Lauren Bolger
@renbolger.bsky.social
Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio available now thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
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Lauren Bolger
@renbolger.bsky.social
· Oct 1
Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
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We're just over a month away from our trip to OLYOKE, TN!
Home to a Dollywood-style theme park; generations of troubled families; mysterious plagues; & a prophetic cult leader who warns of a fiery cataclysm.
It's "Twin Peaks by way of Appalachia" in OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out 3/24🖤☠️
Home to a Dollywood-style theme park; generations of troubled families; mysterious plagues; & a prophetic cult leader who warns of a fiery cataclysm.
It's "Twin Peaks by way of Appalachia" in OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out 3/24🖤☠️
February 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
We're just over a month away from our trip to OLYOKE, TN!
Home to a Dollywood-style theme park; generations of troubled families; mysterious plagues; & a prophetic cult leader who warns of a fiery cataclysm.
It's "Twin Peaks by way of Appalachia" in OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out 3/24🖤☠️
Home to a Dollywood-style theme park; generations of troubled families; mysterious plagues; & a prophetic cult leader who warns of a fiery cataclysm.
It's "Twin Peaks by way of Appalachia" in OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out 3/24🖤☠️
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Good Mole Man to you
February 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Good Mole Man to you
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84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
February 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM
84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
Heck yea for so many reasons :)
TEN DAYS! until Agita Magazine opens for its very first open submission period.
The theme is "Bad Science."
The length is flash.
The genre is horror or dark sci-fi.
The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social).
The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions
The theme is "Bad Science."
The length is flash.
The genre is horror or dark sci-fi.
The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social).
The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions
February 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Heck yea for so many reasons :)
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Happy Middle Grade Monday! Today I talk about the “know-better” characters and my very favorite one found in GROUNDED FOR ALL ETERNITY by @darcymarks.bsky.social!
Gotta love Cassandra.
What do you think of those know-betters? #MiddleGradeMonday
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Gotta love Cassandra.
What do you think of those know-betters? #MiddleGradeMonday
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February 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Happy Middle Grade Monday! Today I talk about the “know-better” characters and my very favorite one found in GROUNDED FOR ALL ETERNITY by @darcymarks.bsky.social!
Gotta love Cassandra.
What do you think of those know-betters? #MiddleGradeMonday
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Gotta love Cassandra.
What do you think of those know-betters? #MiddleGradeMonday
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This book rocks!! do it!!!!!
February 19, 2026 at 6:34 PM
This book rocks!! do it!!!!!
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Introducing Project Exorcism: my big push to get the remaining tasks from my 💀 parents’ estate out of my life once and for all.
#deathpositive #estateplanning
#deathpositive #estateplanning
February 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Introducing Project Exorcism: my big push to get the remaining tasks from my 💀 parents’ estate out of my life once and for all.
#deathpositive #estateplanning
#deathpositive #estateplanning
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It’s a really cool ad guys (for a really cool book!!!)
Are there any lit mags out there that’ll run a cool ad (designed by @johnchrostek.com) for my book and not charge me a gajillion dollars?
February 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It’s a really cool ad guys (for a really cool book!!!)
Is it weird I just can’t get into Megadeth? I’ve tried SO many times. I think I’m broken
February 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Is it weird I just can’t get into Megadeth? I’ve tried SO many times. I think I’m broken
Deleted and recovered 2800 words today. That was a damn rollercoaster
February 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Deleted and recovered 2800 words today. That was a damn rollercoaster
Poetry is DEAD
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February 19, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Poetry is DEAD
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Do you feel alone? Do you need writer friends who are just as weird as you are? Then join us in Portland for Bizarrocon where writerly misfits have a good time and grow their skills, and make off-color jokes. If you're a writer looking for their strange tribe, you should check it out.
February 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Do you feel alone? Do you need writer friends who are just as weird as you are? Then join us in Portland for Bizarrocon where writerly misfits have a good time and grow their skills, and make off-color jokes. If you're a writer looking for their strange tribe, you should check it out.
Why did we stop quoting Zoolander, Office Space, and Austin Powers? Your impressions were so valued.
