17 Aug 2025 - Charlotte Comicon (pending), Concord, NC
23-24 Aug 2025 - Soda City Comic Con, Columbia, SC
28 Aug - 1 Sep 2025 - DragonCon 2025, Atlanta, GA
Whew... I'm already tired... See you all out on the road!

Coming up later this summer, I will be a guest and/or slinging books at the following events:
20-22 Jun 2025 - Heroes Convention, Charlotte, NC
11-13 Jul 2025 - ConGregate, Winston-Salem, NC
24-27 Jul 2025 - GalaxyCon Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
16 Aug 2025 - Front Paige Media Book Fair, Charlotte, NC

My good friend who is a birder and I saw a few of those when we were in Phoenix last year.

The Pawn Stratagem Platinum edition--a signed and numbered hardcover limited to 100 copies--is now available from Falstaff Books at the link below. Free Shipping through May 1st! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/the...

A well-played chess game has an opening, a middle game, and an endgame. I am excited to know that all three of my books and the entire Game I've been imagining since I was a teenager are now available in a single volume.

But 2008 Darin wisely/foolishly said "If I'm going to write two, I may as well make this a trilogy" - and thus, over time, I wrote, edited, refined, and ultimately put out first Pawn's Gambit, then Queen's Peril, and finally, King's Crisis.

Conventional wisdom states that publishers don't want your first book, even an epic fantasy, much longer than that. That necessitated breaking my story in two: the gathering of the pieces and the playing of the game.

As I was writing, however, it became clear that the story was going to be well over 100,000 words by the time I introduced the last of my protagonists.

I hope to get some words written and some yard work caught up if the rain holds out. Board game day tomorrow with Nicole and the weekend is my oyster. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Done, packed up, and in the car by 6:14! Great show! Thank you, Richmond!