Author • Poet • Novelist
About David Stewart Handelman
Writing rescued him in his loneliest moments.
That sentence has lived on this site for years, quietly buried in a paragraph most visitors never reach. It is the truest line David Stewart Handelman has written about himself, and everything else follows from it.
The line that started it all
The sentence behind the work
In his own words, writing rescued him in his loneliest moments. It is the emotional center of his body of work, the small hinge on which eleven books, many genres, and decades of discipline have turned.
Writing rescued him in his loneliest moments.
David Stewart Handelman
Eleven books, one writer
A catalog that does
not stay in one room
David’s poetry belongs close to the heart. His novels move through grief, recovery, betrayal, and courage. His newest work steps into the shadows of the psychological thriller.
Poetry & Reflection
Sentiments, Notes From a Quill, Words in Rhythm, and Between Spirit & Substance belong to an older tradition: rhymed when it serves, plain when it serves better, and always closer to the heart than to the lectern.
Novels & Thrillers
The Gravel Road, The Assassin’s Wife, Bullets to Harm, Fragments of Forever, The Night Firefly, Alias Peter Wells, and Beyond Trust carry their own weight, but they share a sensibility: people pushed past recovery, and what happens next.
Eleven books, one writer
Deliberate, patient, and still writing back
David writes the way he lives. Deliberately, with a long memory and an open ear.
He answers his own phone. He keeps in close touch with his agent and his readers. He has been working on these books across decades, not seasons, and his approach to publishing reflects that. Trends pass through him without changing him. The work stays.
What readers tell him most often
“ I felt less alone reading
this. ”
That is the only review he has ever cared about.
Get in touch
David is still writing back
The contact form on this site reaches David directly. So does the phone number listed.
- 818-744-6800
- realspot@socal.rr.com