I had a Facebook and got it up the max of 5k friends and about 15k followers. The engagement was awesome but I lacked the control of my own content, how it appeared, in what order and worse what would be deleted or banned etc.. No control and no income (all content was under Facebooks venue).
Years ago I came up with the word incoprea. It wasn't in the dictionary so I used it and started a website with that name to put all my work. At first it was a mess but it was there and it had content. Only after Facebook and other sites like instagram started to change did I start spending more time workin on my own.
There is really no feedback loop on your own site, but there is total control and in that it becomes a piece of art too.
I posted an article about how MSTR btc fund was 11 billion dollars negative on their investment and Reddit deleted ALL of my videos, artwork and articles for the past 8 years (hundreds)... So, even though I only kept Reddit and Youtube, Reddit found a way to delete my work.
Youtube also recently let me know I was demonetized for using AI when the monetized my in 2026 WITH AI. A bit about youtube, most people have one viralvideo, once they realize it's virally, they have to apply for YouTube partnership, but the time is it approved the virility is mostly or all over with and the next one is not coming (probably) so they make 100%... Of course, for regular high subscriber shows or productions, it can be good revenue.
I worked with a clipart company once too, I created vector illustrations and they would put a percentage of every sale into my account, I could cash it out when it was over $100. Earned 98 then got an email about how their were reclaiming fees form contributors and it took all of that. WORK FOR YOURSELF ON YOUR OWN SITE...
So you have a site, maybe a blog (Thinking of an imaginary audience member helps me write in the tone someone might like to hear) Over time your site will shop up in searches but it doesn't hurt to promote it in sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, USE these sites to market your site, duplicate content (i.e. a new art piece is on your site AND Facebook)
Armor yourself by Creating your own domain, and backing it up.
You can find hosts that are affordable and top of the line, Mine is around $100 a year for domain and hosting with all the current updates. You can also host yourself (above my head).
Books built around strange ideas, real places, and the details people overlook.
Independent fiction, nonfiction, art books, activity books, and illustrated stories by Toby Mikle and Incoprea. Newer fiction leans toward Midwestern literary horror, institutional pressure, memory, and responsibility; the wider catalog ranges from practical art instruction to wordless family books.
Creative process varies by project—from hand-drawn and traditionally produced work to clearly identified AI-assisted experiments. Cover images open the print edition; use the format buttons for other editions.
New fiction & idea books
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Midwestern folk horror · adult
In 1974, Warren and Lydia Bell buy a failing apartment building, hoping it will secure their future. After Warren commits a terrible act, the building makes the evidence disappear and rewards its owners with warmth, money, and comfort. A folk-horror novel about grief, complicity, sacrifice, and the seductive proof that an unforgivable bargain can work.
From art and food to data, AI, archives, and manufactured goods, SOURCE teaches a practical habit: ask what a thing is, where it came from, how it changed, and what evidence supports the claim. Reusable audits and a thirty-day practice turn a philosophical question about authenticity into an everyday way of seeing.
How to Live in the Age of the Multidimensional Beings
Illustrated retrofuturist science-fiction parody
In an alternate 1957 where multidimensional visitors are part of civic life, this illustrated faux-government handbook explains phase-safe homes, school and street etiquette, emergency drills, unusual products, and travel to other worlds. Deadpan bureaucracy and atomic-age design give the book a playful current of gentle cosmic horror.
Four linked stories unfold across Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin in 1983, 1993, 2007, and 2026. A refinery disappearance, flood-time calls, a winter motel, and buried recordings reveal a shared pattern of redirected blame and stolen voices. Each story stands alone; together they ask what communities choose not to see.
Orr survives by rules learned before language: feed the fire, answer hunger, trust tools, and keep quiet when danger listens. When he finds a child alone without warmth, he must navigate human customs he cannot read. A spare, brutal novel about care, memory, shame, and the invisible rules used to decide who counts as human.
In 1903 St. Paul, Matteo Tomei lives on the Italian river flats while Julia Lindstrom comes from Swede Hollow. After her father dies in a suspicious rail-yard accident blamed on Matteo's brother, grief draws them together and a secret romance leads toward a truth that threatens families, wages, churches, and the railroad profiting from immigrant division.
