it’s a double bill of book post from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today!

Jonathan reviews Jordan Prosser's gonzo dystopian BIG TIME, out now from Dead Ink Books: "Prosser’s unique approach to the speculative has created a delightful masterpiece." Read more: tinyurl.com/yc8h7u7s @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Happy publication day to this wild, punkish, narcotic-fuelled trip of a novel! Big Time is a riotous delight from start to finish with an ending that made me say, out loud, "that was DIABOLICAL" [complimentary]. I cannot WAIT for you lot to get your hands on it.

On the blog today, read an extract from BIG TIME, the wild and addictive debut novel from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists, Jordan Prosser, published today by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Read here: lrb.me/va3

If you loved Make a Home of Me, there's some great news in The Bookseller today: www.thebookseller.com/rights/dead-...

Hey up, that's our Matt Greene! Come to visit us in Liverpool for our general charm and stimulating conversation, but also to sign a great big pile of The Definitions for our Patreon subscribers. It's such a delicious, wickedly clever little book. Cannot WAIT for you to read it!

A BEAST SLINKS TOWARDS BEIJING 🐇 by Alice Evelyn Yang is coming 19.02.26 and is available to pre-order now! A dark, magical realist family saga of war and revolution told amidst stunningly rendered folklore, this is a completely unforgettable debut novel. Cover 🎨 Luke Bird & Cindy Luan

Introducing the next title under our new imprint Outsider Classics — Gillian Freeman's THE LEATHER BOYS 🏍️ A novel originally published in 1962 that played a key part in liberalising British society's regard of homosexuality, about queer, working class lads and motorcycle gangs. Cover 🎨 Luke Bird

Don't forget to grab a ticket for a night discussing Fantasy fiction with Dan Coxon, Alex Pheby and R.J. Barker at Dead Ink Bookshop! We're celebrating the launch of WRITING THE MAGIC ✨ Date: 18.09.25 Time: 6 - 8 PM Tickets: £5 entry // £13 entry & book deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...

Available to pre-order now! Our first title on Outsider Classics, Jan Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel BABY DRIVER 📚 Jan lived a spirited and colourful but tragically short life. We're publishing Baby Driver to keep her legacy and her story, both of which she defined on her own terms, alive.

Happy Publication Day to Tess Sharpe and NO BODY, NO CRIME! 🥳 🎉 It's been a real delight seeing this sapphic, heart-pounding riot of a thriller find its readers and I can't wait to see her out in the wild.

This is so exciting - can't wait to explore these.

We've been sitting on a secret... Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins. Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Brilliant.

Good morning Booksky, today, Tony Jones takes a look at The Atlas of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud. gnofhorror.com/nathan-balli... @influxpress.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @jonezyboy.bsky.social 🩸📚💙

Delighted to be sharing this news! 😊

As if having cigarette butts manifest on her tongue and grotesque creatures lurking beneath her bed wasn't enough, Madeline Carroll is thrust into the centre of an ongoing murder investigation... CHOKING HAZARDS by Michael Sellars, coming 2027 Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/rights/dead-...

For fans of The Square (and possibly The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) we have some mail for you! We love receiving weird fiction! #WeLiveHereNow by @cdrose and #BigTime by #JordanProsser @deadinkbooks @melvillehouse

One of my A level students bought me this is a thank you/ goodbye present. It’s so good that I’m never going to write anything again and go and live in a hole. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

As if reading Lost in the Garden wasn't enough of a feverish, all-encompassing experience as it was — author Adam S. Leslie has orchestrated a soundtrack made to be paired with the book 🌸 Listen here! 🎶 berlinhorse.bandcamp.com/album/lost-i...

Have you heard? @waterstones.bsky.social is running a summer pre-order deal where you can get 25% off upcoming titles! So if you've been waiting to pre-order your next Dead Ink book then there's no time like the present — I'll even do the hard bit, links in thread 🧵

Listen back to my conversation with @aniacard.bsky.social on the anniversary of her debut novel Above Us The Sea on @deadinkbooks.bsky.social here www.totallyradio.com/shows/planet...

So my #BookReview for this week is one from a couple of years ago that I read for the first time recently...Jackal by Erin E Adams, which you can grab from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Here's my spoiler-free review 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVi8...

Vanessa Santos' debut collection MAKE A HOME OF ME 🏚️ is already making it onto Books of the Year lists and it's only July. Mint. Read the top ten here: www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Can’t wait to read this by the super talented Lorna Elcock

THE WINDHOVER 🪶 by Lorna Elcock, publishing 23 July 2026 A stunning and devastating story about one family's haunted legacy, and the vastness of what it takes to forgive and live on. Read more and pre-order your copy here: deadinkbooks.com/product/the-...

