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This Wednesday is “Ekphrastic Poetry: Writing About Art,” a generative writing workshop by Zachary Kocanda (@zacharykocanda.bsky.social).

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No War But Class War

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You can get a signed copy of Music is Over! plus any other book or piece of @malarkeybooks.bsky.social merch at 20% off with the code SELLOUT at checkout. Link below.

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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

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We definitely slant toward fiction, but when we take on a poetry collection it’s always for the same reason: the voice. Get 20% off My Ardent Love for the Pencil, and all other books and merch on our site, with code SELLOUT.

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Be a sellout!

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It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.

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Hey are you looking for a book to buy that will help us sell out? Allow me to point you to @justinwriter.bsky.social’s dreamy, delicious novel, Thunder from a Clear Blue Sky, of which we have three copies on hand. 20% off with code SELLOUT. malarkeybooks.com/store/thunder

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if you like weird fiction and would like to help me pay for some car repairs, why not purchase a copy of my collection of weird short stories, TOADSTONES, from me directly? Signed, I'll draw you a weird little guy in there, flat $25!

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Check it out, save money, get great books.

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Same great HAIR SHIRT, now at low low price. Wow!

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Sell Out! buttondown.com/MalarkeyBook...

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Grab a copy of Boxcutters or any of Malarkey's incredible catalog 20% off! Fun story: sold a copy of @ljabouttown.bsky.social's STILL ALIVE at Evening House on Saturday. Cute couple spent an hour trying out books. One read the first few pages and was blown away by the writing. They were so hype 🤘

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Pssstttt— @malarkeybooks.bsky.social has six copies of my book on hand and if you use code SELLOUT, you’ll get a whole dang 20% off!!!!

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This comes just as Detective Novel is getting ready to go out. Use the code SELLOUT and get the book one reviewer called a 10 out of 5. That's not even how math works, we're over here defying universal fundamentals with the quality of our books.

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last full week of hellarkey submissions, get your weird, horrifying, terrifying, creepy-as-hell spook-em-ups in order and send 'em our way!!!

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god is punishing this evil nation with an okc title

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We as a community are rooting for Indy and not this dishonorable basketball, yes?

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we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.

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This will go out in the newsletter tomorrow but sharing it here early: get 20% off anything on our website with code SELLOUT. Malarkeybooks.com/store

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bumping this again for no particular reason

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Horror folks, a preorder of The Barre Incidents gets you: signed copy; bookmark; copy of Hellarkey 4—and we still have a chance, if enough preorders come in, to do a Bookmobile print run

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A fun thing to do, if you like books and book mail and supporting independent literature, is to join our book club malarkeybooks.com/store/2025

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Hi. Mary Verhoeven aka @sobcomix.bsky.social is cool as heck to work with, and on that subject, you will get a neat bookmark with her art if you preorder The Barre Incidents. This is how the art turned out (aka amazingly). Meet Kara Lenker (MC) and Alec Hutchison (love interest). 💜💜💜

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Another great reason to preorder this cosmic horror/dark fantasy book! Get terrified and ALSO get a cool bookmark 😎 TY again to Lauren for reaching out to me to do this, I had such a blast

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Thrilled to have a story, “Watch Me,” in the 60th anniversary issue of @cottonwoodku.bsky.social I recommend enjoying the issue with a tiny coffee.

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In good news, yesterday my wife made blackberry cobbler and this morning my aunt brought over a blackberry cobbler. The plus side of all this rain is tons of blackberries this year. 👍

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it’s still pride month and it’s still on sale

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All over the world, people just want to live their lives.

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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

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Ugh

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My essay "2003" opens with my political awakening, seeing the stupid and destructive and dishonest start of the Iraq War, and it ends like this, which I'm not saying is any great insight but it really sums up my disgust with this whole era (you can read it here sundoglit.com/tom-mcallist...)

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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

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Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

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I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.

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"I was AI curious, we might say." I am not AI curious. I am having a livable planet curious. I am humanity curious. I am art curious I am go fuck yourself curious. I am I don't know how to explain to you that art's going to cost you curious. I will die having never submitted a prompt.

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If your name is not on this page and it should be, or it’s there but not the way you want it, please email and we’ll fix it! (Malarkeybooks at gmail)

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Scroll down our home page to see what independent literature really looks like: malarkeybooks.com

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We have t-shirts and they’re on sale. Inventory is up to date, thanks to my kids, and they’re on sale, the shirts not the kids. malarkeybooks.com/store/tee

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"I’d been so hungry, waiting for the wheat to yellow and carving the pestle and once I milled the flour of course I’d have no oven. So I’d have to invent fire, hardest yet..." I'm honored to have a new fictional amuse bouche (plus recipe!) up at @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Summer Menu today! 🍴🍖👇

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Get yours now. Mine has already traveled with me to distant lands, where it dutifully held things for me so I could better scale mountains, steer pirate galleys, and fight dragons. It’s paid for itself, really!

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Just a handful of totes left. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

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Gonna work outside before it’s so hot, then when the heat drives us inside I’m gonna get the rest of the Kickstarter t-shirts packed for shipping. Then I’ll update inventory on the website so you can see if the size and color you want is available. 🫡

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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May 2025) By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

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Have you ever said, litmags need to pay writers? If you answered yes, you may be entitled to purchasing a copy of King Ludd’s Rag, a litmag that pays $100 per story, with no advertising or institutional support. malarkeybooks.com/store/klr23

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