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…
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
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
This Wasted Land, my third published novel, was released a year ago. As I mentioned in this post, it was in 1988, when I was a senior in college, that I first began working on what would become TWL. I developed the premise, created some characters, and did extensive research, Continue reading a great “wasted” year
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”
My children have never known a home without pets. There have always been at least two in the house. When my older daughter Beth was born, we had our cats Loki and Freya (who were littermates), as well as our dogs Pupcake, Ajax, and Daisy. Beth was very young—3 ½ Continue reading we got six. that’s all there is.
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
