Overwrite Podcast narrated an excerpt of my horror story, "Rabbit Cry"

As Halloween nears, the Overwrite Podcast is featuring spooky stories, and they chose my Around the Corner from Sanity, which is available from Amazon in paperback or Kindle, HERE. story, "Rabbit Cry," from my recently-released collection,

Overwrite features excerpts from a variety of different authors and genres, and has a contest to do so. If you're a writer, I recommend you submit to them. Entries are free.

So I sent them excerpts from a couple stories, and, to my great pleasure, they chose this one.

Listen to it HERE.

Nothing like a scary horror podcast to build up to Halloween, right?

They do such an amazing job. Enjoy listening!

Cheers and happy reading!

Check out my interview with Awesome Gang

Recently I was interviewed at the Awesome Gang website.

Awesome Gang is a website (awesomegang.com) and Twitter Profile (@ourawesomegang) which reviews books and helps authors connect with readers. It's a great place for readers to go to learn about new books and upcoming authors (like me!).

What to get to know me a little better? Check in out....

Please check out my interview, here: https://awesomegang.com/jason-kilgore/

They also posted a review of my book HERE.

Related: I was previously interviewed by a fellow fantasy writer. Marissa Byfield. You can read that HERE.

Cheers and happy reading!

OFFICIAL RELEASE of Around the Corner from Sanity

So I'm officially a published author of a book!

I'm happy to announce the publication of my horror / paranormal humor short fiction collection, Around the Corner from Sanity. 

Find it on Amazon, HERE:

Where does fear find you? Eerie entities from beyond our waking world are hardly limited to decrepit mansions or forlorn cemeteries. These fourteen tales of the paranormal will usher you into unexpected settings such as the homes of young couples, a corporate office, a Christmas gathering, a yard that needs raking, and more – places you'd least expect to find ghosts, demons, angels, or exotic gods stalking the living. Some tales will leave you laughing, such as "Purgatory's Price," in which recently deceased souls must play a game show to get into Heaven. Others conjure fear of the dark, like "Rabbit Cry," in which a young mother and her child are pitted against a murderous teen next door, arousing the attention of supernatural forces. Prepare yourself for a paranormal roller coaster that satisfies your cravings for both horror and humor by sending you around the corner from sanity.

Here's a review of the book:

"Kilgore is a master of dread. His stories build to a fever pitch with a satisfying (and often spooky) release. Kilgore's work holds the same intrigue and suspense of Edgar Allan Poe and W.W. Jacobs (of 'The Monkey's Paw' fame). Around the Corner from Sanity is a great book to read next to the fire - with all the lights on." - Jon Dobbin, author of The Starving

I can't be more overjoyed than I am at this moment!

Here is the write-up on Goodreads.

Currently it's just the eBook, but after a bit of formatting, I'll also be offering a paperback for it, hopefully this week.

I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Cheers and happy reading!

Podcast highlighting the "guise cat" in my fantasy novel Footman of the Ether.

The other day I was contacted on Twitter by the Overwrite Podcast, which features podcasts about writers and has a weekly submission contest. The podcasts are very well-done, entertaining, and are short, so it doesn't take up a lot of time.

In particular, Overwrite was looking for excerpts or information about "fantasy animals" by writers. I mentioned that I had such an animal in the fantasy novel I am currently writing, Footman of the Ether (which is a sequel to White Lands Dragon, that I am currently querying with agents).

The animal in question is a "guise cat" named Yaggu, who is the "familiar" of one of the mages in the book. Guise cats (also known as "ghost lynxes" are animals in the northern lands that are like lynxes or bobcats but have hair that can shift colors and patterns to match its surroundings, like a chameleon.

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Leading up to the excerpt, the protagonist, a female mage named Torra Com Gidel, is having trouble sleeping after she and her fellow mages discovered that her home town and its magical institute have been destroyed by a powerful renegade spell cast by the Emerald Dragon. After nightmares, she goes outside and encounters her fellow mage, Master Annorov Donovan, and his guise cat familiar, Yaggu....


Listen to the podcast HERE.


She narrated the voice of Master Donovan with a Russian accent, which is how I hear him in my head.

The book is only about 60% done, so consider this a "sneak peek".

If you are a writer and would like to submit something for the Overwrite podcast as well, go HERE.

Cheers and happy reading!

Review of Ardulum: First Don by J.S. Fields

Ardulum: First Don by J.S. Fields
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a great book by a female author -- all too rare for space opera scifi!

A young renegade woman, the only of her species (Neek) to be offworld, falls in with a couple humans to take on an authoritative species that polices their part of the galaxy. When a young girl of a species that the Neek worship suddenly falls into their company, they find themselves discovering her mystical powers while trying to protect her from those who wish her harm. Soon, a war between opposing factions breaks out over the little girl and others like her who have been enslaved.

The first book in the series, Fields built a great world (galaxy, really) full of original species and technology. The plot zoomed along, but unlike many such books did not depend upon violent confrontations to move the plot. I can't wait to dig into the next volume.

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Cheers and happy reading!