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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're delighted to announce a major expansion of the acclaimed Inklings collection, unveiling four new books while continuing the international rollout of the award-winning pocket-sized non-fiction list, acquired from @404ink.bsky.social Read the full announcement here: tinyurl.com/2uj57acj

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We might have a secret 25% off code for the Saturday event this weekend... DM us and we'll see what we can do!

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"It wasn’t quite the best of times or the worst of times, but Scottish publishing was a turbulent place in the mid-2010s." Thanks to Alistair Braidwood and @theskinnymag.bsky.social for the lovely chat about the legacy of 404 Ink! www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/ed...

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Loud and Proud: Celebrating ten years of 404 Ink - The Skinny

After a decade of publishing, the duo behind one of Scotland's most seminal indie presses, 404 Ink, look back at an impressive career and legacy.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Send us off in style at @edbookfest.bsky.social in Aug! 404 Ink: Ten Years of Publishing Loudly Sat 22 | 21:00 - 22:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i... @laurafjones.bsky.social & @heathermmcd.bsky.social: Publisher Not Found Sun 23 | 18:30 - 19:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 22/07/2026

Following the closure of independent publisher 404 Ink, VERVE Books has acquired three of their backlist titles to ensure these books continue to reach new audiences. 👇

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Verve Books acquires backlist titles from recently closed 404 Ink

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What a force for good 404 Ink was, is, will continue to be! Laura and Heather have been so generous to Scotland’s literary scene - the Queer Words project, and so many other weird and wonderful treasures, simply would not have existed without their support. And what a classy exit! A rare treat!

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Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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.

A black circular sticker that reads "I am better than everyone else because 404 Ink says so. x"

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's our online shop now closed. 10,629 orders via our website over 10 years, all personally packed and walked/wheeled to the post office. We're gonna miss it in a weird way. What. a. ride. ✌️

Screenshot of our website saying "our shop is now closed. Thank you for all your support of the last 10 years. 404 x"

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Switching off in a few hours!

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 29/06/2026

404 Ink also close their shop tomorrow, so it's a great opportunity (and the last chance) to get some of their wonderful books. They'll be much missed, both as fantastic publishers and supporters of the wider indie press scene! www.404ink.com/shop

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Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink

Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

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Leona @editor.scot · 29/06/2026

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!

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On top of the initial £3,000 pledged by 404 Ink, we were able to offer further funds and opportunities thanks to those who preordered our book Publisher Not Found and backed our Crowdfunder - thank you. We are also grateful to have received support from the below organisations, in terms of time or products:
Publishing Scotland
Inpress Books
Magic Cat
Libro.fm
The Bookseller
Intuitive Editing (that’s me)
ed. PR
One Shot Studios
Fly on the Wall Press

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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

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Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink

Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📢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

404 Ink Bursary in numbers, £5,500 give away to small presses. 844 preorders of Publisher Not Found. 39 Crowdfunder supporters. 23 small presses supported. 16 additional opportunities given to small presses. 10 sponsors and partners. 4 small press projects funded. 3 internships supported.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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

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Wonky Books — 404 Ink

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Everything must go! Make sure there's nothing left on 404 Ink's shelves but dust and memories!

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The books are quite literally flying off our shelves with many now sold out! Keep it up, lovely folks

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clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Recommended, and, in particular, the final title, 'Publisher Not Found' (for publishers and non-publishers alike)

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What a great publisher. Get in fast and clean em out while you can. #BookSky

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink

Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Less than 24 hours to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage for less than a fiver

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ebooks disappear TOMORROW! Last, last chance!

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

To echo Michael, these anthologies - and Queer Words Project Scotland as a whole! - have been *the* highlight of the last decade, for me. Getting to read, publish, meet & support so many phenomenal writers has been a privilege, and being supported in turn by @404ink.bsky.social has been a dream!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As @404ink.bsky.social closes it's doors this Summer, you have until the end of the month to get We Were Always Here/Fierce Salvage as an ebook, and only a couple of months to buy them in print www.404ink.com/store/p/we-w...

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We Were Always Here (ebook) — 404 Ink

The queer words anthology. From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. A showcase of amazing queer tale...

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I love a publishing memoir!! This one by @404ink.bsky.social is genuinely insightful

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🎨🖌️Painting Trashpanda Hobby-Tan🎮🧩 @hobbytan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

They arrived today! Only problem now is I can't decide which to read first!

