On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.

On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.

I think I might have sold 1 book today. Sweeet.

Love this pic of my son in Ireland, many years ago.

Love this pic of my son in Ireland, many years ago.

Sometimes spines are actually important.

Sometimes spines are actually important.

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

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

Droppin 11/11 from CJ 🔥

Who me? Just going through final edits in this ARC. Awww yeaahh.

Who me? Just going through final edits in this ARC. Awww yeaahh.

In honor of Halloween, here's the closest thing I've ever written to a ghost story. (Featured in AMERICAN ANIMISM): www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/lost...

In honor of Halloween, here's the closest thing I've ever written to a ghost story. (Featured in AMERICAN ANIMISM): www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/lost...

Wondering when I should drop the cover reveal for my next collection. Last year I posted on Halloween for the cover reveal of AMERICAN ANIMISM. It's gotta be darker for BODIES IN BAGS. Solstice, maybe?

It will never stop thrilling me when someone I don't know at all reads my collection. AND leaves a kind and generous five star review? Damn. It's a good day. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thinking of gifting my book to someone today, tomorrow, or Christmas? It's on sale right now: malarkeybooks.com/store/stilla...

It will never stop thrilling me when someone I don't know at all reads my collection. AND leaves a kind and generous five star review? Damn. It's a good day. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

There are hundreds of birds in the storm outside the window.

Wondering when I should drop the cover reveal for my next collection. Last year I posted on Halloween for the cover reveal of AMERICAN ANIMISM. It's gotta be darker for BODIES IN BAGS. Solstice, maybe?

I watch the birds over Baltimore in the blue pink light of early morning.

Sometimes I spend months trying to fight the fact that the only things I've ever been able to write, with any kind of moderate success, are short. I love novels, but maybe I'll never be able to write one.

Novellas are a problem.

These remote sync classes... I have to weigh the fact that I would never meet these students otherwise, and they are AMAZING, and the the fact that they are so freaking hard to teach....

Check out my weird little story "The Boys" up at Eunoia Review. Happy to see it out in the world.

I, too, am outraged.

Nothing like getting a wad of meat stuck in your throat for sixteen hours to make you appreciate things. Life-- it's beautiful.

I'll have a new collection coming out in March 2026. This one is going to be crimey, grimy, full of murder and drugs and violence. There are flashes of that stuff in American Animism, but it's a good little bit of sweetness before the darkness.

There are not many albums I've played more times than D'Angelo's "Black Messiah." "To Pimp a Butterfly" probably. Ass Ponys' "Electric Rock Music" definitely. A handful of others.

Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.

What a find!

I'll have a new collection coming out in March 2026. This one is going to be crimey, grimy, full of murder and drugs and violence. There are flashes of that stuff in American Animism, but it's a good little bit of sweetness before the darkness.

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Not sure who I would be or what I would do if I didn't teach. Not better. That much I know.

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

Check out my weird little story "The Boys" up at Eunoia Review. Happy to see it out in the world.

Look at this book, man. It has October written all over it.

Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.

Look at this book, man. It has October written all over it.

I feel like I might look too jaunty in this picture.

What if I were to self-publish this weirdo little novel I have?

I have always loved books. It's still amazing to me that after 37 years of writing and about 50 years of reading, I added to the ocean of books out there. I am grateful to each and every person who has or will read AMERICAN ANIMISM, or the forthcoming BODIES IN BAGS. Just feeling grateful.

I have always loved books. It's still amazing to me that after 37 years of writing and about 50 years of reading, I added to the ocean of books out there. I am grateful to each and every person who has or will read AMERICAN ANIMISM, or the forthcoming BODIES IN BAGS. Just feeling grateful.

Hell yes!

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

Just finished writing the first blurb I've ever been asked to write. What an honor. I can't wait to spread the word about this collection of stories.

Just finished writing the first blurb I've ever been asked to write. What an honor. I can't wait to spread the word about this collection of stories.

Hell yes!

I forgot to mark the 6 month anniversary of AMERICAN ANIMISM coming out. Smoke em if you got em.

I forgot to mark the 6 month anniversary of AMERICAN ANIMISM coming out. Smoke em if you got em.