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21/11/2024

The Writer's Bundle is an absolute must-have whether you're a writer or just someone who loves them. And!! - if you'll forgive me for being presumptuous - an ideal Christmas gift. Throw in a notebook, preferred writing utensil, and caffienated beverage of choice and you've got a Writer's Survival Kit.

Pick up the discounted bundle exclusively at deadinkbooks.com and we'll even wrap em for you

18/11/2024

Have you been holding out on us all year? Plagued by thoughts of the 2024 DI catalogue? Or perhaps you're looking for the perfect gift to i̶n̶d̶o̶c̶t̶r̶i̶n̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶ introduce a mate to the Dead Ink ways?

The 2024 Dead Ink Bundle is available through our website NOW, just in time for gifting season for that weird one in the family no one is entirely sure how to talk to. Or if you're said weird one, treat yourself. It's hard work being enigmatic and interesting. You've earned it.

(we didn't have Mystery Lights at the time I took this picture but rest assured it will be included)

Books included:
🩸Blood Red - Gabriela Ponce
🔔Sinking Bell - Bojan Louis
🦢Swanna in Love - Jennifer Belle
🐜The Secret Life of Insects - Bernard Esquinca
🌸Lost in the Garden - Adam S. Leslie
👾Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
🌊Above Us The Sea - Ania Card
🐪The Muslim Cowboy - Bruce Omar Yates
🔥Eden Dale - Jacquelyn Stolos
🪲A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be - Marieke Bigg
🔍 Writing the Murder - ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst
🫀Jackal - Erin E. Adams
🛸Mystery Lights - Lena Valencia

(This is only available domestically due to shipping size, apologies to all international readers!)

14/11/2024

the girls ✨

Marieke Bigg's fiction is incisive, sociological, darkly humorous, and always fiercely feminist. Both novels paint comprehensive portraits of their protagonists; Waiting for Ted's Rosalind, whose marriage is about to crumble at the hands of an innocuous chaise longue; and Scarab's Jacky, an architect who, in the process of mitigating all unnecessary emotions and ties in order to streamline her life, has stopped feeling much at all.

You can read more about both of Marieke's novels at the Dead Ink website, linked as always in-- you'll never guess where-- our bio!

13/11/2024

I love how I made this like "here's a gift guide in case ur struggling with what to get the weird girls in your life!!" as if all the weird girls aren't already here. like. it goes without saying this post is a part 1 because let's be real the dead ink business model is essentially Weird Girls Incorporated

11/11/2024

There's blood on the floor, a locked room, and the question you must answer is: what IS a mystery? 🤔🔎

You can read Tess Little's FULL essay from WRITING THE MURDER at 3:AM magazine (linked in bio) and if you like what you read and want to get your hands on more, make sure you check out the full essay collection!

Writing the Murder 🕵️ is the third collection in Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst's series, preceded by Writing the Future 🛸 and Writing the Uncanny 💀, all essential handbooks for writers and lovers of genre fiction alike. And would make a BANGING christmas present to the writer in your life. Just saying.

08/11/2024

MANCHESTER ARE YOU READY ❄️⛄️🎄🎁

Delighted to be returning to the for another iteration of The Winter Book Fair on the 23rd of November. We'll be joining a whole host of Northern Independent Publishers so you're bound to be able to pick up some truly unique gifts.

If you're coming along to the Christmas Markets and find you need a bit of respite from the crowds make sure you pop by for a brew and warm your bones, browse some books, and I dunno, we can chat s**t or summit.

Entry is FREE but you can book a ticket to give us an idea of numbers at the link in our bio!

See you there? 🥺👉👈

07/11/2024

Your honour she is LITERALLY just a girl

MYSTERY LIGHTS 🛸 delves into the soft meat of monsters, sisters, abusers, cults, artists, UFOs, ghosts and I can't wait for you to rend every scrap of it from the bone.

Make sure you pre-order your copy of MYSTERY LIGHTS either from the link in our bio, or have a word with your favourite bookseller and support your favourite indie bookshop!

04/11/2024

Have you heard the news? New Naomi Booth coming next year, I repeat, this is not a drill, new Naomi Booth coming next year, publishing with Corsair. Dead Ink wouldn't be the publisher it is today without Naomi's exceptional skill and it's an honour to be part of her story!

raw content releases March '25, so there's plenty of time to get caught up with The Great Naomi Booth Literary Canon. You can get the Naomi Booth Collection at deadinkbooks.com in a bundle, or head over to and pick em up in person! Links for everything in bio!

03/11/2024

Everyone's welcome... everyone, that is, except for Liz Rocher, who has never felt at ease here, despite it being her hometown. You know it's bad when the most welcoming thing in this part of the rustbelt is the malevolent thing lurking in the forest...

