Making a fictional world? We can help.

There’s a moment when you can close your eyes and see a world of your own making.
It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, somewhen else. It happens for different reasons for different people. Something, anything can pull your mind from the boundaries of our mundane world and set it to creating somewhere else.
Featuring Maurice Broaddus, Tim Waggoner, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Donald J. Bingle, Janine Spendlove, Bryan Young, and fifteen more authors, these essays range from crafting believable ecosystems, creatures, and legal systems to the ways you can most effectively share your world with your audience.
Eighth Day Genesis is meant to help writers with their worlds. The depth of your world is important…even essential. Worlds should be able to be touched, smelled, seen, and heard. Each of these things is vital to creating reality. The smallest details can illuminate volumes. It is surprising what details with bring forth entire feelings, associations, and images. Stereotypes can be broken, archetypes deviated from, and wonder spilled forth like gossip from an old friend.
This book will help you fill in those details and create the world you’ve always imagined.
Edited by Sabrina Klein - eBook formats (ePub and Kindle) $4.99
Coming soon: Eighth Day Genesis: A Worldbuilding Codex.
A collection of HOW-TO essays on the nuts and bolts of creating a realistic (but fictional) world.
Digital release ~1 June, print shortly thereafter.
“Tales From the Crimson Pact” contains four stories selected from The Crimson Pact Volume One. If you’ve been thinking about trying The Crimson Pact, but haven’t wanted to take the full plunge, this is a great way to see what you think.
This free offer lasts only until Friday - so move now so you don’t miss out!
We set them free, now we have to take them down.
The battle against the demonic horde rages on with fifteen blistering new stories from all across the multiverse. Make your mark in blood and join the Crimson Pact!
The Crimson Pact Volume 3 features fifteen action packed and frightening short stories, including, “That Which We Fear” by New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia, and Steven Diamond, which features Diego Santos, a bad ass marine who knows the exact time of his death, and Jarvis “Lazarus” Tombs, a federal agent who investigates the paranormal, and has the strange habit of coming come back from the dead. “The Ronin’s Mark” by Donald Darling is a story from an arch demon’s point of view and provides a fascinating study of what happens when a demon becomes too close to the world he is trying to destroy. “Whispers in the Code” by Patrick M. Tracy uncovers the sinister truth about the secrets found inside the internet, and those trying to stop the end of days. “Stumble and Fall” by Isaac Bell tells a tale of his famous character, John Olshoe, who recalls a time when he failed to be the hero. “Singe, Smolder, Torch, Whither” by Eric M. Bosarge is a creepy tale Stephen King could have written if he decided to write a story with a more literary style. “The Jar of Needs” by Patrick M. Tracy is about a depraved customer who will do anything for the sullen barrista he’s fallen in lust with. “Monsters on the Trail” by Patrick S. Tomlinson shows us what happens when investigators find out a demon may be involved with a political campaign. “David in Disguise” by Kelly Swails takes us to a 1960’s Chicago protest march where a young woman, who wants to be a journalist, finds out she may have to join the family business after all … and hunt demons. “Fallout from My Former Life” by Valerie Dircks proves that a young woman can never escape her past, especially at her high school prom. “The Recruit” by Craig Nybo profiles the boxing champion, Micky Atlas, in what may be his last fight … on Earth. EA Younker gives us a steampunk apocalypse story, “Fight” where the rebels steal an airship and take the battle to the demon-possessed bots who have destroyed their world. “The Third Eye” by Chanté McCoy tells the tragic story of a failed Greek Orthodox priest in the early 1900’s, who is unable to convince his countrymen that the demons are indeed coming. “A Contract Between Thieves” by Stephanie M. Lorée is one of the most entertaining stories in the anthology and is set in a “Italian Renaissance steampunk meets traditional sword & sorcery world” and features a rogue named Feni, and her lover, Raf, and their travails after Feni accepts the absolutely wrong job—that feels so right. “Shen Llamo’s Daughters,” takes us on a trip to Tibet in a time when the old customs of the mountain people, typified by pragmatic Yumi, battle with the new religion of Buddhism, and demonic spirits roam a haunted valley in the Himalayas. “The Scarlet Cloak” by Karen Bovenmyer, which book-ends this collection and will not soon be forgotten, is about a young woman who takes revenge on her enemies by using an artifact of terrible power that may consume her in the end, or perhaps it will set her true self free.
Eighth Day Genesis: A Worldbuilding Codex
No story takes place in a vacuum. Creating a believable world for your story is a craft. When worldbuilding is done well, it enhances the story. When done poorly, it can turn a story into gibberish. (Don’t just believe me - take a look at io9’s take on it as well!) Over twenty authors share their tips and secrets about creating a world for your characters and story to exist in.
Edited by Sabrina Klein, this new reference anthology is due out in eBook and print formats in late May 2012. More details as we get closer to the date!
The next collection will be out in time for Millennicon. Hopefully, the print copies will be as well, but that’s looking less likely. Likewise, we’re looking to have a reprint of print copies of Pencils Made This Scar, and remastered (yes, remastered) eBook editions.
Amazon, IPG, and Alliteration Ink
Alliteration Ink is not, at this time, distributed by IPG, so this brouhaha does not directly involve me.
Following SFWA’s lead, I will be taking steps to ensure that all titles that Alliteration Ink publishes and distributes are available at other outlets than Amazon.
1. If you have a Kindle or Fire, we will still be distributing Kindle-formatted files from the store. You will want to know how to side-load your books.
2. I will be getting additional print outlets so that we’re not stuck with one printing service.
In short, I want to make sure that you, the reader, are able to get your hands on a print book or eBook. At the same time, I don’t want to support bullying business practices.
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