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General Updates

So, I was away over Easter, and then I ended up sick, which has been super fun. But the break was definitely lovely, and much needed and appreciated.

So here we are, back again, vaguely functional, plodding on toward all the deadlines

Just a quick update today. First of all, I’ve updated the new releases page with the preorder for Bones Of The Sea. The preorder links aren’t live yet, I don’t think, but they will be shortly and I’ll post here when they are. Bones is slated for releas...

Abandoned Words: The Project, Ch 2

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First-In-Series Sale! 20-50% off ebooks :)

Just a quick note to let you know that all the Inkprint Press first-in-series ebook titles are on sale for between 20 and 50% off from April 1 to 15 You can see the titles and pick up your ebook in both epub and mobi right here

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Introducing YinMn Blue (Now I Need To Revise The Witch Blue Universe)

Sooo this is pretty cool. IDK if you know or not, but inventing actual blue pigments that work and don’t kill you is actually SUPER hard. Blue isn’t very common in nature, and throughout history it’s been a pretty rare and valuable pigment as a result.

That’s not the REASON I used blue as the colour basis for the Witch Clans in my Witch Blue universe* (of which Rush Job is currently the only published installation), but nevertheless it’s a pretty cool factoid that does work well with the pow...

New Inklet: Allure, A Sci-Fi Romance

Inklets are a collection of unrelated short science fiction and fantasy stories published by Inkprint Press on the 1st and the 15th of every month. See the whole collection here.

Time for a new Inklet! *g* it’s almost like they come around every second week or something O:)

Anyway, today’s release is my SFR story, Allure. This was, in fact, the first sci-fi romance (SFR) story I ever wrote.

The rockets launch day and night, without ceasing, without fail—even on Christmas.

In t...

Wisdom Is A River, Not A Storm

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Made-It Monday: The ‘Real’ Cake

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

And here it is, behold: the actual cake that last week was the p...

Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn’t See Blue

Stumbled across this video earlier in the week and thought it was interesting enough to share. The video sliiiiightly simplifies the situation – I actually did a paper on this during university! – but it’s a clear enough introduction to the topic if it’s not something you’re familiar with.

So. Why DIDN’T Ancient Greek have a word for blue??

A useful thing to consider if ever you’re creating your own language/s for any project

What have you found on the netsies this week? Do sha...

Short Story: The Chaos Shark

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Different Things You Need To Know Before Writing

I was chatting with Liana on the weekend about #SekritNovel, which for whatever reason is playing on my mind again (look, I’ve learned not to ask these questions. My brain dwells on the books it’s interested in at the time, and I just have to run with that), and we got to a point in the conversation where I’d explained a bunch of the worldbuilding to her, and she was all, Yes, your story is X group of people learn Y life lesson.

All of a sudden, the whole series (four books) leapt into crysta...