What do local writers write? Find out at Ink Tank’s Book Bank, the world’s only bookstore dedicated entirely to Cincinnati area writers.

Hot-shot fiction: The Art of Table Dancing (DC Stanfa), Spikes (Michael Griffith), Patron Saint of Red Chevy’s (Kay Sloan), plus much more. Grabber non-fiction: Ghost Hunting Ohio (John B. Kachaba), Heroes of Ohio (Rick Sowash), My Sister is Missing (Sherri Gladden-Davis, with Brad Crawford), many others.

Poetry to remember: Crow Call (Michael Henson), The Urge to Migrate (Timothy Riordan), A Week of Nights Downriver (Richard Hague), still more.

Some write particularly for children or young adults: The Wright Brothers for Kids (Mary Kay Carson), Shanghai Messenger (Andrea Cheng), other great books.

Want a laugh? See Keys to Uncomfortable Living (Bob Woodiwiss), Laughter, the Drug of Choice (Nicholas Hoesl).

Or a memoir? I’ll Be In The Car (Annette Januzzi Wick), My Lost Summer (Elizabeth Evans Fryer).

Business advice titles include The Answer to How is Yes (Peter Block), The Success Effect (John Eckberg), plus others to make your bank account swell.

But even more germane to Ink Tank–books with advice to writers! About article writing, travel writing, writers’ markets, script writing, writing for children–a gamut of help for experienced or beginner writers. Some local writers are experimenting with today’s technologies to self-publish, with inventive layouts and bindings. Take a look, at Book Bank, at some of those results.

Find out what’s on creative minds in our own region, in our own time. Browse our shelves at InkTank World Headquarters. And enjoy an overview of our current inventory here:

InkTank Publications - Anything Can Happen On Main Street (spoken word CD); TEXTURES, an illustration of words, #1 & #2 (zine series of published writings from our programs); True Grits: a short stack of poems on food and family in Over-the-Rhine, by Kathy Y. Wilson; Hey, it's me, Melissa...once again, by Melissa Mosby

Bonnie Thomas Abbott - Radical Prunings: a novel of officious advice from the Contessa of Compost

Keith Banner - The Smallest People In The World

Nick Barrows - Rockets On Bibles

Robert Bartusch - Bluebirds Of Happiness; Three And A Half Flat Tires; Joey Shannanagins Catches The Flu

Peter Block - The Answer To How Is Yes: acting on what matters; The Empowered Manager: positive political skills at work; The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion: a guide to understanding your expertise; Flawless Consulting (2nd ed.): a guide to getting your expertise used

Don Bogen - After The Splendid Display; The Known World; Luster

D.B. Borton - Two-Shot Foul; Seventh Deadly Sin; Six Feet Under; One For The Money

Peter Bronson - Behind The Lines - the untold stories of the Cincinnati riots

Don Bruns - South Beach Shakedown: the diary of Gideon Pike

Mary Kay Carson - The Wright Brothers for Kids; The Underground Railroad for Kids

Dianne Castell - The Way U Look Tonight; I'll Be Seeing U; Texas Bad Boys, with Rosemary Laurey and Karen Kelley

e. E. Charlton-Trujillo - Feels Like Home; Prizefighter En Mi Casa

Andrea Cheng - Marika; Honeysuckle House; Shanghai Messenger; The Lemon Sisters

Cincinnati Poetry Workshop - Tread Well With Sweet Love: a poetry anthology

Cincinnati Writers' Project - Someone Has To Die (a CWP anthology)

Jason Cohen and Michael Krugman - Generation ECCH! the backlash starts here

Brad Crawford - My Sister Is Missing; Ohio (Compass American Guides)

James Cummins - Portrait In A Spoon; The Whole Truth; Jim And Dave Defeat The Masked Man

Raina Davis - The Genesis Project

Brian Deller - Griot

Susan Dellinger, PhD - Red Legs and Black Sox - Edd Roush and the untold story of the 1919 World Series

Harry B. DeMaio, CISSP - B2B And Beyond: new business models built on trust

Sally Derby - Taiko On A Windy Night; King Kenrick's Splinter

Deanne Devine - Live Armadillos

Marifran Dirkes - Flying Into Limbo

Brian Dobbins - Jasmine's Husband Sam

Bret C. Duncan - Transmissions Through A Porous Medium

John Eckberg - The Success Effect: uncommon conversations with America's business trailblazers; Glen Rogers, Road Dog - with Stephen Combs

Mark Flanigan/Volk C.S.P.I. - Volk CD Sampler (spoken word)

Forklift Ohio - A Journal Of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, Issue #12; #13

Ginny Frazier - Songs Of Recovery (CD); Adopted Strangers (CD w/Circles & Arrows)

Elizabeth Evans Fryer - My Lost Summer, a memoir

Patricia Garry - Double Vision

David Garza - Quetzalcoatl's Apocrypha; The Universe; To: Crazy Horse; Bus Stop; iLove: Where The Kids Are Goin' Tonite (includes 2 CDs)

Julie Gaw with National Geographic explorer and photojournalist Wong How Man - From Manchuria To Tibet

Saad Ghosn - For A Better World 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; SOS Art 2004; 2005; 2006

Anni Macht Gibson - Unfinished, and other poems

John Graham - The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages Of The 1930s

Michael Griffith - Spike; Bibliophilia

Richard Hague - Lives Of The Poem; A Bestiary; Greatest Hits,; Possible Debris; A Week Of Nights Down River; Ripening; Garden; The Time It Takes Light; Alive In Hard Country; Burst; Burst on CD

