Four is the magic number ✨ The fourth era of INKLINGS has arrived!
📚8 new books exploring activism, hedonism, self-expression and more.
📣9 new brilliant authors
📕Big ideas to carry in your pocket
💻Crowdfunding now.
Pre-order via
@Kickstarter
:
We are bloody delighted to announce we've received a £10,000 grant as Young Edge winners and the first ever publisher to win a
@ScottishEDGE
award. Thank you!!
#EDGE12awards
*pssst*
over here
don't tell anyone
but
we have news
we're opening submissions on Monday
Monday 31st August
we'll post more info then
but for now
get your books ready
because we're ready for books
2020 has been hard
2021 will be better
'cause books
ok, bye
👋
❤️
.
@MargaretAtwood
's support of Nasty Women has meant a great deal to us this year and we're unbelievably chuffed and humbled to have been able to spend some time with her today. Thank you again, for the milionth time - stay Nasty!
Introducing: INKLINGS!
📚8 new books with big ideas across identity, society, culture, apocalypses, education & more to carry in your pocket!
📣Part of
@creativescots
Crowdmatch!
📕Covers:
@lukejbird
!
Pre-order TODAY! via
@crowdfunderuk
:
📢 WE ARE HIRING! 📢
Thanks to everyone who helped us smash our Inklings crowdfunder, we’re using some additional funds to bring on a paid in(k)tern in summer 2021!
Remote, open to anyone in the UK. Fee: £500. Deadline: 31st May.
Full info:
The Saltire Society Publisher of the Year are
@404Ink
Since becoming the 2017 Emerging Publishers of the Year, the team at 404Ink continue to grow from strength to strength while making publishing more accessible and transparent to all.
#SNBA22
📢Mark your diaries. 404 Ink is open for book submissions from 1-30 September 2022!
We're looking to commission our 2024 list and are looking for fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Full info:
Spread the word, polish your drafts, tell your friends.
📢 WE ARE HIRING! 📢
After trialling our internship scheme last year, we are back with THREE new paid positions across 2022. Spread the word! Apply!
💻Remote, UK-based, flexible hours.
💰 Fee: £500.
📅 Deadline: 6 March.
Full info:
HEY. Amazon are undercutting all our books right now (not an ad!) - we've seen our website sales drop lately and that's... not fun.
In the spirit of buying one book making a big difference, please consider supporting 404? Amazon makes it tough, man.
👉
BLOG: Money, money, money💰
There's a lot of talk about lack of transparency on money in publishing. We're often asked about setting up costs, where money comes from, and goes.
SO, here's a blog doing just that:
It has pie charts and everything.
HEY!
404 Ink will be accepting pitches 1-31 October 2021 for our Inklings non-fiction series. We'll be commissioning our whole list for 2022 soon. Submit! Spread the word!
Submission info:
More on future Inklings plans:
We’re back! Meet the new era of INKLINGS!
📚 8 new books exploring grief, DnD, the power of hair, BFFs, survivors, and much more.
📣10 new brilliant authors.
💻 Crowdfunding now.
📕 Covers:
@lukejbird
!
Pre-order TODAY via
@kickstarter
:
Back, back, back again: the new era of INKLINGS has arrived!
📚8 new books exploring punk, tech, displacement,
#DoctorWho
and much more.
📣8 new brilliant authors.
📕Big ideas to carry in your pocket.
💻Crowdfunding now.
Pre-order TODAY via
@kickstarter
:
📚 Here it is! WE SHALL FIGHT UNTIL WE WIN, the graphic novel anthology from 404 and
@BHP_Comics
celebrating the centenary of the first wave of women gaining the right to vote in the UK, is now on Kickstarter! Pre-order here:
Announcement! We've partnered with our pals
@BHP_Comics
to publish WE SHALL FIGHT UNTIL WE WIN, a graphic novel anthology in celebration of the centenary of women gaining the right to vote:
Announcing the full line up of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature!
Nature writing is mostly male, white & middle class. Gathering carves space for British women of colour to explore nature, climate justice, their inherited histories & so much more.
🌿
Upholding tradition, we present our
#BlackFriday
deals.
Want a book from an author who toiled over it for months and years? 0% off!
Maybe some titles that we invested time and money in? 0% off!
Sarcastic banter? FREE.
EVERYTHING 100% RRP
💲💲💲 💲💲💲
NEWS: The 404 magazine relaunches this summer and the theme is: SPACE.
We're looking for fiction! non-fiction! poetry! Deadline 24/2.
🌌 Full info: 🌌
Also s/o to 404's new Project Officer
@imogen_stirling
who will be heading up this new era of the mag!
A fun thing. 404 Ink is 5 years old today! 🎉
We launched as baby publishers with a mysterious tweet on 15th July 2016.
