Get ready to spice things up!

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Darren Eliker

New Audiobook: Tear Me to Pieces by Janice Whiteaker

Thrilled to work again with Brick Shop Audio on another dual romance for Janice Whiteaker. Tear Me to Pieces is Book 3 in her Sinners & Saints series. Before we began she told me ‘gird your loins’ because she really turned up the heat. Me? Challenge accepted.

Joining me is the fabulous Lila Winters. I first heard her work on Lucy Score’s The Things We Never Got Over and she’s perfect as Myra to my Simon. Can be read as a standalone. More to come at release day!

👶🏻Pregnancy Proposal
👖Blue-Collar Hero
💘He’s Already Fallen
😳That Won’t Fit
💥He’s the first man to make her O

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Coming Soon…These Audiobooks Run the Gamut!

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Darren Eliker

I got to record three new audiobooks over the last few weeks that I’m super excited about, having sent the final one off to the production team last night. They run the gamut from small but critically important role in a multicast psychological thriller, to a sweet small town dual romance, to a highly compelling 9+ hour solo non-fiction about robotics, AI and the future of warfare. Talk about variety! Man, this job is so much fun! Until this point, I have worked exclusively with indie authors directly as a producer-narrator. These titles are all for publishers, two for Brilliance Publishing produced by the fabulous Deyan Audio (The Hotel, Beast in the Machine) and one through the amazing team at Brick Shop Audio (The Cowboy Complication). Looking forward to the upcoming release days! Stay tuned! See more about each of them at the links below.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hotel-Audiobook/B0F44K4XVT
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F6YCWJPG
https://www.audible.com/pd/Beast-in-the-Machine-Audiobook/B0DPNHJH53

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My Standalone Audio Sequel to “All Is Fair” is Here!!

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Darren Eliker

I had a great time narrating this standalone sequel to Michael Kenneth Smith’s “All Is Fair”.

The first book followed the story of Polish fighter pilot Jan Orlinski from when the Blitzkrieg on his home country to his dramatic escape through France to England, joining the RAF’s famed 303 Polish Squadron and meeting the love of his life, Sophie Gordon.

“Fantaisie” continues the couple’s story in post-war France as they pick up the pieces and find a path forward for their young family. As Jan flies cargo missions transporting a mysterious ore for an even more mysterious man to and from the Congo, Sophie secretly begins working with MI6 to clear her past. Both are caught in the nuclear arms race with the Russians and when Sophie is captured and taken to Soviet-occupied Germany, Jan must concoct a daring rescue from one of WWII’s most notorious concentration camps.

See more on my audiobook page or get it on Audible today!

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New Audiobook Release! The Goddess of Crime and Other Stories

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Darren Eliker

The thing that’s so much fun about narrating short story collections is the opportunity to play so many different characters! And that couldn’t be more true of this sci-fi collection by Michael La Ronn. From goddess siblings engaged in a sisterly conflict across the millennia, to funky 1970’s-era uncles who can bend time and space in the blink of an eye, to intergalactic human trafficking rings, to elven and dragon wars, to space alien parasitic speed dating, the ideas that come from Michael La Ronn’s mind are wild, fun and even funny. There’s even a special encore story that mashes all the ideas and characters of the previous stories together in an entirely crazy new way! Hope you like listening as much as I enjoyed telling the tales! Available on platforms everywhere including Audible.

Author Michael La Ronn

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Coming Early February 2025!

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Darren Eliker

Had a great time producing this collection of science fiction short stories for Michael La Ronn! Everything from sibling rivalries between goddesses, to 1970’s funky uncles with special powers, to interstellar human trafficking and cranium splitting parasites at a post-invasion speed dating event. So much fun! Can’t wait for you to hear it!

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Charm City Romanticon 2025

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Darren Eliker

Honored to be this week’s featured narrator for Charm City Romanticon 2025! Can’t believe I get to be part of this incredible lineup! Thank you so much Michelle Fewer for making it happen!!❤️❤️❤️

Narrator Spotlight: Darren Eliker!!!

We love finding out what the people we love to read and listen to love to read, write, and listen to.

What their favorite parts of their job are.

What elements of the book world hit the hardest.

We’re continuing our Q&A quality time with the authors and narrators who are attending Charm City Romanticon 2025. Bringing a little insight to who they are, and why they do what they do. A little way to find some wonderful common ground and some new things to lean into.

And this week, we’re keeping it going with Darren Eliker

Check it out here:https://www.brayzensblog.com/blog-3/qa-with-narrator-darren-eliker

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AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner!

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Darren Eliker

**  THE VOYAGES OF TRUEBLOOD CAY Being an Especial Accounting of His Life and Times at Sea, as Told by Gil Rafael (Venery)

Suanne Laqueur, Read by Darren Eliker • Unabridged • APRIL 2024

Suanne Laqueur • Digital Download

Darren Eliker provides an excellent narration of this complex and highly creative installment of the Venery series. Eliker’s delivery allows listeners to become immersed in the adventures of Pelippé Trueblood and Fen il-Kheir, a fantastical kheiron, a creature that can shift between being a man and a horse. Each character and species has a distinguishable sound. The story encompasses high fantasy, queer romance, magical explorations, ships built by giants, a feud among the gods, a spice that brings beauty, murder, queens, centaurs, courtesans, warriors, and storytellers. The whole tapestry is enhanced by Eliker’s voices and deft handling of the adventures, mysteries, and intimacies that carry listeners into this other world. C.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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NOW AVAILABLE – The Voyages of Trueblood Cay

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Darren Eliker

Fantasy romance lovers, I’m thrilled to announce the release of my next audiobook project!

Written by Suanne Laqueur, The Voyages of Trueblood Cay is a remarkable tale of giants and men, mythical creatures, love and coming of age, history and legend, gods and goddesses, friendship and escape, fathers and sons, queens and lovers, spice and stars, murder and misery, and healing.

In the telling, legantos, you will learn that What Is For You Will Not Pass You By.

#mmromance #lgbtqfiction #audiobookfans #mustlisten #fantasy #audiobooknarrators

Available at Audible.com.

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Next: The Voyages of Trueblood Cay (Audiobook)

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Darren Eliker

Fantasy and romance lovers, I’m thrilled to be working with author Javier Landes on my next audiobook project! Fans may know him by the pen name Gil Rafael, author of the short story collection Client Privilege and best-selling works Gloria in the Highest and The Trade. Shout out to his muse, Suanne Laqueur, and public radio’s Camberley Jones for introducing me to this very talented and dare I say, dangerously good looking dude. I can say that, right? What an interesting back-story! But I digress…

The Voyages of Trueblood Cay is a remarkable tale of giants and men, mythical creatures, love and coming of age, history and legend, gods and goddesses, friendship and escape, fathers and sons, queens and lovers, spice and stars, murder and misery, and healing.

In the telling, legantos, you will learn that What Is For You Will Not Pass You By.

Check out the story at Amazon.

#javierlandes #gilrafael

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New Audiobook: “A Scarcity of Condors” is LIVE!

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Darren Eliker

Jude Tholet learned a hard lesson about physical grammar at age 17. The noise of breaking bone was made distinct by the verb being transitive or intransitive. I broke my leg made one sound. My leg was broken made entirely another. If you broke a bone, it became an experience. If your bone was broken, it became your identity.

Click over to my Audiobook page to hear the sample.

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