Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid

As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!

So many amazing small presses out there putting out interesting stuff you'll never find anywhere else. Four of my favorites are: @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @shotgunhoney.com @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Cornerstone Press They've all put out great stuff this year, with more about to be released

It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories. malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades

Hey, you can now listen to me yap with the wonderful writer @ljabouttown.bsky.social about life’s strange journey, being a picky mfer about craft and much more! If this is half as much fun to listen to as it was to record, it should be a hoot

Better late than never, @ljabouttown.bsky.social’s conversation with Boxcutters/Feast of the Pale Leviathan author @johnchrostek.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Twice-a-week therapy kinda place in my life.

Finally got some Malarkey books in an NPR article!

Hey, this is fun news! Mouth, my fifth book of poems, comes out in January, and I’m delighted to share the cover —

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Most of our books are available through Bookshop, and you can also support your local bookstore with your order! bookshop.org/shop/malarke...

Spooky season starts today, with The Barre Incidents!

My niece working at my typewriter and hitting the letter “a” over and over: “I’m writing a very long story and most of it is people screaming.”

My ardent love for this bookmail!! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @vikhinao.bsky.social

BTW - Malarkey Books still has my book, Still Alive, on sale for $13 (!!!!), so if you've been on the fence about taking the plunge, now is the time to do it for cheap. It was longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Awards and some folks say it's good. <3 malarkeybooks.com/store/stilla...

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As it was Adorno’s bday yesterday, a little note from Teddy on “the stupidity of cleverness,” addressed no doubt to recent authors of widely disseminated opinion columns in liberal newspapers

thehardtimes.net/blog/could-a... The Hard Times, why must you be so good?

Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say

I cut like three long paragraphs from my novel today that I really liked but that warped the story so please be proud of me because I am bad at cutting and good at including EVERYTHING.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Added My Ardent Love for the Pencil and @renbolger.bsky.social’s forthcoming (but copies now in our possession) novel The Barre Incidents to the t-shirt bundle. Barre won’t be signed but it is discounted in the bundle. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

I’ve been listening to War and Peace and recently finished Anna Karrenina, and it has struck me how much narrative propulsion Tolstoy gets out of tracing biographical developments. Like, the drama is in how people change and grow and incorporate their life’s events into their sense of the world.

perfect example of the potential and power in a short list poem today from Claire Nelson! https://www.havehashad.com/zrafw

I was so lucky to be interviewed by the amazing @karentucker.bsky.social for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Art about my book First Aid for Choking Victims from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. We talked about power dynamics and interior lives. Give it a read gulfcoastmag.org/stories/subt...

I was so lucky to be interviewed by the amazing @karentucker.bsky.social for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Art about my book First Aid for Choking Victims from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. We talked about power dynamics and interior lives. Give it a read gulfcoastmag.org/stories/subt...

Just finished @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's THE GREAT ATLANTIC HIGHWAY by Steve Gergley and can attest to it being an enjoyable follow-up to @johnchrostek.com 's BOXCUTTERS. I'm sure vice-versa would work as well. 🛣️📦✂️✂️🛣️

Good morning everyone! Join us this morning with a new episode of Get Lit. We talked to memoir writer Sarah Gray, writer and professor Ross Angelella, best-selling erotica/romance writer Valerie Lennox, and indie favorite @kylerseibel.bsky.social dcplpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/get...

Citizen Kane, the story of a self-involved tycoon, is feeling especially relevant right now.

Watching Citizen Kane and the whole plot line of his affair sinking his candidacy for Governor just feels laughable now.

Got this collection from @badguybirnie.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social on a whim and loved it. Strange Canadian tall tales and oddities filled with memorable characters.

Book Club 2026: 4 books 4 poetry EPs 3 King Ludd’s Rag zines 1 Hellarkey $120 malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

2,804 orders have been processed through our website and we’d like to break 3,000 this month. Here’s the link to our ebooks section. As always we offer free shipping on all ebooks! malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

If you’ve ever felt invisible, if you’ve ever felt out of place, if you’ve ever daydreamed about Rocky from 3 Ninjas, this book is for you!

Hey there. You look like you could use a new book. Might I make a recommendation?

Darcy and I won the semis this morning and then, through her steady play, took the championship in a come from behind victory!

Excellent vacation mail from @alexmiller77.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! You too could have excellent vacation reading.

Get yourselves a fully immersive experience: long stories, long immersion!

Dropping a copy of @matthewzmuller.bsky.social’s book in the mail but we have a nice little stack here. Maybe one of these copies is waiting for you. One thing I love about these stories is that in an era dominated by economy and brevity, they are loooooong!

I don’t mean to brag, but our team won both of our cornhole tournament games today during the first two rounds of our summer championship at work. I’m still shaking from the adrenaline rush. Nothing will ever beat this.

Periodic reminder that if you read my book and messaged me or made a bluesky posting about it, I'm eternally grateful, and would also be really appreciative of a quick review drop on Goodreads, Amazon, or LibraryThing. I wish these things didn't make such a difference, but they do!

Was really pleased with this very generous review of my book: “Every breath is a battle against the weight of perfection in this unflinching story collection about the vagaries of youth.”

Be a sellout! Buy my book.

Always so nice to get feedback like this!

Summer is in full swing, but there's plenty of time to enjoy the beach read that will change your life. I've got some copies of White People on Vacation in the house, and I would love to sign one and mail it to you for the (discount!) price of $14. DM if interested!

22 to go! Help us reach our goal by end of July 💜

We are grateful to the Independent Book Review for doing what they do in general, and for this review of @johnchrostek.com’s book more specifically. independentbookreview.com/2025/07/14/b...

Adding a new book club option: sign up for the digital book club ($25) and you’ll get ebooks of all books and zines for the year, as well as a sampler of writing by 16 Malarkey writers and a code to get 50% off any and all of our ebooks, past, present, and future. malarkeybooks.com/store/digita...

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