July 9, 2024

A Bunch of Malarkey

Some updates and some info and some pretty good deals

Greetings!

Spencer Fleury’s collection I Blame Myself But Also You (out now, people who preordered from us ought to get their copy in the mail this week) received a nice review in Independent Book Review. John M. Murray calls it “A sharp exposition of humanity’s need to belong in eleven surreal stories.” Pretty accurate.

Justin Bryant (author of Thunder from a Clear Blue Sky) and Alex Miller (White People on Vacation) had a nice conversation about Alex’s book, and it was printed recently in Heavy Feather Review. I think this came about simply because Justin liked Alex’s book a lot.

We sometimes forget to mention that all our ebooks are available direct from us, meaning no middleman, no Amazon, for $3 a piece on our website.

Our summer sale continues, with 25% off everything1 with code BEACHREADS. We just got a fresh batch of stickers we’ll be sending out with most orders. You can use this for preorders and in-stock titles at malarkeybooks.com.

Preorders:

Boxcutters, stories by John Chrostek
Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol
Sleep Decades, stories by Israel A. Bonilla
First Aid for Choking Victims, stories by Matthew Zanoni Müller
Hope and Wild Panic, stories by Sean Ennis

In-stock titles:

We have five copies of I Blame Myself You left, signed by the author, as well as several signed copies of Awful People by Scott Mitchel May. We also have in stock Gloria Patri by Austin Ross, It Came from the Swamp, The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around by Adrian Sobol, Guess What’s Different by Susan Triemert, Your Favorite Poet and Sophomore Slump by Leigh Chadwick, Deliver Thy Pigs by Joey Hedger, Fearless by Ben Warner, Music Is Over by Ben Arzate, and Un-ruined by Roger Vaillancourt.

Bundles:

2022 Bundle (12 books for $150. Each writer will get $3.)
2023 Bundle (9 books for $120. Each writer will get $3.)
2024 Book Club (three ways to sign up, and the 25% discount works if you buy the annual subscription)

Secret Book Club This one is limited to 20 (less now because some people have already ordered), but we are also offering a 2024 book club subscription for $100. You get nine books, five issues of King Ludd’s Rag, and Hellarkey III.

The Compleat Luddite (every issue of King Ludd’s Rag, $1 each)

The usual small press pitch: ordering directly from small presses helps very much; we get a bigger percentage, and use the money to pay authors, pay bills, keep going, blah blah blah. Just know that we appreciate everyone who reads our books, buys our books, talks about our books. There’s a billion books being published every day so the fact that anyone reads ours is astonishing and wonderful. Thank you!