Chess Team – Kane Gilmour

2018 Review and Mighty 2019 Preview

On January 1, 2019

In Anthology, Chess Team, Coming Soon, Writing

New Year’s Eve. Second blog post of the entire year of 2018. That should suggest something about what this year was like for me.

When I wrote my 2017 year-end wrap up, I finished by noting I was sick. That was a year ago, December. I had no idea how long that would last. I was happy and in love (and still am) but I was ill. No biggie, I had thought. Just a cold. Or the flu. But it was far more than that. I was down until early May. Five and a half months of runny nose, congestion, coughing my brains out, and what turned out to be actual pneumonia. Four batches of antibiotics. All as a result of what was either one super-crazy infection, or multiple overlapping infections. Either way, after the year that was 2017, spending the first half of 2018 practically (and on many days actually) bedridden meant my productivity for the year was going to be crap. And that’s exactly what happened. There were precisely two publications in 2018 that had contributions from me. I’ll get to those in a bit.

Chateau Gilmour & Dark Discoveries

By Kane

On July 31, 2016

In Chess Team, Comics, Frozen, Short Stories

Been a long while since I made any updates here. Believe me, it wasn’t for lack of trying. In addition to the day job, the freelance work, and the writing in 2016, I’ve been going through a bitter and contested divorce and custody battle. Not the sort of divorce where I need anyone’s sympathy, but the kind where congratulations are in order. It’s been a long time coming. Needless to say, it’s been complicated and has eaten up a ton of my time. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, though.

I’m now firmly entrenched in the brand new Central Vermont Chateau Gilmour, free of the offending former spouse. It’s an eighty-six year old Victorian duplex (I’ve got one side of the building), and the location is surprisingly quiet for being right in a city of close to sixty thousand people. But I’m at the end of a dead-end street, with a steep tree-covered hill at the dead end, and a babbling brook behind my back yard. Walking distance from the public library, but far enough from Main Street that I don’t hear any of the noise from the occasional New England summer festival or the thumping bassline from some wannabe gangbanger with the lowrider pickup truck with undercarriage neon lights and no muffler.

New Books and New Looks

By Kane

On March 20, 2015

In Chess Team, Endgame, Frozen

So Endgame is out now. The book is a strange hybrid of a novella, a guidebook, and a short story. It’s a comprehensive look at the 18 books out so far in Jeremy Robinson’s Jack Sigler/Chess Team thriller series, for which I’ve co-authored a few books. This one, for the foreseeable future, will be my last.

Written as if you were taking a peek into Deep
Blue’s personal files, the book is filled with character bios, book summaries, and art. It also has a nice little framing-sequence short story around it, that tells you what happened to Deep Blue after the end of Cannibal (Book 7), which was also recently released.

Here’s the description for Endgame.

2014 In Review

By Kane

On December 21, 2014

In Anthology, Chess Team, Coming Soon, Endgame, Frozen, Refuge, THE CRYPT OF DRACULA

Yep. My first and probably only blog post in 2014. Obviously I plan to do better in 2015.

So where have I been? I started the year off with severe hallucination-giving flu. At the time, I was writing the fifth and final installment of ‘Season 1’ of Jeremy Bishop’s REFUGE series, which we released first as a serial, in five parts, and later as a collected novel. My part, BONFIRES BURNING BRIGHT, was full of hallucinatory madness and crazy action. I should have blogged at the time to announce it but…yeah. Sick. Hoping there will be a ‘Season 2.’ You can help by buying the collected novel or the individual parts, and by spreading the word about it.