The Authors of Thirty Days Later

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Do you love alternate history? Are you a fan of Harry Turtledove, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Guns of the South, The Two Georges, and the Worldwar series? Then you’ll enjoy Thirty Days Later, Thinking Ink Press’s forthcoming anthology featuring two brand new stories by Harry Turtledove, who Publisher’s Weekly dubbed the “master of alternate history”!

Thirty Days Later will be Thinking Ink Press’s first full-length fiction anthology, and will include not only Turtledove’s stories but also 28 more tales by favorite steampunk authors, including the award-winning Sharon E. Cathcart, Anthony Francis, and the writing team of David L. Drake and Katherine L. Morse.

Thinking Ink Press is excited to welcome all of the authors of Thirty Days Later to our publishing family, including: T. E. MacArthur, AJ Sikes, Harry Turtledove, David L. Drake and Katherine Morse, Anthony Francis, Kirsten Weiss, Steve DeWinter, Michael Tierney, Janice Thompson, BJ Sikes, Emily Thompson, Sharon E. Cathcart, Justin Andrew Hoke, Lillian Csernica, and Dover Whitecliff.

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Thirty Days Later: A New Steampunk Anthology

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Do you like steampunk and cliffhangers? Adventure and intrigue? Dragons and Sasquatches? Then you’ll like the forthcoming anthology Thirty Days Later, Steaming Forward: 30 Adventures in Time, featuring pairs of stories by favorite steampunk authors who have appeared at the Clockwork Alchemy steampunk convention!

Thinking Ink Press is proud to announce we will publish Thirty Days Later in time for Clockwork Alchemy this Memorial Day. Edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff, Thirty Days Later is the sequel to the steampunk anthology Twelve Hours Later: 24 Tales of Myth and Mystery, a charity anthology to promote California literacy programs, and Thinking Ink Press is proud to donate half the royalties of Thirty Days Later to promote literacy.

“The creators of Twelve Hours Later continue to promote literacy one sensational story at a time by donating a portion of their proceeds to literary charities, but no boring works with fluffy kittens here. Not a one! Where else can you find spycraft and sea serpents, cloud cities and ghosts, romance, witty banter, and worlds of wonder in one place? These are stories to relish and read under the covers into the wee hours of the morning. They’ve done it again-Full marks!”
Penelope Dreadfulle, Literary Reviewer for the Blackfriars Courant.

As Memorial Day approaches, look for further announcements here about the release date and release party of Thirty Days Later at Clockwork Alchemy, or click the button below to sign up for our 30DL mailing list!

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Wild Hair, an Instant Book by Ruth Littmann Ashkenazi

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Wild_Hair_cover_imageThinking Ink Press brings you a touch of magical realism just in time for Halloween. We are happy to announce a new Instant Book, Wild Hair, by the always-entertaining Ruth Littmann Ashkenazi. Instant books are limited edition miniature books with complete stories inside. Folded from a single sheet of paper, they fit in the palm of your hand, but they’re sturdy enough to read and share.

Ruth will be reading a new short story at Flash Fiction Forum on October 14 and Wild Hair will be available for sale at this event. The story in Wild Hair was featured at a previous Flash Fiction Forum event.

Keiko O’Leary, our Instant Book designer, created this book layout. She selected the typography and paper, created the art, and hand-folded each book.

Create Books in an Instant!

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After the success of our first Thinking Awesome event, Thinking Ink Press is proud to announce our second: Instant Books with Keiko O’Leary!

Learn to fold your own Instant Book from a single sheet of paper (it’s easy)! Meet Keiko O’Leary, book artist and Instant Book designer at Thinking Ink Press. Keiko will show various examples of Instant Books, from a simple hand-drawn love note to a fully produced book containing two (very) short stories.

This FREE event will be on Sunday, October 4, 2015 from 3:00 pm-5:00 pm at
Peet’s Coffee & Tea on 20087 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA. Come join us and learn how to make books in an instant!

For more information, see our Facebook Event Page!

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Our First Thinking Awesome Event

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Thinking Ink Press is proud to announce our very first Thinking Awesome event: the MTheory World Puzzle Creative Writing Battle!

Hosted by Peet’s Coffee in Cupertino, CA and led by the inventor of the MTheory World Puzzle, the Creative Writing Battle takes two groups of writers, gives them randomly generated prompts from the MTheory World Puzzle system, and makes them BATTLE! It’s competitive writing at its most cutthroat – see the system in action as it demolishes writer’s block!

For more information, see our Facebook Event Page!

Our first Flashcard: White Mice

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Thinking Ink Press is happy to announce that we just published our first Flashcard—White Mice by author and artist Keiko O’Leary. Flashcards are postcards with a complete flash fiction story and original art. They can be addressed and mailed for the cost of a postcard stamp.

Keiko O’Leary, our instant book designer, wrote the story, created the original artwork (above), and designed the postcard.

To get White Mice Flashcards, look for Keiko at San Jose’s Flash Fiction Forum on Wednesday, August 12, 2015.

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Thinking Ink Press handmade books available at The Arsenal in San Jose

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Instant Books at The Arsenal in San Jose. Jagged Fragments, Bees, and Jeremiah Willstone and The Sorting of the Secret Post The Arsenal, an artist-owned art store in San Jose, CA, now has a display of our Instant Books: Bees by Betsy Miller, and Jagged Fragments and Jeremiah Willstone and the Sorting of the Secret Post.

Stop by if you’d like to buy copies and support a local art shop!

Bees, an Instant Book by Betsy Miller

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Bees cover, art by Keiko O'LearyThinking Ink Press is happy to announce a new instant book: Bees by Betsy Miller.

Excerpt:

He was not so afraid of bees that he couldn’t leave the house. It was more like if he saw a bee he would avoid it, you know, walk the other way. He knew all the places where bees liked to go on the way to school—the bottle brush plant, which he called the bee tree was worst of all. He always made sure to cross the street to the opposite side to avoid the bee tree.

Instant books are limited edition miniature books with complete stories inside. They fit in the palm of your hand, but are sturdy enough to read and share.

Keiko O’Leary, our Instant Book designer, created this book layout. She selected the typography and paper, created the cover art, and hand-folded each book.

Bees was released at the June 3rd Play On Words event at Café Stritch, where “Bees” was performed and Instant Books were available for purchase.