Kate, abandoned by her husband years ago, had learned to live a happy life in her tiny cottage in the countryside. She was fond of her own company, and despite his absence, Miles, her husband, had provided for her financially, probably more out of guilt than love. Now that he’s dead, she’s been left a […]

https://youtu.be/mpf77oXuJRg Sarah lives a quiet life as a barista, full of routine and unremarkable days. Little does she know that her world is about to crumble. When disturbing visions begin to haunt her, she is thrown into a series of terrifying and dangerous events. With a mysterious stalker lurking in the shadows, Sarah’s once-ordinary world […]

The Prophecy by Lisa Zimmermann Released 21 July 2025 A gripping urban fantasy blending mystery, adventure, romance and self-discovery Sarah lives a quiet life as a barista, full of routine and unremarkable days. Little does she know that her world is about to crumble. When disturbing visions begin to haunt her, she is thrown into […]

A new voice in fiction from deaf author Georgie St-Claire. Travel to the gentle rolling green hills of Yorkshire where the White Rose Witches are both their own heroes and their own worst enemies. Once an inseparable group of friends, the seven are now severed, scattered across the world, hiding immense secrets. Evie Hepburn loves […]

I am the voice in your head coming to twist the knife in the darkness. You took everything from me. I will take it back.   Bella is weak; Bella is injured; Bella is scarred. And with a list of enemies growing ever longer, Bella is in more danger than ever before. But Bella is […]

As there are New Year Sales everywhere we thought at BAD PRESS iNK Towers that we’d join in to help you sample the range of authors and titles we produce – all these selected titles are available on Kindle for just 99p/99c across Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com from 29 December 2022 to 5 January 2023. So take your […]

In celebration of the second installments of two of our authors’ series we’ve launched two books with a bang on 5th November. PART TWO OF TAKE HER BACK TRILOGY – The Child Left in the Dark is the follow-up to the Amazon Bestseller, The Girl with the Green Eyes. There’s something growing in her that’s […]

If you’re looking for some BAD ASS Women’s books then BAD PRESS iNK is the place for you! Ex-Irish army soldier Lyndsey Ryan’s battles people trafficking in Michelle Dunne’s thriller The Invisible (follow up to the hit While Nobody Is Watching – now in development for TV). Bella battles an obsessive enemy to save her […]

A migrant crisis. A corrupt harbour town. Who will stand for those who have become invisible to the rest of the world? CLICK HERE for The Invisible, the new Lindsey Ryan thriller from Michelle Dunne. People have become one of the world’s most valuable commodities. Trafficked on the promise of a new life only to […]

  Genetic modification, the ferocity of a mother’s love and the complexity of relationships, from an exciting new female voice in sci-fi. Asking what it means to be human, as morality is blurred and science becomes destructive, J M Briscoe leads us to question: How far is too far? The Girl With The Green Eyes, […]

…so have tissues handy. At last, the adventures of Mrs Toothybitch and her Forest Fr1ends are out in book form. A first selection of your favourite images has been collected into Volume One of the hit series. Available at ForestFr1ends.ink, and at Amazon and all good sexbookshops. Volume Two coming soon…

We’ve run two competitions recently in association with blog tours for Me and The Monkey and Heavy Duty People, and we’re delighted to announce the winners as follows: Me and The Monkey Our lucky winner is Aaron Humphrey. Our nine runners up are Scott Brunskill, Wanda Cancina, Nancy Payette, Mike Magliaro, Melissa Meyers, John Smith, […]

His searing childhood experiences profoundly shaped the sculptor he was to become, renowned for works of majesty and life-affirming power. Natasha Kaplinsky   A first-hand narrative of the horrors of Bergen-Belsen, seen through the eyes of a child, and the remarkable life that followed.At the age of five, Maurice Blik experienced some of the worst […]

It’s really rewarding to see our authors’ work being recognised so it’s particularly great to have a double recently. Firstly Michelle Dunne’s brilliant psychological thriller While Nobody Is Watching has made it to the shortlist of The Book Bloggers’ Novel of The Year Award (run in conjunction with The Folio Society) which is great news. […]

Some shocking news I’m afraid as following Vikki’s announcement (below) we have to let you know that our friend and inspiration for BAD PRESS iNK, Zion is dead. Vikki’s Facebook notice: Lord Zion has been taken from me. My life is now a shadow. Fb didn’t allow me to put a pinned post, I’m hoping […]

“We might as well have just burnt the money in the stove and kept warm…” see 15:15 – the joy of publishing! Find out how a chance meeting in a Hexham Tesco Car Park led to the creation of our publishing house for new authors…

Delighted to share the news that Shaun Hand has been accepted onto the prestigious Writing West Midland Room 204 writers-in-development, follow the link for full details Writing West Midlands reveals the 2021 cohort of Room 204

Andy Darby has revealed a captivating / sinister (delete as applicable) Monkey God prequel and it’s yours as an absolutely free e-book when you sign up to the weekly Chronicles of The Monkey God – just CLICK HERE to sell your soul for it…

Ah, Valentines Day! And what better way to celebrate than taking your loved one for a romantic drink at The King George? Even if it does have “a bit of an Irvine Welsh vibe” according to one reviewer. The pub doors open today 14th February. Welcome to The King George. You know it. Your old […]

Look – we’re publishers, not brewers or pub owners, so once we’d had a run of beermats specially printed for the cover shots of Shaun’s debut novel set in a Midland pub, The Sadness of the King George, the question was what do we do with them? And one obvious answer to the question is, […]

