Triple Cover Reveal + 5 Reasons to Preorder Small Press Books
I always enjoy cover reveals and today we have a double, no, a triple cover reveal! It’s raining lightly and I just had to get up to let the dog in and naturally the rain made me think about rainbows, which, naturally, made me think of the only good youtube video.
If you know Will Musgrove or follow him on the socials I think you will agree that the cover for his forthcoming collection of flash fiction is perfect:
The cover was designed by David Wojciechowski, who has created several covers for us, including The Great American Highway by Steve Gergley, Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell by Donald Ryan, and I Blame Myself But Also You by Spencer Fleury. He remains a great designer and a great guy to work with.
After Last Call will be released in April of 2027, but preorders are open now and you can reserve a signed copy anytime you want now. Here’s one of Will’s stories (included in the book) that we published in August 2023. It’s called “Would You Rather?”
Our own John Chrostek, author of Boxcutters, made the cover for Roger Vaillancourt’s next book, The Inaccessible Rail, which is scheduled for publication in October.
Praise for The Inaccessible Rail
A richly observed meditation on the mundanities and absurdities of modern life, the things we can change and the ones we cannot, with a sentence or two every few pages that you’ll want to highlight and come back to later.
—Luke O'Neil, author of We Had It Coming and Welcome to Hell World
“The Inaccessible Rail is a rare gem—full of immediacy and yet comforting, with moments of revelation. For fans of Sebald or Proust, you will find here a comparable catalog of the journey, threaded with minutiae both familiar and arresting. This book is not for fools.”
—LJ Pemberton, author of Still Alive
Preorder The Inaccessible Rail
Readers who signed up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club did so expecting to receive four books this year. Tough. It’s actually going to be five.
Jon Chaiim McConnell’s novel thrum was originally published, in 2021, by Eye Cult Attic, but the press shut down, leaving thrum out of print. We are bringing it back as part of our Death of Print project, in which we rehome books whose original publishers have folded.
The book has a new layout, and an updated cover designed by Manny Hernandez, who created the original cover. thrum is coming back into print on 11/11 and you can preorder a signed copy now.
Praise for thrum
“A nightmarish image-blasting assault on the senses, McConnell’s thrum evokes the early visions of J.G. Ballard in a new and beautiful way.”
–Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes and Vincent and Alice and Alice
“In thrum, Jon Chaiim McConnell achieves that rare thing, a concise and hypnotizing speculative novella whose innovative, futuristic content mirrors and matches its language. A current of electricity blazes, literally and figuratively, through this brief but unforgettable debut.”
–John Keene, National Book Award winner, and author of Counternarratives
“This is a live wire of a book, a language-driven, searing and startling picture of a not quite apocalyptic society on the verge, a world rotted differently but just as crumbling as ours.”
–Amber Sparks, author of Happy People Don't Live Here and And I Do Not Forgive You
5 Reasons to Preorder Small Press Books
You forget, order again later, then end up with two copies.
It helps get the book published.
Cool.
What if the earth explodes before release day? At least you did something beautiful.
You have something to look forward to in case the earth doesn’t explode.
Coincidentally, the following titles are currently available for preorder:
Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk
The Inaccessible Rail, a novel by Roger Vaillancourt
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