John Urbancik

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year.When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete.These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year.When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete.These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

Teresa Grove lives in Central Florida, owns a bookstore, lives as normal a life as she can. But she's special. She sees things the rest of us cannot, though she tries her best to pretend otherwise. But there are powerful forces at work. Watching. Stalking. Some seek love, some life, some death. After the Moon shifts her shade, they suspect Teresa will be able to give them what they want. Whether she likes it or not. Teresa stands to inherit the Moon's strengths and weaknesses, and also her enemies. She'll also have an uncontrollable power in the form of a kiss: to deliver either life or death. But it's not for her to decide which. It's the Breath of the Moon. Originally published as a limited edition in 2006 and available in paperback now for the first time ever