My book is out today. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. I hope you’ll read it.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
03.03.2026 14:05
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My book is out today. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. I hope you’ll read it.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Imagine if we sold 62 books a day every day.
Cover of Sean Ennis’s Hope and Wild Panic on a wooden bookcase.
Spine of Alex Miller’s White People on Vacation in and amongst other indie hits on a wooden bookshelf.
Was at a conference in Portland, Oregon this week and trundled over to Powell’s books where I was pleased to see @malarkeybooks.bsky.social well represented with books by @alexmiller77.bsky.social and @seanennis.bsky.social. If you’re in town, grab yourself a copy!
There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
Updating the book club spreadsheet, adding some new names and addresses, happy to add yours. Get a year of book mail for pretty reasonable moneys. malarkeybooks.com/malarkey-boo...
That’s awesome.
I think you can just get access to the bookfair. And they have daily access or all conference access. Or that’s what I remember, anyway.
Book marks with Malarkey Books written over a ton of books covers merged together
AWP folks: the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social table is gonna be #506. Come say hi, buy some books, meet some authors, grab one of these bookmarks I printed that has instructions on how to sign up for the 2026 book club!
A picture of the special nitro porter bottle, a glass with the beer in it, a pen, the cover of my book, First Aid for Choking Victims, and the label for the beer, which has caricatures of people on it, along with a pink alligator.
A picture of me, a bearded 41 year old, and my girlfriend’s hand holding a latte with a foam heart on it.
My table at the book fair, with a large foam board picture of my book cover, some stacks of my book, postcards and bookmarks with my cover art, which features little black house silhouettes stacked precariously on top of one another, and me holding my book up.
A picture of my book haul: Master of Starlight, by DW Ardern, Toolbox, by Steve Monterosso, Ancient Flame Trilogy, and a blind date with a book from Bookshares.
Had such a great time slinging books at Hot Plate Brewery’s 10x10 book fair this weekend. The day’s brew was a Chipotle Nitro Porter and I got to collect a fun horde of books. Plus, my new girlfriend came and was much better at talking about my book than I was. :)
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Dude, this story was awesome. Those last few lines were so great and how the sticker and the gunman and the woman from the car all came together at the end with the ping pong match, that was brilliant. Such a good read.
The Bookstore, in Lenox, MA!
Thanks!
It feels like with the world on fire investing in artist and those fostering them is also a great thing to do if you can. If you need recommendations for some great small publishers I'd start with @stanchion.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and then a million more.
My book, First Aid for Choking Victims, on a bookstore shelf next to Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plumbs. Joho Moyes and Otessa Moshfegh are hanging around too.
Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Picture of Still Alive by LJ Pemberton, alongside a margin with the book and author title, plus the Dublin Literary Award logo of three parapets. Still Alive was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2025 after being nominated by the DC Public Library System.
Happy Birthday, Still Alive!
Thank you, all you beautiful souls, who have helped this book find the right nightstand, book bag, and shelf to live in.
If you haven’t given the story of V a chance, get it today from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, @powells.bsky.social, or bookshop.org!
One day flash sale. Code FLASHY gets you 40% off anything we have at
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Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue!
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I’m on this.
Next year’s flowers are under all this snow.
Cover of my short story collection, First Aid for Choking Victims with a little write up that says, “Congratulations to Matthew Zanoni Müller, Class of 2003, on the 2025 publication of his first short story collection, First Aid for Choking Victims. In the book, Müller exposes the ugliest parts of ourselves by reflecting them back to us through his complex and emotionally nuanced characters. Forging into the deep intricacies of their inner lives, Müller excavates his characters’ worldviews in bracing detail. A hidden camcorder in a kid’s jacket, the secret dance of a jellyfish, a terrifying ball of static light. Rich in detail and sumptuous atmosphere, Müller evokes the small moments...”
My high school Alma Mater did a little write up on my book in their newsletter. Nice of them to spread the word. Just saying that my book makes excellent snow day reading if you feel like being in your feelings.
Gay books are under attack and small presses are supporting tgem. There's only one way to keep literature faggy
20% off everything until the end of the month with code FAITH at checkout
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Pre-orders for my @stanchion.bsky.social collection are open & I am SO EXCITED 👇👇👇
Happy pub day to Chloe!!!!
So cool!
Yesss a version without music. The new greatest video on the whole Internet
Beautiful books deserve beautiful covers
There was that time you went blind driving on 85. I grabbed the wheel, we coasted down the offramp to one of those anonymous office centers—it was Saturday, so it was just us and the blackness that swallowed your vision. "What's happening?" I asked. But you said to wait. You described stars bursting, light crumbling the dark's edges. And just as suddenly you could see again. I asked if I should drive but you said you were fine, you drove us back to our Bronx apartment with its cornflower blue bedroom walls, its raspberry entryway, our neighbor Two Feathers and his 2am drum circles. Thirteen years later I reminded you about this and you gave me this look. You said you didn't remember. The parking lot, its sad dogwoods, its disintegrating black top--I described it, and you shook your head. For years I thought of the buttered bread I might have needed to place into your palm, the different ways to say "red" so you wouldn't miss an inch of autumn, a slice of velvet cake. The darkness that happened to you once, briefly, it happened to me for years. That blackness— you dropped it—I picked it up for you, I polished it, tucked it like a passport into my nightstand drawer. All this time, I kept it safe. This is how I love you. I will wipe the shadows from your brow. I will fold them into our dictionary's pages between "ember" and "embrace."
This is how / I love you.
Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) in @stanchion.bsky.social