The Glass Inkwell

There is something we've believed from the beginning: a book is not just a story. It is an object. A threshold. A physical thing that a reader holds in their hands before they've read a single word — and that first contact matters. This is why we think about architecture. When Ink & Aether Studios was built, it was designed from the inside out. Not just which stories we would tell, but how they would exist in the world. What they would feel like. How a reader would encounter

Six months ago, Ink & Aether Studios was a plan and a filing. Today it’s a catalog. What’s in the world Murder at the Midsummer Feast (J.P. White, Vale & Stone Book 1) opened the studio and introduced Blackvale, North Carolina to readers who made themselves at home in the fog immediately. Available in paperback, ebook and in Kindle Unlimited. Saltwater Between Us (Jade Black) turned one woman's solo sailing adventure into an island romance she never planned for — a story abou

The Ember Mill is open. 🕯️ The Case of the Ember Mill Haunting is live today. Book 2 in the Vale & Stone: Consulting Detectives series. Blackvale has always known how to keep a secret. The Ember Mill has stood at the edge of town for over a century — first a working mill, then a speakeasy where a 1920s poker game ended in gunfire, and now, after years of failed businesses and strange occurances, a nightclub with a fresh coat of paint and a grand reopening. Cressida Vale woul

The cover for Everything After is here. We've been waiting to show you this one. Everything After — Book One of The Element of Everything by Jade Black — arrives September 22, 2026. Preorder is open now. Leiliana Collins relocated to Fujiyako for a fresh start. She got one. She also got a complication she didn't see coming. 🌶🌶🌶🌶 · Workplace Romance · Secret Baby · Single Mom Romance · Slow Burn · Forced Proximity · Interracial Romance · Holiday Arc For fans of The Hating

250 years is a long time to be telling stories on purpose. We think about independence a lot at Ink & Aether Studios — not as a slogan, but as the actual mechanism behind everything we publish. Nobody told us a cozy gothic mystery and an epic fantasy romance and a space opera needed to live under different roofs. Nobody told us representation was optional or that a found-family space opera needed permission to exist. We decided, and then we built it. That's the throughline be

We've been heads down this year. Building the foundation: three authors, two imprints live, the third in development, a catalog beginning to take shape. The infrastructure is real and it runs deep — brand systems, publication pipelines, editorial philosophy baked into every draft. Now we want to let you see a little further ahead. Not everything. Some of these projects live years out, and we believe in building anticipation slowly and honestly. But enough. Enough to show you

Three months ago, Ink & Aether Studios existed mostly as sketches in notebooks, half-formed systems, color palettes, publishing spreadsheets, and a growing belief that stories deserve both artistry and infrastructure. Now, somehow, we’re here. Books are launching. Drafts are multiplying. Characters are refusing to stay quiet. And the studio itself is beginning to take shape in ways that feel both exciting and deeply real. For our third month in existence, May was…interesting.

The Case of the Ember Mill Haunting — Book 2 in the Vale & Stone series — is coming July 28 And before it does, I'm looking for a small group of readers who'd like to get their hands on it early. Here's what's in it for you: A free early copy (ebook ARC) First access to Blackvale's newest (and most cursed) location Miles Stone's emotional spotlight — finally, properly, his Here's what we're asking in return: An honest review posted by July 28 on Amazon and/or Goodreads (posit

Hello from Blackvale. The Ember Mill has stood at the edge of town for over a century. First a working mill. Then a speakeasy. Then a crime scene. Then, for decades, a locked door and a town full of whispers. On July 28, it opens again. And so does Case No. 002. The Case of the Ember Mill Haunting is available for preorder today. Miles Stone didn't plan to be a detective. He especially didn't plan to investigate at a nightclub where someone died on opening night — in front of

There is a particular kind of story that doesn't let go. You finish the last page, close the book, and it stays—somewhere behind your sternum, in the back of a quiet afternoon, in the way you find yourself thinking about a character weeks later as though they were real. That kind of story is not an accident. It is the result of craft, care, and someone who believed the work was worth doing well. That belief is why Ink & Aether Studios exists. The Space We Needed I started thi

We are officially one week out from the launch of Saltwater Between Us, and the nervous-excited butterflies have officially taken up residence in our chest.

There's a new mystery coming to Blackvale.

On balancing two full-time lives without completely dissolving into the couch Here is something nobody puts in the "how to be an indie author" guides, probably because it doesn't photograph well: At 8:47 AM on a Tuesday, you will be in a meeting about something that has nothing to do with your characters or your chapter or the plot hole you finally figured out at 11 PM the night before. The meeting will run long. There will be a follow-up email. You will have approximately