Tiamo Pastoor | Author Website

Welcome!

A picture of my face. I'm the one on the left, not the teddy bear.

Hi, I’m Tiamo Pastoor! Welcome to my author website. Here you can find everything related to my books and work as a writer.

I mostly write fantasy for younger audiences. I, however, like to experiment. One day I might release a detective for adults, the other I might release a romantic fantasy for middle-grade, and before you know it I released a non-fiction book.

Scroll down to see my latest and upcoming books. Or my latest ramblings about everything and nothing on the blog.

My oldest work is all in Dutch. I switched to writing English fiction in 2023.

What's the status?

See the progress made on upcoming projects and my recent word counts. (I track and publish these to motivate myself and any other writers!)

Word Counts

20,389 Past Week

111,801 Past Month

346,391 Past Season

1,330,057 Past Year

“Secrets of Sweettooth”

Latest Books

Clash of Cheaters

August 12, 2025 English Wildebyte Arcades

The Taceheart Tribe is stomping all over their opponents. Wildebyte must infiltrate the right enemy tribe and stay alive, or they’ll miss their chance to talk to their parents again.

But when they discover that not everyone has been following the rules, they are tempted to break their own …

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No Dinosaurs Here

May 12, 2025 English Wildebyte Arcades

The addictive GPS game Denfire has infected the world. By visiting real locations and capturing monsters with your phone, a war brews for control of this virtual world.

Wildebyte helps the Player protect their home turf, until they stumble upon a mysterious trail of dangerous locations. Real …

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Cursed Swipes

February 12, 2025 English Wildebyte Arcades

The game Frustrated Pigeons is not how Wildebyte remembers it. It’s worse. It’s barely played. As they investigate the reason, they stumble upon a special type of Ludramagic that comes at a great cost. Mastery means enormous power, failure means a devastating curse.

When their biggest …

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Secrets of Sweettooth

October 12, 2024 English Wildebyte Arcades

Hated by all the games, Wildebyte hatches a plan to force Sweettooth to become his friend. It would be amazing if they could travel through other video games together!

But as they play his game—Pirate Pound—they discover something horrible. A choice must be made, between himself and his …

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Latest Posts

About Radical Honesty

March 19, 2024 English 8 minute(s)

Those who’ve read previous work or articles of mine know that I have a principle to “never lie”. It’s part of a short list of simple principles that I imagined when I was a young boy.

Miscellaneous

Writing Tip: start with dilemma

March 15, 2024 English 6 minute(s)

This article contains another (brief) “writing tip” that I recently learned and have applied to great success. Disclaimer: very light spoilers for Wildebyte Arcades book 1! As I geared up to write my next Wildebyte book, I had a strong plan … and felt nothing.

Miscellaneous

[Diary] Wildebyte (Rulebreaker Recipes)

March 12, 2024 English 26 minute(s)

Welcome to the article in which I explain/track my process for writing book 2 in the Wildebyte Arcades (Rulebreaker Recipes). Because I aim to make this a long-standing series, I really wanted to flesh out the world (and its rules/limitations/possible stories) before publishing anything.

Diary

Lessons learned from revising Rulebreaker Recipes

March 12, 2024 English 10 minute(s)

The timing of this article obviously coincides with the release of the book Rulebreaker Recipes, the second book of the Wildebyte Arcades! It contains major spoilers about that book, because I initially wrote this article while revising the book and learning some important lessons.

Miscellaneous

About the threat of AI

March 10, 2024 English 7 minute(s)

I’ve written a few times before (when this blog was still Dutch) about how the populair AI systems work, their benefits and their downsides. Why I use some small parts of those services, but ignore them for the most part.

Miscellaneous

Writing stories when you have ADHD

March 1, 2024 English 6 minute(s)

Not too long ago, I wrote an article about the unsung writing skill of correctly deciding story length. Since I realized this, I’ve been able to reduce the size of my “folder of good ideas” for the first time in my life.

Miscellaneous

My workflow for easily creating PDFs and EPUBs

February 28, 2024 English 14 minute(s)

This is a short article that gives a general overview of how I go from creating a story to publishing it (digitally or physically), in terms of file formats and layout.

Miscellaneous

Life Should Be Messy

February 23, 2024 English 15 minute(s)

The past ten years, I’ve had this thought time and time again: why is everybody trying so hard to control everything? The disadvantages of doing it heavily outweigh the advantages. Both theoretically (based on research about our brains and bodies, for example) and practically (based on statistics or what people report).

Miscellaneous

Review: Arcane (S1)

February 18, 2024 English 9 minute(s)

This is not necessarily a review, but merely my thoughts and lessons learned from watching Arcane (season 1). Because I started writing a review, but there really isn’t much to say.

Reviews Series Reviews

A strategy for life

February 4, 2024 English 13 minute(s)

I was watching a Veritasium video the other day on the Prisoner’s Dilemma and cooperation. Firstly, I highly recommend the channel as all its content is amazing. Secondly, the video finally gave me a succinct way to express what I’ve always seen as the best strategy in life.

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