Darin Kennedy - Author

To anyone in Orlando, FL this weekend, I will have books at the Crowded Shelf table at FanBoy Expo even though I will be in Winston-Salem, NC at Bookmarks Festival with my own table! Go check out Crowded Shelf’s opening event or find me at Bookmarks on Saturday!

Fugue & Fable Ebook Bundle This ebook bundle collects the entire Fugue & Fable series by Darin Kennedy and delivers it right to your e-reader!  “Unique and fresh… Like nothing else out there!” Mercedes Lackey New York Times...

My publisher, Falstaff Books, has made my Fugue & Fable series available as an ebook bundle! For $14.99, you can purchase and own all three books for your reading pleasure! Check them out!
falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/fug...

Coming up in just under a month! If you are in the Charlotte area in mid-August, come find me at the Front Paige Media Book Fair at Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Saturday, 16 August 2025, 12-5pm!

Make plans to join me for the 14th Annual Coastal Magic Convention! I’ll be one of 50+ incredible authors participating in fun panels, games, meet & greets, and book signings. Feb 19-22, 2026 – Daytona Beach, FL. coastalmagicconvention.com #CMCon26

The WFAE 2025 EQUALibrium Award for Health Care Organization/Business goes to…
Atrium Health CMC Dept of Family Medicine!
Dr. Rebecca Hayes and three of our residents accept the award tonight.

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

Summer Convention Season has begun!
Just had a blast this past weekend at ConCarolinas 2025! What an outstanding, well run weekend! Great to see all my friends, fellow writers, fans, chosen family, and everyone in between! Already looking forward to next year!

ConCarolinas 2025 Carolinas' Longest Running Sci-Fi & Fantasy Con

This weekend, I will be a guest at ConCarolinas in Charlotte, NC in the University area! I'm doing six panels on a variety of topics, moderating two of them, selling and signing books, and debuting at this event my new Songs of the Ascendant series!
concarolinas.org

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

The Pawn Strategem Platinum Edition Get the thrilling trilogy all in one limited edition hardcover! Falstaff Books Platinum Editions are Signed by the author and numbered, limited to 100 copies each! And the Platinum Edition incudes the...

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.

When I first started writing The Pawn Stratagem, my very first book, back in 2003, I imagined the story as a single book: introduce and gather the various Pieces of the Chessboard, position the two sides in opposition, and then stand back for the mother of all battles on a battlefield of 64 squares.

Available for preorder now!
THE PAWN STRATAGEM - Platinum Edition Hardcover
All three books in one giant omnibus edition, signed and numbered limited edition with only 100 to be issued.
Just click on the Falstaff link below and check out the new releases!
falstaffbooks.myshopify.com

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!

First weekend in three weeks I'm not off at a convention. Had a blast at GalaxyCon Richmond and SC Comicon, sold a lot of books, got to see a lot of friends, and hopefully made a few new fans. That being said, happy to be home this weekend and catching up on rest and enjoying a little peace/quiet.

Come find me in Greenville at SC Comicon!
I’m set up near the back with Matthew Saunders with books for you!

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

Final day of GalaxyCon Richmond!
Booth 1414 for the win! Come buy books!
with StuartJaffe and James Maxey

The White Queen stopped by at GalaxyCon Richmond to check out her book.
#QueensPeril #ThePawnStratagem

All set up for my very first GalaxyCon Richmond!
Bring on the hordes!

Looking forward to GalaxyCon Richmond this weekend!
Will be in Virginia for 4 days slinging books with James Maxey and Stuart Jaffe! If you are in the area, come find me!

To anyone participating in the Amazon Boycott who'd still like to purchase books by yours truly, feel free to check out this link to my website. I have links to everywhere you can purchase my various works, especially Park Road Books!
www.darinkennedy.com/books

The same picture.

Can you imagine if your job was to fact check this speech before tomorrow’s news cycle?

If they wanted a Kennedy who knew something about medicine, they could’ve just asked me.

Feeling seen at my local Caribou Coffee this morning…