Kari Kilgore

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Holiday Spectacular: Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell

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Welcome to the last day of 2021, and get ready for a trip back to the final hours of the last millennium!

I’m delighted to share my contribution to this year’s Holiday Spectacular from WMG Publishing with Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell. You may remember the setting from The Magic Cat of the Hidden Springs Inn and Spa and The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart, both featured in past Holiday Spectaculars.

This time we visit 1999, which those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember it know was a very strange time indeed. Especially those of us who worked in the IT field.

You can read Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell free on this site until January 3rd, with my warm wishes for a Happy New Year in 2022!

And my deepest, most sincere hope that we all experience a whole lot less strange over the next twelve months and into the future.

Last Chance for the Holiday Collections StoryBundle, and the Week In-Between

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I hope this finds you well and enjoying the December holidays, no matter how you celebrate them (or not). If reading is on your list for this strange in-between week, or if you have a reader in your life, there’s still time to pick up the wonderful Holiday Collections StoryBundle!

You’ll get seventy-two (yep, 72) holiday-themed short stories by a group of amazing writers. And both the excellent Annie Reed and I are offering bonus collections of holiday shorts, so you can get even more escapes for the incredible low price of $15. My collection is actually an anthology my husband Jason A. Adams and I put together called Uncommon Holidays: A Different Side of the Season.

And even though the major gift-giving days has passed for many people, this is a great chance to make the readers in your life happy. You can also donate to AbleGamers, a charity dedicated to creating connection where it’s needed most, at a time when so many people need it.

But this amazing StoryBundle ends one day before December and 2021 do, so check it out before time runs out!

The Holiday Collection StoryBundle, Different Takes on the Holidays, and a Bonus Collection for Free!

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You still have time for a fantastic last-minute gift of reading with the Holiday Collection StoryBundle! For only $15, you’ll get 72 holiday-themed short stories from some of the best writers working today, and across all kinds of genres.

And if you’re ready for a nice escape from holiday madness yourself, that’s all kinds of wonderful reading breaks for one at a time, a day curled up with your favorite holiday treats, or anytime you need a bit of the holiday spirit all year long.

In that same holiday spirit, my husband Jason A. Adams and I are about to publish a brand new holiday anthology of our own. And we’re offering it for free to folks who purchase the Holiday Collection StoryBundle! Read on for more, and pick up your copy today!

The Holiday Collections StoryBundle, and a free story!

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My new holiday collection A Tapestry of Holiday Tales: Winter Adventures from the Odds and Endings Bookstore is part of the Holiday Collections StoryBundle! And if you love short stories as much as I do, you are absolutely in for a treat. If you want to get a sneak peak, Odds and Endings, the first story in that series and setting is available free as part of The Infinite Bard.

This StoryBundle features eleven collections, for a total of seventy-two (72!) holiday-themed short stories from some of the best short fiction writers working today for only $15. That’s enough for an epic few days of vacation reading, enjoying a few each day from now until the dawn of 2022, or simply turning to when you need a hit of holiday magic any time of year.

My Story in Uncollected Anthology: Magical Arts!

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I’ve loved the Uncollected Anthology for years now, with an amazing group of writers creating some of the best urban fantasy out in the world today. So I was delighted when they invited me to be a guest author for the Magical Arts issue!

Of course I said yes, and the toddler who runs the writing machine inside my head immediately piped up with “Atlanta!” Which makes perfect sense if you’ve ever spent much time there, and if you’ve read my stories set there. It is a strange and wonderful city, and an ideal setting for a bit of fantasy.

Read on for more about The Findings of Magic now, with a release date of December 1, 2021. And be sure to keep an eye out for the whole Magical Arts anthology, because you won’t want to miss these incredible stories.

The Visions of the Future StoryBundle, and the Threat in Plurapod Pathogen

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Just over ten days left to pick up the fantastic Visions of the Future StoryBundle, including my space opera novel Plurapod Pathogen! You’ll get nine other wonderful books as well, including a short story collection and a cat-forward anthology, starting at only $15.

That’s a lot of great science fiction reading for you and your sci-fi loving loved ones as we wind down the year and settle in for the holidays.

Head over to our curator Dean Wesley Smith’s blog post for more about each book, and of course check out the StoryBundle website for covers, descriptions, excerpts, and all the details.

Here’s Dean’s introduction to Plurapod Pathogen, and read on for more about the fascinating/creepy origin of the novel’s pathogen. Hint: It has a solid basis in reality.

“Kari Kilgore in PLURAPOD PATHOGEN gives us the first book in her Empire Revealed series. This is fairly near future science fiction with a lot of twists and turns and great characters as only Kari can write them.”