To celebrate and say thanks we've got 15% off everything at 💥
Use code HAPPYBDAY404 at the checkout.
Five down, many more to go~
A heads up that our internship scheme will be open for applications on Wednesday 1st November!
We're looking to take on 3 interns in 2024, each will have 5 days with us over 5 weeks, remote (based in the UK), and paid £500 each.
Full info:
We are delighted to announce this year's
#BritishBookAwards
Small Press of the Year Regional and Country finalists! This year sees 50 in the final, reflecting "Small Press publishing at its best, smart and nimble" 📚
A huge congrats, see the full list:
Alright: We're launching 404's Book World 101, a free resource to demystify the book industry for aspiring publishers 📚
📝More info:
📧 Sign up to the newsletter:
Please boost & spread the word! 🧵
Hey pals. We have a nice little followship of 10k or so which is enough for us to feel allowed to say:
Stay the fuck at home. 'Stay alert' means fuck all. You can only 'control the virus' if you stay the fuck at home. So do that thing.
Sorry for the swearing. Bit mad today!
It's that time again (somehow, already) - our submissions for the next batch of the Inklings series will be opening Sunday 1st October.
Prepare your pitches!
Full info:
PALS, WE'VE HAD TWO LOADS OF AWESOME THINGS HAPPEN IN THE LAST FEW DAYS BEHIND THE SCENES WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT YET BUT WE WILL SAY THAT 3 YEARS OF SLOGGING IS GRADUALLY PAYING OFF AND WE FEEL LIKE PHOEBE WHEN ALL THE DEAD CHRISTMAS TREES WERE SAVED FOR HER.
In light of the UK gov blocking Scottish legislation, we are giving away proofs of
@carrieinglasgow
's uplifting & funny memoir Carrie Kills A Man for those who may need it. A tale of ripping it up & starting again. Email laura
@404ink
.com with postal address to claim. UK only. ❤️
HEY. Remember that good news we were talking about? Here it is.
@PenguinBooks
have bought rights to
@HelenMcClory
's THE GOLDBLUM VARIATIONS and will be publishing in North America later this year!!
Full info:
All that glitters is indeed Goldblum.
We've re-opened our mag subs and are seeking writing from underrepresented groups. We received some exceptional writing in our first call but want to ensure we are publishing a diverse range of voices, and do all we can to make sure that happens.
🌌🌌
HEY!
404 Ink will be accepting pitches 1-31 July 2022 for our Inklings non-fiction series. We're looking to commission titles for May 2023 onwards. Submit! Spread the word!
Submission info:
The Inklings series so far:
🌌 THE 404 INK MAGAZINE IS BACK! 🌌
We pressed pause, revamped, and now we're ready for relaunch.
Issue
#5
. July 2019. Cover by:
@toadlett
. 🔥
Available to pre-order on
@Kickstarter
NOW:
Help us fund the future of the 404 mag 🚀
The 404 In(k)ternships are now OPEN for applications until Wednesday 15th Nov!
We're looking to take on 3 interns in 2024. Each will have 5 days with us over 5 weeks, remote (based in the UK), and paid £500 each.
Full info & apply:
📢SUBMISSIONS!📢
✍404 is reopening submissions from 7th December 2018 to 10th February 2019.
📚We're looking for fiction and non-fiction.
📝Full information can be found at .
🎉Hooray for books.
Chuffed to announce that 404 has received
@CreativeScots
funding towards our publishing schedule through to summer 2019 🎉 The next year is a particularly important one for us, and this and this funding is going to make a huge difference to our wee company 📚
Alternate reality where men are written about like women.
The audience, a mainly male group made up of shocks of oiled hair flashed by dapper men of marvellously moustached countenance came to see two lumberjacks and a blushing young ganymede talk about their book.
Pals. You SMASHED our goal! Completely! We've also passed the 3rd milestone of £7.5k which means the next goal is an ambitious £15k! We'll be adding that as a stretch goal soon but for now...speechless. We didn't expect this at all!
It's been a long week but excited to end it with a big announcement! 📚
@ChrisMcQueer
has been busy these last few months working on THINGS, the revised edition of his book for the English market.
Now available for pre-order at:
You may have seen us vague tweeting a few weeks back about good news, and it's this! 404's received
@CreativeScots
funding towards our 2022 list (announcing soon), lots of paid opps for freelancers, formalising our intern scheme, and general good stuff 🎉
Here it is! The full cover of
@nadineaishaj
's LET ME TELL YOU THIS, by the amazing
@neonlanterns
.
'A punchy, powerful debut' -
@JackieKayPoet
'An important collection. Incisive, delicate and precise' -
@nikeshshukla
Out March. Order your copy here: 💛
Hello. 404 Ink is HIRING!