A series of books published by 404 ink:
- Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of Sex Scenes by Xuanlin Tham
- The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
- Solemates: A History of Our Fetish for Feet by Adam Zmith
- Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell
- All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths by Jean Menzies
- Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption 404 Ink: 2016 - 2026 by Heather McDaid and Laura Jones-Rivera

The spines of all my 404 Ink books on the shelf next to an assortment of queer and chronic illness books

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

CLOSING DOWN SALE: 66% off all books! Just over two weeks left until we close our creaking doors for good, so head to our website and grab yourself a scarily good 66% off all our kick-ass Gothic, horror and dark fiction books. Use code at checkout: HAUNT66 www.hauntpublishing.com/books

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 01/05/2026

These were bargains at twice the price :)

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Karl Johnson @karlpjohnson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Buy The #Loki Variations💚* and everything else before we lose 404 Ink for good! *I'm really gonna need the money!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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Ebook — Buy Books from 404 Ink — 404 Ink

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Two days left to get applications in! We close the form on Sunday, 11.59pm.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

To accommodate for various holidays, we're extending the deadline for bursary applications until Sunday 19th April, 11.59pm BST. We're excited to see great applications come in and want to see more!

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F. @edgwareviabank.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Books I read in March: switching genres like it's nobody's business. Special thanks to @404ink.bsky.social (the reflections on bilingualism in Speak Still will stay with me a long time), and to @orendabooks.bsky.social, because In Thin Air has to be the best thriller I've read in many months.

Books I finished in March 2026:

1) "Into Thin Air" by Orjan Karlsson: I had a hard time putting this thriller down. The short chapters all drive the plot forward in a satisfying way, and make it easy to blitz through the story. And I really warmed up to the investigation team, so it's great news that there are more books in this series.
2) "Speak Still" by Wing Lam Tong: One of those books that make me wish the author was my friend - we'd have so much to talk about. Speak Still is about bilingualism, translation, colonialism, and much more. Even though it's quite short, I enjoyed going through it slowly, considering every word with care.
3) "Rinsed" by Geoff White: because if you don't know me by now, fraud and scams are one of my rabbit holes. Watching my colleagues' jaws drop as I told them "I'm reading a book about crypto money laundering" at the company retreat was priceless. Jokes aside, though: credit to this book for making the subject matter accessible (I cannot overstate just how little I "get" crypto, but could follow along just fine), and for painting a clear (if frightening) picture of the magnitude and scale of the crimes tech money laundering facilitates.
4) "Karla's Choice" by Nick Harkaway: would you believe I never read a George Smiley novel in English? I shall be righting that wrong. Starting from the end, i.e. the most recent novel written by John Le Carré's son. It's everything I'd expect from a spy story from the original series, down to the tone of voice and '60s setting. Highly recommended for the spy novel fans out there.

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

404 Ink are once again doing great work and offering bursaries for small presses. Small press publishing is crucial for diverse and equitable publishing models - so check it out!

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Today is technically the official publication day for Publisher Not Found, because it's 4/04/26... but Saturday is an awkward pub day so we released it early. Thank you all who have taken time with it already and for the kind words! www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

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Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption by 404 Ink — 404 Ink

What really goes on behind closer doors in publishing? After ten years of running their own award-winning company, 404 Ink, McDaid and Jones-Rivera call time on their venture and invite readers into t...

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We've raised enough for at least another £1,000 bursary for publishing projects and £500 for an internship! Can you help get us to £2,000 over this month to get more cash to the small presses that need it? Share & donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/404-bursary

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404 Ink bursaries to support indie publishing!

404 Ink is raising funds to support independent publishers, creatives and projects as their last project ahead of their 2026 closure.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢 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...

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Apply for the 404 Ink Bursary

404 Ink is the award-winning independent publisher, founded in 2016 to ‘publish loudly’, run by freelancers Heather McDaid and Laura Jones-Rivera. We will be closing the company on our tenth birthday ...

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who has donated and got us past our modest target so quickly! The crowdfunder will be open for a while yet to support as many bursaries as possible for the crucial small presses across the UK.

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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is a beautiful and heartfelt read about what it’s really like to run a small publishing house. HUGE shout out to @heathermmcd.bsky.social and @laurafjones.bsky.social for a decade of producing wonderful, original and important books. ✊Why not go buy some at www.404ink.com

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢 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

Illustration of 404 Ink's books on two shelves with text "support the future of small press publishing"

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 13/03/2026

UK small press publishers, get your eyes on this!

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