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14/10/2024

Congratulations to Writing the Future, which has joined its spooky older brother Writing the Uncanny in being crowned Best Non-fiction at the British Fantasy Awards! 🛸

You can pick up your copy on our website, or why not get the whole Writer's Bundle, which gets you all three books in the series for a special reduced price!??
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13/10/2024

Whatever your vibe, I can guarantee you we've got a book for that 📚

06/10/2024

The cold mornings have arrived, pumpkin spice is back on the menu, and I've got nothing more important on the agenda than Not Leaving My Bed And Reading Horror Novels. And You Can Too!!!!

INTRODUCING: the Spooky Season Bundle, consisting of psychological mystery Appalachian thriller, Jackal; q***r cannibal monster story, Monstrilio; and Lovecraftian, noirish, Mexican short story collection, The Secret Life of Insects.

Grab yours from deadinkbooks.com at the link in our bio!

03/10/2024

COME SEE ME ON SATURDAY AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY ...... to be clear I am not a small fuzzy cat but I do have the emotional capacity of one

Not only will I be there with the latest Dead Ink plunder but there's gonna be all our northern publishing friends from other indie presses including the fine folks of , , , , , , , and many more!

Entry is freeeeee so get your last minute tickets from and see you on Saturday from 10:30 - 15:30 for books and a publishing chinwag

02/10/2024

yeah I could make a nice graphic or I could pick a random picture from my camera roll and say big thanks, you bookish miscreants, 10 k is a big number and I need you to hang fire bc I was gonna do a giveaway to hit 10k but you beat me to it so the giveaway is still coming I just need you to. be aware. jus be aware. ok look both ways before you cross the street love you bye

30/09/2024

sad girls 🤝 horror fans 🤝 gay people 🤝 people trying to meet their tbr goal for the year 🤝 anyone who's delighted it's 1st October tomorrow

If you fit one or more of the above criteria make sure you pre-order JACKAL and MYSTERY LIGHTS because something about your general demeanour tells me you're gonna vibe with them. Now I may be putting people into little boxes but it's only reductive if the boxes aren't correct

Links for books and all kinds of untold horrors in the bio!!

26/09/2024

25/09/2024

Absolutely dying over how good JACKAL looks - and if you're dying to get your hands on it first, there's still time to get it first by subscribing to our Patreon!

Dead Ink's Patreon is how we run our book subscription service. If you love what we do, want to help keep this show running, or just love getting books early, subscribing to our Patreon is the best way to make sure you don't miss a single Dead Ink title.

If you've got your heart set on JACKAL make sure you join the PAPERBACK TIER before the 28th of September so you don't miss out!

Links to our patreon, regular Jackal preorders, and everything else your little bookish heart could desire in the............... bio [cheering]

24/09/2024

For whatever reason the last post was HORRIBLY compressed so let's try this again... WRITING THE MURDER launch!! This Thursday! You should be there! We've got free drinks and loads of books and we're gonna talk about MURDER with editor Richard V. Hirst and authors Louise Welsh and Tess Little.

Tickets available now through the link in bio or direct at - can't wait to see you there!

23/09/2024

"When I took it out of the envelope last week I cracked it open just to read the first paragraph; when I next looked up, I was halfway through and late for teaching. In the best possible way, the experience of reading was like compulsively watching YouTube compilations of car accidents in the middle of the night. It dragged me through the full gamut of human emotion. I feel like I've read a lot of novels that put a handful of conflicting personalities in close quarters with external threat, but this is the only one i've read that fully fulfills the promise of that concept. It balances disgust with beauty, alienation with recognition, horror with comfort. She packs so much detail into such tight chapters, and paints entire portraits in a single brush stroke. It feels like this book has permanently altered my brain chemistry. It had connected with me on a level deeper than words. It makes me want to scream and cry and chew tinfoil.

-- Sara Taylor, author of THE SHORE and THE LAURAS

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18/09/2024

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A SCARAB WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE by Marieke Bigg

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11/09/2024

If I don't see you at the Northern Publisher's Fair on the opening weekend of Manchester Lit Fest then you're losing your kneecap privileges 🔨

If you quite like your joints, then I can't wait for you to join us and all your favourite Northern Publishers at Manchester Central Library! We'll have all our latest releases and tons of undiscovered gems and there's bound to be an author or two knocking about - so come support your indies!

Entry is FREE but there's a limited edition tote bag ticket on offer which you can get through
- ticket link in bio 📚

10/09/2024

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19/08/2024

It's come to my attention not a lot of you know about Dead Ink Books enterprise into the wider world of independent publishing, and everything we do at - so here you go!

Whether you're looking for something completely fresh to read, a pretty little spot to have a brew, a space to meet some authors, attend workshops and make friends, Dead Ink Bookshop does it all. Here's just a sample of what's coming up soon!

Make sure you're following to keep up to date with everything we've got going on! And if you're not close by, don't worry - every single book on the shelves is available through deadinkbookshop.com 📚 Links to webshop and event tickets are all in bio!

14/08/2024

SUMMER OF ABOVE US THE SEA NEVER ENDS BABYYYYYY 🌊 🌈 ❤️

Cheltenham Literature Festival lineup has just dropped and delighted to announce you'll be able to see Ania there! She'll be at The Hive on the 10th Oct as part of FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN - a panel with Ann Morgan and Xiaolu Guo, discussing the UK from different cultural perspectives as explored in Above Us The Sea and Guo's memoir, My Battle of Hastings

Tickets go on sale on the 4th of September and will be linked in the usual place the moment they do ✨️

07/08/2024

In the face of division, hatred and senseless violence, we maintain our unwavering belief in community as the ultimate form of resistance.

Liverpool is our home and it’s been heartbreaking to see the damage wrought upon our neighbours who have done nothing but support and uplift the communities they’re a part of. Asylum Link is an organisation that provides support and services to asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside, and in the wake of threats made against the wellbeing of their staff and those seeking their services, have been forced to close their doors.

Dead Ink Books has always sought to champion the voices of the unheard and we like to think we’ve built a community who feel much the same— so we’ve started a fundraiser to support Asylum Link, to champion the excellent work that they do, and to counteract the division attempted to have been spread between us. 

Follow the link in our bio if you’d like to contribute to the fundraiser. Stay safe, stay kind, and look after each other. 

03/08/2024

Edinburgh Fringe-goers, here's one for you - catch Ania Card at Lighthouse Bookshop on the 15th of August at 1 PM! .card

An intimate, nostalgic, coming of age story about loss, q***rness and immigration, set against a backdrop of Brexit Britain and the era of gay bars playing nothing but Lady Gaga.

Spread the word!

Tickets available through the good folks and linked in our bio! And make sure you check out Lighthouse Bookshop's full schedule of events for the Fringe!

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02/08/2024

🚨🚨🚨 DEADLJNE EXTENSION 🚨🚨🚨

We're extending the deadline to submit your Northern Crime short stories for our anthology MOTIVES UNKNOWN until the 19th of August!

There's still time to put your pen to paper or get those last few edits in. We want to hear from Northern writers or writers with stories based in the North of England- full submission guidelines are available on previous posts as well as on our website. Linked in bio!

01/08/2024

yeah but what if? what if you let yourself love recklessly? what if we succumbed to the fleetingness of summer? what then? what if you filled up your TBR with the incredible books we built our foundations on from the Dead Ink Archives? WHAT THEN??

For the entirety of August, enjoy 30% off some Dead Ink favourites direct from us. Treat yourself to some horror, or weird women, or crime, or poetry, or short stories— whatever you're after, we've got something along those lines. Specifically like a trainline, where the story derails halfway through, and takes you on some mad s**t.