Dragons hoard gold.
Authors hoard courses.
Also: writing software we used twice, notebooks too nice to write in, seventeen browser tabs about story structure, a Scrivener project named FINAL_v4_ACTUAL_FINAL, and at least one plotting method we swore was going to change everything.
We are a shiny-loving people. š¤©
I say this with love, because I am one of you, and because there is a folder on my hard drive I refuse to open in front of witnesses.
But Kim, I already own courses I havenāt finished. I donāt need more shinies.
Sure. But hereās the thing about a hoard: the problem was never the hoarding. The problem is when the shinies turn out to be junk, or when each one costs so much that you have to pick one and hope you picked right.
Thatās not a hoard. Thatās a hostage situation.
š What dragons actually understand
A proper hoard is not about volume. Itās about having the thing when you need it.
You donāt need the Obsidian class on the day you buy it. You need it the afternoon you cannot find the note where you settled your villainās backstory, and you know for a fact you wrote it down somewhere. You donāt need the Claude Code class until the week you admit you owe your list a newsletter, and have owed them one since roughly spring.
Courses bought one at a time make you guess which problem youāll have next.
A hoard means you already have it. You just go get it off the pile.
Now, I know. Some of you like to collect all the shinies and the stuffy stuff, including pretty sparky courses.
Have I got a deal for you.
(Donāt worry. It doesnāt involve real estate in Florida.)
š So here are the shinies
The Founding Member tier is open at Ink & Code, and it does exactly one thing: it hands you the whole pile.
Every class in the Ink & Code Learning Portal, unlocked, all of it:
An Introduction to Cowork for Writers (currently serializing here, Module 1 just dropped)
Advanced Cowork for Writers lands in a few weeks. And Iāll be teaching some Author Sites workshops after that. Both drop straight into your library the day they go live, and you donāt pay a penny more for either.
No per-class checkout. No picking which one you can afford this month. No waiting for a sale on the one you actually need.
š§® The math, because I do love a number
Six classes live right now. Over $1,600 worth once Advanced Cowork lands.
Founding Member is $297/year. Thatās $24.75 a month.
Hereās the part that made me laugh when I worked it out: Editing with Claude Skills costs $399 on its own. So Founding Member costs less than the single most expensive class in the school.
And it includes that class.
ā Plus the stuffy stuff
Because a hoard should come with somewhere to sit:
A private Discord to learn, share, and get unstuck at 11pm when the notes-swamp happens
Founderās Circle check-ins, monthly. Casual accountability where we say what weāre building out loud and then have to go build it
Coffee and Code on Saturdays in season. Come as you are, bring your coffee
First call on live workshop seats whenever a new class runs
Early looks at experiments, half-built systems, and the workflows that did not work, which are frankly the useful ones
š The rule, plainly
Your membership unlocks the full catalogue while itās active. Cancel any time and your library access ends with the membership. Any course you buy outright is yours for life, membership or not.
No tricks in the small print. There is barely any small print.
ā³ About the price
Kim, thatās crazy. Why on earth are you doing this?
Because itās a grand opening, and a grand opening only happens once.
I am launching a school. I did not plan to be doing it this soon. My calendar got rearranged, so here we are, and honestly I would rather open the doors with people already in the room than wait around for a tidier quarter.
So the people who walk in first get the opening price. That is the whole reasoning. There isnāt a cleverer one.
$297 holds for the first ten Founding Members, or until the Author Sites classes launch, whichever happens first. After that it goes to $497.
(UPDATE: Only three slots left!š²)
If you join now, you keep $297 for as long as you stay. Thatās not a limited-time discount that quietly expires on you next renewal. Thatās your rate.
Are you with me?
āØCome get your shinies
(Because Ruby said so. Thatās the dragon. š²)
I built this school so that learning this stuff doesnāt require choosing between the class you need and the class you want. An Automated Author runs on systems, not on rationing.
And listen. This is AI-assisted work, not slop. I donāt do slop. Every class in that portal is me, on camera, showing you the actual thing on the actual screen, mistakes left in where the mistakes teach something. Claudeykins and Fabio help me build. They do not get to do the teaching.
(YET. Someday they may take over the world, but, not today my friends. Not today!)
So if youāve got a hoarding instinct and a to-be-learned pile, this is the most sensible possible use of it.
šBecome a Founding Memberš
Note: If youāre already a paying subscriber, you just choose to upgrade to founding, using the link above.
The future writes in Ink & Code, and so do we.
Kim
P.S. The dragon in that picture (Ruby) has better organizational habits than most of us. She has one pile. She knows where everything is. Be the dragon. š
š¤ AI Credits: Drafted with Claudeykins. Edit and expanded by me, as usual. Hero image by Chatty, working from an existing Ink & Code treasure chest.