Part road book and part regional history, Three Counties Over visits fifty Midwestern crimes, fires, storms, legends, civic spectacles, and oversized roadside attractions. From Villisca and Peshtigo to the Hodag, House on the Rock, and Carhenge, it follows how facts become rumor, rumor becomes memory, and distant places become the stories a region keeps retelling.
Broke and cornered, Joel Kessler accepts cash jobs standing in for other people: a boyfriend, a husband, a son, a witness, even a dead man. Each assignment solves someone else's problem and teaches an old system how to replace him. A darkly comic novel about debt, identity, bureaucracy, and the terrible convenience of not showing up.
Property owner Ray Voss has spent a career translating unsafe buildings and delayed repairs into clean professional language. One morning, his appointment book fills with people attached to those decisions—some living, some dead, all carrying exact memories. As the street reveals what his files omitted, every meeting offers the same choice: manage the record or finally tell the truth.
Former reporter Mara Voss takes an overnight job destroying Briar County records, only to discover twenty-five black files ordered burned unopened. Paired with Tess Mullen, the daughter of a convicted murderer, Mara realizes the files are horror stories and evidence of people erased by official language. One long night becomes a fight over truth, guilt, and who gets preserved.
In 1976, a poor Bellwether family poses for an optimistic department-store display as urban renewal begins destroying their neighborhood. Thirty years later, installation artist Nina Salo finds one damaged mannequin and traces the fake family's strange second lives. Her reconstruction becomes a mystery about poverty, art, memory, betrayal, and the copies that outlast the people they represented.
Set between the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers, Anxy looks back at landscape, postwar suburban development, and the sometimes tragic stories that unfolded on its framed plywood stages. Compact, reflective, and place-driven, it is a personal work of regional narrative nonfiction rather than a blank journal.
A personal account of perception, technology, and a creative life organized around curiosity. Beginning with visual distortions that can resemble digital fragments, the memoir explores how uncertainty, experimentation, and wonder enter an artist's practice. It offers a reflective companion to the work collected across Incoprea.
Seven illustrated stories move through interdimensional grief, road rage, environmental reckoning, hard-won happiness, and sinister nature. Le Clara, Behind the Stars, Shoulder Driver, Boomacide, Never Give Up, Pete Moss, and Ivy's Arbour range from science fiction and noir to darkly comic cautionary tales.
A luminous interdimensional visitor finds a grieving mother and reveals that her son lives on in other dimensions. Told through images rather than dialogue, Le Clara gives the woman a way to witness those alternate lives. An emotionally direct visual story for readers drawn to quiet science fiction and metaphysical ideas.
Elaborate black-and-white cityscapes combine fluid buildings, flying vehicles, advanced technology, and landscaped environments. Each speculative scene is designed for detailed coloring and visual exploration. This is an activity and art book rather than an architectural reference or written narrative.
Lovecraftian imagery meets stars, runes, tentacles, surreal structures, and otherworldly entities in a collection of large-format black-and-white scenes. The intricate pages turn macabre cosmic imagery into a patient, meditative coloring experience for horror and dark-fantasy fans.
AI-assisted science-fiction and fantasy coloring book
Surreal ecosystems, mythical creatures, interstellar landscapes, and dense alien flora and fauna fill this large-format coloring collection. Built for precision and imaginative exploration, it offers a mindful visual activity for science-fiction and fantasy fans rather than a prose anthology.
incoprea 2021–26: AI Images from First Prompt to Now
Visual archive · art monograph
A chronological art archive tracing Toby Mikle's work from painting, books, geology, and virtual galleries through early text-to-image experiments, prompts, Runway video, lost-camera fiction, and Midwestern world-building. Blog excerpts, source images, studio notes, and gallery plates emphasize process and curation. Choose a full-color or lower-cost black-and-white edition.
BOHEMIAN GROVE: Conspiracy Coloring & Activity Book
Conspiracy-themed activity book
An atmospheric activity book inspired by conspiracy lore and secret-society imagery. Woodland rituals, hidden rooms, mysterious archives, symbols, maps, and radio broadcasts create imaginative scenes for coloring and puzzles. It is presented as entertainment, not a factual exposé or claim about real events.