February 18, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Why did we stop quoting Zoolander, Office Space, and Austin Powers? Your impressions were so valued.
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The world is a mess. Buy books.
Take a gamble on Submarines, an episodic novel about a millennial fuckup in a deadend job who bets on baseball and doesn’t ever know what he’s doing. If you know @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social you probably don’t need much convincing but trust me it’s good!
malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk — Malarkey
July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. Broke, burned out and paranoid, the ...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
The world is a mess. Buy books.
Those decorated holiday sugar cookies at the grocery store aren’t even good but I still ate one. Now I’m done eating it and I’m mad I ate it
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Those decorated holiday sugar cookies at the grocery store aren’t even good but I still ate one. Now I’m done eating it and I’m mad I ate it
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We chat escargot, Pig Destroyer, and smoking demons
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks with Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social b_bethea_ about their novel 'Disco Murder City' ! read this conversation !
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DISCO AND THE INFERNAL CITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CALEB BETHEA by Rebecca Gransden
The city lights up after nightfall, and Caleb Bethea knows the way. With Disco Murder City (Maudlin House, 2025) Bethea takes the lead, chasing fear along emptied alleys, into pulsating nightclubs fil...
xraylitmag.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We chat escargot, Pig Destroyer, and smoking demons
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A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it!
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
Bathtub
burialmagazine.neocities.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it!
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
ICYMI, sharing this review of The Barre Incidents! 💜
THE BARRE INCIDENTS by Lauren Bolger (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICYMI, sharing this review of The Barre Incidents! 💜
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A parenting companion to If you Give a Mouse a Cookie: If you Throw a Pet Rock in the Garbage
January 31, 2026 at 4:41 PM
A parenting companion to If you Give a Mouse a Cookie: If you Throw a Pet Rock in the Garbage
had a dream my cat was hanging around outside a community college and wouldn’t let me take her home. She looked wild and she’d hiss when I tried to approach her. In the dream it was bc of the food I’d been feeding her. The next day I came back and she was still feisty but let me take her back home
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
had a dream my cat was hanging around outside a community college and wouldn’t let me take her home. She looked wild and she’d hiss when I tried to approach her. In the dream it was bc of the food I’d been feeding her. The next day I came back and she was still feisty but let me take her back home
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“She’s not from here.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
“She’s not from here.”
Need to throw the internet into the lagoon so I can work on this book
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Need to throw the internet into the lagoon so I can work on this book
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The only poetry you really need is inside your heart. The other stuff is available at IWANTMYHAIRSHIRT.com
Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol — Malarkey
Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobol’s second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...
IWANTMYHAIRSHIRT.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The only poetry you really need is inside your heart. The other stuff is available at IWANTMYHAIRSHIRT.com
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New substack went out. I talk about dogsitting my friend Hank and the people who live in the walls of his house. Plus movie and book reviews.
Got 60 subscribers in my first week. Let's double it, shall we? Sign up and have these delivered to your inbox.
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Got 60 subscribers in my first week. Let's double it, shall we? Sign up and have these delivered to your inbox.
dangerslater.substack.com/p/hank-you-v...
February 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
New substack went out. I talk about dogsitting my friend Hank and the people who live in the walls of his house. Plus movie and book reviews.
Got 60 subscribers in my first week. Let's double it, shall we? Sign up and have these delivered to your inbox.
dangerslater.substack.com/p/hank-you-v...
Got 60 subscribers in my first week. Let's double it, shall we? Sign up and have these delivered to your inbox.
dangerslater.substack.com/p/hank-you-v...
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If you don't mind the direct ask, if you're looking for a tightly-curated online bookshop focusing on indies & top-tier reads, come check us out:
www.eveninghousebooks.com
I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there
www.eveninghousebooks.com
I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there
Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
www.eveninghousebooks.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
If you don't mind the direct ask, if you're looking for a tightly-curated online bookshop focusing on indies & top-tier reads, come check us out:
www.eveninghousebooks.com
I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there
www.eveninghousebooks.com
I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there