Why, that sounds awfully MAXIMALIST, if you ask me, I wonder what we can make of that?

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the 'good life,' whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”

“You look happier.” Thank you. I used all my love of Anne Rice, vampires, Gothic romance, and K.M. Szpara’s Docile to write a dark, angsty, challenging M/M/M vampire Gothic horror romance for fans of books like The Bloody Chamber, Kushiel's Dart, and Captive Prince.

John Frow, Genre

Finally finished Joe Koch's Invagines. Reading Koch is like if you put everything there is into a blender, jumped inside and had someone hitting the pulse setting. Newfound contender for one of my all time favorite short stories in there. Very good.

No AI will ever match the grace, skill and self mastery of handscrafted bullshit

These are all tulip variants to fuel the true tulipmania, computer sciences, which cannot function at its current scale anymore

it's incredible that we have a new tulipmania every week and i have to keep explaining to elderly relatives NO, THIS ONE IS ALSO A SCAM, JUST LIKE THE ONE LAST WEEK

I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...

Nothing says tension quite like MMF where you're very tightly gripping your sword because your BFF you're in love with and the morally bleak lady knight/queen you're also in love with are consummating their political marriage on the other side of the door you're guarding. Out today!! 🎉🎉

I can read and don't gamble, I'm like a prince

I'm making a forum. You're all invited

I'm a simple man. I see a cool editorial photoshoot, I follow the creatives involved

Yeah thats the stuff

Greenpoint’s Achilles Heel has closed, let’s check the hidden comments on their previous post shall we?

Customers who use the chat function on our website like it's an AI are, acrosd the board, tech illiterate

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Let's keep this going for today--a day without a Super Bowl--too. Get rad horror books, support folks needing rental assistance during the ICE occupation!

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

They're saying that trans women writers don't belong in literature and genre fiction, that we have an "unfair advantage" because we're "too hot and interesting"

Today, all Cursed Morsels store proceeds that would normally go to me will instead go to rent relief for 16 St. Paul families affected by ICE detention and occupation. Check out our store if you love weird horror and supporting neighbors during times of fascist terror: www.cursedmorselspress.com

What race?

Let's go down to the werewolf bakery Where the cookies are hot and the pastries are flakery

Im not telling u my pronouns. figure it out. context clues

There are a lot of nuances transplants don't have and one of them is thst homeless people sre your neighbors

New newsletter out in the world. Kind of do hope it gets read at least a little bit. buttondown.com/MalarkeyBook...

Talladega nights.... is the comedy version of Fast and Furious

Get the evilest book on MK Ultra ever written for $13, and keep a small press running. No downsides! BUY BACKMASK KSAMKCAB YUB

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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revisiting penny arcade. kinda surprised how well it still holds up

free them all

Dumas' FATHER was born to a French count and an enslaved African women in Haiti. The Père was then brought to France, was educated, served in the military, etc. "The Black Count" is a fantastic book about him. His son is the author Alexander Dumas, and he based Count of Monte Cristo on his Dad.🇭🇹

Joyelle McSweeney on Claude Cahun: "the writing is rambunctious with puns and made singular by its instinct to drive all syntaxes toward the plural. It's also stylish, sexy, and funny, a kind of handbook of what Cahun called "angel slang." hyperallergic.com/claude-cahun...

New worst song I've ever heard just played at the 24/7 gym

Jokes on you, we're friends now

My M/M trans man priest x demon romance is now open for Kindle pre-orders! I should emphasize that if you're someone who thinks, “Hey, romances should take advantage of the fact that demons have extremely long, forked tongue and pointed tails”—then, this is the book for you!

2026 Weirdpunk SubClub is now open for members! Sorry there was a big delay on this. If you are a 2025 member, please refer to the email I sent out on Tuesday for info. Everyone else, here's the link with details! weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/-202...

today ! David Scott Hay showcases seven indie books u should check out. thanks to david & thanks to all u readers out there xraylitmag.com/honest-blurb...

Kim has great screen presence but it doesn't take a trained eye to see that a lot of articulate, knowledgable reporters didn't take a public speaking class

The Ancillary Review of Books anti-billionaire promise:

Awesome! Now it's time to bring publishing into the conversation we've been having in music for the past 20 years: DIY or die becomes a one way ticket to burnout for a lot of people. No money in DIY means no rent money, no grocery money, and rich people are prioritized again for having resources

No aesthetic movement is perfect but we had so many cool ones in the 20th century dedicated to making their work and influences accessible, cheap and collectively owned, and industry giants spent millions of dollars and decades of time to paint them as angry, spoiled children

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My hot take is that she feels shut out from opportunities on a technicality because most of the resources writers need have been systematically destroyed for the past 20 years

Steampunk witch but because she's Victorian the only spells she knows are seances, ectoplasm and Orientalism