Author: ka1spriggs
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Now Available: Giant Stompin’ Robots!
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce that I have a short story in the newly available Giant Stompin’ Robots anthology from Raconteur Press! https://amzn.to/4dYi06Y You like your mecha with a side of alien invasions? It’s in here. Illicit gangs trying to fix heavy mecha demolition derbies? Done. Brave pilots standing between shrieking chaos and everything…
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Now Available: Hell Train
I am happy to announce that Hell Train is now live: https://amzn.to/3SS3DJQ A single train carries what might be the last vestige of civilization through a hellish nightmare. A few hundred alive out of millions, lights going out all across what was once America as the possessed arise from the dead and murder the living.…
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Hell Train: Snippet 3
“Do you ever notice,” Doc Cedeno shouted, “that they don’t rot?” “What?” Jack demanded. He looked over at Doc Luis Cedeno. He wore combat fatigues, not a lab coat, but the brown-haired man still looked more like someone’s kindly uncle than a multi-degree professor. Two of those degrees were information technology and accounting, but he…
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Hell Train Snippet 2
Snippet 2 of Hell Train: “That shouldn’t have happened,” Hector Chavez growled as the group walked forward along the train cars. They were all more than a little deaf from the noise and the rushing of the wind, but with Hector’s prior hearing loss, Jack was pretty sure anyone in the general vicinity could overhear…
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Hell Train Snippet One
Chapter One The possessed didn’t move out of the way as two thousand, nine hundred and fifty tons of steel rolled into them. The train didn’t lurch, it didn’t shudder, it didn’t even really slow as it crushed dozens of the rotting corpses and rolled right on through. The train snow plow on the front…
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Preorder Now: Hell Train
Hey everyone, I am happy to announce that I have a book available with Cannon Publishing, Hell Train, coming 7 September and now available for preorder: https://amzn.to/3SS3DJQ A single train carries what might be the last vestige of civilization through a hellish nightmare. A few hundred alive out of millions, lights going out all across…
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Kal’s August 2024 Update
Hey everyone, it’s August already! I’m happy to announce I will soon have a novel coming out with Cannon Publishing. Hell Train, the first book of its series, is coming 7 September. I’ll have snippets for it over the next few weeks. It’s a dystopian, post-apocalyptic nightmare of a world filled with possessed undead and…
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Now available: The Star Engine
The Star Engine, Book 7 of the Shadow Space Chronicles, is now available! https://amzn.to/3V9blRc There is a gun pointed at all of human space and it is in the hands of a madman. The ancient Star Engine, a colossal construct of unknown power, is in the hands of a manipulating schemer. He has already used…
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Liberty Con 2024 AAR
Hey everyone! LibertyCon 2024 is here and gone, a weird mix of too fast and too slow. The hotel and convention center both had some challenges this year, though the Convention Staff, with their fearless leader Brandi managed it all brilliantly. The staff here all care and love the convention which makes all the difference,…
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