Category Archives: Appearances

Sci Fi Book Launch Party – Replay

In case you missed it, here’s the replay of our launch party for The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott and Luna’s Lament by David Colby.

You can get the books here:
The Hereafter Bytes
Luna’s Lament – The Lunar Cycle, Book 3

And case you wanted to start The Lunar Cycle from the beginning:
Debris Dreams – The Lunar Cycle, Book 1

Book Launch Party

We’re having a party and we hope you can come!

The Hereafter Bytes book cover    Book cover: Luna's Lament by David Colby

Join us for a virtual book launch party to celebrate the release of the sci fi novels:

Hosted by Thinking Ink’s Keiko O’Leary, with author readings, Q & A, and prizes.

This event will be held via Zoom on Sep 26, 4 pm PST. Here’s the link to join the Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84046941888?pwd=RXB4NXZOZ0U5eGdWRngxUTFKdlgxZz09

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Our New Charity Steampunk Anthology Some Time Later Is Now Available

We’re happy to announce that our latest charity steampunk anthology Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds is available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online booksellers. The release date is June 1, 2017. Some Time Later will also be available for sale at the steampunk anthology Clockwork Alchemy on Memorial Day weekend.

If you enjoyed the popular audio story “Three Men and a Vampire” by Harry Turtledove performed by Sage and Savant and you want more, pick up a copy of Some Time Later and you’ll find a companion story “Three Men and a Werewolf.” You’ll also discover pairs of Jeremiah Willstone stories by Anthony Francis, Drake & McTrowell stories, Miranda Gray stories, and more.

If you’re coming to Clockwork Alchemy, stop by Author’s Alley and you can meet many of the authors who participated in this anthology. All the books in the Later series will be on hand, as well as other Thinking Ink titles, and we’ll also have con ribbons and other extras!

 

Some Time Later is the third volume in our set of charity steampunk anthologies that benefit local libraries such as the San Jose Public Library:

For Clockwork Alchemy this weekend, Thinking Ink Press is organizing a charity donation drive for the San Jose Public Library, and we have donors who will match that donation up to the first $1000.

Stay tuned for the outcome of this drive, but if you want to dive right in to the stories, you can read them now by coming by Clockwork Alchemy and picking up, or looking where fine books are sold!

Sage & Savant Meet Thinking Ink Press in a Steampunk Extravaganza

We’re excited to announce that this April, Thinking Ink Press is the featured sponsor of Episode 11 of the continuing Steampunk podcast and blog of Dr. Petronella Sage and her friend Professor Erasmus Savant. Join us as we venture back to the Victorian Science-fiction world of Sage & Savant as they travel through space and time!

During the month of April, listen to Audio Adventures: Stories from Thinking Ink Press Steampunk Anthologies, featuring three stories:

  • A  new story, “Three Men and a Vampire” by Harry Turtledove, from our forthcoming charity steampunk anthology Some Time Later, Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds, available at the steampunk convention Clockwork Alchemy 2017.
  • “The Fall of the Falcon” by  Anthony Francis, from our charity steampunk anthology Thirty Days Later.  “The Fall of the Falcon” is a prequel story to Anthony’s steampunk novel Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine, new this year from Bell Bridge Books.
  • “The Honorable Eddy” by Kirsten Weiss from our charity steampunk anthology Thirty Days Later. Kirsten Weiss writes genre-blending cozy mystery, urban fantasy, and steampunk suspense, mixing her experiences and imagination to create a vivid world of magic and mayhem.

Starting in April, on the Savant & Sage website, you’ll also find interviews with Anthony Francis, Kirsten Weiss, Sharon E. Cathcart, not to mention steampunk anthology editors AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff.

Please stop in for a visit at the Sage & Savant website and join us for fun and fabulous adventures. If you’re at Clockwork Alchemy 2017, look for Thinking Ink Press authors and editors!

Pictured: the Radio Broadcast Center at Universal Studios Florida (modified), from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and Harajuku Fashion Walk (modified), from Flickr / Gaudencio Garcinuño under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.

 

Book Launch Party for Beyond the Fence and Sibling Rivalry

two book covers: Sibling Rivalry and Beyond the Fence
We’re having a book launch party for our new Snapbook line featuring Beyond the Fence by Marilyn Horn and Sibling Rivalry by Anthony Francis! Snapbooks—the Thinking Ink Press take on chapbooks—are short books packed with page-turning stories. Join us at Kaleid Gallery in San Jose on Friday, June 24, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Marilyn and Anthony will read their work, and Keiko O’Leary will demonstrate and teach the art of hand-folding Instant Books from a single sheet of paper. You can also check out beautiful, original cover art created by local artist Sandi Billingsley for Thinking Ink Press.

Details in List Form

What: Launch party for Beyond the Fence and Sibling Rivalry
When: Friday, June 24, 2016, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Kaleid Gallery
88 South Fourth Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, USA
TEL: +1-408- 947-1785
Parking: Kaleid is located in downtown San Jose, on the street level of the Fourth Street parking garage (near the King Library). Garage parking costs $5 after 6:00 p.m. Street parking can be hard to find, but is free after 6:00 p.m.
What Do I Need to Do?: Come to the party and bring friends!

More about the Snapbooks

Praise for Beyond the Fence
“The stories in Marilyn Horn’s Beyond the Fence are strange. But the strangeness is just one of their charms, for by the time we’re exiting the stories, the strange has come to seem familiar—even ordinary. This is a testament to Horn’s powers as a storyteller. She creates worlds in which talking dolphins and soul DNA and attic monsters are both astonishing and commonplace.
This book is a pleasure all the way through.”
—Charles Rafferty, Director of MFA Program, Albertus Magnus College

Click for more about Beyond the Fence.

About Sibling Rivalry
Written by a PhD in artificial intelligence, “Sibling Rivalry” tells the story of the Nicole AI system, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever created … until today. Confronted with a newer, better sibling designed to replace her, Nicole decides that instead of becoming an obsolete brain in a box, she’d rather become an unstoppable killer. With his team, and perhaps the entire building, dead, Nicole’s designer is trapped in a battle of wits with his own creation. Attempt after attempt fails, and with his oxygen running out, Nicole’s designer finds himself running a deadly race with Nicole … to see who can stop whose weak heart first.

“Sibling Rivalry” was Epic award-winning author Anthony Francis’s first publication, appearing in The Leading Edge magazine in 1995. Thinking Ink Press is proud to bring this classic science fiction story back into print in Snapbook and e-book form.

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We look forward to seeing you at Kaleid on June 24!

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!

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

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!