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Craig @abasketofcraig.bsky.social · 12h
I have two copies of Detective Novel that were supposed to go somewhere and now they're not. Send me $5 for shipping and I'll just mail you one.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 14h
Once again trying for a small print run with Bookmobile and every preorder gets us closer to this goal.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 17h
In hindsight *maybe* could’ve picked a slightly less spooky book to read in the woods but no regrets. Loving this, @renbolger.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Book: The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 19h
Getting into book cover design and cooking up a few right now. Here’s a new one for the awesome @trentbwrites.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Go check the book out!!

Malarkey forever 🤘💀🤘
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."
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Trent Brown @trentbwrites.bsky.social · 22h
Look at it 🙂

Preorder it 🙂
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d
This is today! Come say hi if you’re near Algonquin. I love this Barnes & Noble. It’s my local one. 💜
Event Details IN STORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 11:00 AM CT Book Signing with author Lauren Bolger ABOUT THIS EVENT Thiller/Horror author Lauren Bolger will be in store (from 11-1) signing copies of her newest book, The Barre Incidents.
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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 2d
Guys. GUYS! John Waters is headlining AWP! He's our keynote speaker!

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2026 AWP
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 3d
I still have copies of The Barre Incidents at my house before I run out. After that, it'll be filled with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social stock. These last five will get signed, get a bookmark, and the spinach pie recipe. Sharing my blurbs again from two very cool people to hopefully encourage ya.
"Bolger excels at weaving familial relationships, trauma, and existential dread with the kinds of creatures that will haunt your dreams." -Michael Bettendorf, author of Trve Cvlt The Barre Incidents Out October 2025 "Lauren Bolger's The Barre Incidents is a thrilling mystery about family, love and grief blended with a deep dive into world mythology. The book delightfully interweaves the voices of friendly residents of a small town alongside ancient and otherworldly voices. A strange and thrilling tale!" -Ivy Grimes, author of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion The Barre Incidents Out October 2025
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 4d
Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:
Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow Girl on Girl, Emily Costa My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney The Nothing, Lauren Davis Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 4d
It's a great day, like any other day but especially today, to buy books from indie bookstores or your local library, you sexy bastards
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Defector @defector.com · 5d
"'The Life of a Showgirl' is the weakest and least interesting album Swift has ever made. It has no heart, no purpose, no emotional core." defector.com/taylor-swift...
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 5d
Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 5d
Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · Nov 15
Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 5d
Most of our books are available through Bookshop, and you can also support your local bookstore with your order! bookshop.org/shop/malarke...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 7d
here's @malarkeybooks.bsky.social with an example of how it can & should be
copyright page of The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, including the statement "The Barre Incidents is a work of fiction created without the use of artificial intelligence by Lauren Bolger. As a small, independent press, we are committed to celebrating human creativity. We welcome and encourage quotes from this book for review and/or scholarly purposes. Use of this text in AI or large language models for any purpose is absolutely prohibited."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8d
Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly
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Zach Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social · 9d
I’m reading at The Mill, a new literary variety show hosted by the journal Millstone at Burlington Bar on Thursday, October 16—there’s also an open mic! Free ticket link below.
The Mill | Poetry Variety Show & all-genres open mic
Literary variety show & open mic for the freaks & the geeks. Merging literature with other kinds of performance art. Come watch & perform!
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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks, Gabino! Always looking to for an opportunity to boost BACKMASK
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · Aug 27
Had a dream that Harold Bloom wrote a really nice review of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask, so maybe there is an afterlife? Anyway get it on bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/back...
Backmask
Check out Backmask - <p>Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control childre...
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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 9d
"Abandon the conviction that success, by any metric the industry approves, has worth. Buy books second-hand, share them with your friends, pirate. Read less [...]; read better."
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10d
Monthly Dispatch #27 —
ft. @addisonzeller.bsky.social
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@andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more — now up ...

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 9d
Got a few left, a small handful, and you might as well buy one!
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 15d
Thought we were sold out of Hellarkey but @renbolger.bsky.social conjured some extra haunted copies. Get one, if you dare: malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...
Hellarkey vol. IV — Malarkey
Hellarkey IV 56 pages. 6.14 by 9.21 inches. This item will ship in September or early October. Hellarkey is a horror-themed magazine published by Malarkey every October. Each summer, mystical ed...
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 10d
Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell smells like eggs. Or does it?
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 10d
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."
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