Böcker av John Urbancik

What happens is, the world, everything we know, this thing we call Reality, it exists in our heads. It doesn't really exist. And someone decided they didn't like Reality. Or maybe not that they didn't like it, but they wanted to try another. They wanted it so hard, Reality changed, and now we're in their head. Not our own. See, their Reality shifted, and in it, you don't exist. You just got left over. Welcome to Kevin Nichols' new Reality.

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.)

Part I: Annabel Lee, in Shadow. The narrator takes you on a perilous journey into shadow. Can he -- can you -- escape with your self intact? >The Goddess of Fire -- a series of love poems for the person who will destroy you. >Romance and Miscellany The third book of poetry by 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.)

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.)

Five hundred years ago, he served as a priest during the Spanish Inquisition. When he thought his love affair, which had produced a child, had been discovered, he had the man who knew the secrets put to death. Then by his own decree, he had his lover put to death as well. Distraught, he took his own life, and woke up . . . And now, after one hundred years of awareness as a gargoyle, a woman identical to his lost love enters the church. And the gargoyle discovers that he can move . . .

A magician, Nicholas, steps through the mirror and into another world, a world of charcoal and chalk and neon, where things are not quite the same. His reflection, a thief, walks into his world. The two stories echo each other as they see the same people and places but with very different results until finally Nicholas and his echoes must come to a reckoning.A through-the-looking-glass story of magic and pathos.

This exhibition of 69 stories from the mind and pen of John Urbancik traverse a wide range of fantastical possibilities. While they can get dark, these tales overwhelmingly deal with magic, imagination, and transformation.

Love. Loss. Grief. Bourbon. Magic. Jazz. A poetry and photographic collection as the author works through grief and restarting his life by driving across the United States.

A collection of novellas (long stories) and vignettes (very short stories) in the realms of fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror - fairy tales and ghost stories.From the mind and pen of John Urbancik.Journey into Midnight, City of Night, and to the ancient realms of Babylon. Witness all the end-world scenarios at once. Learn illusion, magic, and alchemy. Spend the night in a Necropolis.

Love. Loss. Grief.Bourbon. Magic. Jazz.A poetry and photography collection.

John Urbancik has written an exploration of our personal creativity that intends to inspire, encourage, and challenge.Part autobiography, part conversation, part field guide to creativity, part treatise on writing, filled with exercises and explorations, InkStained, from the InkStains project and podcast of John Urbancik, is at times humorous, at times brutal, and always honest."InkStained is a brilliant and fascinating exploration of the range of creative expression. In a series of stories of all kinds, John Urbancik takes us on a wonderful journey. Dark, disturbing, uplifting, and very well done."- Jonathan Mayberry, New York Times Bestelling author of V-Wars and Rage. "It's as if Urbancik graciously cracked open his skull, handed over the scalpel and told us to have at 'er."- Rick Hipson, Rue Morgue Magzine"Not only is John Urbancik giving sound advice about writing and inspiration, he's adding so many personal anecdotes and stories about his own journey...and this is where this book shines. An invaluable addition to your book collection."- Armand Rosamilia, author of Dirty Deeds "The InkStains podcast was the definitive lecture series on how to motivate and hone your create skills.InkStained is the accompanying textbook."- Thomas R Clark, Podcaster and Author

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. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads.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; 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.)

Jack Harlow walks untouched through the dark.He sees the creatures, the ghosts and the vampires, and they cannot touch him.That changes when, one night in Orlando, he meets and falls in love with Lisa Sparrow, and protects her from one of those creatures.The dark surrounds Jack Harlow and closes in on him, and he's no longer untouchable. Worse, the creatures of the night are compelled to kill him. Aided by his lover and a vampire hunter, Jack Harlow must find out how to reclaim his immunity before he dies.Shadows, phantoms, vampires, lycanthropes, demons, elementals, golems, dark faeries - and more converge on Orlando to destroy Jack Harlow, the DarkWalker. Can he - can they - survive?

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.)

Jack Harlow, DarkWalker, walked untouched through the dark. But he never understand what he really was. Emerging from the Deep City a changed man, he's beginning to understand - but he's also harboring a great deal of anger at the organization that sent him there and the man in charge of it - his father.Gathering allies and setting out on a mission of vengeance, Jack Harlow discovers the fate of the world hangs in the balance. There are three threats that may destroy mankind, and he is one of them.One of the others involves Armageddon.Jack Harlow and his allies journey through a trail of secrets that leads to paradise, but will it all end in a final apocalypse?

Jack Harlow, DarkWalker, walks untouched through the dark.He doesn't have a lot of friends. When a former ally and vampire hunter enters the abandoned mine at Silver Blade, Jack Harlow and Naomi are called in to find him.The mine of Silver Blade has a history. Its depths hide were-bears and indefinable beasts, and an angel of death. Its vast arena is home to the undefeated, and its pits fall even deeper. Everything is a lie. The mine, the entire shallow city of Silver Blade, is a trap.But there are caves under the shallow city, and beneath those, a deep city. Defeated and divided, Jack Harlow, Naomi, and Nick Hunter must make their own escapes - if they can.No one will escape unscathed.

Jack Harlow, DarkWalker, walks untouched through the dark.But he has lost more than he can bear.Accompanied by the acolyte Naomi, Jack Harlow returns to the place where he first saw the dark: a Long Island basement which is his own personal crossroad into Hell.But he discovers there's more than one hell on the other side.If he escapes, will he find he's unleashed hell on earth? Complete with spiders, jaguars, mystic ninja, and an infernal prince?

"In the middle of the night, in the middle of a thunderstorm, he wakes with no memory on a fresh grave, with a bullet hole in his chest. The name on the license in his wallet matches the stone. He doesn't believe it. But the address on that license is his only clue"--Back cover.

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. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads.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; 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.)

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.)

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. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads.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; 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.)