Innovative Ink Publishing

10/29/2025

🎬 New Release!
📘 Best Practices for Non-Extractive and Non-Intrusive Community-Engaged Video Production
by Lusike Mukhongo

How can filmmakers, journalists, educators, and digital storytellers create media with communities—not about them?

This essential guide offers practical, proven strategies for ethical, community-engaged video production. Drawing from years of experiential learning and partnership, Dr. Mukhongo provides a roadmap for creating non-extractive, collaborative storytelling rooted in transparency, reciprocity, and community ownership.

Structured around the full production cycle—from pre-production to post-production and community screenings—the book equips readers with tools to:
🎥 Build respectful and lasting partnerships
🤝 Design non-intrusive production processes
🧠 Integrate emerging technologies (including AI) responsibly
🌍 Center community voices and narratives authentically

Perfect for filmmakers, journalists, oral historians, educators, and anyone passionate about ethical, inclusive storytelling in a rapidly changing digital age.

📖 Available now in paperback!
👉 Buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Practices-Non-Extractive-Non-Intrusive-Community-Engaged-Production/dp/B0FXGQKXY9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KYJ7VT5C6Z9R&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YF3bt781lVwa0HjKeJa10g.25WOqx8L2mOCrxOG1Nonj3BZtIc8aBNcXKRCq3bhSN4&dib_tag=se&keywords=9798765796405&qid=1761762125&s=books&sprefix=9798765796405%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-1

10/29/2025

🚀 Commercializing SMRs & Micro Reactors Virtual Summit
🗓️ November 5–6, 2025 | Online | Central Time
🔗 Register Here: https://www.euci.com/event_post/commercializing-smrs-micro-reactors/

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and micro reactors are rapidly becoming key players in the clean energy transition—offering flexible, reliable, and potentially cost-effective power solutions for utilities.

Join energy leaders, technology developers, and regulatory experts at this two-day virtual summit to explore the path to commercialization. Gain actionable insight on:
✅ Economic and regulatory hurdles
✅ Integration and deployment strategies
✅ Workforce and supply chain readiness
✅ Utility case studies and technology comparisons

🎙️ Hear from Budd Haemer, author of Atomic Energy Law: A Law Textbook and a Science Hornbook, and other industry innovators.

Don’t miss your chance to understand the strategic, financial, and operational decisions shaping the next generation of nuclear power.

This virtual summit will deliver actionable insight tailored to electric utilities, featuring case studies and vendor design comparisons

10/28/2025

📘 New Book Release!
Do You See What I See? Male Reproduction From A Sperm’s View
👨‍🔬 By Dr. Samuel Prien

Infertility affects 1 in 5 to 1 in 8 couples worldwide — yet for too long, the focus has been almost entirely on the female partner. The truth? Male factors play a role in over half of all infertility cases.

In Do You See What I See?, Dr. Sam Prien — a leading educator, inventor, and infertility researcher with 38 years of experience — offers a fresh and fascinating perspective on male reproductive health. Told with humor, warmth, and illustrated through clever cartoons, this book takes readers on a journey to understand male infertility… from the sperm’s point of view!

Whether you’re in the medical field, navigating infertility, or simply curious about how reproduction really works, this book will change the way you see it all.

💡 Informative. Insightful. Surprisingly funny.
📖 Available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/What-Male-Reproduction-SpermsView/dp/B0FTZSVQ39/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FGWTIBUEXWNK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3JO3FYowM126il8mRCr9A.iGv2vtkLVwIH1zGuRRWefgk74WOAklIsK8HmF_0vgSw&dib_tag=se&keywords=9798319701596&qid=1761664457&s=books&sprefix=9798319701596%2Cstripbooks%2C149&sr=1-1

Prien

10/27/2025

🎉 Big News!
We’re proud to share that Catalina Rincón, author of ✨Sabiduría: Poems and Reflections on Life✨, has won the 2025 BookFest Award in Poetry & Inspiration!

Her bilingual collection (English & Spanish) celebrates resilience, love, and the beauty of everyday life — reminding us all to pause, reflect, and find hope in every moment. 🌿💫

Congratulations, Catalina, on this incredible and well-deserved recognition! 👏📖

Catalina P. Rincon

10/27/2025

Our author, Janaea Rose Lyn (McAlee), wrote Choreographing Your Dance Career with us to guide dancers on building successful careers. Now you can also explore more of her insights in this featured article: https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Dance-Education-Blog/ArticleID/434/Comprehensive-Dance-Career-Preparation-Matters-Now-More-Than-Ever

Her book expands on these ideas, offering stories, exercises, and mentorship to help you design the career only you can dance. Organized in four “Acts,” it covers everything from self-discovery and promotion to networking and behind-the-scenes production—all while supporting physical and mental well-being.

To Learn more: https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/choreographing-your-dance-career

Grab your copy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ6CXV5K?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_795ZPYHRR5WGDTJNK7J2&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_795ZPYHRR5WGDTJNK7J2&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_795ZPYHRR5WGDTJNK7J2&bestFormat=true

10/27/2025

📘 New Release Alert! 🏡💰

We’re excited to announce the launch of Beyond Mortgages: Real Estate, Private Lending, Financing by Marcos Medeiros and Hector Castro!

Private lending is one of the fastest-growing — yet most misunderstood — areas of real estate finance. Beyond Mortgages pulls back the curtain on this hidden world, exposing the myths, misinformation, and risks that too often cloud the industry.

