Darran Ⓜ️ Handshaw

I have an announcement to make:

I FINISHED WRITING MY LAST SHORT STORY!!!!

Now onto the editing phase.

Coming soon: Not 1, but 2 short story collections!

The #TBRCon2025 panel "What makes advanced technology in sci-fi successful or not?" starts in just 1 hour with @neilthebookguy.bsky.social @constancefay.bsky.social @christopherpaolini.bsky.social @andreahairston.bsky.social & @theengineer.bsky.social !

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Happy New Year 2024!

#balldrop

Thanks, Ryan!

Happy 10th Anniversary to my incredible wife! I'm so blessed to have you in this life!

(Oh, and I hear one is a SFF mystery collection chock full of artifact tech mysteries!)

Over the years, many readers have told me that my books look interesting, but they can't or won't read such huge tomes.

That's why I've been working on, not 1, but a whopping 2(!!!) collections of short stories. That way readers can enter my worlds without committing to a brick!

It's happening! I'll be talking with some great fellow authors about advanced tech in fiction at @tbrcon.bsky.social!

Our joint book signing at A Book Place today was a marvelous success! We met a lot of awesome readers and made some new author friends!

I'll be at A Book Place in Riverhead, NY this weekend. Come say hello!

Check out this W Series from @blogspells.bsky.social, where I talk about why you should read The Dark Heart of Redemption!

I'll be at signing copies of my books at A Book Place in Riverhead on 12/21!

Come on by to say hi!

Stay warm, my friends!

Thanks!

My family's Minecraft base thus far. We got a pretty cool location!

I'm not sure how anyone could refer to employees as 'Human Capital' and not have to return to a coffin inside a dark castle at the end of the night to recharge.

This cat tried to get in both doors to my house this weekend. Our cat was very not happy about it. 🤣

Hello!

The Dark Heart of Redemption: A Chronicles of Actaeon Story Read it now

I'll try this again:

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The Dark Heart of Redemption:mybook.to/darkheart

SFF Genres: Ruinpunk, Military Fantasy, Post-Apoc, Dying Earth, Married MCs, Epic, Monsters, Neurodiverse/Disabled Rep, Engineering, Portal Fantasy, Badass Heroine, Tech Indist. from Magic, Ascended Villain, Found Family

Also, there's a map!

Wish me luck in #SPSFC4!

Readers will find discussions on philosophy, people who have one another's backs in moments of desperation, and ingenious techniques to deal with some utterly insane situations. I really hope you enjoy it!
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In the pages, I was able to explore how neurodiverse characters would cope with dire situations and even have an advantage from the way they think. It was also awesome to really highlight an already established couple in real action without constant romantic tension.
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It's a military fantasy with sci-fi elements that I hope will leave readers wondering about the world and its origins.
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Leading the army on the other front is the newly annointed Princess of Raedelle, Eisandre. A former Knight Arbiter of Pyramid, she's a trained warrior, but this is her first test as a leader. Plus, she is a Lost — whose minds are riddled with strange visions and hallucinations.
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An unlikely person is tasked with leading part of Raedelle's army: an eccentric engineer named Actaeon. He's completely out of his element in the midst of a war, but he has his good friends with him, veterans Trench and Wave, for guidance.
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There's a weakness in Travail that the Loresworn claim will destroy everything. And in the Dominion of Czeryn, where a strange blue sphere took all the people, two other Dominions are locked in a gridlock war over the territory — and the leaders there have something amiss.
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The Ancient, abandoned city of Redemption is in a full-blown war with invading tribes from the jungle surrounds. But it quickly becomes clear that there's more going on than that.
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Dark Heart is a standalone sequel to my debut novel, The Engineer, which is the true story of how I met my wife. It picks up right where the 1st book left off, but both stories are self-contained and can be read as standalones!
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Since I'm in #SPSFC4 this year, I'd like to talk a little bit about my entry, The Dark Heart of Redemption!
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