might i be so bold: malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...

Terrestrial copies are sold out in the online shop but you can get the ebook version directly from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/terre...

First time being used as a comp + honored it's for @willmusgrove.bsky.social. Read lit mags long enough and you get to know him because he's a flash fiction workhorse. Inventive, emotionally rich, measured but loosey goosey. Writing that's funny and fun for the brain and the gut and the heart

I just preordered @willmusgrove.bsky.social’s After Last Call. What are you going to get?

Maybe take a chance on this one? malarkeybooks.com/store/man-in...

Let me save you some scrolling malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...

Don’t generally stress comps but can’t resist this one: John Chrostek and Leigh Chadwick. Don’t have anything snappy or elevator pitchy to go with it. If you know you know.

Celebrate independents! 📚

25% off whatever we’ve got in the malarkey store now through Sunday with code INDIEPENDENCE at checkout: Malarkeybooks.com/store

Malarkey's one of the safest bets in indie lit. Seriously. I bet on Malarkey books being fire on Kalshi and make a killing off it But I keep telling Alan we could make more money if they published one really shitty book & we bet against it He said to "stop texting me this stuff"

Haven’t had this in stock in a while but we have a few copies of What I Thought of Ain’t Funny, an anthology of fiction based on Mitch Hedberg jokes, at the moment. Good stuff and pretty cheap! malarkeybooks.com/store/what-i...

Eat at a locally owned café, shop for a new paperback from an indie bookstore in town, get tomatoes at your nearest farmer's market, buy a lit mag or small press book direct from the publisher & see a film in a community cinema or one day all that'll be left are corporations.

Stuff leads to stuff!

We have two more books that will be available for preorder soon, likely in the next couple weeks. While you wait on those feel free to go ahead and preorder any, or dare I say all, of these fine titles!

I’m about 1/3 through copy edits on this book. I want to plow through it just because I’ve got so much other stuff to check off my list but it fully resists plowing through. Malarkey has published some excellent story collections but this one will forever be one of the best.

We are now scheduled out through 2029.

I hear LeBron is going to take his talents to @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

So now there’s a brand of nondairy milk called Nut Pod. Get me out of here.

More Strange Visions coming 2027 from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social baby! Let’s go!

Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.

Get on this, people

Bag of books. We have seven totes left. Order one and pick two books to go with it. Alternatively, if you order five in-stock books (not preorders) we’ll throw in a bag for free. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

Get the tote bag they're saying was designed by yours truly (it was). It holds everything, your books, your umbrellas, even your grudges (especially your grudges).

It is officially time to start Jularkey! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. May have to roll a dice to decide reading order. Boxcutters is first only because it is my short story a day collection, atm.

Bag of books. We have seven totes left. Order one and pick two books to go with it. Alternatively, if you order five in-stock books (not preorders) we’ll throw in a bag for free. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

Signed copies of the thrum reprint if you preorder!

For rent: malarkeybooks.com/fiction/2024...

Should mention we have only 20 signed copies left.

A bookstore returned a copy of Spencer’s story collection, I Blame Myself But Also You. I’ll send it to you free if you preorder The Shitbird today. Email malarkeybooks at gmail with a screenshot of receipt and a shipping address. First come first served.

I’ve been talking a lot about preorders for my upcoming novel, but Malarkey Books has a ton of great preorders right now too! (They’re not publishing my novel, but they did publish my story collection, and they did a great job with it. Alan has a great eye for books!)

“They have delivered a judgment on the quality of work in other disciplines and the norms that supposedly animate it without engaging with the work itself in any deep or systematic way, and without including any representative practitioners in the discussion.”

Love that I spent more than 20 minutes setting up this thread and 20 seconds after posting noticed a typo. 👍

Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.

Given the money, hype, and power—at least some of which is far from morally neutral, to put it very very mildly—on the side of AI, a stance of anti-AI absolutism is reasonable and pragmatic, even if you can personally identify specific cases in which AI might be useful or harmless.

An antidote to the mind-erasing imperialism of this eat pray love garbage is to find real art, made by people who are weird and trying something, and sit with it for a period of time that feels, at first, like it’s too long

Schism is a go - the SSPX livestream has started. They’re going through with it, even after the pope’s final warning.

The math of social media promotion is fickle and fuzzy. Sometimes one post will net five sales. Sometimes it takes five posts to net one sale. Sometimes it takes 11,472 posts to sell 3,131 books.

“This is irresponsible. Given the current climate of the culture wars, chancellors and presidents—in consultation with their donors, of course—will have their own ideas about how to cash this blank check they have been handed.” Philosopher Richard Moran on a recent report on humanities scholarship:

Great thread, and definitely something I was poking at somewhat with FEAST. I personally don't believe art can "produce" a revolution, but that it can speak to someone experiencing dystopian and revolutionary conditions and give them opportunities to reflect on + process those tectonic changes

New Interview on Right Here Write Queer with Carolina Cruz, where we talk about the BACKMASK audiobook, behavior science, and ska. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @haruspex-audio.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1iAH...

do your part to help a short story writer get recognized! bookshop.org/p/books/toad...

Check this out! 👁️👁️💜

Sold two of these bundles today. $35 + $5 shipping. The returned books cost us $10 each. The shirts cost about $10. And shipping ends up being $8. So we’re up $4!

it's tough, because all the time i now spend fending off constant desperate sexual advances whenever i wear my malarkey shirt (blue, btw) has really eaten into my writing time, but the two books you get for the price are a really great deal

Honored to have a story on this year's @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. And thanks to Monkeybicycle for giving it a good home. Congrats to everyone on the Top 50 and longlist as well 💙

Will keep this going until we run out of shirts. Make us run out of shirts!

Another tasty “Submarines” excerpt: “Burger King” from @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social issue 0 in 2023. farewelltransmission.net/2023/02/burg...

This is the first thing I wrote from Submarines. “Dog Tracing” is like the first or second short story I ever published and the story for “Submarines” grew around this. Shout out X-RAY for publishing this one: xraylitmag.com/dog-tracing-...

Your boy got laid off today. Buy my book.

Will be sending books to Mike very soon! Preorder today to reserve a signed copy.