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Thinking Ink Press
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Thinking Ink Press is an independent book publishing company in the San Francisco Bay Area. We primarily publish books relating to disability, writing advice and inspiration, and diverse speculative fiction. https://ThinkingInkPress.com for more info.
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Our Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth funded! We’re so happy! Thanks everyone!
There’s still time to back it if you want the book: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
The ebook and paperback of the book Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth with a background of confetti. The text says Just funded / Kickstarter / WE DID IT! WE ARE FUNDED / Thank you for your support!
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Hi writer friends!
Do you write short memoir? Want to give it a try? 📖💖
Check out our Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth! We’re $130 away from meeting our funding goal by Mon Nov 10.
Back it or tell a friend!
Thanks! 🥰
#BookSky #writers
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
A paperback and ebook of Writing Memoir in Flashes. The book cover shows a black line art pen with a burst of yellow lines coming from the tip. The words say Nearly funded / Kickstarter /Help us reach our funding goal!!
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Your Writing Matters by Keiko O’Leary got a great review by Midwest Book Review!
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​​⁠You can get Your Writing Matters and more in the Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth.
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
#BookSky
A line art drawing of a hot coffee cup on a book is next to the book cover of Your Writing Matters by Keiko O’Leary. The words say: Book Review / Your Writing Matters by Keiko O’Leary / “Essential reading for anyone aspiring to writing for a living … inspirationally motivating for even professionally seasoned writers” -Midwest Book Review
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Our newest Instant Book is our first book of poetry!⁠
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The Let It Happen Instant Book is a mini-collection of six short poems by Keiko O’Leary. She designed it with thoughtful page layouts and beautiful images of Julia Macek’s quilling artwork. Keiko hand-folds each book. They’re lovely! ⁠🦋
The Let It Happen mini book is on a blue-gray cloth. The book cover says Let It Happen: Poems for Humans by Keiko O’Leary / A Thinking Ink Press Instant Book. A colorful butterfly in a quilling design is on the cover.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🎉We’re delighted to announce we’ll be publishing a new sci-fi novella Bright Phaedra by Felicia Martinez!🎉

Bright Phaedra reimagines the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus with neurodiverse and asexual characters, set in a near-future multiverse with sentient artificial intelligences.
Author Felicia Martínez smiling in an outdoor setting with trees
September 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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New book earrings from Poetose! 💖📚 Get yours at Thinking Ink Press’s table at
Markham House in History Park
10 am - 1 pm
Sunday, September 28
635 Phelan Ave,
San Jose CA 95112

Browse books, earrings, and more.

www.pcsj.org/festival-2025 for full poetry festival details
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8 boxes of small handmade book earrings in assorted designs One pair of book earrings from Poetose with floral book covers
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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🎉 We’re happy to announce we’ll be publishing a new book Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth in Spring 2026! 🎉
This book is for anyone who wants to tell their true stories through writing short memoir or a collection.

Follow us for news about the upcoming Kickstarter! 📚💖
A line illustration of a hand writing with a pencil is next to the headline New Writing Book Spring 2026. In a photo, author Lita Kurth is smiling while wearing a hat and pinkish sweater. The text says: Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth / Learn to write short memoir! Creative writing techniques, Writing exercises, Advice on building a collection. The Thinking Ink Press logo with a blue inkwell and orange feather is at the bottom.
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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LtR, Clara Ward, Anthony Francis, Betsy Miller, & Liza Olmsted. We will be at Worldcon! Our award-winning book The Neurodiversiverse edited by Anthony & Liza will be selling at the Liminal Fiction table in the dealers' room. Stop by the table and you may see Liza or Betsy there #Worldcon2025 #SciFi
Clara Ward, Anthony Francis, Betsy Miller, and Liza Olmsted are sitting at a round table having tea during Clockwork Alchemy. All are smiling
August 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Anthony Francis from Thinking Ink Press is presenting at WorldCon 2025! 🎉
The Cognitive Science of Scenes and Sequels Sat, Aug 16 11–11:30 am
seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

Get the award-winning book The Neurodiversiverse at the Liminal Fiction table in the dealers’ room

#Worldcon2025 #SciFi
Anthony Francis is standing behind a table with stacks of his books on it. He is wearing a black cowboy hat with a black and silver vest, and aiming a sonic screwdriver at the camera.
August 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Look for Betsy and Liza at the PPN Conference April 25, 2025.

They're on the panel Audacious and Subversive: Impact Strategies from Indie Publishers.

Liza is also on the panel Imagining Otherwise: Neurodiversity in Publishing.
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An illustration of a shelf of books is centered on a white background. The text above says: Betsy Miller and Liza Olmsted are panelists at the Publishing Professionals Network conference in Berkeley!
April 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Hello, fellow fiction-consuming beings! Want to add to your hoard of fantastic stories about neurodiversity?

Good news! Our hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology is on sale!

The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters is 50% off until March 8 at Smashwords!

#books #neurodiversity #scifibooks
March 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Happy Read an Ebook Week!
Clubfoot Connections is 50% off at Smashwords Mar 2-8!
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Get a deal on this award-winning and uplifting anthology of true stories and poetry by people affected by clubfoot.

