Friday, August 28, 2015

Free Fiction Friday: The Traitor


Jassa,  an elite soldier in an imperial army bent on conquest, has had enough of the bloodshed and violence. Now that they are preparing to move against a Keshati warlord named Sekatas who's been hindering their progress through the territory, Jassa see a chance to end it. But his choice has a cost. He will be known as...The Traitor.

"The Traitor" by author Shaun Kilgore is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available as an ebook on AmazonKoboiBooksSmashwordsBarnes & Noble, and from other online retailers.


THE TRAITOR

Shaun Kilgore 


The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, you should be able to find another free story somewhere on this site. Enjoy!

Friday, August 21, 2015

Free Fiction Friday: Death To The Messenger



Rebellion has come to the land of Kerat. The warload, Ben-fejan, has seized total control. Jasa, a lone Corikai messenger, has been sent on a desperate race to seek aid from the benevolent Lord Senevalt. But he is being hunted. And his failure to spell disaster for Kerat.  Will Jasa succeed?

"Death To The Messenger" by author Shaun Kilgore is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available as an ebook on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and from other online retailers.

Death To The Messenger
Shaun Kilgore


The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, you should be able to find another free story somewhere on this site. Enjoy!

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Updates: Oops, I'm Late With The Friday Story

Hello again.

Yep, Free Fiction Friday didn't happen on time. I've gone ahead and put up the next story. So, lucky you, you got a couple of extra days to read the "Beast of Mern" before I took it down. So, now get a chance to read my story "Oathsworn." It'll be around for about a week. With luck, I'll hit my deadline next time.

In other news, I've been submitting stories to magazines. Most of the one I'm sending out are from last year, with a few exceptions. I've kept putting off this aspect of things for longer than I should have but I'm finally ramping up my efforts. The writing will come back too as I start firing away at new stories.

The path of a professional writer is made one sale at a time and this writer is getting more focused on producing work again. I'm a busy guy though. Family, other work, and just life, take their cuts out of my time each day. Somehow, us writers, have to fit creative time into the mix. Each of us will do it differently. Some of us won't get to the writing every day. (I don't typically.) But, there is always the hope that we can scrape up some more time to devote to our craft during the course of a day.




Free Fiction Friday: Oathsworn




Memories of treachery and betrayal still haunt Landon. His family torn apart, his father and brother sent away to some faraway prison, he is about to receive another blow. While toiling in a rock quarry for the local nobility, he receives a visitor: his brother-in-law, Bendri, has arrived. The news he bears is grave. Landon's mother is dying. He must make the journey to see her one last time and speak again the vow he made. He would have his vengeance.

"The Beast Of Mern" by author Shaun Kilgore is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available as an ebook on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and from other online retailers.

Oathsworn
Shaun Kilgore

The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, you should be able to find another free story somewhere on this site. Enjoy!

Friday, August 7, 2015

Free Fiction Friday: The Beast Of Mern


Lured by peddler's tales of strange, unexplainable murders and talk of monsters lurking in the forests of Mern, the roguish adventurer Averess can't help but get involved in the mystery. With the help of a witch named Eliza Cren, he faces two enemies: one all too human, the other the so-called "Beast of Mern." 

"The Beast Of Mern" by author Shaun Kilgore is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available as an ebook on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and from other online retailers.


THE BEAST OF MERN

Shaun Kilgore


The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, you should be able to find another free story somewhere on this site. Enjoy!


Saturday, August 1, 2015

Writing In 2015: The Return of Free Fiction Fridays

Hey gang!

I've made the decision here lately to start up an old feature called Free Fiction Friday. The first story is actually up now and is in the preceding post so check it out. As it is after midnight, I didn't quite make the deadline for Free Fiction Friday, so the first story shows up on this first day of August, 2015.

As I noted, the short story, The Reckoning will be here for free for anybody to read for a full week. Afterwards, if you want to read it, I've included links to different places you can buy the story as an ebook edition.

As I get this feature rolling, you'll probably seem some stories reappear from the early cycles of Free Fiction Friday, but I'll be adding new ones as well. Short fiction is something I've been working on here and there for awhile even if I don't say much about here. I am still mostly focused on longer works, like novels and novellas, but I enjoy writing the short form.

I've been writing lots of fantasy stories but I hope to include more genres as I explore them. I hope you enjoy Free Fiction Friday. My goal is to make it last this time around.

Catch you later.

Free Fiction Friday: A Reckoning


A tenuous peace rules the imperial city of Paradesh after the empire's collapse. The new republic is led by an elected Senate. Kathius, one of the senators and a child of the old nobilty, works hard to secure new freedoms for his people, but there are those who desire the return of the empire.

Marked for death, Kathius remains vigilant.  When convinced to attend a play in one of Paradesh's theaters by his sister, Kathius is caught by surprise when the city is attacked. The senator flees, knowing that the death of the city's leaders could end the republic. The city is set ablaze. Kathius' worst fear comes to pass: forces loyal to the banished emperor have started a war.

"A Reckoning" by author Shaun Kilgore is free on this site for one week only. The story is also available as an ebook on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and from other online retailers.

A Reckoning
Shaun Kilgore


The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, you should be able to find another free story somewhere on this site. Enjoy!