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Thursday Escapes: The Earworms

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Thursday Escapes: The Earworms

Kari Kilgore’s Appalachian fantasy The Earworms is available free on this site for one week only!

What if your whole town had to face the music?

Estonoa, Virginia. A lovely little town tucked deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hiking and ATV trails. Kayaking along the scenic Clinch River.

A thriving community focused on the future.

Erin Evans loves her hometown, except for one thing.

The Earworms.

Will Erin find the answer before the music drives her and everyone else crazy?

Check back next week for Jason A. Adams with his historical Moulin Rouge, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: Malaya

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Thursday Escapes: Reflections

Jason A. Adams returns with his Appalachian tale Malaya, dedicated to all the women who won’t put up with it. Available free on this site for one week only!

How well do we ever know our spouses?

Billy Holbrook wonders sometimes.

Malaya loves him. How best to show her devotion?

Strangers in strange lands, even close to home.

Sometimes secrets shared mean secrets kept.

Check back next week for Kari Kilgore’s The Last Dragonkeeper, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: Wicked Bone

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Thursday Escapes: Wicked Bone

Kari Kilgore’s eerie Contemporary Fantasy short story Wicked Bone (starring Spiral Publishing’s own gorgeous black cat) is available free on this site for one week only!

Katie fell in love with Pashmina at first sight.

Luminous green eyes. Silken black fur. A purr like a belly full of bumblebees.

Pashmina, of course, knows which humans to trust. She shows her trust like all cats. With offerings from her hunts.

And like all cats, Pashmina keeps her secrets to herself.

Find out what happens when Katie learns Pashmina’s favorite secret.

Travel to New Orleans next week with Jason’s Historical Mystery Angel of Mercy.

Far Southwest Virginia on Blue Ridge PBS!

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Blue Ridge PBS’s wonderful show “Write Around the Corner” recently visited the Mountain Heritage Museum and Gallery right here in St. Paul, and the segment is now online!

They visited with Frank Kilgore, the author of SP’s Far Southwest Virginia: A Postcard and Photographic Journey, to talk about the book and tour the museum.

We sure do appreciate the visit, and we hope you enjoy the show!

Kari Kilgore’s Last Publication of the Decade

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I’m thrilled to have a second story in the WMG Holiday Spectacular, and especially to have this one as my last publication of the decade!

“Virginia’s Last Old Christmas Eve” draws on so much of my own history and experience that it’s hard to express what it means to me. So being able to share it is one of those amazing opportunities that make this whole writing game worthwhile.