#Booksky #ebookweek25 #Smashwords #Disability
www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
A tablet shows the book cover for Clubfoot Connections: Stories, essays, and poetry from the clubfoot community.
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds is a Deal of the Day at Drive Thru Fiction! ⛭💖⛭

Get the ebook for $2.40 here tinyurl.com/2e64scec

Please share to spread the word!

#BookSky #steampunk #ebooksale
February 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thinking Ink Press co-founder Liza Olmsted was awarded a grant to help cover the cost of attending IBPA Publishing University 2025 (Pub U).

Congratulations, @shinylizard.bsky.social! 🎉

Read more at
www.thinkinginkpress.com/2025/02/tip/we-received-a-grant/
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Yellow shooting stars are above the Thinking Ink Press logo. Below is the logo for the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI).
February 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Bay Area friends, come by the Cupertino Library on Friday night for the free event Poetry in the Dark! ⁠
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Yes, this event involves reciting poems by heart. But don't worry! Even if you don't know any poems by heart, come anyway. Worst case, Keiko knows enough poems to fill the entire time.
A picture of poet Keiko O'Leary wearing read glasses and smiling and white text on a black background that says: Poetry in the Dark. Let's turn off the lights and speak poems to each other.
January 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Check out the new guest blog post by Liza Olmsted from Thinking Ink Press at the Insecure Writer's Support group website: www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/2024/11/i-wa...
Liza is wearing green glasses and smiling in front of a landscape with sand dunes and water and a blue sky with clouds. The text says: Guest Blog Post Liza Olmsted Insecure Writer's Support Group. I Want You to Be Yourself, and to Be Gentle with Yourself
December 4, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Sure, here's the cover of our sci fi anthology The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters and a Goodreads link!
Let us know if you'd like a review copy. 🛸
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
A book cover of "The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters", a science fiction anthology. Background is stylized art of an astronaut meeting an alien in outer space. Art by Barbara Candiotti.
November 28, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Our friends at Taevo Publishing are creating an anthology of survivors of domestic violence, titled Why I Stayed. We’d love it if you share this project with people you know and if you are called to, support this BIPOC indie publisher!
Indiegogo campaign link: igg.me/at/wis-antho...
A book called Why I Stayed with a red rose on a black cover is resting on a purple and pink background. The text says Become Part of the Movement! Support the crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo today! TAEVO
November 23, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and we were #643,574!
September 16, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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🌸 @keikooleary.bsky.social from Thinking Ink Press was at the Poetry Center San José’s Small Press fair last weekend!

Along with our books, we included some items from Poetose, a small publisher in Boston. You can see their book earrings, notebooks, and books in this picture. 📚🥰

#poetry
The Thinking Ink Press table at the Poetry Center San Jose Small Press fair is covered with books, notebooks and other small items on a white table cloth.
September 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Our hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology 🧠 The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters 🛸 is now available!

Explore #OwnVoices stories of neurodivergent folks meeting aliens!

Buy the book at neurodiversiverse.com!

#neurodiversiverse #books #neurodiversity #scifibooks
A book cover of "The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters", a science fiction anthology. Background is stylized art of an astronaut meeting an alien in outer space. Art by Barbara Candiotti.
August 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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📣 Last chance to back The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters sci fi anthology on Kickstarter!
The campaign ends Monday at noon, Pacific time.
Would neurodiversity be an advantage in an encounter with aliens?  
🛸 Back it and find out at www.neurodiversiverse.com 🛸⁠
#Neurodiversity
#SciFiBooks
The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters book cover on a warp-speed sky. Just funded on Kickstarter. Ending soon.
May 12, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Selected as a Kickstarter #ProjectWeLove!⁠ 😍
 
🧠 The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters 👽 is a hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology. 
Would neurodiversity be an advantage in an encounter with aliens?
 
🛸 Back it and find out at www.neurodiversiverse.com 🛸⁠
#Neurodiversity
#SciFiBooks
A book cover of "The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters", a science fiction anthology. Background is stylized art of an astronaut meeting an alien in outer space. Art by Barbara Candiotti. Kickstarter “project we love”.
April 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Celebrate neurodiversity 🧠 by backing our Kickstarter for The Neurodiversiverse, a hopeful, empowering anthology answering the question: Would neurodiversity help in an encounter with aliens? 🛸

Back it at neurodiversiverse.com

#Neurodiversity #SciFiBooks #OwnVoices
A book cover of "The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters", a science fiction anthology. Background is stylized art of an astronaut meeting an alien in outer space. Art by Barbara Candiotti.
April 17, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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We have sample inspiring quote tote bags and stickers. Here's a picture with a copy of Your Writing Matters by Keiko O'Leary for scale. ⁠
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Don't they look great?⁠
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These are rewards for people who backed our recent Kickstarter. For more info, here's the link to the update: ⁠
tinyurl.com/7w6nxpma
Inspiring quote tote bag with the book Your Writing Matters by Keiko O'Leary and an inspiring quote sticker.
January 9, 2024 at 9:55 PM