Follow this link to a podcast I was the guest on, where I discussed being a vendor at Awesome Con in March 2024. The Writing & Editing podcast is hosted by writer/ editor Jennia D’Lima, and it runs about 25 minutes. You can listen on Apple, Spotify, and a number of other apps. Kenton Kilgore writes Continue reading podcast interview: awesome con review
It was the story I didn’t intend to write, but I’m glad I did. Stray Cats, my latest novel, comes out this week. A follow-up to my 2014 post-apocalypse novel Lost Dogs, its premise is that cats really do have nine lives, but instead of living them one after the Continue reading all about “stray cats”
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 childhood. Thor: The Dark World opens today, and you can be sure that our family will rush to go see it. We saw the first Thor movie and, of course, The Avengers, and we’re all big fans. Many years ago, as Continue reading when the world was young: walt simonson and “thor”
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days. Everyone knows Ray Bradbury as a science-fiction writer, but one of my favorite works from him (aside from his masterpiece, Something Wicked This Way Comes) is his young adult novel The Halloween Tree, which I read many years ago Continue reading when the world was young: the halloween tree
In honor of the kids going back to school, this will be the first of several posts about the great teachers I was fortunate enough to have in my academic career. To kick things off, let me tell you about Professor Verlyn Flieger. Back in the mid-1980’s, as a young English Continue reading teacher appreciation: verlyn flieger
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days Fantasy/sci-fi/horror writer Richard Matheson passed away earlier this year, and I had been meaning to write about that when I saw that actress Karen Black had recently died as well. And if you’re wondering what those two have in common, bear Continue reading when the world was young: the “trilogy of terror” doll
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days As I’ve probably mentioned elsewhere, as a child I was into science fiction, thanks to Star Wars and Star Trek. As a teenager, I immersed myself in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition, of course!) and largely abandoned sci-fi Continue reading when the world was young: elric
