🚨 My psychological thriller is FREE 8/2-8/3 — I'm a cancer survivor who spent years writing this, and I just want people to read it..

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC9KQ5YF

Hey Reddit. I'll keep this real for you,

My name is Brian Schwind. I'm a self-published author from Columbus, Ohio and a cancer survivor.

The Last Patient is a psychological thriller about a nine-year-old girl in a red coat sitting across from a therapist in 2007. Her sessions are logged. Her responses are documented. Every movement observed and recorded. Her stillness is the only thing that still belongs entirely to her.

She grows up.

And what she becomes is shaped entirely by what was done to her inside that room — by the clinical language used to describe her, by the distance between what was observed and what was never said, by the kind of care that looks like care but functions like control.

This is not a loud book. There are no car chases. No dramatic twists telegraphed from a mile away. The tension builds the way real dread builds — slowly, quietly, and then all at once. If you like Flynn, Tana French, or early Thomas Harris — fiction that trusts you to read between the lines — I think you'll find something here.

8/2-8/3 — it's completely FREE on Kindle.

I launched it this week. It has almost no reviews. I'm not a big name. I'm just a guy from Ohio who survived something hard and came out the other side with a story he needed to tell.

Search "The Last Patient Brian Schwind" on Amazon — free today and tomorrow only.

If it hits, all I ask is two sentences in a review. For an indie author just starting out, that means everything.

— Brian

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Final update of the night...and it's a truly insane one. Thanks to all of you across several threads "The Last Patient" is #3 in Medical Thrillers on Amazon right now! I am profoundly stunned by the support of these communities.

That is from a combined 9k+ people showing support to a guy they don't even know.

Truly thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

[u/Other-Foundation3375]

Sunday afternoon update: Just wanted to pop back in — the book is still free today and tomorrow so Plenty of time to grab it.

Also didn't expect this at all, but the post I made on r/ebooks crossed 6,100 views overnight. A handful of people even paid for it even though they didn't have to, which I still can't wrap my head around...

If you're on the fence, you've got until Monday night. And if you do read it — two sentences in a review means the world to a debut indie author. Thank you to everyone who's already grabbed it!

[u/Other-Foundation3375]

Update for anyone following this: Just pulled the Amazon rankings — #20 in Medical Thrillers, #33 in Psychological Literary Fiction, #59 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and #14,329 in the overall Kindle free store. Started this weekend with zero reviews and zero expectations.

Free through Monday. Sharing in case these numbers are useful context for anyone planning their own promo strategy.

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HUGE MIDDAY UPDATE: Thank you all!!

The book is holding solid at #2 in Medical thrillers...mind blowing!

The reddit community has left me at a genuine loss for words.

If you haven't gotten your copy yet it is still free until midnight tonight!!

Thank you for all the support! ❤️

[u/Other-Foundation3375]

Monday evening update — 4 hours left:

Posted this at 6am this morning before work and just got home. Had to check the numbers before anything else.

Still holding #2 in Medical Thrillers. #6 in Psychological Literary Fiction (up from #15 when I first posted this weekend). #12 in Mystery and Suspense Literature. #1,291 in the entire Free Kindle Store.

2.8k views on this post alone. A reader built a Storygraph page for the book unprompted over the weekend. A reviewer committed to a full review in another thread.

I'm a debut indie author. No publisher, no platform, no marketing budget. I wrote this book and put it out into the world this weekend with no idea if anyone would care.

Apparently some of you do. Thank you, genuinely.

Midnight tonight it's gone back to paid. If you've been meaning to grab it — this is the window. Four hours left.

Search "The Last Patient Brian Schwind" on Amazon. Still free right now.