Have you grabbed yourself a copy of Jackal yet? You can find her in your favourite bookshop, and if you can't, have a word with a bookseller who, I'm told, are actually quite friendly and refrain from threat displays nowadays

02/11/2024

"We talk about male anti-heroes, but when do we use [unlikeable] to describe a male character?"
-- Marieke Bigg, author of A SCARAB WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE 🪲

Catch Marieke's full episode with on whatever platform you like to listen your podcasts!

Thanks to A Pair of Bookends, as always, for another wonderful episode 📚

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween to all ye book goblins and witches and other vague apparitions we call a target demographic! 👻 Things that go bump in the night? That's just the stack of books on my TBR falling over.

As you well know we're spooky all year round, whether you're looking for a psychedelic summery post-apocalypse or a nail biting psychological thriller set in small town Appalachia... and this is just a taste of the terror in our archives.

What's your Halloween read? 🎃

29/10/2024

Delighted to announce the winner of our 10K Giveaway is ! Congratulations!

Thank you so much to everyone for sharing and entering and supporting! Keep an eye out for more giveaways and opportunities in the future - we can always find some other excuse to celebrate SOMETHING 👀

25/10/2024

Did you know that Dead Ink Books are the only ones to access The Eden Book Society's archives when they ceased operation in 2006? With nearly a hundred years of horror stories to tell, the archive is vast and much of it unexamined - but five tales from the 1972 catalogue emerge here...

Something malicious stalks the streets of London in JUDDERMAN

Powercuts and hostility in the hospital where a medical secretary writes to her brother breeds unease in PLUNGE HILL: A CASE STUDY

Fixated on the memory of being showm something but not remembering what, a man forces his way into HOLT HOUSE

The discovery of a man's dead father's writing unveils a horrific mystery in THE CASTLE

And when a woman donates an kidney in the infancy of organ transfusion, she realises she could stand to lose so much more in A DEDICATED FRIEND

Head to deadinkbooks.com to get your hands on The Eden Book Society Bundle 📚

25/10/2024

Mystery Lights has landed 🛸

Cults, ghosts, UFOs, packs of wild dogs and endless stretches of desert and cave dwelling creatures; Mystery Lights illuminates the spectres that haunt us whether they belong to something supernatural or are merely an aspect of modern life.

Can't wait? Want your (signed!) copy of Mystery Lights early? Then take a look at at Patreon - join before the 28th of October and get yours before anyone else, as well as gaining access to our blog, an exclusive bookshop discount, free event tickets, and the unmatched feeling of reading indie books before the bigger publishers sniff em out!

Links to our patreon and our website where you can read more about Mystery Light as well as pre-order it the normal way all in the biooooooooooo

24/10/2024

hey guys do you like my hear me out cake. what do you mean that's not how the trend works. where are your clothes

23/10/2024

Sorry, Scorpio, it's actually Lamb season? Yeah? It's not got scorpions but it does have a bunch of fungus and mould and moss infecting the narrative as a direct parallel to family secrets and intergenerational trauma? So?? Bit more seasonally appropriate, innit?

What's your autumn read? 🍂 If a sci-fi horror set in the near future with heavy implications of class and automation stealing work set in the North sounds good to you, then I reckon you'll get on with Lamb - read all about it at the link in bio. Or find it in your favourite bookshop!

22/10/2024

she's serving unwashed sheets and no skincare routine realness

21/10/2024

Looking for the kind of books that refuse to be confined their genre, defy all boundaries, and are, to be frank, kinda fu***ng weird? New Ruins got your back, baby.

New Ruins is a collaborative imprint between Dead Ink Books and Influx Press, with an aim to build a list of books that exist between the borders of genre and literary fiction - you may be familiar with Absorbed, a body-horror story about female insecurity, or Jawbone, coming of age in a weird girl way, and the new kid on the block, short story collection The Secret Life of Insects, page after page of Lovecraftian Mexican horror.

You can get the New Ruins Triad in a bundle at deadinkbooks.com - link in bio, as always - and keep a look out for more. Because there's always more. You can't stop us.

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Pandemic Books: Here are all the books that Dead Ink has published since the start of the pandemic. We're tired. Very very tired, but incredibly proud of the whole team and all of the authors who have stuck by us. Can't believe this isn't over yet... Pretty sure the whole team and all of the freelancers we work with are teetering on the brink of burnout, if not already there, but each of these books has been a joy and presented their own challenges in working around restrictions and keeping everyone safe. When the pandemic first started we delayed most of our releases until we could figure out how things were going to work... Still figuring that out. As it went on it was clear that we would have to begin releasing books during lockdown. Authors, agents, funders, and freelancers were all understanding, but it was a big leap into the unknown. Especially for the authors! Phone calls with @harri8here and Naomi Booth explaining the situation stand out, but they trusted us and knew that we were doing all we could.