Monthly Archives: January 2025

Entertainment, Reading

Kal’s Substack

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Some of you may have noticed… I have a substack going now as well. I thought, why not, it’s the trendy thing to do… right?

Jokes aside, it gives me another platform to post on, and it allows me to separate some of my gaming / writing craft stuff from my posts here, which tend to be more focused on my books and general updates.

Speaking of which, I know posts have been pretty sparse around here. Things have been quite hectic in the day job and home life. I’ll try to do better.

Anyway, if you’d like to see what I have going on over there, you can find it at: https://kalspriggs.substack.com/

Now, for my regular readers here, I’d love to hear feedback on what you’d like to see here. More updates? More snippets? Sock puppets? Book reviews?

I’ve done a little bit of everything, so let me know what you all want to see.

Thanks for reading!

Reading

Marscon 2025

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Hey everyone, for those of you in the States, I hope you all are staying warm in the snowpocalypse of 2025!

I just got home last night from Marscon. I had the opportunity to see old friends, to meet lots of new people, and to bask in the science fiction and fantasy culture.

I wasn’t on any panels this year, it looks like gremlins in the system ate my application, but I did have a table in the vendor’s room and got to see a lot of people as they came through. With everything going on in my life right now, it was kind of a relief not to have to run from panel to panel and to chill out a bit.

I had a blast talking with John Holmes, David Hensley, Mike Morton, Steve Vickers, Dan Kemp, and others of the Cannon Publishing team. They’re approaching publishing like a tactical operation complete with wrap-up AARs. If you aren’t reading their stuff, I highly recommend it, and I’m happy to be among them.

It was also great seeing a bunch of the Baen authors, especially Jason Cordova, Christopher Ruocchio, Melissa Olthoff, KC Seville. They’re all super chill people and great to strike up conversations with. They announced a couple of new books coming out soon, and some of their covers were absolutely jaw-dropping. Great stuff coming from them!

There were a host of others I met over the weekend, with a special callout to James Crawford who braved the cold, coming up from Florida. He’s got a really cool series of books, as well, and we compared notes on different conventions here in the south.

As an author, 90% of conventions are networking and talking. Selling books is nice, too, but seeing people and catching up is far more important, in my opinion.

Overall, I had a good time, my wife and son had fun, and we hope to come back next year. Thanks for reading!

Conventions, Writing

Kal’s January 2025 update

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Hey everyone, happy January. It’s 2025… I’ll still be over here dating everything 2019, don’t mind me.

All joking aside, I’m pushing towards completion on several books. I’ve been hit pretty hard with a variety of bad news over the past few weeks, and I won’t lie, that’s had an impact on my writing. I’m starting to get back into it, though and hopefully we’ll get some good news here soon to offset the rough stuff.

I’ll be at MarsCon in Virginia Beach next weekend, 17-20 January. It’s a fun little convention and if you’re in the area, I highly recommend it. I’ll have a table in the vendor’s room, so if you’re in the area, be sure to come see me.

I hope to have several books done over the next few weeks, so check in here for updates. Thanks for reading!