dead ink books
Based in Liverpool, Dead Ink is the award-winning alternative to mainstream publishing. We're publishers of the weird, bold, and genre-defying.

New & Forthcoming

Outsider Classics

Outsider Classics is Dead Ink’s resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced, and the outcast. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. From forgotten masterpieces to once-censored provocations, each title is a reaction against the canon curated for readers looking to stray into the margins.

New Ruins

New Ruins is a paperback imprint focused on the porous and uncanny boundary between the edge-lands of literary and genre fiction. New Ruins publishes books that are comfortable sitting across, within, or outside of genre labels, for readers unafraid of transgressing boundaries and features everything from startling originals to cult genre-transgressors.

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Dead Ink as an independent publisher based in Liverpool. We’re small, but we punch well above our weight when it comes to breaking the careers of bold new authors.

Remember back in the day when pursuers of the literary arts would have a rich benefactor acting as their patron? Yeah, well we don’t know anyone like that, but we do have a Patreon where anyone can subscribe. Every Patron get’s each of our books delivered to them a month before publication, they come signed and we throw in lots of extra goodies. There’s also extra content from our authors and our team on the Patreon page that you can access.

Subscribing to our press in this way is the best way to support Dead Ink and it means we can be confident publishing the kind of bold literature that nobody else is doing.

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