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.

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.

Ghostlight LIT!  Tomorrow, 8pm, Dayton!  Be there!

Ghostlight LIT!  Tomorrow, 8pm, Dayton!  Be there!

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!

Look for me at cons!

Look for me at cons!

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.

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.

Last Chance to get 25% off all our eBook titles!

Today is the last day you can get 25% off our eBooks at the Alliteration Ink store!

Save money, get more formats and still ensure that authors get as much money as they would from Amazon!  Use special code BRANDNEWDAY on checkout!