We're looking for a Bookkeeper to work on the finances, and a Project Officer to work with us to shape the future of 404 Ink, take charge on our literary magazine, and generally join the 404 Ink gang.
COULD THAT BE YOU?
UMMM?? We won the
#FutureBook22
Team Award for our In(k)ternship scheme, jointly with
@orionbooks
! Thank you! We didn't pre-record a speech because we thought there's no chance, but this is wild. Happy! Surreal! Pay your interns!
From world-beating campaigns to pioneering startups, brave & tireless teams to soul-stirring events, each of these unique stories points the way towards an exciting publishing future.
The FutureBook Awards Shortlists are here!
Discover them at:
We've got new books coming out in 2024/25 AND the In(k)ternship will be back, applications to open towards the end of the year, thanks to Creative Scotland.
More info:
Relieved to have been awarded some support from the
@scotgov
@scotent
#COVID19
Hardship Fund, enough to get us through the next couple of months. Who knows what the rest of the year holds for us but for now, phew.
Okay, back to work. 👋
Catching up after a week on hols to see 404 is nearly at 10k followers. It's also three years ago this week that we made 404 a proper company and decided to give this whole publishing thing a go. Would be cool to hit 10k to mark the occasion! Let's do this 💪
We're delighted to be publishing
#NastyWomen
's
@nadineaishaj
! Her debut poetry book Threads navigates issues of racism, gender, and the sustaining and restorative bonds between women 📚 Coming March 2019.
Read more:
(📷 Rob McDougall)
A few months back we put a call out for Board members, and are delighted to be welcoming three to the 404 Team!
@DharaSnowden01
,
@HughesPeg
&
@Detroit67Book
.
Can't wait to work with you all! You can find out more about our marvellous Board on our site:
⚡️ Introducing the only slightly desperate 'help get 404 out of their overdraft' sale! All of our ebooks are £2.50 or less in the hope we can ease the pain of being at our overdraft limit while we wait for funds to arrive.
More info & sale:
The most successful people I've met:
1. Read books
2. Workout books
3. Are innately books
4. Have laser books
5. Believe in books
6. Build incredible books
7. Admit they know books
8. Constantly work to books
9. Demand excellence in books
10. Books
The most successful people I've met:
1. Read constantly
2. Workout daily
3. Are innately curious
4. Have laser focus
5. Believe in themselves
6. Build incredible teams
7. Admit they know very little
8. Constantly work to improve
9. Demand excellence in everything they do
A while back, we had the pleasure of meeting Ali Smith. We psyched ourselves up to go talk to her and tell her about
#NastyWomen
to discover she already knew and had much to say on it (surreal!). We're delighted to have received this absolutely beautiful quote on our wee book:
📢 404 Ink submissions re-open at the end of this week 📢
We are looking to take on our first novels to publish as of 2019.
Full information can be found at:
😬 Our sales are down 95%.
😬 This is bad for our authors, sales team, distributor & us.
🙂 We're still selling on our website, orders fulfilled by BookSource.
🙂 You can still buy from some indie bookshops too.
Help us out if you can. ❤️
👉👉👉 👈👈👈
Excited to announce we're publishing human rights campaigner
@jemma_tweets
's debut non-fiction CONSTITUTION STREET in September 2019, looking at human rights through getting to know one single street and its inhabitants. Read more:
#HumanRightsDay
Sometimes copies of our books come to us from printers a bit askew and we can't sell them full price. They just sit in our houses getting dusty so we thought maybe some people would like their own wonky 404 book for 50% off:
Hey, have you met
@AndresNOrdorica
? He's amazing, and we're excited to announce 404 Ink will be publishing his sensational debut poetry collection At Least This I Know in January 2022!
More:
Pre-order:
Well look at what just arrived! A limited number of uncorrected proofs of short story collection Mayhem & Death from
@HelenMcClory
! Are you a reviewer, blogger? DM us for more mayhem in your life.
On
#IWD
2017, we published Nasty Women. It's been a wild year, but particularly we want to thank the absolutely brill women who shared their lives with us in these essays - we're proud to publish your incredible, important and powerful stories! ❤
#IWD2018
📢ANNOUNCING 📢 We Were Always Here: A
#QueerWords
Anthology, edited by
@HRFMichael
&
@ryanjjvance
.
Publishing January 2019. Meet the full line-up (and the snazzy cover) and pre-order today:
WE'RE LOOKING FOR COVER DESIGNERS!
We have our lit mag relaunching this summer, and are commissioning books for the rest of 2019/2020, so we'd love to get to know more designers.
If you'd like to be added to our lists, email a portfolio / info to hello
@404ink
.com. Thanks!