#midnight ink

[epictusz]

“Don’t make me wait. My fingers are ready to do the walking!!”

::Epictusz Salvatore::

[dailykyun]

[abrighterspark]

ever-growing ink

i can feel it: the slow slink of ink between my ribs a sticky oil binding my limbs and my lips and i'm lost in the appeal of the unreal and the lonely and the feeling that maybe i don't have to be

i can feel it: the second wave of wanting like a slow burning inferno of midnight creeping up on the moon and the stars trying to outshine its light give up as the ink takes root and begins to bloom

[fymx]

© MIDNIGHT INK 〉do not edit or crop the logo

[fymonsta-x]

MIDNIGHT INK ϟ do not edit or crop logo.

[fychangki]

© Midnight Ink 🐺 do not edit.  

[annarellix]

The Time for Murder is Meow - T. C. LoTempio

My review: (5*) I loved this book that starts a new series by T.C. LoTempio. It's engrossing, entertaining and full of potential. It's a light, well written and fun to read story, with a lovely setting and a cast of fleshed out and likeable characters. I think that Ms LoTempio does an excellent work in developing cat characters and those in this book are no exceptions as they're realistic and lovely at the same time. The mystery was good, it kept me guessing till the end and had no "too stupid to live" situations. I hope this series will continue as it's full of potential and could become one of my favourite. It's highly recommended! Many thanks to Midnight Ink and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

The plot: Crishell "Shell" McMillan sees the cancellation of her TV series as a blessing in disguise. The former actress can now take over her late aunt's pet shop, the Purr N' Bark, and do something she loves.While getting the shop ready for re-opening, Shell is asked to loan her aunt's Cary Grant posters to the local museum for an exhibit. She finds the prospect exciting—until a museum board member, who had a long-standing feud with Shell's aunt, votes against it. When she discovers the board member dead in the museum, Shell becomes suspect number one. Can she, her Siamese cat Kahlua, and her new sidekick—her aunt's Persian Purrday—find the real culprit, or will her latest career go up in kitty litter?

(via The Time for Murder is Meow | T. C. LoTempio | 9780738760360 | NetGalley)

[selfpublishingnews]

What Authors Should Do When Their Publisher Closes

What happens to authors when their publishers closes? Who retains the rights to their novels? Find out how authors can advocate for themselves when their publisher shuts down an imprint.

From Forbes.com, continuing to provide valuable information and ideas to authors.

Mystery author Kellye Garrett found out that her publisher, Midnight Ink, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide, would be closing to new author submissions next year on the same day the news was announced publicly in October, when she received an email from the publisher.

Garrett has two current titles in her Midnight Ink Detective by Day series for sale: Hollywood Homicide, published in August 2017, and Hollywood Ending, published in August 2018, with a third, Hollywood Hack, scheduled for an August 2019 release. Hollywood Homicide was widely lauded in the mystery community, winning the coveted 2017 Agatha Award for Best First Novel and 2018 Anthony Award for Best First Novel, among others.

Garrett told Forbes.com that she and other Midnight Ink authors “were as shocked as everyone else. There are so many things you stress about when you have a book coming out—reviews, sales, publicity—that it never occurred to me that I would have to deal with my publisher closing.”

Author Mollie Cox Bryan, whose Classic Star Biography mysteries series will debut with The Jean Harlow Bombshell in May 2019, heard the news from her literary agent. This will be her first—and last—novel for Midnight Ink. Like Garrett, she didn’t have any inkling that the publisher planned to stop publishing. “I was shocked and saddened by the news for myself, but also for the mystery community,” Bryan said.

Midnight Ink publisher Bill Krause told Forbes.com that the 25 forthcoming Midnight Ink titles will still be published and promoted as planned, with the last being released in September 2019. “Midnight Ink will continue to produce, publish, market, support and sell forthcoming titles as well as the 250-title strong backlist into the foreseeable future,” Krause commented via email. Of those 25 forthcoming titles, Krause said, “Several are new authors to Midnight Ink with stand-alone projects, while others are series books that have had their slots from previous years.” The imprint’s mystery series are generally released via one new book in the series per year, released during the same month. Among their longest running series is Kathleen Ernst’s Chloe Ellefson series; the tenth volume, Fiddling with Fate, will be published by Midnight Ink in September 2019..

Publishers Weekly stated that the imprint, founded in 2005, would be closing, while Midnight Ink is adamant that they aren’t closing, merely not taking any new submissions and not publishing new titles beyond September 2019. But for authors with books pending, both descriptions leave the ultimate fate of their books and series similarly unclear.

Read the complete article here at Forbes.com.