I so love this cover treatment by @johnchrostek.com !

Ride and die for Malarkey. Was great fun making this cover for @rogerjva.bsky.social and also working with @trentbwrites.bsky.social for The Walls Are Closing In On Us. Plan to re-open for cover designing later in 2026, but Cold Signal has been sidelined for too long and I got to tend that garden

Cover reveal: The Inaccessible Rail by @rogerjva.bsky.social. Cover design by @johnchrostek.com. malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/12...

Have you read Still Alive by @ljabouttown.bsky.social and I Blame Myself But Also You by @spencerfleury.bsky.social yet? Two of the best books I read in 2025. Both 5 stars, both 5 bucks.

Hey guys ☺️ - I have held my book!!! In my own two hands!!! Want an ARC? It would be cool if you’d write / record a review and post it literally anywhere. Let me know. (ignore the printing error that is currently being fixed) @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Hoping for 46 more orders before the new year and our ebooks are just $5… malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

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I'm so excited to get this weird little book I love so much out into the world! It's a novel, but comes to you like tapas.

Every time you preorder a book you get +100 Universe Points but it’s doubled when you preorder a small press book. Save your soul and 15% with code MALARKEY at checkout: malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Really enjoyed this. First time I’ve ever been interviewed by someone who read the novel!

The cover (designed by @johnchrostek.com) for The Inaccessible Rail, a novel by @rogerjva.bsky.social, out in October 2026—the preorder link, if you’d like a signed copy, is accessible now! malarkeybooks.com/store/inacce...

There's a new excerpt from my first novel, Our Saturnalias, over at @new-sinews.bsky.social. A warm thank you to @illepitaph.bsky.social. You can read it here: newnewsinews.com/issue9/actaeon

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The first print of The Barre Incidents is really nice!! Bookmobile does an awesome job. Get a copy at 15% off!

Maybe we can get 50 new orders before the end of the year. Don’t care if they’re big or small. Join the book club, buy one of your friends’ books, drop a fiver on The Grift. Everything helps! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift

15% off everything with code MALARKEY at checkout. Grab one of the last first prints of @renbolger.bsky.social’s horror novel, The Barre Incidents malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

I have a short story in this. A horror story about a VTuber and her avatar.

15% off everything in our website with code MALARKEY at checkout. You can get one of the last copies of the first edition Hair Shirt, with a bonus @yoadrianididit.bsky.social poem on the French flaps. malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...

Want to help a small press and get some good reading material? $5 for the Malarkey digital sampler! malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/malar...

Everything is stellar, you cannot got wrong with anything you pick. And 15% off!

If tv commercials are to be believed everyone in America is addicted to sports betting and has to ask their phone to help them tie their shoes.

Everything is 15% off through the end of the year with code MALARKEY at checkout. Maybe you can score one of the last signed copies of @vikhinao.bsky.social’s My Ardent Love for the Pencil. malarkeybooks.com/store/myarde...

‘How does Thomas Pynchon know that if a detective in Chicago in 1932 pulls a bottle out of his desk drawer it’s going to be a pint of Old Log Cabin, but that if he’s in Milwaukee it’ll be Korbel brandy?’ @danielsoar.bsky.social reads 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Buy some zines, we need a new stapler!

“Be less ignorant” is going on the ol’ classroom wall!

People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

Pausing this with two issues to go because the I’m trying to watch the nuggets game and printer is annoying me.

Letter's real, there's a whole host of reasons why the postdate would be late, or why it would get routed through Virginia The administration has tactically leaked a very damaging piece of evidence and hopes to cast doubt on future information by calling into question this one

Want to help a small press and get some good reading material? $5 for the Malarkey digital sampler! malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/malar...

Printing and stapling two copies of every issue of King Ludd’s Rag today for some folks who ordered the Compleat Luddite. Kind of tedious, and time-consuming, but also fun to revisit the back issues.

A thread of questions for @rweingarten.bsky.social and the @aft.org, who are celebrating their partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic to push "A.i." onto teachers and students.

Sitting on one returned copy (mint condition) of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask. Get it for the sinfully low price of $13 right here: malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

I reviewed Boxcutters earlier this year for @necessaryfiction.com and these stories delighted me to no end. Stories that ridicule the status quo are always necessary, but they are especially needed now. Go buy good books, including this one! #booksky #writersky

Two copies of @johnchrostek.com’s collection, Boxcutters, going out today, leaving only 16 of the first print run in stock. Love this book but would love even more to have just my personal copy of Boxcutters in my house. Order a copy and get a free zine too! malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...

Get two books and a t-shirt TODAY!!!

Two books and a t-shirt! malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

Fell behind at the end of semester but am using this Tuesday at home to catch up on orders and staple a bunch of copies of the 25th issue of King Ludd’s Rag. Would be happy and grateful to anyone who makes more work for me today. malarkeybooks.com/store

Got an email from canva, which we haven’t used in about three years, with the subject “You have unused AI feature credits.” Another account to delete.

Reading E. M. Forster's Collected Short Stories, I was not expecting to find a science fiction story as wry and prescient as a Philip K. Dick! The Machine Stops, written in 1909, is astounding!

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

King Ludd’s Rag will be open for submissions (fiction 4,000 words and up) the first two weeks of January for our 2026 zines! You’ll be able to submit on the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Oleada page: oleada.io/publication/...

Bari Weiss keeps CBS News groveling at the feet of Donald Trump: defector.com/bari-weiss-k...

not doing a roundup, but one of my favorite pieces this year was for @literaryhub.bsky.social — they're very close to hitting 8K supporting members, and if you've got the means to be a good literary citizen, check their membership page out lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

Turtle power www.polygon.com/as-mickey-mo...

been quite the weekend for combat sports

I haven’t read every book in their catalogues but so far @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and @riverriverbooks.bsky.social are absolutely batting 1.000 if you want a book, like to read, look there

One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor. They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.

It's almost the final Friday of 2025. Wild year, bad and good. One personal good: becoming an author. Boxcutters is a collection spanning genres, styles, eras. Oddball lit, weird horror, sci-fi + more. Feast is a novel, a deep sea body horror kaiju adventure in the belly of Hobbes' Leviathan.