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Jennifer Wortman
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Writer, THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. She/her.
Niche litsky post: Hanif Abdurraquib is at my gate at the Denver airport!
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)!

So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖

#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about.

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First Kicking, Then Not
Check out First Kicking, Then Not - <p>A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another aban...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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You will want to read this for sure.
RIP Dad.
All of this is true. The events took place last January.
And thank you to Bull for publishing this.
"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here's a simple way to disable AI mode in Google. I just did it, and I feel like a new, freshly showered woman!

www.engadget.com/big-tech/how...
How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches
If you find Google's AI Overview more irritating than helpful, here's now to turn it off in Chrome.
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September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We love book mail!
September 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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CO friends: On September 19, I will be discussing my memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE with the magnificent Erika Krouse at Lighthouse Writers in Denver. If you are available that afternoon and up for it, come out and say hello. Free to members, $5 for nonmembers. Pizza party optional.

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Karen Palmer Book Release: Reading and Conversation with Erika Krouse
Come celebrate longtime faculty Karen Palmer's forthcoming memoir, She's Under Here (Algonquin Books, Sept. 16, 2025), garnering raves from the likes of Luis Alberto Urrea: "She’s Under Here is a hurr...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.
July 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Amazon’s prime day profits are down 41%. To celebrate, until midnight you can get 41% off anything in our store with code 41% at malarkeybooks.com/store
Malarkey
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July 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Not only can we do both, we have to do both in order for either effort to be successful. Even if the Democratic Party insists this is not the case, it remains nonetheless true that fighting grotesque levels of inequality in America and fighting fascism are necessarily interdependent projects.
We can deliver affordability and fight authoritarianism at the same time. I am eager to partner with state and federal leaders to do exactly that.
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.
The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
gizmodo.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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It took a long time but here are the books we’re going to publish in the next three years:

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New Books on the Way! — Malarkey
In the interest of time, sanity, stress levels, and financial stability, we have decided to slow down a bit. We published thirteen books in 2022, then nine each in 2023 and 2024, counting Death of Pri...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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We're ending our last ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY of the month saying CONGRATS 🎉 Contributor @wrefinnej.bsky.social's novel DREAMS OF MY DEAD HUSBAND made runner-up for the @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Fiction Prize!
June 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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There are a number of ways we can each show up to support trans people, including by contributing to groups that are providing critical direct support through mutual aid, mental health resources, and more.

More are listed and linked in this @them.us piece here: www.them.us/story/scotus...
June 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it.

First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5
June 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This small press is fueled by love, stubbornness, and a little bit of delusion, but also, importantly, book sales. Get 20% off in stock titles and merch with code SELLOUT at malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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We have a cover, designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social, for Vi Khi Nao’s forthcoming collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil! Cover art from Jörn Budesheim.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Honored my novel Dreams of My Dead Husband made runner-up in this contest (and weirdly flattered to play second fiddle to Adam O’Fallon Price—a hell of a writer). I’ve put everything I am into this book—hoping this takes it one step closer to finding a good home.
We’d also like to congratulate the runner-up, finalists, and semi-finalists for their incredible manuscripts and thank everyone who submitted and trusted us with their manuscripts.

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June 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM