This blog post is for authors and writers who want to know more about selling books in person, specifically at a very large event. Everyone else, go outside and play: it’s a nice day! I’ve written before about the success I’ve had in hand-selling books, mostly at small craft fairs Continue reading for authors: awesome con after-action report
This blog post is for authors and writers who want to know more about selling books in person, at book signings or other events. Everyone else is excused—take the rest of the day off! In 2019, I wrote Hand-Selling Books: Making Money and Winning Fans, a guide to help writers Continue reading for authors: 2021 holiday hand-selling report– what worked, and why
…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…
On September 17, 1991, the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses released their groundbreaking albums Use Your Illusions I and II. They debuted, appropriately, at #2 and #1, respectively, on the Billboard charts, and have sold millions of copies. They were also a watershed moment for the band: GNR released Continue reading 30 years of “illusion”: a retrospective (part 1)
Hopefully, you’ve read my take on Guns N’ Roses’ album Use Your Illusion I, released on September 17, 1991. In this post, I’ll look at the simultaneously-released Use Your Illusion II. Though it was my favorite Guns record when it came out, I have to admit, upon coming back Continue reading 30 years of “illusion”: a retrospective (part 2)
Dog lovers love Lost Dogs, my 2014 post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of a German Shepherd named Buddy. A question readers often ask me is how I came up with the story. One afternoon soon after I finished drafting Dragontamer’s Daughters (which would have been either late Continue reading how i came to find “lost dogs”
Happy new year! To start 2021 on a positive note, I’m sharing with you two things. The first is a word you might not have heard of: superversive. What does it mean? Urban Dictionary defines it as: “Nurturing; supportive, building up–opposite of subversive.” Like subversive, superversive can be a noun Continue reading “superversive”: a new word for the new year (and an interview with me)
There’s a new This Wasted Land, and it’s out today. Not a sequel, but a new edition, with a new cover, new (and revised) material, and–of course–new monsters. Why the upgrade? Because though TWL came out two years ago, and has had good sales and great reviews, I was only Continue reading getting “wasted” again
“What I’m about to say next may strike some of you as vile, base, heresy.” That’s what I told a jam-packed room this past Saturday, March 7, at the 23rd annual Bay To Ocean Writers Conference held at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, MD. I was there presenting my course Continue reading killing it at bto 2020
I thought that 6 years after I published my most popular novel, Lost Dogs (recently revamped with the new, badass cover below), that it would be difficult to revisit that book as I write Stray Cats, its sequel/follow-up. “Difficult” in that it would be hard for me to get back into Continue reading getting “lost” again
