mark falkin
@markfalkin.bsky.social
never mind that shit. here comes mongo.
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From the back cover copy: “Six middle-aged women who annually meet in the country for a getaway from their mundane lives encounter townies with mayhem on their minds” Get it for Xmas 🎄 #TheRockStatue
December 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
From the back cover copy: “Six middle-aged women who annually meet in the country for a getaway from their mundane lives encounter townies with mayhem on their minds” Get it for Xmas 🎄 #TheRockStatue
From one of your publishing heroes:
"...we’re only considering those by debut authors who have at least 500K+ followers on social media or some other high-profile platform or celebrity status."
Seriously. 'Don't even send us the manuscript unless you dance on tiktok like a crazed MFer.'
"...we’re only considering those by debut authors who have at least 500K+ followers on social media or some other high-profile platform or celebrity status."
Seriously. 'Don't even send us the manuscript unless you dance on tiktok like a crazed MFer.'
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
From one of your publishing heroes:
"...we’re only considering those by debut authors who have at least 500K+ followers on social media or some other high-profile platform or celebrity status."
Seriously. 'Don't even send us the manuscript unless you dance on tiktok like a crazed MFer.'
"...we’re only considering those by debut authors who have at least 500K+ followers on social media or some other high-profile platform or celebrity status."
Seriously. 'Don't even send us the manuscript unless you dance on tiktok like a crazed MFer.'
KZ is one of my longest standing clients and I am very proud of the way she has conducted herself in this business and this society here in the year of our good-lord-wtf-is-happening 2025. Go get this book.
🏳️🌈📚👀 RECLAMATION has arrived.
🥊 @Kristen_Zimmer_Author doesn’t pull any punches.
🔥 Get ready for a sapphic dystopian thriller that kicks down the door & refuses to give in.
👉 Out everywhere today—go get what’s yours.
#BookSky #SapphicBooks #QueerLit #BookRecs
🥊 @Kristen_Zimmer_Author doesn’t pull any punches.
🔥 Get ready for a sapphic dystopian thriller that kicks down the door & refuses to give in.
👉 Out everywhere today—go get what’s yours.
#BookSky #SapphicBooks #QueerLit #BookRecs
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
KZ is one of my longest standing clients and I am very proud of the way she has conducted herself in this business and this society here in the year of our good-lord-wtf-is-happening 2025. Go get this book.
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I just won a National Arts and Entertainment Award from the LA Press Club!!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I just won a National Arts and Entertainment Award from the LA Press Club!!!
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It's official! My debut novel will arrive in the spring of 2027. Thanks to my wonderful agent @markfalkin.bsky.social and all the lovely people at Melville House who got behind this book!
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's official! My debut novel will arrive in the spring of 2027. Thanks to my wonderful agent @markfalkin.bsky.social and all the lovely people at Melville House who got behind this book!
Fear THE ROCK STATUE in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17 > gizmodo.com/new-books-de...
31 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in December
Entries from Brandon Sanderson, Simon Stålenhag, T. Kingfisher, Annalee Newitz, and more arrive to close out 2025.
gizmodo.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Fear THE ROCK STATUE in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17 > gizmodo.com/new-books-de...
One of my writer heros for sure. Read much of his work, and Winter's Bone is truly a masterpiece of any genre or artform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
One of my writer heros for sure. Read much of his work, and Winter's Bone is truly a masterpiece of any genre or artform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Out today. Congratulations @kristenklopez.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Out today. Congratulations @kristenklopez.bsky.social
Been waiting for this one for a long time now. Cinephiles rejoice—
Before I disappear for the weekend there are 2, count em 2, upcoming POPCORN DISABILITIES events. Next Monday I'll be at the @thefridacinema.org introducing the rarely screened Hal Ashby movie COMING HOME.
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Been waiting for this one for a long time now. Cinephiles rejoice—
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11 days until POPCORN DISABILITIES is on shelves!! Most disability in film books are academic surveys. This tries to bring in a little levity alongside the stone truth about the stereotypes and tropes we’re still fighting to get rid of. Preorder your copy now.
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
11 days until POPCORN DISABILITIES is on shelves!! Most disability in film books are academic surveys. This tries to bring in a little levity alongside the stone truth about the stereotypes and tropes we’re still fighting to get rid of. Preorder your copy now.