Dead Ink Books has acquired Katie Huttlestone’s "ferociously original" debut exploring "illness, appetite and the monstrous lengths we’ll go to in order to survive" 👇 #BookSky

Just one week until Vanessa Santos and Alison Rumfitt take the stage at @waterstones.bsky.social to celebrate the incredible, Make A Home Of Me! A horror collection set in homes that are no longer places of safety... @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Tickets are still available here: buff.ly/z68ZwHQ

London! Don't forget to get yourself a ticket for next Wednesday - Vanessa Santos and Alison Rumfitt at @waterstones.bsky.social Tottenham Court Road. An UNREAL pairing!! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

We've got BIG news!! 🎉 🍴A HEALTHY APPETITE🍴 by Katie Huttlestone is coming Summer 2026 - a ferociously wild and original debut novel about sickness and hunger. www.thebookseller.com/rights/dead-...

Dead Ink do good books - this seems like a worthy trade.

Fancy 50% off all our published books? Because we're a "real" company, urgh, we've got to do some market research. So here's the deal, fill in our survey and in return we'll give you a 50% off code. It should take like five minutes. Deal? us6.list-manage.com/survey?u=12c...

Fancy 50% off all our published books? Because we're a "real" company, urgh, we've got to do some market research. So here's the deal, fill in our survey and in return we'll give you a 50% off code. It should take like five minutes. Deal? us6.list-manage.com/survey?u=12c...

Nathan here, just want to highlight that all Joel Lane titles are on sale at @influxpress.bsky.social. Lane was indisputably one of the best weird and uncanny short fiction writers ever and he should be required reading. Do yourself a favour and pick up the whole set.

To celebrate the release of 'Make a Home of Me', Vanessa Santos will be appearing at Waterstones Totenham Court Road on Wednesday 9th of July! Tickets for this spine-tingling conversation are available at the link below! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/wUh2BHR

This is a GREAT read - such an intoxicating blend of uncanniness, weird magic and humour. Trippy as hell and so gripping @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @adamsleslie.bsky.social

Decomposition Book coming to a UK near you courtesy of @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 📓🥰 So grateful for everything!

Also, huge thanks to @deadinkbooks.bsky.social for sending me a physical copy of the book and a little make your own home - the latter caused lots of swearing, but I’m happy it’s now on my shelf 😂

This week's #BookReview is a fab new collection from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - Make a Home of Me by Vanessa Santos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Am0...

Vanessa Santos delivers an unsettling and unique horror anthology, set in homes that have turned against their inhabitants, safe spaces abruptly invaded, and familiar landscapes that become unrecognisable! 🏠 'Make a Home of Me' is OUT NOW! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/cgT9i09

I'm in this! Among excellent company!

On the blog today, read an extract from Vanessa Santos’s debut short story collection MAKE A HOME OF ME, out today from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social‬ Read here: lrb.me/tj3

It's publication day! 🥳 Happiest of releases to the haunting-est of books 👻 Congratulations to Vanessa Santos and her incredible debut fiction collection MAKE A HOME OF ME! Available now from your favourite bookshop or direct from us: deadinkbooks.com/product/make...

THEY ADDED TWO MORE BOOKS! But they are technically an add-on, so if you're an obsessive like me.... worth popping in to up your pledge a smidge....

I just backed this - a brilliant initiative by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Only a few hours left to pledge! Check out The Eden Book Society — 1993 by Dead Ink Books on @kickstarter.com - www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

The Eden Book Society Kickstarter ends today. Your last chance to back 100 years of unseen horror before the vaults close for another year. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

What a pleasure to get to chat to Vanessa Santos, @iameeadams.bsky.social and Michael J Malone at Waterstones Argyle St tonight! Brilliant books. Check them out! Thanks to @deadinkbooks.bsky.social too for being superstars.

The Eden Book Society archives close in 48 hours. Join now to unearth 100 years of unseen horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

The Eden Book Society archives close in 48 hours. Join now to unearth 100 years of unseen horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

A very special book for this year’s spooky season in a very beautiful edition. Unquiet Guests: Chuck Palahniuk Grady Hendrix Kirsty Logan Matthew Holness Claire Fuller Irenosen Okojie Will Maclean Ally Wilkes Clay McLeod Chapman Alison Moore Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/unquiet...