Today's the day

It's pub day for "I Blame Myself But Also You and other stories"

Today is the day that, as Yngwie Malmsteen once tried and failed to do, Malarkey Books unleashes the fury: I Blame Myself But Also You and other stories is out in the world and available for purchase. It lives! IT LIVES!

Here are some things a few writers I admire have already said about the book:

“Fleury knows how to burrow into this peculiar business called being alive. These are stories that make you love them.”

—Joshua Mohr, author of Model Citizen

“The stories in Fleury’s collection are strange, unsettling, yet so firmly anchored in place that we can hear, see, smell, and almost touch these remarkable settings. Each story feels utterly familiar but also slightly shifted; they’re sharp gems and I wanted to read twenty more of them.”

—Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

“In the tradition of short story writers like George Saunders and Aimee Bender, Spencer Fleury has in this sparkling collection created an alternate literary universe that surprises, delights, and encourages us to recognize the absurd in the everyday.”

—Janis Cooke-Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue

Get it straight from Malarkey Books. (This is the preferred method.) Get it from Asterism, Bookshop, B&N, or Amazon. Ask your library to get it for you.

Read “Tube Man,” a story from the collection.

Listen to me stammer, pontificate, and cough on a couple of podcasts (more of those to come).

Check out this here review.

Now I have to get back to working my regular day job. Book pub day should be an automatic day off at any job, but whaddaya gonna do?

Anyway, buy my book. And thanks for reading.