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!
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
** 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
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.
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Available at Audible.com.
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
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.
Really excited to announce that primary production has wrapped on A Scarcity of Condors. This emotional conclusion to Suanne Laqueur’s Venery trilogy should be available toward the end of October on Audible, while other platforms will likely be releasing even earlier! I’m also happy to announce that pre-production will begin soon for a fourth related book, The Voyages of Trueblood Cay: Being an especial accounting of his life and times at sea, as told by Gil Rafael.
Who is Gil Rafael you ask? Fans of Suanne Laqueur novels know Gil Rafael as the pen name of none other than Javier Landes, the beloved character from An Exaltation of Larks and A Charm of Finches!
And now the noodling of his weird head come alive in this exciting fantasy inspired by the people he’s met, loved, lost, and lived with throughout his colorful life.
Stay tuned…because it’s a thing…more to come SOON!!!
Available now on Audible and platforms everywhere!
So proud to see this release! While An Exaltation of Larks is her award-winning title, A Charm of Finches is what Suanne Laqueur considers her most important work. Together, we’ve worked hard to bring you this profoundly touching story that gives voice to male survivors of sexual assault. And while it’s not essential to have listened to or read Book I in the series, fans of Javier Landes will love the continuation and fulfillment of his journey. Please be sure to visit my audiobook page to learn more and hear a sample, or just click the Audible link above!
PS – If you listen, love it, and consider it worthy of your honest 5-star review, please remember to leave yours on the platform on which you purchased your copy! And thank you in advance!!
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I was standing by the deep end of the pool looking for my next audiobook project, when I felt a caress on the back of my neck. The caress turned into a shove and before I knew it, in I went. When I came to the surface spluttering and coughing, gasping for air, I saw Suanne Laqueur walking away and I swear I heard her laughing. That’s how her award winning novel, An Exaltation of Larks became my latest audiobook. Joining me on this project is the silky-voiced Vanessa DeSilvio reading the female POV chapters. I’m very grateful for the privilege of working with both of these talented women. Head over to the audiobook page or download a copy at Audible today!
Sorry for the delay. Somehow I missed blogging about this when I added it to my audiobook page, but WWII historical fiction fans and aviation lovers will love this terrific novel by Michael Kenneth Smith. Mike is a true historian who writes with terrific realism that brings his stories to life. This tale takes it to another “plane” (see what I did there?) as he tells the story of a young Polish fighter pilot Jan Orlinski as he escapes his country to eventually fly with the RAF’s fearsome Polish squadron, the famed 303. Check it out on my audiobook page or download a copy at Audible, Amazon, Spotify, and many other platforms!
Darren Eliker - Actor/Voiceover/Narrator 