The Pauline Kael of now, Kristen Lopez, has a book dropping 11/27. Forward by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, praise from Patton Oswalt.
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Pauline Kael of now, Kristen Lopez, has a book dropping 11/27. Forward by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, praise from Patton Oswalt.
I don't do this often but good lordy lord lord please go experience the audiobook of @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter if you can. High recommend. Victorian em dashes and excalmation points.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I don't do this often but good lordy lord lord please go experience the audiobook of @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter if you can. High recommend. Victorian em dashes and excalmation points.
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New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Congratulations to FalkinLit client Laurent Bouzereau for the 2026 Grammy nomination (Best Music Film) for his work on the documentary 'Music by John Williams'!
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Congratulations to FalkinLit client Laurent Bouzereau for the 2026 Grammy nomination (Best Music Film) for his work on the documentary 'Music by John Williams'!
Gotta story, THE ROCK STATUE, in here: booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...
Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume 17 Delivers Terror at Its Finest | BookTrib.
I have to admit, as a horror writer, editor and reader, these “best of” anthologies are like candy. Part of me wants to curl up on the couch and read such a lovely volume straight through, and another...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gotta story, THE ROCK STATUE, in here: booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...
Attending the Legacy Elementary ribbon-cutting with my author client Craig Garnett felt necessary. I also had the honor of meeting the staff at the Uvalde Leader-News, including Kimberly Rubio. #Uvalde #craiggarnett #uvaldesdarkesthour
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Attending the Legacy Elementary ribbon-cutting with my author client Craig Garnett felt necessary. I also had the honor of meeting the staff at the Uvalde Leader-News, including Kimberly Rubio. #Uvalde #craiggarnett #uvaldesdarkesthour
“Kirk declared his risk was worth it. Uvalde’s 19 students and two teachers never had a say.” www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/ima... #Uvalde #CraigGarnett
Images can’t force compassion in culture that accepts violent death - Uvalde Leader News
In the chaotic days after May 24, 2022, I fielded calls, emails, and handwritten letters from heartbroken and angry people across the nation, urging families to release photos of the children’s wounds...
www.uvaldeleadernews.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Kirk declared his risk was worth it. Uvalde’s 19 students and two teachers never had a say.” www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/ima... #Uvalde #CraigGarnett
Good times with client Wendy Benchley this morning at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social. Before Jaws took over his life, Peter Benchley was a speechwriter in the LBJ White House.
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good times with client Wendy Benchley this morning at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social. Before Jaws took over his life, Peter Benchley was a speechwriter in the LBJ White House.
FalkinLit’s David Masciotra’s latest in re DFW: unherd.com/2025/08/davi...
David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness
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August 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
FalkinLit’s David Masciotra’s latest in re DFW: unherd.com/2025/08/davi...
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For all my ARC readers/podcasts/journalist friends! #POPCORNDISABILITIES is now available to read via @Netgalley. #tcmparty
August 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For all my ARC readers/podcasts/journalist friends! #POPCORNDISABILITIES is now available to read via @Netgalley. #tcmparty
FalkinLit's David Masciotra: "Anyone honest would have to acknowledge that it is impossible to imagine the rise of anyone like Ozzy in the contemporary “marketplace,” which more than anything is what it sounds like–a zone where commerce has finally won its ancient fight with art." shorturl.at/j07uT
Better to Reign in Art Than Serve the Algorithm: Ozzy Osbourne as One of the Last Rebels
What distinguishes Ozzy from the boring and unimaginative pop stars of the algorithm is that it was an image he created. And when he created that image, he was often battling against record company ex...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
FalkinLit's David Masciotra: "Anyone honest would have to acknowledge that it is impossible to imagine the rise of anyone like Ozzy in the contemporary “marketplace,” which more than anything is what it sounds like–a zone where commerce has finally won its ancient fight with art." shorturl.at/j07uT
Yes. Yet more Jaws stuff from #falkinliterary. Not often you have 2 clients (Bouzereau & Benchley) in one moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...
Why ‘Jaws’ Works
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yes. Yet more Jaws stuff from #falkinliterary. Not often you have 2 clients (Bouzereau & Benchley) in one moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...
