and was the 2021 Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Childrens – Mythology/Fairy Tale genre.

Stay tuned for the second instalment of the Order of Time Series - The Order of Time and Odin’s door in early 2022.

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How much research did you do for The Order of Time? How historically accurate is the story of Anubis? (I know there's no proof that the gods existed, etc, but in general.)

Scott P. Southall Hi Celia.

I am sorry I missed your question earlier but let me try to answer it now. The idea for this storyline came from a trip to Egypt in 2017. My…moreHi Celia.

I am sorry I missed your question earlier but let me try to answer it now. The idea for this storyline came from a trip to Egypt in 2017. My wife and I were lucky enough to have an incredible Egyptologist as our guide. We got to learn an amazing amount by visiting multiple sites across the country and having this resource to ask endless questions. That being said a huge amount of energy went into expanding this knowledge to actually write the story.

Much of the setting in Ancient Egypt is based upon historical fact. Akhenaten’s movement of the capital from Thebes to Akhetaten was fact. Nefertiti was Queen and Akhenaten did have multiple wives. Thutmose was the royal sculptor and the bust of Nefertiti is real. The change from polytheism (worshipping multiple gods) to monotheism during Akhenaten’s reign was also true. Given that the roots of their religion stretched back well more than a thousand years it got me to thinking about why something like this could have happened. Thus The Order of Time.

Anubis was the god of the afterlife in Ancient Egypt and he was incredibly important to ancient Egyptians, The afterlife, like heaven for Christians, was the place to be. Thus the embalming process and elaborate burial sites including he possession you needed in the afterlife. If he didn’t let you into the afterlife everything pretty much ended when he fed you to the demon.

The idea of him becoming power hungry was something I made up. I suppose it’s easy to paint the god of the afterlife as a bad guy when he looks like a jackal. The alliance with the Corsairs was also fictional but served as the perfect motivation for these two sets of bad guys to come together.

If you can’t tell I enjoy both mythology and history. The opportunity to combine them in adventure for kids is something I hope that readers enjoy.

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Scott P. Southall This is a great question and one that had gotten harder to answer the older I’ve gotten. What I can tell you is that my eleven year old self was compl…moreThis is a great question and one that had gotten harder to answer the older I’ve gotten. What I can tell you is that my eleven year old self was completely enthralled by the idea of going to Anne McCaffrey’s Pern.

The idea of becoming a rider and forming a life long bond with a fire breathing, teleporting, telepathic dragon was pretty much my birthday, Halloween, and Christmas all wrapped up in one. (less)

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Release Day - The Order of Time and Odin’s Door

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It’s release day for The Order of Time and Odin’s Door! I am incredibly excited for all of you to have chance to read the second instalment of The Order of Time Series with Anastasia and Edward.

I wanted to thank each of you for your support! One of the hardest things for an independent author to do is create awareness of their books with prospective readers. So, if you enjoy the seri Read more of this blog post »

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