Issue 26: Magical Arts
Guest Authors
Jason A. Adams, T. Thorn Coyle, and Kari Kilgore
Jason A. Adams writes across the spectrum. His stories include science fiction, fantasy, horror, Appalachian folk tales, romance, and other genres. Often blended together.
You can find more of his work and sign up for updates from the Brain Squirrels at www.jasonadams.info.
You can also find his stories in the pages of Pulphouse Magazine, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, and the Winter Holiday Spectaculars from WMG Publishing. Several more stories are pending publication in various productions, so stay tuned!
Jason, a recovering Air Force brat who grew up all over the US and Japan, now perches in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with his beautiful wife Kari Kilgore, three spoiled cats, and assorted wild visitors from the nearby forest.
T. Thorn Coyle has worked in several diverse and unusual occupations and might even tell you about them.
Thorn’s books include the cozy Seashell Cove Paranormal Mysteries series, the fast-paced nine-book urban fantasy The Witches of Portland, the alt history urban fantasy series The Panther Chronicles, and the epic fantasy seriesThe Steel Clan Saga. Thorn’s nonfiction books include Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists, & Other Creatives, Kissing the Limitless, Make Magic of Your Life, and Evolutionary Witchcraft. Thorn has also released four albums of music, several short story collections, and their work appears in many magazines and anthologies.
Thorn has taught in nine countries, on four continents, in twenty-five states, and in the strange spaces that live online. An interloper to the Pacific Northwest, they drink a lot of tea and talk to crows, squirrels, and trees.
Visit them at www.thorncoyle.com.
Kari Kilgore’s lifelong habit of expecting strange and wonderful things around every corner provides especially fertile ground for storytelling.
She started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where a rather famous creepy tale about a hotel sparked into life. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. While her wanderlust and imagination lead her all over the world on grand adventures, her heart and family bring her home to her native Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Kari’s stories have appeared in Fiction River anthology magazine, as well WMG Publishing’s Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Kari’s mystery stories are regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine.
Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. She’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason A. Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about.
For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and The Confidential Adventure Club, visit www.karikilgore.com.
Buy the stories individually or collected together!
