Well. We never saw this one coming. (Though in retrospect, Amy’s projects do tend to get rather out of hand, so maybe we should have.)
Allow us to set the scene for you: it’s 2015, and Amy has just read a rather charming collection of short stories, and when she discovered that it had been born out of a weekly short story blog the authors had run for a while, SHE WAS ENAMOURED.
And so, of course, Amy persuaded Liana (because she *can* be rather persuasive at times, let’s be honest) that they ought to engage in a similar undertaking (the blog, not the books) because what better way to practice writing short stories than to try to write one every week?! (It was a CHALLENGE, and Amy does love her challenges.)
Fast forward about 18 months. Amy & Liana have been successful (more or less) in keeping up with the short story blog, but also… perhaps it’s time to move on.
Amy (never having been one to move on from a story, to be clear) proposed a new plan: Publish the short stories from the blog in a collection! We did, and that became Darkness & Good, Inkprint Press’s first ever title in 2017.
And then Amy (and occasionally Liana, when properly motivated) had the audacity to Write More Stories.
What on earth were we to do with THOSE??
…Publish them as stand-alone short stories, obviously, in both ebook AND print because why do anything by halves when you could make a mountain out of the proverbial. And why publish them to any kind of sane schedule when you could release them on the 1st and 15th of the month, EVERY MONTH?! So! Much!! Fun!!!
And so the Inklets were born, a collection of assorted short stories, mostly fantasy, sometimes science fiction, and very occasionally horror or contemporary (VERY occasionally, when we ate something funny and the wind was blowing the wrong way).
When we started, we had no set end goal in mind. (We have both learned important lessons from this, foremost among them being, Give Amy Clear Project Endpoints.) However, this year, we made the decision to wrap up the collection at 100. This is doing wonders for Amy’s scheduling (she runs Inkprint Press and does most of the administrative heavy lifting) but has not done wonders for her sense of completion: Although 100 is a nice round number, she is STILL having conniptions about ending the series in a February, which seems a terribly random month in which to conclude anything.
Regardless, here we are: the collection is set to conclude in February, and WE NEED YOUR HELP. Partly to get the last of the Inklets over the production line, and partially because – Amy being Amy – we want to create something REALLY SPECIAL to farewell this chapter of the Press: a gigantic, 900-page hardcover containing all 107 stories.
(Yes, you read that right: there are 100 Inklets but 107 stories because 7 of the Inklets are double editions.)
Buckle up, everybody. This is going to be so much fun. <3