This eulogy (if that’s what it truly is) is long overdue, not because I didn’t know about the death of my former friend Dan DeNike, or didn’t care, but because I didn’t feel like I had the right to say anything. Dan and Me and D&D Dan and I met Continue reading funeral for a former friend
…monsters and many things. Queen Anne’s County TV recently interviewed me about my books Lost Dogs, Dragontamer’s Daughters, This Wasted Land, and the forthcoming Stray Cats. Check it out! Kenton Kilgore writes killer SF/F for young adults and adults who are still young. In his latest novel, This Wasted Land, high-school senior Alyx is Continue reading talking ‘dogs’ and ‘dragons’ and…
If you grew up as a suburban teenage white boy in the 1980’s, your dad (if he was around) might have listened to Clapton or Hendrix. Your burnout older brother (if you had one) dug Jimmy Page, Brian May, or maybe Ace Frehley. By the time he went to high Continue reading evh: a guitar god for gen-x
In the summer of 1979, my mother moved us from Phoenix, AZ to Greenbelt, MD. I was 12 at the time, and to say that the move changed my life forever would be like saying that the Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Mind you, I hadn’t Continue reading finally home after 40 years
Previously, I had talked about what makes monsters scary; as well as how despite appearances to the contrary, monsters really only come in two types. Now I’d like to share with you some monsters that scared me when I was younger, and why they still do, even though I’m a Continue reading making monsters meaningful, part 3
A few weeks ago, I went to my “30-ish” year high school reunion. We were supposed to meet the year before, but couldn’t get it done. It happens. I’m not really sure why I went. For me, the best part of high school was leaving. It’s not that I went Continue reading my new old friends
Queen Anne’s County TV, the local cable show where I live (in Scenic, Convenient-to-Nowhere, MD) has launched a new show, “Papa’s World,” (a reference to “Papa” Ernest Hemingway). Every episode will feature an Eastern Shore writer, and I was chosen as the very first interview. You can watch the whole Continue reading “lost dogs” on “papa’s world”
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days Good grief, is D&D really 40 years old? I first encountered Dungeons & Dragons back in my sophomore year of high school (so we’re talking 1981 or ’82, iffn I recall correctly). A guy named Jeff Johnston, with whom Continue reading when the world was young: dungeons & dragons
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, the favorite holiday of a good friend of mine, probably the noblest and most generous man I have ever met, whom I lost over 15 years ago. William Patrick Hughes was born in February 1922 to Irish parents living in Newfoundland. He told me that Continue reading “onkle bill”
On January 28, 2004, my father-in-law Fred Blahut died of COPD, and not a day goes by when I am not reminded of him. I first met Fred in late 1985, when I started dating his daughter Joni. Shortly after we announced our engagement, Fred lamented to me: Joni’s the Continue reading what fred said
