Murderous Ink Press - A home for Crime Fiction

03/11/2024

Launch Date
19th November 2024
Pre-order available from both Amazon and IngramSpark outlets

I Remember the Dame Well…Mainly as she had a laugh that reminded me of two cheese graters energetically fornicating in an iron bathtub. I looked out the open window at the Johnson Memorial, standing upright and resolute in the persistent rain. The clock on it said it was 3:15 in the a.m. and I figured, what-the-Hell, it was time to review the 14 case files scattered across my desk. They were from:
Daryl Wood Ge**er, Don Magin, James Donzella, J. T. Seate, S. B. Watson, Wil A. Emerson, Michael Bracken, Glenn Francis Faelnar, Michael Thomét, Jay Andrew Connor, Martin Zeigler, Michael J. Ciaraldi, Jeff Burt, and L.N. Hunter
I glanced back out across the skyline and wondered: Why is it always raining in Noir City? I got up and moved over to the chess board. I hadn’t see the cat in several hours, so I rearranged the pieces a little to give myself a bit of an advantage…
Just when you thought Private Eye investigations are a deadly serious business, these 14 skilful and talented writers start shaking the Funny Tree, and you’ll be amazed at what falls out. Because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Detective Agency motto:
You never know what you like until you investigate it.

14/06/2024

COMING Tuesday 10th September

If Looks Could Kill, She Would Have Been An Uzi….
…Or more likely a shotgun. I mean, Lawd knows what those two ever saw in each other in the first place, and that’s a fact. Don’t believe me? Well, let me tell you about the time when….

But that’s how it usually starts, doesn’t it? Someone says something, which reminds someone else about…. And so the anecdotal avalanche begins.

This time there’s 19 storytellers:

Vinnie Hansen, V.S. Kemanis, David Krugler, Robert Jeschonek, Beverle Graves Myers, Kirk Landers, James Lee Proctor, Victor Kreuiter, K. Arlington Andrews, Michael Bracken, Kevin R. Tipple, William Flores, Robert Sumner, Jim Guigli, James Roth, Michael Zimecki, Sebastian Corbascio, Martin Zeigler, and John Bertram Fawet III

They're all gathered around the front counter of the Crimeucopia Shots to Hell Bar & Grill — and more than willing to tell you about how it is, or was, or even will be….

So, over the background sounds from an old jukebox loaded with worn out 45s (vinyl rather than the likes of a Px4 Storm), settle back and take in their individual stories. We guarantee there’ll be Crimesapleanty indeed…

Enough to keep going until the Editorial bar staff call for glasses and ask the age old question:

“Don’t any of you writers have homes to go to?!”

As with all of these anthologies, we hope you’ll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your late night Cocktail comfort zone — and puts you into a completely new one.

Because, in the Happy Hour spirit of our Murderous Ink Press motto:

You never know what you like until you read it.

Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781909498600 eBook Edition ISBN: 9781909498617

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14/06/2024

It Was In The Year Of….

When you get a good piece of fiction, it’s hard to pass it up, and we always try and see if we can make it fit in somewhere.
The trouble comes when it’s a period piece. Yes, sometimes you can sneak it in, under the guise of it being ‘sort of’ Cosy/Noir/Narrative/Whodidit/Whydidit (etc) orientated. However, sometimes you know you’re left with two choices: Either reject the piece because it doesn’t fit — or see if a new anthology project can stand on its own two feet, take on the world, and win.
And no, not every piece in this is a Cosy — some might be considered as such, but some are Cosy Noir (and yes, such does exist), Historical/Period Drama, Historical Private Eyes, Narrative Crimes, and a whole spectrum of Crime fiction sub-genres in-between.
21 authors — Gary Thomson, Edward St. Boniface, Terry Wijesuriya, Frances Stratford, Dennis E. Delaney, Joan Leotta, Hope Hodgkins, Karen Odden, J. F. Benedetto, S. B. Watson, Hal Dygert, Merrilee Robson, John G. Bluck, David Hagerty, Avi Sirlin, Karl El-Koura, Penny Hurrell, Kai Lovelace, Maddi Davidson, J. Aquino and Kirk Landers — take you from 420 BC through to AD 1969, and give you a criminal history, laid out in a case by case Crimeucopia Crimeline.
As with all of these anthologies, we hope you’ll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your regular era comfort zone — and puts you into a completely new one.
Because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto:
You never know what you like until you dust it off and read it.
Paperback 9781909498587 eBook 9781909498594

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Crimeucopia - Through The Past Darkly (English Edition) [Kindle edition] by Authors, Various, Thomson, Gary, Boniface, Edward , Wijesuriya, Terry , Stratford, Frances, Leotta, Joan, Delaney, Dennis, Hodgkins, Hope, Odden, Karen, Bluck, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC,...

