Kal Spriggs

Tag: Science Fiction

  • Starfest 2016 in Review

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    Starfest is come and gone, gee that was quick! They held it at the Crown Plaza Hotel near DIA this year, which was a new venue.  The new location was sort of a mixed bag, while I felt there was plenty more room for vendors, artists, and media, there was a bit less room for…

  • Free Stories for Starfest 2016

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    Hi everyone!  I’ll be giving away stories for free on Amazon this weekend.  My short stories Look to the Stars and The Freeport Mutineers will both be free during Starfest 2016.  What that means is that you can get both stories from Amazon for free from March 12-13. Look to the Stars blurb: Mason McGann…

  • Valor’s Child on Kindle Scout!

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    Hello everyone!  Valor’s Child is now on Kindle Scout.  The excerpt there contains the first five thousand words.  Those of you who nominate it (if it gets selected for publishing), will then receive the entire novel for free. The planet Century lies at the very verge of human space.  It is a frontier world, where hard…

  • Valor’s Child Coming Soon to Kindle Scout

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    Hello everyone!  I’m happy to announce that Valor’s Child, my military science fiction/space opera young adult novel is coming to Kindle Scout.  I’m really excited about this book, I’ve had some great feedback on it and I hope it will appeal to a broad audience.  The general theme of this series is going to be…

  • Free Short Story: Look to the Stars

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    My short story, Look to the Stars, will be available for free January 22 & 23 on Amazon since I’ll be at CoSine this weekend.  You can get it here. Mason McGann is a smuggler, a liar, and a cheat. With his ship impounded by customs, he figures he has no choice left but to…

  • See Kal at CoSine

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    For those of you in Colorado, I’ll be at the CoSine convention in Colorado Springs this coming weekend (22-24 January 2016). CoSine is a smaller convention but one I really enjoy because they have fantastic programming, great organization, and everyone there is super friendly.  The guest of honor this year is none other than Jim…

  • New Site Content: Character Biographies

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    As part of the new site content, I’m introducing character biographies to the website.  I’ll have background details and general descriptions of central (and some side) characters for each of the series I write in.  Up first (because it’s the smallest cast of characters) is the the Star Portal Universe and the cast of Fenris…

  • Review: Desert Strike by Leo Champion

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    Leo Champion’s Desert Strike is a book.  Okay, review done.  No, seriously, it’s a book.  And it’s got things in it.  Go read it. In all seriousness, there’s a lot going on in Desert Strike.  We see war on a global scale, with a Chamberlain-esque government determined to avoid it, a hyper-violent enemy determined to…

  • Review: Star Wars The Force Awakens (Spoiler Free)

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    After seeing that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was coming out the same weekend as not only my anniversary but also my move, I was pretty certain I wouldn’t get to see it until the following week.  Fortunately for my sanity, my wife is also a fan and we managed to fit it into our…

  • Author’s Toolbag: Maps and Drawings

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    The number one job of an author is to tell a story.  In this sense, illustrations such as maps and drawings can be excellent tools for an author, particularly when they are used to immerse the reader more fully into the world. I’m the type of reader who spends hours, sometimes days pouring over the…