Author: ka1spriggs
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Coming Soon: Spectres of Valor
Hey everyone, Spectres of Valor, the next book of the Valor’s Cohort series is coming soon! Feedback from my initial readers has been great and I’m just doing the final prep for it. Look for it in early March! Century has fallen. With their defenders killed or scattered, the alien Culmor Empire has seized and…
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Kal’s February 2026 Update
Hey everyone, we’re more than halfway through the month already, but I wanted to give a quick update! First, the good news: I’ve finished Spectres of Valor last weekend and started edits on it. If all goes well, I’ll have it out to beta readers this week and (crossing my fingers) it’ll be up for…
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Hell Train: Green Line Release and Book Trailer
Hey everyone, today is the day for Hell Train: Green Line! I’ve got a book trailer, some back cover copy, and it’s a perfect cold weekend day to enjoy a book about destroying undead and evil sentient plants. The modern world is gone, replaced by tides of possessed undead and demonic monsters. Through this hellscape,…
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Write what you hate
I hate zombies. I hate zombie movies. I hate the very idea… living in a distopian world where there is no hope, where mindless drones shuffle about, seeking only to snuff out your very existence. For one thing, it reminds me too much of the real world. For another, there a *lot* of books and…
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Book Review: To Tread Obsidian Shores
Buckle up buttercup, for one hell of a ride. Olthoff and Cordova have delivered an absolute blast of a novel. The characters from the very start of it hook you, the action is rapid, the story is intriguing, and the emotional highs and lows catch you and pull you along for the ride. The story…
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Coming Soon: Hell train Volume 2
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce that Cannon Publishing is releasing my novel, Hell Train: Green Line, on February 1, 2026. It’s now up for preorder: https://amzn.to/49yxheu The modern world is gone, replaced by tides of possessed undead and demonic monsters. Through this hellscape, a train full of survivors makes their way from the death-zones…
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Kal’s 2025 Year in Review
Well, 2025 was a year and it is wrapping up. It’s been a rollercoaster of one for me, supporting my wife as she goes through breast cancer. Thankfully she has come through doing well, so far. My focus this year has been supporting her and working the day job that pays the bills, though I’ve…
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Pendragon Cycle Streaming Series Reaction:
I watched the Pendragon Cycle, Rise of Merlin teaser trailer and wanted to share my thoughts on it. I really enjoyed the books when I first read them, they were a great blend of gritty realism, mythology, and historical fantasy. Here’s what I think based off the glimpses we get in the teaser. I’ve included…
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Kal’s October 2025 Update
October is here, the temperatures are almost down to something resembling not-awful here in the south, and I’ve been getting some writing done. My wife is still going through cancer treatment, so that’s a big impact on my life, as well. I’ll admit the stress from that and everything has slowed down my writing process…
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Book Review: No Man’s Land
This isn’t your momma’s space opera. https://amzn.to/3KRppvN Sarah Hoyt has generated a living, breathing world where the characters are products of their settings, for good and ill, and she’s done it to a level of detail and accuracy that makes it feel alive. In some cases, that creates some ugly, in many ways brutal, realities.…