We’re having a party and we hope you can come!
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
We appreciate everyone who backed the Kickstarter, which made it possible for us to publish The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott, coming soon from Thinking Ink Press. We’ve started fulfilling rewards to our backers, and will be publishing the book in August 2020.
Special thanks to Mama Rose, Electra Fire, A. Ferguson, and Anthony Francis.
We’d also like to thank the following backers as well as those who prefer to remain anonymous:
Ellen Bond
Lizard D
Sara Darlington
TK Doyle
Joe Doyle
Susan Earley
Bryce Ferguson
CS Fitzgerald
Cat Fleming
Stacy Fluegge
Erin Garcia
Gerald
Justine Kilsby
Jerome Lahey
B. E. Lewis
Melissa
Melanie Nazelrod
Jeremy Odden
Gary Phillips
Cat Rambo
Riley
Ib Rasmussen
the Scott-Lewis family
Rob Spillane
Rob Steinberger
Susan
Every once in a while we get to work with an artist who is creating an illustration of a new character. This is a collaborative process involving the artist, the author, Thinking Ink, and a graphic designer. It’s fun and exciting to see a character come to life in this way.
Here’s a sneak peak at the initial sketch by Ivreese Tong for the character Izy from The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott. This sketch will become a full color illustration to go with a flash fiction story from Vincent that we’ll be publishing on a postcard. That’s our Flashcard format—flash fiction paired with art on a postcard that you can send in the mail.
This project started out as a stretch reward for our Kickstarter backers, but it’s turning out so well, that after the backers get their rewards, we’re going to keep stocking postcards and they’ll be available for purchase.
A big thank you to everyone who helped with the wonderfully successful Kickstarter campaign for The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott! We appreciate our backers and also those of you who retweeted and spread the word.
If you want to see the Kickstarter campaign, where we’ll be posting updates about backer rewards, click here kickstarter.com/projects/thinkinginkpress/the-hereafter-bytes.
What’s next?
It will take a couple of weeks for Kickstarter to transfer the funds. Once that happens, we’ll start editing the manuscript and developing the art for backer rewards. When we set the release date for this book, we’ll post an announcement. We’re looking forward to publishing this book!
We’re happy to announce that Thinking Ink Press will be running a Kickstarter campaign March 11-April 1, 2020 for a new sci fi comedy book, The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott.
Come for the cyberspace, stay for the laughs. Come for the laughs, stay for the cyberspace.
Romeo is a digital copy of his dead bio self—a ghost—in a spindly robot body. When Romeo’s friend Abigail—a dominatrix with a gift for uncovering secrets—tells Romeo she’s at risk because of dangerous info from a client, Romeo agrees to help her investigate.
Pursued by digital Golden Retrievers and a real-world assassin, Romeo slips in and out of cyberspace in a madcap race for survival. Can he unmask the criminal who threatens the integrity of cyberspace and the real-world economy before it’s too late?
Here’s the link to the project at Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thinkinginkpress/the-hereafter-bytes
If you click this link before March 11, you’ll see the pre-launch page. Once the project goes live, the link will take you to the project page where you’ll see more detail and will be able to back the project.
We hope you’ll check out this campaign. This is a fun book that we believe will appeal to many readers.
We’re happy to announce that we will be publishing the science fiction novel Luna’s Lament by David Colby. Luna’s Lament is the third book in the Lunar Cycle trilogy. Here’s a look at the cover, with gorgeous original art created by Sandi Billingsly.
The year: 2068
The place: Luna, the colony that’s waging war against the Earth.
The objective: Revenge.
Drusilla Zhao has entered into the shadowy, dangerous world of the S3TA—the Space Special Service, Transhuman Arm. Equipped with hyperadvanced technology and cybernetic augmentations, the S3TA are the Chinese-American Alliance’s trump card. But will Dru’s desire for revenge on the enemies who took everything she ever cared about blind her to the true enemy that lurks closer than she could possibly imagine?
Author David Colby combines hard science details with page-turning action and a diverse cast of characters for a unique science fiction experience that you won’t soon forget.
Books in the Lunar Cycle Trilogy
Debris Dreams
Shattered Sky
Thinking Ink Press is happy to announce that the science fiction novel Shattered Sky by David Colby is now available. The second book in the Lunar Cycle trilogy, Shattered Sky is the sequel to Debris Dreams.
In Debris Dreams, lunar separatists attack the space elevator above the Earth, forcing offworlder Drusilla Zhao into wartime military service.
In Shattered Sky, Dru is honored as a hero and joins her girlfriend Sara on Earth. As Dru begins her new life, she struggles to adapt to a different culture while suffering from PTSD. When Sara’s home is threatened, and the military demand that Dru return to service, she must fight to defend the Alliance while battling enemies inside her own head.
Author David Colby combines hard science details with page-turning action and a diverse cast of characters for a unique science fiction experience that you won’t soon forget.
Haven’t read Debris Dreams yet? Buy it at your retailer of choice.
The year: 2068
The place: The war-torn, ecologically devastated Earth.
The objective: Survive.
Sixteen-year-old Drusilla Zhao has done the impossible and escaped the meat grinder of space warfare alive. But Earth is far more dangerous than she imagined, and now she and her only remaining comrade, Jillian, are about to be rotated right back into the firing line and away from Dru’s love, Sarah.
Shattered Sky by David Colby continues the Lunar Cycle sci-fi trilogy that began with Debris Dreams. Publishers Weekly says Debris Dreams is “appealingly reminiscent of an updated Heinlein juvenile, it’s a story of wartime bravery, principles and self-sacrifice.”
Advance review copies of Shattered Sky are now available. If you’re interested in reviewing Debris Dreams, Shattered Sky, or both, please use the form below to let us know.