It is very surreal for a ten year chapter of your life to close while you're barrier at a My Chem show, but here we are. While there's still winding down behind the scenes to do, as is the way, it is worth repeating: what. a. ride. ✌️

Thank you @heathermmcd.bsky.social and @laurafjones.bsky.social for everything you did - @404ink.bsky.social is going to be an enormous miss on the Scottish publishing scene.

FINAL, FINAL DAY TO GET 404 INK BOOKS! Shop is turned off Tuesday 30th June! www.404ink.com/shop

Switching off in a few hours!

Our Micro-Bursary submissions are open! The Micro-Bursaries are open to early career, UK based: Comic Creators of Colour, Disabled Comic Creators, and/or Trans/Non-Binary Comic Creators. Find out more, and put your name forward here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries

Spent the last few months working behind the scenes on the 404 Ink Bursary and we're very proud that this is the last hurrah before we close. ❤️ Lots of amazing presses and people out there doing equally amazing work. 404ink.com/bursary

The 404 Ink Bursary is such a great, positive way to wind down – just leaving a nice legacy and good vibes. Happy to say I’m mentioned here as a supporter and am donating my time to work with an up-and-coming small press. Looking forward to it!

Be part of the historic final Post Office trip xo Bonus: fantastic books.

I turn off the @404ink.bsky.social bookshop tomorrow FOREVER! It's your absolute last chance to get a book from us directly, all on sale. My final trip to the post office! www.404ink.com/shop

Spent the last few months working behind the scenes on the 404 Ink Bursary and we're very proud that this is the last hurrah before we close. ❤️ Lots of amazing presses and people out there doing equally amazing work. 404ink.com/bursary

📢ANNOUNCING: Recipients of the 404 Ink Bursary. The 404 Ink Bursary was founded to provide financial support and advice to other small, independent publishing presses. It is our final initiative ahead of our closure next month. Read more: 404ink.com/bursary

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Wonky books are back for the last time! Just £3 for some of our books that have been a little battered through the distribution process but still have some life left in them yet! www.404ink.com/wonky-books

Utterly useless at sharing news about myself, so: @kickstarter.com have curated trusted partners with crowdfunding expertise, including me! My speciality is in publishing and comics, and culture more broadly. 📧 Get in touch: heathermcdaid.com 📋 The directory: www.kickstarter.com/partner-dire...

How exciting to have TWO @edbookfest.bsky.social events celebrating the end of @404ink.bsky.social! 1. 22/8: 🎉 Our closing party/funeral! www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i... 2. 23/8: @heathermmcd.bsky.social & I talking about 10 years of 404 & winding down: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

I’ll be chatting with the excellent @laurafjones.bsky.social + @heathermmcd.bsky.social of @404ink.bsky.social about the pitfalls of being a small book publisher + proper ways to support culture on the margins. Join us at @edbookfest.bsky.social on 23 Aug 📚 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

I've had some absolutely cracking reads from 404 Ink over the years - get them before they're gone! 💙📚

MEGA SALE: ALL books are £5 on our website until we close the shop on Tuesday 30th June (or we sell out!). Help us have a great send off: www.404ink.com/shop

Did you know we have a library of resources for Scotland's small press creators? We do! Did you know you can help us populate the library by submitting tutorials, events, press contacts, and more? You can!! 📚 smallpress.scot#resources

@macmillankidsuk.bsky.social (MCB) will distribute 140,000 books through a nationwide literacy campaign tied to the publication of Gruffalo Granny by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. 👇

📆 Next Monday 15th June we’re going to be talking about goddamn COMICS LIVELIHOODS. What sources do we earn an income from? What does fair pay mean? What’s the value of IP? Should only commodified art exist? What is the difference between a career and a hobby, or -god help us- a “side hustle”?