Whether you’re a borrower, broker, or investor, this book gives you the clarity, structure, and ethical foundation to navigate private lending with confidence. It’s more than a guide — it’s a call to bring transparency and professionalism to a field ready for change.

🔍 Learn how to make informed decisions.
💡 Understand the mechanics behind private lending.
🏦 Elevate your real estate finance game.

📖 Available now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Mortgages-Private-Lending-Financing/dp/B0FMDZM4GS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CBW2MEJ9UA0Z&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oHvCLhOIUAcYu9hjWxTpkA.I6sjiK94HB_X1BPqP_fmTys6Kb8BicYoD2gl2D6LoOM&dib_tag=se&keywords=9798385167234&qid=1761577459&s=books&sprefix=9798385167234%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-1

10/27/2025

📘 New Release: Build — A Planning Tool for Life and Career
by Four Mounds Foundation

Looking for a way to help young adults grow personally and professionally? Build is more than just a curriculum — it’s a proven planning and workforce development tool that blends hands-on learning with personal growth.

Originally created at Four Mounds for young adults facing barriers to employment, the Build Curriculum helps participants strengthen confidence, accountability, and resilience — the foundations for long-term success.

💡 Why Build Matters:

Employers say communication, teamwork, and problem-solving are top challenges for new workers.

A recent Harris Poll found 82% of managers struggle with soft skills in Gen Z hires.

Yet 63% of employees are more likely to stay when organizations invest in their growth.

Build bridges that gap — giving employers, mentors, and training organizations a practical, replicable way to develop soft skills, strengthen teams, and improve retention.

When paired with supportive mentors or supervisors, just a little time each week can help employees build the confidence, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to thrive.

✨ Invest in people. Empower potential. Build success.

Buy their book here:
https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/build-planning-tool-life-and-career

Mounds Foundation and Inn & Conference Center

10/23/2025

🚀 New Book Release! 🚀

We’re thrilled to announce Little BIG Decisions: A Leader Imperative for Lasting Impact by Patrick Malone and Zina Sutch — a powerful new guide for leaders who want to create meaningful, lasting change.

It’s not about how you make decisions — it’s about the decisions you choose to make.

As leaders, we often focus on the “big” choices: strategic plans, new markets, new initiatives. But the truth is, the little decisions — the ones made in the moment — are often the ones that shape our culture, build trust, and strengthen engagement.

💡 Little BIG Decisions helps leaders recognize and act on these crucial moments — the everyday choices that have the power to transform teams and organizations from the inside out.

Make your leadership count where it matters most.
✨ Because sometimes the smallest choices make the biggest impact. ✨

📘 Available now at Kendall Hunt
https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/little-big-decisions-leader-imperative-lasting-impact

10/23/2025

🌿✨ New Book Release! ✨🌿

I’m so excited to share a new poetry collection, My Arrival Into Wholeness: Poems of Healing by Sarah Keramati🌸

This book is a journey of the soul told through the language of poetry — where pain and beauty, loss and love, contraction and expansion are all welcomed as part of the human path.

Born from my own lived experience of trauma and transformation, these poems carry the echoes of body, heart, and spirit in dialogue. Each page invites you to pause, breathe, and listen inwardly — to find reflections of your own hidden longings, griefs, and awakenings.

Woven with threads of body-centered wisdom, spiritual insight, and archetypal imagery, this collection is more than poetry — it’s a companion for anyone seeking to move from fragmentation toward wholeness, from silence into voice, and from survival into aliveness. 🌺

📖✨ Available now on Kendall Hunt
https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/my-arrival-wholeness-poems-healing

10/23/2025

📚 New Release Alert!

PROMISE: From the Files of the St. Nicholas Club
by Matt Charles

Meet Mark Jones — a New York City child s*x and drug crimes special investigator and former cop who plays by his own rules. Haunted by the murder of a young girl he swore to protect, Mark has dedicated his life to defending the city’s most vulnerable.

When he's assigned to find two missing siblings, Promise and Edward Evington, a seemingly routine case explodes into his most dangerous mission yet — uncovering an international child trafficking ring operating in the heart of the city he loves.

Joined by Detective Sophia Van Nichols, his ACS partner Freddy, and a brilliant hacker named Jax, Mark dives deep into a world of corruption, violence, and betrayal — a world that just might consume him before he can bring Promise home.

🔥 Gritty. Emotional. Relentless.
If you love hard-edged crime thrillers like Michael Connelly, Don Winslow, or Dennis Lehane, this one’s for you.

👉 Available now on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Files-St-Nicholas-Club/dp/B0FX9JK8YS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ME41FFA25UNH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.e4CT3PbkKYXOd5Tz2AWblw.vZL4_JfmmUkTDeK3Vq3uOYj2TVZ1dZVFbICa-4moOOw&dib_tag=se&keywords=9798319700117&qid=1761236220&s=books&sprefix=9798319700117%2Cstripbooks%2C153&sr=1-1

10/22/2025

✍️ Writing Tip ✍️
Write for the reader who won’t read as carefully as you write.

Your reader is busy, distracted, and skimming. They won’t bring the same focus to reading that you brought to writing — and that’s okay.

🔑 Your job isn’t to complain about it. Your job is to account for it.

✅ Be clear.
✅ Be direct.
✅ Be impossible to misunderstand.

Think of it like pop music engineered for cheap earbuds — when you design for the hardest environment, you make it better for everyone.