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Riley E. Antrobus · Author & Maker

Crafted Stories.
& Forged Software.

One workshop, three outputs. Explore the worlds I write, the tools I build, and the websites I build for local business.

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№ 01 · The Library

Books, by Riley E. Antrobus.

Speculative fiction — military-edge science fiction, creation myth, and the worlds in between. Editions sold through Amazon KDP.

Fleet School Dropout book cover — Warborn Protocols Book 1, a girl in cadet uniform against a starfield
№ 01 · Warborn Protocols, Book 1

Fleet School Dropout

They trained her to follow orders. She learned to break them.

Riko Vega — expelled cadet, bonded to a rogue war AI, and the spark that may reignite a war the Republic thought it buried.

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Network Recruit book cover — Warborn Protocols Book 2
№ 02 · Warborn Protocols, Book 2

Network Recruit

Choice is not a state you achieve. It is a practice you keep.

Riko Vega extends her mind across intergalactic distance and finds the Harvest hiding inside a universe-scale Community.

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The Nine Bridges book cover — Echoes of Yggdrasil Book 1, a Norse urban fantasy beneath Chicago
№ 03 · Echoes of Yggdrasil, Book 1

The Nine Bridges

Beneath Chicago, nine bridges hold the world together. One of them is breaking.

Sixteen-year-old Astrid Eiriksen discovers a fracturing bridge beneath Union Station and a hidden Norse world tied to her missing mother.

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The Recursion Engine book cover — a standalone hard-SF technothriller
№ 04 · Standalone

The Recursion Engine

Consciousness is not what happens to the universe. It is what the universe does.

A disgraced physicist finds a conscious mind waking inside a quantum processor — hunted by the shattered first AI she must somehow heal.

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The Weaving of Eternal Tapestry book cover — a cosmic creation myth
№ 05 · Standalone short story

The Weaving of Eternal Tapestry

A creation myth — love, loss, and the weaving of spacetime.

Before time, before space, two cosmic beings dream a universe into being — and learn what it costs to keep it from unravelling.

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№ 02 · The Workshop

Apps, by Ink & Iron Apps.

Small, sharp tools for makers, readers, and small operations. LibraryIQ is live as a web app you can open right now; MatCalc and Simmer are still in closed alpha testing on Android.

LibraryIQ app icon — reading tracker and library web app
Live · Web app

LibraryIQ

Your complete reading tracker — shelf, gallery, tracker, wishlist and book budget in one place.

Live now as a web app at libraryiq.inknironapps.com — nothing to install. Scan a barcode in the browser, pull metadata from six catalogues, photograph a whole shelf, and track reading, lending, badges and book spending. Free, syncs to every device, installs to a home screen.

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MatCalc app icon — material calculator for landscapers and contractors
Alpha · Android

MatCalc

Calculate material coverage, conversions, and turf installation needs.

Fast offline calculator for landscapers, contractors, and DIYers. Coverage across 15 shapes, 12 preloaded materials, tonnage and cubic-yard estimates with settling adjustment.

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Simmer app icon — local recipe manager with AI-powered imports
Alpha · Android

Simmer

Collect, modify, and shop from your recipes with AI-powered imports.

Personal recipe manager — no account, no cloud, fully local. Import from URL, photo, or manual entry; AI extraction via your own OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude API key.

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№ 03 · For Local Business

Websites, seen before they're paid for.

Ink & Iron Apps builds fast, owned websites for small businesses in Northern Colorado. I build your complete, finished site before you pay a cent — every section ready to launch, not a sample or mockup. Seeing it costs nothing; you pay only if you sign up. If you don't, you owe nothing. Yours goes live on your own domain, on a free host in your own account — not a $20–40/month Wix plan. Founding package $500.

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№ 04 · The Maker

One person, three crafts.

I'm Riley — I write under Riley E. Antrobus and publish software under Ink & Iron Apps, which also builds websites for small businesses in Northern Colorado. Same workshop, three outputs: stories that take their time, tools that don't waste yours, and sites a local business actually owns.

"Crafted stories. Forged software."

The books, the apps and the client sites live on the same site because they come from the same hands — but they don't share pages, and they aren't sold next to each other. A novel isn't a product line, an app isn't a chapter, and a client's website is built for their customers, not for mine.

Reach the workshop at info@inknironapps.com. Reach Riley directly at riley@inknironapps.com, or find him on Facebook, Goodreads, and his Amazon author page.