An old one (seems to have been circulating on the web for a few years, would love to credit whoever wrote it initially), but a goodie if you’ve not seen it: Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organised Knowledge device, trade name “BOOK” BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits or batteries, […]

Join Michelle and the brilliant Cathy Kelly for a chat about books and how the Irish army and UN peacekeeping influenced her writing. The theme of this year’s festival is “Home” & that’s where you can tune in from! Sat 21st at 6.30pm – just follow the link www.dinglelit.ie/michelle-dunne

Don’t scream. Whatever you do. Don’t scream. Free e-book on Kindle for Halloween available 29 Oct to 2 Nov – CLICK HERE

it’s Sinister Sisterhood! Grab your free e-book copy HERE in this weekend’s promotion… Or even better, buy your paperback copy HERE and help give wild tigers a wild future…

Restful scenes to colour? Nope. Tranquil images to soothe the soul as you shade? Not so much. Cynical scenes to crayon? Now we’re talking! And so is Ivor Tymchak aka The Reckless Pen, creator of the legendary and subversive 80’s Life And How To Live It cartoon strip talks about the journey from 80’s Sounds […]

Be afraid, be VERY afraid We don’t usually go in for quoting reviews in full, but given the warning nature of this one by Mr SJ White we think we’ll make an exception in the interests of Public Health and Safety: Well, I can uncross my legs now I’ve finished Sinister Sisterhood. Any man who […]

Jane Badrock tackles one of the key issues of the day in her new blog for CrimeReads: You don’t have to be young to be a badass detective. Nobody suspects a little old lady…     But that’s the Sinister Sisterhood for you…

  ‘Does for trophy hunting what Tom Sharpe did for the South African police’ ‘Victoria Wood with a chainsaw’ ‘A ferociously inventive comic caper starring a gang of female desperados, it’ll satisfy every dark thought you’ve ever had about trophy hunters’  Support copy 15% of cover price direct to Tigers4Ever.org HERE Does poaching or trophy […]

Join Jane Badrock and two beautiful but deadly sisters as she introduces her new book Sinister Sisterhood and talks about how and why she wrote it. Jane was obsessed with horror, adventure, and humorous literature from an early age thanks mainly to her grandmother’s book collection. By the age of twelve, she was writing funny […]

“The path of the righteous man is beset of all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of the charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of […]

Nia at the Whispering Stories book blog has posted a cracking review for Paul Phipps-Williams’ The Axe & Grindstone, read it HERE.

Everything’s fine – read Ray Leigh’s guide to life in a time of toilet roll shortages on CrimeReads

This is an excerpt from the massive HorrorBuzz.com. To read the full review, click here. “It far exceeded any expectations I had in general and it’s easily one of my favorite recent reads. Hats off to the author, Paul Phipps-Williams, for such a strong debut novel and for writing a story that is both imaginative […]

Fifty percent of BAD PRESS iNK – Iain and Pat – were at a biker event a couple of weeks back and took along THE AXE & GRINDSTONE pre-release to sell a few. It went well and thought we’d share some of the stand images with you:     We have also been producing some […]

Should you capitalise each letter on a blog heading? That is the big question of the day. It looks odd, but it seems to be the fashionable thing to do – not that we care much about fashion, mind. Something to ponder. In the meantime, thought I would share this great meme that Vikki created, […]

Just a quickie as we have gone and gotten ourselves onto the Twitter machine. You can follow us @badpressink – we follow back! -Z

Our first book has been released! Paul Phipps-Williams’ THE AXE & GRINDSTONE came out yesterday, on Hallowe’en, and we are all pretty stoked to announce that it reached number 38 on Amazon’s hotly contested Horror Book Chart. As you can see from the image below, the zeitgeist bomb that is Stranger Things was right next […]

Go down the pub or enter an alternative universe filled with horror? OR… BOTH! Welcome to The Axe & Grindstone. Don’t Scream. ————– The Axe & Grindstone by Paul Phipps-Williams Released 31st October 2019 Paperback https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1916084508/ Kindle https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07YK4LQ98 For fans of #TerryPratchett #DouglasAdams #StephenKing #TerryBrooks #SimonPegg #ShaunOfTheDead #ComedyHorror #HorrorComedy #HorrorBooks #FantasyBooks #UrbanFantasy #HorrorReads #ComedyHorrorBooks #ComedyHorrorReads #NewBookReleases #NewBookReleasesUK #IndiePublishing

We have some freebies for ya! Read by none other than author Paul himself, you can listen to the first two chapters by downloading this file or zipping on over to Soundcloud.   Prefer to read rather than listen? Then enjoy this free chapter download.

“For the last time, I’m not a bloody werewolf.” The woman looked at me, but I could tell she wasn’t convinced. “I’m not convinced,” she said – rather more dramatically than was necessary, I thought. Oh well. I knew what was about to happen and yes, before long there was a mob of people all […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7th October 2019 First time novelist is the closest thing to Terry Pratchett since his hat, claims publisher. (Northumberland, UK) BAD PRESS iNK, an upstart start-up book publisher, has claimed Hallowe’en as the perfect date to issue its first release. THE AXE & GRINDSTONE is the debut novel by PAUL PHIPPS-WILLIAMS, an […]

First blog, eh? Always a tricky one, so I may as well start at the beginning. Not right at the beginning, of course – not The Big Bang. Not even The Big Bang that resulted in me being here. I am not even talking about how BPi started (coz you can read all about that […]