Archivist Mara Vale discovers her late mother's hidden collection of banned books, censored songs, cut films, challenged school titles, and vanished broadcasts. The literary frame connects to real American censorship history, from Comstock seizures and Hollywood's Production Code to music labels, internet regulation, and modern library challenges.
Fifty-nine detailed drawings—thirty-one windows and twenty-eight doors—span ornate, floral, stone, brick, timber, and weathered architecture from around the world. Pages are spaced to reduce color bleed and welcome different coloring media, making this a relaxed study of the small details that give buildings character.
A resourceful mother helps her child's imagination become a space adventure, ending with a playful return-to-Earth turn. With no printed story text, children and adults can invent narration and dialogue from the illustrations, making every read a shared storytelling experience.
A young fox's playful chase has a serious unintended consequence. His mother helps him understand predation as part of a fox's nature while still accepting responsibility for what happened. The story combines self-acceptance with a candid treatment of the natural food chain.
Inspired by Row, Row, Row Your Boat and the author's grandfather, Gently contrasts gentle and aggressive journeys down life's river. A moving sun and horizon mark passing time as a forceful traveler reconsiders his pace, his choices, and the value of companionship.
A visual-puzzle tour through a cluttered yard, garage, living room, kitchen, pantry, den, bedroom, closet, attic, basement, and laundry room. Readers search for listed objects across thirty-four densely packed coloring scenes, so the book works as both an activity and a piece of environmental storytelling.
Artist's Path: A Beginning Artist's Field Handbook
Art instruction · practical nonfiction
A structured handbook for beginning artists covering observation, tools, value, color, composition, critique, safety, and professional habits. Time-scaled practice menus, twelve lessons, progress markers, worksheets, a thirty-day studio path, and QR-linked resources make it a working guide rather than general encouragement.
When billionaire Julian Vane lands eighteen minutes later, infrastructure remains but humanity is inexplicably one day ahead. Trapped in a decaying empty world, he must learn the practical labor his wealth made invisible and rebuild a route back. A novel about time, work, isolation, and earned competence.
Overlooked permit clerk Eleanor Voss becomes suddenly valuable when a rushed ordinance places a lucrative approval in her hands. Gifts, corruption, and an intimate persuader from her past turn invisibility into leverage—and possible liability. Adult suspense about attention, revenge, and the ledgers people keep.
Dying billionaire Dorian Vale escapes mortality aboard a near-light-speed ship: six months for him, eighty years on Earth. Each return confronts him with descendants, laws, memories, and institutions that have moved beyond him. A cold satire about relativity, wealth, consequence, and refusing to share time.
I keep a small notebook for the depot on Larch Street because the official timetable only tells you where the buses stop, not what kind of morning they are carrying.
Most people do not care. They scan the board, match the wrist mirror number to their route, and stand under the awning with the same face everyone uses before work. I care because the changes are beautiful in the way a cheap thing can be beautiful when it keeps working after it should have quit.
The 14 used to be a straight rain bus. Then last month it started arriving with mild weather in the destination box. Not sun, not drizzle, not the hard silver fog they send through the south side when the schools run late. Mild. That is the word on the glass. People laugh at me for writing it down, but I saw three passengers step off looking less angry than when they boarded.
I am not a city planner or a climate clerk. I clean the vending machines twice a week and help my uncle count transfers when his knees are bad. That is enough access to notice things. The tide marks on the pavement have moved closer to bay three, even though there is no water in this part of town. The paper maps keep curling toward neighborhoods that were never printed. Yesterday a driver covered one stop name with tape and said it was for everyone's comfort.
That is what I like about buses. They make huge systems feel ordinary. You can stand next to the machine, drink bad coffee, and watch a whole city admit what it needs without saying it directly.
If the 14 says mild weather again tomorrow, I am taking it all the way to the last stop.
I spent very little time in toxic online fight rooms, enough to fuck around a bit and get a quick sense of the people behind the names.
All of that toxicity and misdirected hate were nothing compared to the amazon kdp print crowd. The 'writers' in the volunteer support forum were like a pack of attack animals. Maybe it's because it is money (livelihood or addiction) based just visceral hatred and inhuman gnarl. Bad news, never asking for help there again.
Blogg3r feels like the right place for me to vent and brainstorm. I will try to continue and get a rhythm again.
