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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hope you enjoyed! Have been absent from BlueSky for a bit, and just saw this. Just finished Book 4 edits and starting Book 5!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hope you enjoyed! Have been absent from BlueSky for a bit, and just saw this. Just finished Book 4 edits and starting Book 5!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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...

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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...

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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ConCarolinas 2025

Carolinas' Longest Running Sci-Fi & Fantasy Con

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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...

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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...

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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

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Falstaff Books Online Bookstore

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

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Books | Darin Kennedy - Doctor by Day, Novelist by Night

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Feeling seen at my local Caribou Coffee this morning…

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Good news! Received an invitation to be in an anthology later this year. More details to come. Looks like I’ll be warming up my short story chops for the first time in a while. Now, where are all of my April Sullivan notes?😉

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Monday night, I had the pleasure of seeing Geddy Lee - lead singer of Rush and a child of Holocaust survivors - speak at Queens College on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. His most striking statement regarding the state of the world? “What are we, if we are not hopeful?“

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

More than enough has been said on this subject on social media today, but I just wanted to write down my frustration and anger at one who billed himself a hero when the truth was anything but.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Disillusioned, disappointed, and disgusted. I can't remember how many times on panels over the last decade I've been asked who my favorite author was or who I looked to for inspiration or what kind of writer I wanted to be and answered with that particular name.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Make them all go completely off grid with their water. No showers, no dishwasher, no washing machine, no drinking water. They’re simply isn’t enough “natural spring water” to go around.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter The world needs more men like him.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

As of right now, all three of my Songs of the Ascendant books as well as Carol are available on Overdrive which means they can be added to library lists and borrowed using apps like Libby. Checking on my Falstaff titles. Authors get paid for borrows, and it costs nothing. Happy Holidays, everyone!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I have a Christmas ask. If you are a user of your state online digital library, please borrow a book from your favorite independent author-me included-or request one of their books be added to the state library system if not already available-search by Title and Author Name and click "Notify Me".

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Shadows of the Night is now available on the North Carolina Digital Library to check out!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

See also blowing up stately Wayne Manor/Gotham City in every Batman movie.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My one comment is, can we please stop having one of the plot elements of every Superman movie be that the government arrests him and puts him in handcuffs that we know are completely ineffective and that he will inevitably break out of?

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I’m totally excited for the new Superman movie. The trailer looks awesome and any comparison to the CW shows is just selling it further for me as I was a huge fan of all of those shows.

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Had a blast at GalaxyCon Columbus, 2024! What a great event! Thanks to everyone, who dropped by our table and bought books!

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Weird Al” Yankovic now owns a copy of Shadows of the Night, Volume I of my Songs of the Ascendant contemporary fantasy series. I really enjoyed meeting him. What a nice guy. #WeirdAlYankovic

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Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Day 1 of GalaxyCon Columbus 2024 is in the books! Looking forward to getting back at it tomorrow!

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