Category Archives: Book Release

New book Clubfoot Connections Is Now Available

Clubfoot Connections cover image. Four people's legs and feet in various pants, shorts, and shoes. Light blue background.

We’re so excited to announce that Clubfoot Connections: Stories, Essays, and Poetry from the Clubfoot Community is now available where books are sold!

In this anthology, we’ve collected 23 perspectives in this book from people of all ages who share their personal and emotional clubfoot experiences in their own words.

This book will take you from the moment of the clubfoot diagnosis, through the parenting caregiver experience, to children and adults living with clubfoot. These stories of inspiration, challenge, and strength reveal what got people through the journey, what they wish they’d known sooner, and what they’re grateful for.

Contents

  • Becoming a Mother by Lauren Pruitt
  • The Unexpected by Kate E.
  • The Phoenix Club by Jennifer L. Perrotta
  • Do You Know THIS Baby Has Clubfeet? By Erica Atha
  • A Letter to My Husband by Casey Murphy
  • The Raw Reality of a Clubfoot Mama by Delphine Le Roux
  • From Stigma to Sharing by Prina Bagia
  • Online Clubfoot Community with Heart by Tiffany Johnson
  • Clubfoot Community by Abby Skinner
  • Coleman’s Clubfoot Journey by Jessica Norris
  • From Anger to Advocacy by Nicole Bytnerowicz
  • Owen’s Clubfoot Journey by Marlene Parry
  • Dad Saves the Day by Chidiogo Obiesie
  • Approaching the End of BnB by Maureen Hoff
  • The Humans We Were Meant to Be by Ann-Jeanette England
  • If I Had a Crystal Ball by Allie Zimmerman
  • Grief and Dreams by Lori T. Howard
  • Clubfoot: The Incredible Journey by Aaron England
  • Big Goals by Riley Zimmerman
  • Just Chloe by Chloe Howard
  • Why No Baby Pictures? by Laura (Rayl) Bucknam
  • Who Would Have Thought? by Christopher Myers
  • You’ve Got This: A Poem for Clubfoot Parents by Katherine Kiedaisch

New book Your Writing Matters Is Now Available

We’re happy to announce that Your Writing Matters: 34 Quick Essays to Get Unstuck and Stay Inspired by creativity expert Keiko O’Leary is now available where books are sold!

The cover of Your Writing Matters: 34 Quick Essays to Get Unstuck and Stay Inspired, by Keiko O'Leary. "A beautifully written meditation on the writer's life," says Julie A. Fast, bestselling author.

In this engaging book of short essays for writers, Keiko O’Leary explores what it means to live life as a writer, offers encouragement and inspiration, and suggests practical techniques to cultivate your writing life. Whether you have years of experience or are just starting out, these essays will support you on your writing journey.

What readers are saying:

This is a book of welcome—which means that it’s a book of openings, the kind of openings that every writer needs to be inspired and connected—to the world, to themselves, to their fellow writers, to their stories … and to all of the mysteries that touch us as creators.

‘You deserve to create what’s in you to create,’ writes Keiko O’Leary. Yes. This book radiates yes. It radiates awakening.

—Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month

A beautifully written meditation on the writer’s life. The minute I started reading this, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m home!’ This book speaks to the writer in me, not the published person in me. I can’t speak highly enough about this book.

—Julie A. Fast, bestselling author of Getting it Done When You’re Depressed

If you want to write but feel intimidated, or you start writing but get discouraged, or even if you already write a lot but would like some encouragement and celebration—this book is for you.

—C. Borst, author of Soldiers in Grey

Keiko’s book inspired me to start working on a novel that I had been wanting to write.

—Erin Garcia, author, educator

Our Kickstarter is live for Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars: A Journal for Clubfoot Parents

We just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars: A Journal for Clubfoot Parents.

Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars is a guided journal to help parents understand the basics of clubfoot treatment and sort out their thoughts and emotions during the first year of their baby’s clubfoot treatment.  We love to publish specialty books like these that are difficult to place with a large publishing house and hope you’ll help us make it happen!

Kickstarter campaigns are all or nothing, so backers won’t get charged anything unless we reach our funding goal to cover the costs of publishing Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars and donating some books to nonprofits or clubfoot treatment facilities.

Please share to spread the word or back our campaign. Click HERE to go to the Kickstarter campaign.

Later Series Steampunk ebook deal at Drive Thru Fiction

Our three Later series steampunk anthologies are now available as an ebook bundle at Drive Thru Fiction!

Save $3 and get all three anthologies in all three popular formats: epub, Kindle and PDF.

Visit Drive Thru Fiction for this deal: http://bit.ly/TheLaterAnthologies

 

Let’s Play Coloring Book for Kids is coming soon

We’re happy to announce that we’re creating our first coloring book:
Bunny Fun Coloring Book for Kids: Let’s Play  (Active Play Theme)

Let’s Play is part of our new clubfoot book line Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars. Let’s Play features bunny characters from the picture book Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklyn! plus some new animal friends and lots of new active play scenes.

Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners, Let’s Play includes:

  • Active play scenes such as skating, climbing, and running
  • Coloring pages for serial casting and brace wear from the Brooklynn story book
  • Simple activity pages with dot to dot, matching, and mazes

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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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Coming Soon: Lunar Cycle Book 3, Luna’s Lament

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