Delighted to be introducing you to yet another of our Motives Unknown authors -- meet Beth Barker, a Blackpool based writer whose work is concerned with all things dark and unsettling. Everything Dead Ink stands for. SKELETONS is a story that came from the lack of concern for women and girls' safety in Blackpool, and serves as an interrogation into how misogyny, austerity and social decline interweave, and exacerbate the problem. Beth is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Writing School and has been published by Factory International as part of a folk horror fiction series. She has also been shortlisted for the Word Factory Apprentie Awards in 2024. Make sure you pre-order MOTIVES UNKNOWN (01/05/25) at the link in bio and discover eleven other stories from emerging writers! #crimefiction #newwriting #writersofinstagram