currently reading Erasure by Percival Everett and after that I'm just reading AWP books until March

Another banger from Sheldon!

me: this manuscript began as Alf fan fiction big-5 publisher: [mouth watering, crotch stiffening] t-t-tell me more!

804 at AWP will be in Baltimore this year at Picket Brewing.

I propose a national day of horny book-reading bookshop.org/p/books/whit...

I don’t think students should only read horny books in college, but they should be assigned at least one (1) very horny book at some point when they’re in college.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Will share names of poets soon but we are happy to say we’ll be putting out some really cool poetry zines this year. No full collections on the schedule but still but lots of good poems.

snow is gently falling in Denver

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

Anybody want to publish an excerpt of this bad boy? First chapter perhaps??

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

On the latest episode of the Turek Books Podcast, Lauren Lavin talks about books that have influenced her and she talks about Still Alive and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social at 42:56! Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Preorder her book The Third Beat here: autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...

You can't judge a book by its intentionally left blank page.

read my book! bookshop.org/p/books/stil...

if anyone out there is organizing an off-site reading at AWP and has some open spots for a few authors from Malarkey Books, let me know 🤠

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

sometimes you can see my house in those aerial shots of Broncos stadium

this is why we can't have nice things www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

Gov. Jared Polis has not approved any of the program’s graduates for early release since 2023 — an about-face from the prior three years, during which he approved releases for all 17 such prisoners

Sharing blurbs for Terrestrial! I'm so grateful to these authors for taking the time to read my book and provide generous blurbs. I made these with magazines like the collages I made in the 90s. Photos from Arizona Highways. Full text: suzyeynon.com/2026/01/16/b...

but seriously if your literary journal charges a reading fee that journal better date back to at least the 1950s and have published E.E. Cummings

zoom is over here trying to be my girlfriend

What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time

Love an allusion to Nabokov's Lolita from ::checks notes:: Dave & Busters

sunk cost fallacy apnews.com/article/trum...

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

New year, new stack @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

"You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed by an ICE agent, but what you’re really watching is the radical left threatening, assaulting, and targeting law enforcement officers and ICE agents daily, who are just trying to do the job of making America safe."

Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.

The masculine urge to frame your urges as masculine when they are not masculine at all, but something stranger, darker, whispered into your dreams by the chittering voice that weaves through the darkness between the stars.

swapped books with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social for a copy of her new story collection from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Shelly and I are going to play putt putt in a few hours and the trash talk is already out of control

This is a cover reveal blog post about @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s book and @angeelio.bsky.social’s cover for it and I think you should read it; it starts with a Maggie Smith poem and veers into authenticity and close reading, all in celebrating this book. malarkeybooks.com/news/terrest...

begin to prepare to send us your bad science sf/h flash fiction!

"I wanted stories with working-class people fed up with the daily grind, waking up to the idea our economic system is built for a fraction of people & the American Dream is a lullaby sung to us to keep us showing up to work." CW Blackwell by @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

So happy to share the cover for @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s forthcoming novella, Terrestrial (May 2026, preorders open now and copies will be signed by the author). As ever, @angeelio.bsky.social gave us something special. malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

They’re trying to cover up a murder that is playing on a loop on every phone.

Our resolution is to process more than 1,000 direct orders through our website this year. This means we need to average 2.7 orders per day. We are currently averaging 2 orders per day so are naturally freaking out. Help us find peace! malarkeybooks.com/store

Time to get one of those Hilton Rewards cards I guess!

“The median American read two books in 2025. The average reader clocked in with eight. To put it starkly? 19% of American adults did 82% of the country’s reading.”

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

the Trump news conference today gave off strong twilight of the empire vibes

he's just rambling now

King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up. oleada.io/publication/...

Some year in review action, if that floats your boat this Jan 1 open.substack.com/pub/sheldonb...

Definitely one to read. Take CJ's word for it: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/deliver-thy-...