Category: reading
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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.…
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Bookmarks Book Festival After Action Review
Hey everyone, I had a blast at the Bookmarks Book Festival in Winston-Salem, NC last weekend and I wanted to say thanks to all the people who came out despite the rainy weather as well as the staff for running the event. I had a blast and met a lot of new readers. It was…
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Kal’s September 2025 Update
Hey everyone, it’s a bit late in the month, but I figured I’d give an update on where i’m at in writing and things going on. First off, near the end of the month I’ll be at the Bookmarks Festival on 28 September in Winston-Salem, NC. It’ll be a downtown outdoor event, with food trucks…
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Charity Anthology: Hairballs, Hiccups, and Hope
A fellow author and con-goer, Lori Janeski, was injured in a major car accident last year. She’s come through, but there’s been a lot of medical bills. A group of fellow authors and editors decided to do a charity anthology to help pay for those expenses, I wrote a story specifically for the anthology, which…
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Kal’s July 2025 Update
June seems to have flown past. If you hadn’t seen it, Three Ravens Publishing released my superhero novel, Get Wreckt, last month. It was a fantastically fun novel to write and the reader feedback has been great, so check it out. Current projects on deck… well, I’ve got nine works in progress, several of them…
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Get Wreckt now available for Preorder
https://amzn.to/4k8Z8W5 Everyone’s gonna get Wreckt… Eddie Connor was a washed-up child star. Arnold Wreckt, a second-string bodybuilder with dreams of Hollywood glory. Neither of their BENT powers ever amounted to much—until they stumble into a cloud of strange red dust and come out supercharged. Suddenly, Eddie’s got a plan: reboot Arnold’s action career, land a…
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Book Review: Rise from Ruin
Melissa Olthoff’s Rise from Ruin is a book very reminiscent of Anne McCaffery’s Dragon Riders of Pern and Mercedes Lackey’s The Black Gryphon, in all the best ways. It’s a fast-paced book, with elements of romance, coming-of-age, military, fantasy, and even bits of scifi. It’s got a little bit of everything and enough relatable in…
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Get Wreckt, Coming soon!
I’m excited to announce a new book coming soon with Three Ravens Publishing: Get Wreckt. Coming 20 June 2025. Do you like 80’s Action Movies, superheroes, and redemption stories? Get Wreckt has it all, over-the-top action, cheesy one liners, and two lost souls trying to make it in a chaotic world. Eddie Connor is a…
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a time of remembrance, and as some have said, to be grateful for those who lived and gave the ultimate sacrifice that we might see a better day. I was fortunate on both my time in Afghanistan and in Iraq that the units I was with came back with everyone. Other units…
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Andor Season 2 Review (non-Spoiler)
TLDR: Rushed, but still good. I quite enjoyed Andor season 1, in part because we didn’t have the caricatures and cardboard cutouts of characters. There were complicated figures and, frankly, some of those side characters stole the show. Season 2 comes in under a looming threat, and here I’m not talking about the Empire. I’m…