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In a world where gods are silent and magic is feared, Colin Darney writes stories about people who still fight forward. A veteran, trauma nurse, and lifelong student of human resilience, Colin’s fantasy series—The Chronicles of the Troop and The Book of Ghaan—explore what it means to survive, to love, and to hold on to hope when the world says you shouldn’t.

Known for gritty realism, emotionally layered characters, and the kind of dialogue you'd actually hear in a bar full of off-duty soldiers, Colin blends classic epic fantasy with raw, lived experience. His readers often say the world feels real, the characters feel familiar—and that once they start reading, they can’t put it down.

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just finished book 3 fantastic how long before book4 ?

Colin Darney Hi Robert, Harper's Creek is currently in what I guess you'd call 'post-production' and should be out this summer. My 'I refuse to have it go any long…moreHi Robert, Harper's Creek is currently in what I guess you'd call 'post-production' and should be out this summer. My 'I refuse to have it go any longer past this date' is September 1st, but I'm aiming for a month or two earlier.(less)

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What's your stance on AI?

Colin Darney Hi, Geetha. 😊

That's a loaded question because there are so many strong opinions, but I'll answer it as honestly and completely as I can, from the pers…moreHi, Geetha. 😊

That's a loaded question because there are so many strong opinions, but I'll answer it as honestly and completely as I can, from the perspective I think you’re most curious about: writing. The use of AI in writing is also talked about very frequently among authors in a plethora of author groups. If you want to get a wide variety of opinions, I’d suggest finding any author group on Facebook and bring the subject up. The sometimes unanticipated and heated responses may surprise you.

Anyway, here we go. 😉

In short, I think authors who have AI write for them and then market the AI’s work as their own are crap. If you’re going to be an author, produce your own work. If you’re going to market an AI’s work, just simply say so. However, I see nothing in-and-of-itself wrong with an AI produced story, because to deny that stories produced by AI’s are coming is to deny reality itself. Basically, it sucks, but all I can do is compete with what’s coming.

However, to use AI to help research and complete a story, I see absolutely no problem with.

For instance, I use an AI as an emergency thesaurus – when I can describe what I want the word to say but can’t think of the actual word. In instances like those, I can describe what I’m thinking to the AI and it can list a bunch of possible words based on probability. This allows me to get back to writing the story quicker, without having to break away from my creative process to spend sometimes hours paging through a thesaurus.

I also use AI as a research tool. For instance, I recently had to have insights into dark-ages and spanish-inquisition era thinking. Unless I wanted to take weeks off to research history, which most likely would end needing to consult an expert, again interrupting the story-telling process, answering the questions I had wouldn’t be possible. As an AI has access to a plethora of tidbits of esoteric knowledge that I simply don’t have, it’s much easier for me to ask it those things and then verify what it answers by asking it to cite sources.

These are only two examples of how I have used AI to help me tell a story. I do not and will not ever allow an AI to help me actually write what I market to the reader; that’s my bailiwick and not a machine’s. My creative process is my own. The words I use are my own. But I feel I am using the AI as it’s intended: as a tool, and nothing more.

Hope this answers your question, and if you want to hear other opinions than my own I again point you towards the various author groups on Facebook.

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Average rating: 4.51 · 367 ratings · 127 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Resthaven 4.50 avg rating — 149 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silverlake 4.48 avg rating — 85 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Windyspring (The Chronicles of the Troop Book 3) 4.50 avg rating — 58 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harper's Creek (The Chronicles of the Troop Book 4) 4.55 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Ghaan: Part One 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Ghaan, Part Two 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Ghaan, Part One 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hello! Thank you so much for coming here. This is my first ever blog post, it's exciting, and something I never imagined I'd do. These next few weeks I'm concentrating on promoting Resthaven; advertising for ARC readers, answering questions, suggesting the book to readers and the like. The ebook is done and uploaded to Amazon. I also am formatting a paperback version, but due to the way Amazon doe Read more of this blog post »

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