18/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW!
-=CRIMEUCOPIA —TOTALLY PSYCHO LOGICAL=-

Welcome To The Minkey Haus…

Totally — adverb: completely; absolutely. Used to emphasize a clause or statement. “He/She is totally bat-sh*t crazy!”

Psycho — noun: an unstable and aggressive person. “Don’t you know? My ex is a total psycho!”

adjective: exhibiting unstable and aggressive behaviour. “There’s some kind of psycho nut job on the loose out there!”

Logical — adjective: characterized by or capable of clear, sound reasoning. “His/Her logical mind? Are you nuts or something?”

But are all psychos ‘nut jobs’? Or, given the chance, could they show that their actions really are totally logical? At least, from their perspective that is.

Laurie Stevens, Jesse Aaron, Patrick Ambrose, Stephen D. Rogers, Wendy Harrison, Jan Glaz, Brandon Doughty, Elena Schacherl, Joyce Bingham, Jeff Somers, Glenn Francis Faelnar, Douglas Soesbe, Carol Goodman Kaufman, Daniel C. Bartlett, Richard J. O’Brien, David Bradley, and Kamal Mouhoune will happily take you on journeys that might often put a skewer through any rational thought processes you think you might have.

And as always, with all of these anthologies, we hope you’ll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your regular padded cell comfort zone — and puts you into a completely new one because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto:

You never know what you like until you read it.

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eBook edition should be available through your regular epub outlets – Kindle edition should be available from Amazon once they get themselves sorted again. Failing that, send an email to [email protected] and we will sort things out ourselves (both mobi and AZW3 versions of Kindle files).

Crimeucopia - Totally Psycho Logical

18/03/2024

Up AI Creek Without A Paddle

One of the ‘Joys’ of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) – is that it gives you direct access into Amazon and their massive online marketing.

The ‘downside’ has been the use of AI to generate (supposedly co-author) a tsunami of ‘fake’ books – to the point where the sheer number of submissions has seemingly broken the KDP processes.

And while the whole Low Content Books (minimal text content - https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GGE5T76TWKA85DJM ) means you can ‘publish’ AI generated book-style ‘diaries’ by the tens of thousands at zero cost to yourself – and AI-generated ‘colouring books’ also fall into that category. Not forgetting the predictable AI-generated soft-core po*******hy ‘image’ books (AI constructed art consisting of ‘a digital model’ with infeasibly large breasts, ‘covered’ by an equally infeasibly small ‘bikini’.)

It seems that this ‘surge’ has been fuelled by ‘Social Media’ (Tik-Tok, YouTube, Instagram etc) and the proliferation of Get Rich Quick scams. “If you ‘publish’ 1,000 different publications and just one person buys one for $3 – that’s $3,000 in your pocket…” etc, etc, etc.

Only now the ‘cash-in’ also revolves around AI-generated ‘celebrity orientated’ products – fake autobiographies/biographies that skim around the Internet databases, paraphrase (or in some cases don’t even bother to do that) and ‘publish’ the result, in the hope that ‘fan hysteria’ will generate some revenue before enough complaints are lodged and the product gets pulled – only to spring up again supposedly ‘authored’ by someone else.

The knock-on effect to legitimate authors and publishers trying to use KDP has resulted in database choking (title registration timing out), processes becoming broken/failing (Proof ordering failing disastrously), and review processing taking 3 weeks instead of the previous 72 hours.

Our ‘problem’ is that although we dual distribute through Ingrams as well, Amazon remains the only viable International distributor with discounted publisher prices. Ingrams does offer such, but to US-only customers. So we are dependent (at present) on Amazon, and have to swallow the ‘Technical Difficulties’ (Amazon-speak for “You’re stuck with us, so suck it”)

Which is why the Kindle version of Totally Psycho Logical is still stuck in the ‘Publishing’ state – and has been for the last 7 days….

Hopefully something will happen to dump the crap and get back to a ‘relatively usable’ means of production and distribution.