Atchison County native K.C. McIntosh has published his first book “The Silent Hand.”

Atchison County native K.C. McIntosh spent his youth in a rich environment for someone in love with fantasy. The corn washed hillsides and open, blue skies of Tarkio, Missouri, are opportune for the imagination of the day dreamer. After all, growing up in a small community in the middle of nowhere left little else to do in the 90s, before the coming wave of high speed internet and social media brought the world to Atchison County. It was in this rural backdrop of single gas stations and aging churches that K.C. began cutting his teeth on what would become a life long goal, rising to the ranks of a published novelist.

K.C started jotting down short stories when he was six years old. His parents read him “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Lord of the Rings” instead of “Cat in the Hat.” Thick novels of heroic warriors and powerful magicians conjured, for him, the mystique of the sword and the sorcerer. It should come as no surprise that such a child would see dragons in the sky and orcs in the cornfields. That kind of thing has a tendency to stick in a young boy’s mind.

And stuck it did. Now at 39, living near Kansas City with his wife and three children, K.C has turned his life long ambition into a reality. His first published novel, “The Silent Hand” begins the series of the “Veins of Power,” a fantasy world all his own.

The novel, a snarky epic fantasy four years in the making, follows a wizard’s journey to rescue a young girl from the clutches of his mortal enemy. The book, which comes out October 13th, is a full-sized epic that the author is more than proud of. For a lover of stories, it is undoubtedly a humbling thrill to have his dreams published under Piquary Publishing, an upstart publisher with ambitions in line with his own. Join K.C. by subscribing to his website at www.realkcmac.com, or join his Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok @realkcmac to follow his own journey to what he undoubtedly hopes to be a fairytale ending.

K.C. is the son of Kalvin and Stephanie McIntosh of Rocky Mount, Missouri, formerly of Tarkio, and is a 2004 graduate of Tarkio High School.