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About Kari Kilgore
Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where a rather famous creepy tale about a hotel sparked into life. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction.
Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018.
Kari’s short myth The Spider Who Ate the Elephant placed 2nd in fiction in the 2019 Virginia Writers Club Golden Nib contest.
Recent professional short story sales include four to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first published in the September 2019 issue. Kari also has three stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2020.
Kari writes first and figures out the story’s genre later. That’s resulted in fantasy, science fiction, romance, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about.
Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.
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Blog postI couldn't be happier to see The Becalmed included in the wonderful Visions of the Future StoryBundle! From this story's origins on the beautiful Oregon Coast, to many touches of my home in the Appalachian Mountains, to seeing it with such brilliant company in this bundle, this truly has been an amazing journey. This bundle is only available for a limited time, so pick yours up before it's too late. And read on for the ever-expanding worlds inside my head and Appalachia in Space!2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI love it when other writers post about their date-specific stories so I can check them out, but I forget to do that for the ones I've written. So I'm raising a glass of fine scotch whisky to that tradition here on Burns Night! Soul Deep is a prequel short romance set in my Soul Travelers series, and it was an absolute treat to write. A sequel to the first novel Hand Me Downs may very well be appearing this year, too.6 months ago Read more
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Blog postAnother way my stories found their way into the world in 2021 was someone else publishing them first. These were professional sales, anthologies, and magazines. I figured I should mention these, because it was a pretty good year for this wonderful way of getting stories out into the world. And also because I’m delighted and honored by the stellar company my words get to keep! And I have to say one of the best things about getting author copies is all the great reading I get to do. For the sto7 months ago Read more
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Blog post2021 turned out to be the year I hit not one major goal, but two, with a little bit extra! I not only published a short story a week for 52 total, but I ended up writing 53 short stories. All that with twelve major publications and over half a million words written. Read on for more about my Year of 52 Short Stories, and Happy 2022!7 months ago Read more
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Titles By Kari Kilgore
An Annual Holiday Celebration!
Read a holiday story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection.
This volume contains 37 stories—ranging in genre from mystery to fantasy to romance—that center around traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also fictional holidays like Hogswatch. Featuring works from award-winning and bestselling authors Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Anthea Lawson and many more, each story comes presented as it first appeared in a newsletter that went to subscribers every single day for 37 days.
The second volume in an annual series, The Holiday Spectacular #2 will bring joy and so much more any time of year!
Read a story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection. Stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving and Black Friday to St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah to Boxing Day, and of course, the worldwide biggies, Christmas, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. Award-winning and bestselling writers like Ron Collins, Annie Reed, Robert Jeschonek, and 28 others explore holidays in three different genres--mystery, romance, and light fantasy.
This volume contains 35 stories, including two previously uncollected Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, presented as they first appeared in a newsletter that went to subscribers every single day for 35 days.
The first volume in a series that will appear annually, The Holiday Spectacular #1, will fulfill all your seasonal story needs.
Maude Morgan enjoys life in the tough mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Surrounded by long loyal friends and allies.
But two desperate men on the run bring a fierce specter of Maude’s past that threatens to destroy everything.
Can she manage to protect herself and all she holds dear?
Or will the past put an end to her future?
Part of Unexpected Histories, an Uncollected Anthology.
The theory goes that if cats find love and encourage romance, especially with humans, then cats end up with homes. But does it really work that way?
Happily, more often than not, it does. At least in the romance stories gracing the pages of this final volume in the Year of the Cat series.
These eight stories make you smile, warm your heart, and give you hope for the future of both humankind and feline-kind.
Includes:
“A New Home For Christmas” by Annie Reed
“Dannie Finds A Home” by Dean Wesley Smith
“Crystal Blue Attraction by Dean Wesley Smith
“The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart” by Kari Kilgore
“Fable’s Menagerie” by Lisa Silverthorne
“Mistress Bootsi” by Anthea Sharp
“Second Chance Dinner” by Bonnie Elizabeth
“Helmie” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
I challenged folks to give me a crime story with a one word title that could complete that phrase above.
Many answered, and nearly twenty made the final cut, from coziest fun to darkest noir, always with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in the back of their minds.
Historic tales sent in mid-Twentieth Century Los Angeles or Budapest. Modern mysteries from small towns to Appalachia to the big city.
Crime takes many forms. Where will it take you?
From dreams of the end.
To living through the reality.
Life and death decisions.
Choices made only by fate.
Follow four generations and the families they find through nightmares and heartbreak, love and magic.
Includes Dreaming the Storm, Joining the Storm, Into the Storm, and Fighting the Storm
Laura Michaelson knows the expected course of her life. The right education. The right guy. The bright future.
None of it fits quite as well as it used to.
Connor Griffith’s path detoured for work he loves. Now pressure to get back on track builds to uncomfortable levels.
Resisting the proper choices grows tougher every day.
The instant Laura and Connor meet, their lives and plans dissolve into chaos.
Will they find their true joy, and their true way forward, together?
Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Magical Arts now collected in this bundle.
Search for a lost set of beads or bake a wedding cake. Admire magical graffiti and take a job for a Pixie. Watch out for backfiring spells, beware of archangels, and never accept special deals.
Explore the Uncollected Anthology with Magical Arts!
Hard work on an aqua-farm orbiting beyond Jupiter with her plurapod companion Les suits Seetha Deergatcha just fine.
Calvin Seuma spends his days tending the fisher fleet on distant Ajar 12, working the seas with his plurapod friend Bel and aquatic Ajarans.
A strange harvest awaits. One with ancient and dangerous origins.
Can they survive a threat from light years beyond the range of humanity?
And that planet has a problem.
The TransGalactic Corporation sends Luis Ahmad, Chief Psych Officer, on a desperate mission to save the human colony on Bitanthra.
Can Luis solve the mystery in time to stop the collapse of communications throughout the galaxy?
Earth Wars veteran Jim Turhan loves his quiet life on supply planet Mossera 4, teaching young cadets the art and science of xeno-farming.
Pollinator drones never sting or bite. They simply do their jobs.
Then crops all over Mossera 4 begin to fail.
Will Jim discover the cause before starvation, and worse, turns his dream life into a nightmare?
A Dispatches from the Galaxy Novella
Also available in the collection Dispatches from the Galaxy: A Space Opera Novella Trio
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