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Yay! Instant Books!
Love fun paper objects?
What about flash fiction?
Mini books?
Our Instant Books are small books folded from a single sheet of paper.
Our current selection offers short stories (some very short), paired with color artwork.
Here’s a video of Keiko O’Leary folding Bees by Betsy Miller.
Get your own copy of Bees or another of our Instant Books.
Congratulations, Keiko, the new Cupertino Poet Laureate
April is National Poetry Month, and we’re happy to share the news that Thinking Ink Press editor Keiko O’Leary is the new Poet Laureate of Cupertino, CA! Among her many roles at Thinking Ink Press, Keiko designs our instant books and flash fiction postcards, edits our poetry, and is the author of Your Writing Matters: 34 Quick Essays to Get Unstuck and Stay Inspired, which we published last August.
As Poet Laureate, Keiko is responsible for promoting the literary arts and inspiring creativity in Cupertino. She will be hosting in-person and online live events including workshops and community-focused poetry gatherings. Keiko’s two-year term began January 1, 2023 and will continue through December 31, 2024.
To connect with Keiko at Thinking Ink Press, consider submitting short stories or poetry to Keiko’s Calls. You can also reach her through her website at KeikoOLeary.com.
New Clubfoot Resources
We’re happy to announce two new clubfoot resources!
Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars: A Journal for Clubfoot Parents 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. Available May 2, 2022.
Bunny Fun Coloring Book For Kids: 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. Available May 10, 2022.
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
These fun coloring pages celebrate the joy of movement and active play!
Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars cover reveal
Here is the gorgeous cover of our forthcoming guided journal Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars: A Journal for Clubfoot Parents by Betsy Miller. Our cover designer Caroline Sanney came up with a number of concepts and this is the one that received the most positive response from clubfoot parents. We love how it turned out!
Since this book was funded through a Kickstarter campaign, we’re also ordering the extra rewards that some backers chose. Copies of the picture book Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklynn and our Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars mugs arrived in December and the tote bags came in this week. Don’t they look nice?
Now we’re finalizing the book design for the Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars interior pages and working on a coloring book with Brooklynn and her friends and family.
If you’re interested in clubfoot resources, fill in the form below. You’ll get news and free coloring pages by email.
Beyond Boots ’n’ Bars is Funded
The Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars Kickstarter campaign has reached its funding goal! Thank you, wonderful backers and everyone who helped spread the word! We’re so happy to be able to bring this journal to parents of babies with clubfoot!
Since the Kickstarter will continue through Fri, Oct 15, we’re unlocking the Bunny Fun Coloring Book for Kids, featuring characters from the picture book Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklynn! This means you can preorder the coloring book during the Kickstarter campaign.
- If you already chose a reward tier with one or more paperback books, you can get the coloring book as an add-on. Click the Add-on button for your reward tier.
- We opened a new reward tier that lets you get the Beyond Boots ‘n’ Bars journal & the Bunny Fun Coloring Book for Kids! If you haven’t backed yet, you can choose this tier to get both books.
You can support the campaign and preorder the journal and coloring book until Friday, Oct 15 at 5 pm Pacific time, when the Kickstarter ends. Click here to go to the Kickstarter!
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