@transworldbooks.bsky.social has donated 10,000 copies of Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals to the National Literacy Trust to mark the National Year of Reading’s Go All In campaign. 👇

All of 404's ebooks went offline today. The sign that our ten years is really coming to an end. We've got the last remaining stock on our website before it's gone for good in a few weeks, so please check out 404's site and treat yourself! www.404ink.com / @404ink.bsky.social

Ebooks disappear TOMORROW! Last, last chance!

It’s crunch time! There's just four days left until we close our creaking doors for good, so head to our website and grab yourself a scarily good 70% off all our books: audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks. Use code at checkout: HAUNT70 www.hauntpublishing.com/books

Small presses are keeping the transgender publishing flame alive, says @cipherpress.bsky.social 's Jack Thompson. 👇

There are officially over 400 artists on HireHumanArtists.com🎉 More human artists than you would ever conceivably want to even try to look at all at once! Hire one for your next human project, wouldja?

Towards our closure in a couple of months (😭), we've just marked ALL of our ebooks down 50%, so you can grab some of them for as little as £2.25 until they all disappear on Wednesday 27th May. www.404ink.com/store/ebook

Less than a week left to get 404 Ink ebooks before I turn them off and they're gone forever. After planning the closure for like 2 years I am quite excited about this stage of actually finally switching things off! I love 404 but also very, very ready to move on.

Hey! Did you know we're closing at the end of the year? There's not long to pick up one of our fantastic comics. Whether you enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, autobio, horror, romance, your next favourite read might be a couple of clicks away! 🐉 quindriepress.com

This image was my guiding inspiration for Good Omens 3. Having lost my best friend, my best beloved, just two weeks ago, it was always about him and enduring love.

Genuinely thankful to all those who have taken the time to read our little memoir/rant about running our own publishing endeavour. The closure is starting to feel real as we start throwing the word "liquidator" around!

I've joined over 300 artists, arts organisations, academics, think tanks and campaigners who have signed this open letter. Add your name. Tell Scotland's political parties and cultural institutions to deliver a basic income for artists: actionnetwork.org/forms/an-ope...

Add your name. Tell Scotland's political parties and cultural institutions to deliver a basic income for artists: actionnetwork.org/forms/an-ope...

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I get it, I ask myself this every bloody day

The Nota Bene Prize has been awarded to Lucy Rose for her feminist folk horror debut, The Lamb (W&N), following a public vote 👇 #BookSky

NEW COMIC ANNOUNCEMENT HELLBOY meets SAGA in a new dark fantasy miniseries, DEATH DESERVED, soon to be launched on Kickstarter. A cult of killers. A corrupt senate. An assassin seeking vengeance. Read an exclusive six-page preview today and pre-register today www.kickstarter.com/projects/gar...

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Pssst… goodomens.com #GoodOmens

Have spent the last few days going through applications for the @404ink.bsky.social Bursary and it's so cool to see how many amazing presses are out there across books/comics/mags and so thoroughly depressing to see how hard it is to feel financially secure or supported in the arts.

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So @404ink.bsky.social, as part of their windup, are trying to support and help other small presses, who are the lifeblood and cutting edge of the British publishing industry. Help them help the industry

📢 WE NEED YOUR HELP! We have opened applications for the 404 Ink bursary to support small presses in the UK, but that is only one part of the plan. We are also crowdfunding to raise additional bursaries to give away. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/404-bursary

Very grateful for the wee reviews of Publisher Not Found coming in! I'm hoping those who read it will truly understand why it's ultimately a good thing 404 is closing, but indicative of a sad trend www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

Not quite halfway through @404ink.bsky.social’s Publisher Not Found and finding it an engrossing, honest and revealing read - thank you @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social for writing and offering us this book as a final publication!

Very exciting to see copies of our book landing with peeps now. I've seen at least 3 people say they're reading it on the way to LBF and given how bleak some of it gets, I apologise. But hopefully it's something to chat about in the one hour long queues for coffee?! www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

(Very good) News! - The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) Receives Arts Council England Funding – New Projects to Include Fair Pay Charter, Consultation Roundtables and Expanded Website. www.brokenfrontier.com/ace-ccic/