NEWS
Thursday, 11 June 2009
SWINE FLU PANDEMIC NOW OFFICIAL!
Excite News - Swine Flu Pandemic
World Health Organization makes official statement of H1N1 flu pandemic.
Thursday, 06 June 2008
OFFER TO LOCAL BOOK And READING CLUBS!
If your Book Club chooses to read
Plagueman and all members purchase a copy, author K.D. Kragen will personally visit your local book club and open the first session with book signing and reading, as well as discuss the historical context of the book and how he came to write
Plagueman. He will visit the Book Club a second time for a Q-and-A session.
Book Clubs Flyer (PDF). Note: K.D. Kragen lives in the Northwest near Seattle. For areas more distant please contact K. D. Kragen to discuss alternative possibilities for your Book Club (contact information is on Book Club Flyer). Thankyou.
Monday, 30 July 2007
The virus mutations continue to...well...mutate. The list of zoonotic diseases grow: this time it's not chickens or other birds, but bats! See:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Are our days numbered? Of course they are. We just don't know which numbers. For a delightful and informative listing of "zoonotic diseases," go to the
Zoonotic Diseases Tutorial, presented by the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thursday, 20 February 2006
For excellent and timely updates of just one potential modern-day plague see: NPR's update page at
Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu; another NPR report
Seattle at Forefront of Planning for Flu Pandemic on
All Things Considered (5 January 2006);
Guardian Unlimited (Feb 2006),
Special Report.
Thursday, 29 December 2005
PLAGUEMAN - NOW AVAILABLE!
Plagueman is now available both in ebook format and hardcover from ArcheBooks Publishing!
You can purchase
Plagueman direct from
ArcheBooks or from your local bookstore or
amazon.com.
(Note, ebook is only available from the publisher.)
Download
Publicity One Sheet (PDF).
Download
Press Release (PDF).
Read about
How I Came To Write Plagueman.
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Plagueman Bookmark, banners, and aim buddy icons
click here.
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
PRESS REVIEW FOR BOOK JACKET COVER
This writer is incredible! K.D.Kragen is gifted in the way he is able to draw the reader inside
this medieval bedlam. He has an intimacy with Kierkiev, the male protagonist, and all the characters
in this classic tale. I felt transported to the colorful, yet at the same time, bleak 14th century world,
to see and sense the devastating plague, to witness barbarians leave their prey stripped of dignity
and will. How amazing that love could flourish amidst so much chaos--to see the spark of mystic spirit
arise in Kierkive, the "Plagueman."
Science fiction or fantasy does not come close to the horror of true, well-drawn and well-researched
historical fiction. I'm convinced the author lived in that era-how else could he weave this story?
Kragen has an instinctive ability to understand our past and put the correct language and elements
into his narrative, to serve up to us the succulent suspension of disbelief.
----Venera Di Bella Barles, author of
They Was Holdin' Hands.
Monday, 17 October 2005
FIRST PRE-PRESS REVIEW COMES IN!
"
Plagueman is a book you are not able to put down.
The descriptions are absolutely amazing.
You truly feel what it was like to live in 14th century Italy.
With a touch of romance,
Plagueman will keep you guessing to the very last page.
A wonderful story."
Sincerely,
Steve Maloof
Dentist, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Wednesday, 07 September 2005
New website online and fully operational.
Tuesday, 06 September 2005
Plagueman will be available, November 2005, from ArcheBooks Publishing!
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