Ken Boyter

Ken Boyter writes under the name of Loquacious McCarbre and is a writer and performer, co-creator and host of the fantasy YouTube channel The Bottled Imp. He has created the Edra Tales fantasy world to showcase his literature, spoken word audiobooks, visuals, and creative projects.

His first fantasy novel Of Magic & Monkeys was launched last year at the Herts Book Festival to great success. His epic illustrated medieval fantasy verse storybook The Legends of Grimous Ironblood, recounts the legendary myths, tales and stories of healer and Arch-Mage Grimous Ironblood, with over 50 black and white illustrations by Rich Nairn.

To date, Ken has written over 20 fantasy short stories for his patrons who support his creative projects. His short story The Glamarye and the Changeling was published in the weird and speculative fiction ‘Exterus’ anthology, edited and published by G. Owen Wears.

In 2021 and 2023 Ken teamed up with Rich Nairn to create the Story Spark Cards Mythical Creatures Deck and Story Spark Cards Magical Objects Deck. These are illustrated fantasy description cards for writers, games masters, storytellers, and teachers to help spark ideas and imagination.

In 2020, he wrote, narrated and created the short five minute animation film The Glass Princess that tells of sibling rivalry, a struggle for power, extreme cruelty, and extreme kindness. The film was awarded ‘Runners Up’ in the Southern Maltings 5 Minute Film competition where they had over 900 entries from around the world.

Ken co-designed with Kedric Winks, The Crooked Crown, a fast paced fantasy themed card game of bluff, sabotage and cunning and was published by Outset Media and Cheatwell Games in 2024. Their latest game, Guildlands, is an asymmetric tile laying game of strategy and sabotage and will be published by the same publishers in June 2025.

Ken’s latest book will be published in June. To Kill A Thief is the first in the Devilish Dilemmas Gamebook Adventure series where YOU decide how the story unfolds in this interactive, branching narrative, solo-RPG gamebook.

He is also developing an audience interactive stage show, Devilish Dilemmas, with Dave Van Den Bergh, where the audience chooses how the story unfolds.

To find out more visit:

To buy your copy of The Crooked Crown from Amazon UK:
https://tinyurl.com/yc3tnk3b

How To Play The Crooked Crown video:
https://tinyurl.com/24c2nsmz

Rolling with the Beard Review of The Crooked Crown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0zkwslxPA

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‘The Glass Princess’ animation: https://tinyurl.com/2m4u9eva