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Meet the Bards of Mid-Holiday Madness

A close-knit group of book lovers gathers for a celebration of wintertime storytelling.
Surrounding themselves with the peculiar magic of an enchanting bookstore.
Enjoying the curious limbo between holidays.
EllaJane and Chris delight in telling the tales, not expecting the new story unfolding in their own lives.
From Victorian London to Appalachia, from epic fantasy to romance to found family.

Join Kari Kilgore as she, EllaJane, and Chris discover winter holidays from five wonderful fictional worlds.

Includes five original winter holiday tales from Kari’s series worlds:
A Timely Bit of the Best Bad Luck (Misfortune and Magic), A Meeting of Two Renegade Minds (The Odd Society), The Real Gift of the Santa Train (Estonoa), A Current Made of Joy (Voices Through Time), Discovering Home (Storms of Future Past), and of course, Lightning Gap and the Odds and Endings bookstore.

$5.99 / $8.99 / $9.99 / $15.99

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By Frank Kilgore

Take a fascinating journey through Far Southwest Virginia with vintage postcards and photos from the collection of attorney Frank Kilgore, a native of the area and longtime memorabilia collector.

Over 1,000 postcard and photographic scenes of mountains and valleys, bustling lumber towns, coal and lumber camps, coke ovens, trains and railroad expansion, and strong people illustrate the beauty and challenges of life in this corner of Central Appalachia.

$29.99 including shipping

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SP Author Kari Kilgore and The Visions of the Future StoryBundle!

I’m delighted to have my space opera novel Plurapod Pathogen as part of the Visions of the Future StoryBundle! For a limited time only, you can pick up ten wonderful science fiction ebooks for $15.

Just think of all the supply-chain worries you can avoid while getting your holiday shopping done early, and giving yourself the gift of reading!

With stories from Barbara G. Tarn, Marcelle Dube, Kris Katzen, Maggie Lynch, Annie Reed, Kris Austen Radcliffe, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, our curator Dean Wesley Smith, and several more in a collection of cat-centric short stories, you won’t want to miss Visions of the Future.

But head on over to https://storybundle.com/future before time runs out! And read on for more about discovering the aliens of Plurapod Pathogen.

Story Titles and the Getting Justice StoryBundle!

We’re delighted to announce SP author Kari Kilgore is in a new StoryBundle! We’ll let Kari explain, and talk a bit about writing Independent by Means of Magic:

I couldn’t be happier to see my Victorian Era crime fantasy novel Independent by Means of Magic included in the Getting Justice StoryBundle, partly because of the unusual way this story took shape in the writing engine inside my head. I had to give myself time to find the story in this case, and finding the eventual title was a journey all by itself.

There are nine other fantastic books by some of my favorite writers in this bundle, all with their own unique focus on justice and how to get it. And you can get all the ebooks at a great bargain, but check it out before time runs out!

A Year of Short Stories and Collections (so far)

SP author Kari Kilgore on her year focusing on the shorter side of fiction. You’re sure to find a collection that suits your tastes for your end-of-summer short story reading!

With August being my birthday month, I often take stock of how the year is going in all kinds of ways. Since this website focuses on my fiction, that’s where my thoughts turned today.

I didn’t especially plan it as 2021 came into focus through the chaos and confusion toward the end of the decade of 2020, but this has turned into The Year of Short Stories and Collections. And I’m having all kinds of fun with the writing and the publishing.

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