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It’s amazing how things come together! Several of the Instant Books created by Thinking Ink Press<\/a>, the small press of which I’m a part, are now on display as part of the local book section of the Arsena<\/a>l artist-owned art store in San Jose!<\/p>\n One of the great things about Instant Books is that they seem to be opening new doors. I really enjoy working with traditional publishers and editors like Debra Dixon at Bell Bridge Books<\/a>, and all my novels are published that way, but working with the writers and artists at the Write to the End<\/a> group has really opened my eyes to the physical joy of handmade books.<\/p>\n Sure, I’ve done a couple printed chapbooks for my own amusement, but author and paper artist Keiko O’Leary<\/a> introduced us to this folded format. Fellow flash fiction author Betsy Miller<\/a> and I started thinking about the stories we had that fit the format. Writer and editor Liza Olmsted<\/a> helped us prepare them for publication. Keiko, my wife Sandi<\/a>, and I provided the art. And creative barrier-buster Nathan Vargas<\/a> gave us important feedback that helped us push the project home – telling us how the prototype books had an awesome feel, like “snack books” that you can read in a single sitting but still get the feel of reading a traditional book.<\/p>\n Except on much, much nicer paper. It matters. It really matters.<\/p>\n My two titles are the flash fiction collection “Jagged Fragments<\/a>” and the steampunk chapbook “Jeremiah Willstone and the Sorting of the Secret Post<\/a>“, and Betsy has the flash short “Bees<\/a>.<\/p>\n So drop in on the Arsenal and check them out, or stay tuned to Thinking Ink Press for more awesome books!<\/p>\n -Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s amazing how things come together! Several of the Instant Books created by Thinking Ink Press, the small press of which I’m a part, are now on display as part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,1,202],"tags":[67,136,66,129,89],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-groups","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-instant-books","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-thinking-ink-press","tag-write-to-the-end","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}