We all know the wonders of reading, but reading to live audience is really fun. Here are some pictures from the Young Adventurers reading last week with Austin Camacho.
I had a great time reading WOLF DAWN. The Q & A was a blast as well, despite being a bit nervous. 
What do you think of my Kara costume? 
I think I came pretty close to the description in the book although I did a few minor adaptations for general public display.
I also left Kara’s hunting knives at home.
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Photographs by K. S. Brooks. Prompts by Stephen Hise & K. S. Brooks. Authors with stories in the anthology include: Susan Berry, Robert Capko, AV Carden, Victoria Ann Carr, Thomas Diehl, Leland Dirks, Jules Dixon, Stephen Douglass, Ed Drury, S.K. Fischer, Kira Flynn, R.B. Frank, Christine Frost, Terveen Gill, Dusty May Jane, A. L. Kaplan, Zack Lester, William Lewis, S.A. Molteni, John D. Ottini, Rachel Palmer, Brenda Perlin, Daniel Peyton, Greg Phelan, Diane Selby, Hannah Selby, S.B. Smith, Chris Sparks, Sara Stark, Kat Stiles, Steven M. Stucko, Janni Styles, James R. Tate, Richard Trisdale, Byron Wade, and M.P. Witwer.
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e reading a portion of WOLF DAWN, from YOUNG ADVENTURERS: Heroes, Explorers & Swashbucklers on Saturday at 1:00. I’ll also read my winning poem, SCALES OF GLORY at the poetry contest reading on Sunday. (Time TBA)
John Varley – Balticon 15, 1981,
R. A. MacAvoy – Balticon 19, 1985
Nancy Springer – Balticon 20, 1986
Michael F. Flynn – Balticon 26, 1992
Compton Crook Award 9, 1991,
BSFS Heinlein Award 2003
Donald Kingsbury – Balticon 26, 1992
Compton Crook Award 1, 1983
Allen Steele – Balticon 27, 1993,
BSFS Heinlein Award 2013
Harry Turtledove – Balticon 32, 1998
Phil Foglio – Balticon 36, 2002
Kaja Foglio – Balticon 36, 2002
Steve Miller – Balticon 37, 2003
Sharon Lee – Balticon 37, 2003
Steve Barnes – Balticon 39, 2005
Larry Niven – Balticon 41, 2007,
BSFS Heinlein Award 2005
Peter Beagle – Balticon 41, 2007
Connie Willis – Balticon 42, 2008,
BSFS Heinlein Award 2011
Charles Stross – Balticon 43, 2009
Jody Lynn Nye – Balticon 46, 2012
Joe Haldeman – Balticon 47, 2013,
BSFS Heinlein Award 2009
Jo Walton – Balticon 49, 2015
BSFS Heinlein Award 2009
Check out the website to see the full list of participants and activities.
Hope to see you there.
A.L. Kaplan
A. L. Kaplan is the Readers’ Choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote.
This week, the Reader’s Choice winner is also the editors’ pick, so congratulations – Ms. Kaplan’s story will appear in our first Editors’ Choice Anthology.
I glare at the man who tried to kill me and spit the grenade pin onto the ground. He and his pals picked the wrong folks to mess with when they abducted Mistress. I’m way more than a little white dog. I scramble across the beach and into the water as the man turns into confetti.
A little twist of magical energy and my fur vanishes, paws become flippers. I shoot toward the wooden dingy like a torpedo. Too busy gaping at the cloud of smoke on the beach, the four pirates don’t notice me until I transform and land amidst them as a king cobra. My venom splatters the man closest. He tumbles into the water. Ducking a machete, I bite another man. The machete gouges the bottom of the boat. Water bubbles up. Good thing Mistress still wears her magic boots.
Something grabs me. Not good. I can change shape, not mass, so I’m small. Fur once again covers my body, this time with feline accessories. I twist and slash with my claws. Blood streams, but he holds me fast under the water. Spots fill my eyes. I have to wait for energy to replenish.
Finally I can change shape again. My new eel form shoots electricity in one enormous blast. The two remaining pirates convulse, then collapse. It’s not over yet. The dingy is sinking. Mistress is too hurt and tired to transform. So am I, but somehow we make it to shore. Mission accomplished.
What a great way to end 2015 and start 2016. Thank you all for the votes.
A.L. Kaplan is the readers’ choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.
The winning entry is rewarded with a special feature on Indies Unlimited today and a place in their collection of winners which will be published as an e-book at year end.
WELCOME TO A WORLD OF ADVENTURE Enter here for cool stories of action, adventure and intrigue, featuring heroes and heroines who prove you don’t have to be a grownup to save the day. Inside you’ll find: A teenage spy trapped on a train with men who want to kill her. A young man earning his pay hunting dragons in a hot air balloon. A girl who talks to wolves in a frightening dystopian future. And Young Jack solves a mystery years before he grows up to be F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack. PLUS 14 more thrilling tales set in the past, the present, the future, and in worlds of fantasy, written by Jeffrey Westhoff, Jeff Ayers, Kevin Lauderdale, Victoria Pitts Caine, Kevin Singer, C.A. Verstraete, David Perlmutter, M.M. rumberg, A. L. Kaplan, Deborah Walker, Anne E. Johnson, Chantal Boudreau, David Turnbull, Milo James Fowler, Jack Mulcahy, Nathan Hystad, and H.L. Pauff.
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A wonderful collection of stories by eighteen talented authors.
Living in a post-pandemic world isn’t easy, especially if you can’t remember your past. Sixteen year old Kara returns to the human world after living with wolves for eight years, in A. L. Kaplan’s “Wolf Dawn.”
