Messaging people about jobs on Li**e**n today. Please say a prayer for me that I don't spontaneously combust from embarrassment or some other thing.
Trent Brown
@joshuatrentbrown.com
i have a book https://malarkeybooks.com/store/thewallsareclosinginonus
I’ll say it: I don’t think Emily Wilson even likes movies
Just had THE LOVELIEST conversation with @joshuatrentbrown.com for Malarkey Public Radio, and I am 90% sure my Southern accent was more prominent than usual on account of his. You know how it can be. Coming soon!
My first child was born Friday morning. She’s beautiful. Here’s the opening chapter to my second novel (in progress), “The Sound of Many Waters.” It felt appropriate to share.
My first novel “Submarines” officially launched today! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy, reviewed it, told a friend, or made a post about. Thanks to Aaron, Ben, Graham, Jillian and Zac for blurbing it and Alan and Malarkey for publishing.
Happy Submarines Day to @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social and all who celebrate! If your copy’s arrived please post pics! If you haven’t ordered we have some signed copies left. It’s also available from Bookshop and other retailers. The ebook is available everywhere. Get it! malarkeybooks.com/submarines
Really loved this from @joshuatrentbrown.com. Sweeping, evocative, grounded but with just the right smattering of the magical. Get on it.
Not to state the glaringly obvious but The Walls Are Closing In On Us by @joshuatrentbrown.com is phenomenal
Indie publisher rejected my short story collection today 💔 Four years after I sent it to them 😭 If only I could remember what the hell was in it
"It takes a while for whatever I’m writing to find its identity. A novel may become a story, which may become a screenplay—because, why not?...I feel like I marinate a lot. I think one of the greatest skills a writer can have is patience." -interview with Joey Hedger
Interview with Joey Hedger
Deliver Thy Pigs, community, going veg
ivygrimes.substack.com
I saw The Odyssey twice this weekend. It’s very good. Really really good. This has been TB’s movie minute.
“I’m glad I got to know George, even if only a little. Highly recommended.” 🙂
Historical Novel Society@histnovsoc.bsky.social · 3w ago'Spanning 1910 - 1960, following a young half-Choctaw man, told in Southern Gothic style. Remarkable.' Editor's Choice: The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown, reviewer Richard Banville
Daniel Mason rocks. I will read whatever he chooses to write.
The B&N manager told me I sold more than a local author ever has at the store. KEEP GOING. WRITE THAT NOVEL. SEND IT OUT. KEEP TRYING.
Trent Brown@joshuatrentbrown.com · 4w agoYall mind if I sell books in front of the Criterion Collection and the Children’s Section of this Barnes & Noble?
Yall mind if I sell books in front of the Criterion Collection and the Children’s Section of this Barnes & Noble?
I may or may not have been “laid off” as they’re calling it these days. So it’d be super cool if you “bought my book” and “reviewed it”
I do get tired of promoting books, but this is a weakness I must overcome because how else does anyone hear about these books? I certainly don’t get tired of people reading them, talking about them, reviewing them. Anyway, look at all these cool Malarkey books! 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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Multiple book reviewers have posted THE WALLS in their favorite reads of 2026 so far. Very kool
Now reading @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON US by @joshuatrentbrown.com . I found "Look Homeward, Angel" in its beginning and nearing the end of Part One, Richard Wright's "Native Son." Impressive story and prose
Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.
With the sheer volume of social posts that are so clearly written by AI, I can’t help but feel there’s a guy out there who actually writes like that naturally. And my heart breaks for him.
I wrote a get-rich-quick guide for small press authors. Step one: sell this guide for $100. open.substack.com/pub/olddream...
Another Malarkey author great to work with was @traaaant for his recent release The Walls Are Closing In On Us, a southern odyssey inspired by a distant relative. He came in with lots of visual notes. The symbols of the snake and the river quickly entwined together for this cover.