Doug Hall - Jump Start Your Business Brain

Carolyn Reed Hanks - I, Your Poet

Pauletta Hansel - Divining

Michael Henson - Ransack; Crow Call

Nicholas Hoesl, R.Ph. - Laughter: The Drug Of Choice, Definitive Doses Of The Best Medicine

Bernard Howard a.k.a. Lyrical Storm - Finding Love 101

Benjamin Hughes - No Frills (spoken word CD); A Message (spoken word CD)

Jerry Judge - No Forwarding Address; Father's Instinct; That Wild Bronco

Julie Judge & Robert Bartusch - Flip Flop

John Kachuba - Ghosthunting Ohio

Harriet L. Kaufman - Jews & Judaism Since Jesus: an introduction

Kemy - Betrayal Of The Past

Aaron Kerley - Johari Window For John Aber

Victoria Lynn King - Behold To Be Whole

Barbara Kitchen - Jean-ness And More: a collection of poems and reflections

Kristin Kitchen - Brown Like Sallie

Kommon Knowledge - As We Proceed

William Lambers - Open Skies For Peace; The Road To Peace: from the disarming of the Great Lakes to the nuclear test ban treaty

Patricia Latimer - Ohio Wine Country Excursions

Cathal Liam - Consumed In Freedom's Flame; Forever Green: Ireland Now & Again; Blood On The Shamrock

Cathy Liggett - The Spy Next Door; Pitter Patter; Coffee, Tea, or Molly?

Richard Luftig - Report From Verona (Ohio); Off The Map

Neil Marks - Same Subjects, More Striving; Romances, Mainly; Twenty-Six Poems For 2002; Humility And Other Great Ideas

Rusty McClure, with David Stern and Michael A. Banks - Crosley: two brothers and a business empire that transformed the nation

Margaret McGurk - A Lion In The House: five families, six years - true stories from the war on cancer

Sherry McKenney - A Taste of the Murphin Ridge Inn

Doug Meyers - Adventures Of The Manic Raven

Joyce Miller - Diving Deeper: a guide to adventurous food & fun in Cincinnati

Justin Moore - Dyslexicon #7 (with CD)

Mike Murphy - And Shall The Poets: some poems & plain ol' observations on contemporary life

Stephen M. Norris - A War Of Images: Russian popular prints, wartime culture, and national identity 1812-1945

Anna Ornstein & Stewart Goldman - My Mother's Eyes

Judge Mark Painter - Write Well: 25 easy rules to improve your business and professional writing

Sue Ann Painter - Architecture In Cincinnati

Purcell Marian High School Creative Writers - Back Downtown - photos & poems by Purcell Marian Creative Writers

Greg Rhodes - Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame: highlights

Timothy Riordan - The Silver Bullet: a primer; Portfolio Breeches; Lesser Bird Of Paradise, selected poems: 1979-1989; In A Fluid State, poems; Foreign Correspondence: poems in the wake of September 11, 2001; The Urge To Migrate

Robert Robison - One Summer Harvest

Roesing Ape - A Beautiful Woman

Dave Rohs - Dave Rohs Is Watching Television

James Daniel Ross - Radiation Angels: the chimerium gambit

Jim Schenk, ed. - What Does God Look Like In An Expanding Universe: an anthology on God, life and death

David Schloss - Sex Lives Of The Poor And Obscure; Behind The Eyes; Greatest Hits 1967-2004

Steve Schumacher - Voices Joined...: popular education guide for emerging leaders (an ALLY publication)

Phillip Sexton, with photos by Tricia Bateman - A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: image-driven story prompts and exercises for writers

Carol Sherman-Jones - My Life As A Gay Man In A Straight Woman's Body

Stacy Sims - Swimming Naked; True Body Project (journal); True Body Project (small journal)

Kay Sloan - The Patron Saint Of Red Chevys; The Birds Are On Fire

Steven Sontag - Secrets Of The House On Liberty Street

Rick Sowash - Ripsnorting Whoppers! a book of Ohio tall tales; Critters, Flitters & Spitters, 24 amazing Ohio animal tales; Heroes Of Ohio, 23 true tales of courage and character; Heroes Of Ohio (coloring book); A Portrait At 50 (CD); Sanctuary At 3am (CD); Eroica (CD)

J. Thomas Sparough - The Spiritual Exercises Of The Coffee Filter And The Scriptural Exercises, Too

DC Stanfa - The Art Of Table Dancing: escapades of an irreverent woman

Joe Stollenwerk - Musicals: today in history

Rosalind Stormer - Healing The Breach: a story of friendship, hurt, and redemption

David Stradling - Cincinnati: from river city to highway metropolis

John Tallmadge - The Cincinnati Arch: learning from nature in the city

Margaret Waldmann - By The Way... : candid insights of a nonconventional conformist

Frank X Walker - Black Box: poems; Buffalo Dance: the journey of York; Affrilachia: poems; PLUCK! the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture #1, and #2; America! What's My Name? (FXW ed.)

Heather Webber - Digging Up Trouble; Trouble In Spades; A Hoe Lot Of Trouble; Surrender My Love

William Whalen, and Bruce Martin - Defending Donald Harvey: the case of America's most notorious angel-of-death serial killer

Annette Januzzi Wick - I'll Be In The Car

Fred Wiehe - Strange Days; Starkville; The Burning; Night Songs

Charles A. Wiley - To God Be The Glory: one hundred reasons why I could have become racist

Tyrone Williams - C. C.

Kathy Y. Wilson - Your Negro Tour Guide; True Grits: a short stack of poems on food and family in Over-the-Rhine

Bob Woodiwiss - Keys To Uncomfortable Living

Raymond Wong - The Pacific Between