About

J. Scot Witty's Biography

J. Scot Witty once hiked across the United States, but it was in worlds of his own creation where he truly found his path. A part-time teacher and world traveler, Witty transforms his fascination with world history, mythology, and human potential into richly textured fantasy realms.
During his thirty-five year career as a business owner, Witty honed his storytelling as a game master, breathing life into characters that challenge readers to question what truly divides us—and what might unite us. His narratives explore the delicate balance between individual power and collective harmony, weaving themes of environmental stewardship and social cohesion throughout his work.
When not crafting new worlds from his home in Ithaca, NY, Witty can be found running fantasy role-playing games for local schoolchildren, passing along the same sense of wonder that fuels his writing. Through his fiction, he invites readers to view history through a lens of myth, legend,
and possibility—a reminder that in diversity, we might still find unity, and in imagination, we
might find our way forward.
The Hibernia Chronicles
The Knight of Hibernia (2018)(2021)
Of Whom Fortune Favors (2018)(2022)
The Rose and the Sword (2019)
The Prisoner of Hibernia (2025)
Fairest of them All: Will Robots Miss Us When We Are Gone (2021)
A Dystopian sci-fi thriller about a robot on the run with a terrible secret.
Lurker in the Dark (2024)
1920s Murder Mystery that takes place in Central New York. Wacky fiction based on a true unsolved mystery.
Romance of Feathers (2025)
Elementary school teacher and mystery novelist Rolph Anderson falls for Russian veterinarian Nastasia during a whirlwind romance in Ithaca, only to lose her to a sudden visa cancellation that sends her back to her true home in Ghana, not Russia as he believes. Their paths unexpectedly converge years later at a wedding in Ghana, where after a comedy of near-misses and mistaken identities, they finally reconnect over the perfect symmetry of another chicken culling event—proving that sometimes love takes the scenic route across three continents to find its way home.
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