Timothy Tarkelly
Kansas Romance author, poet, and teacher.
Buy my latest book, One Night in Prague and all the rest here: linktr.ee/tarkellyt
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- Got a new poem up over at Fixator Press! Check it out fixatorpress.home.blog/2025/12/02/w...
- Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except Bret Easton Ellis!
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- Once a week, I co-teach an AP lit class to teach them about poetry. A girl was being very short and kind of rude today, so I politely asked if everything is okay, and she legitimately hates poetry so much that it makes her angry. I make her angry because of the poems, and anyway I feel sad now.
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- I often think about getting a PHD just so I can be around people who like to read the kind of books I like.
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- A couple years ago, Stripes Lit Mag published my chapbook Ode to the Class of 2024, a short collection of poems about being a teacher. You can check it out here: stripesliterarymagazine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/...
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- Reposted by Timothy TarkellyGenuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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- My new story just dropped! Detective Tom Flannery lost his job for a crime he never committed. Now, he is being forced to solve a murder by the same people who framed him. theyardcrimeblog.com/2025/10/28/a... #noir #crimefiction #detective
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- I'm excited to announce my upcoming book from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Kezia is a short collection of narrative poems about lovesick vagabonds, vengeful viking women, and medieval warriors in desperate need of humility. The book drops in August!
- The AP Lit kids at my school do a March Madness poetry bracket every year with 16 poems. This year "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath took first, and "The Ultrasound Shows Me an Empty Sack" by @stemkay.bsky.social took a strong second.
- Super pumped to have my work featured as the Poem of the Week at BeatLife!!! beatlife.org/poem-of-the-...
- Check out my poem "Delaware" in the newest issue of Streetcake Magazine!
- Our new issue is now live, featuring some fabulous work! Please read it and share it far and wide! 👉https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html #LitMags #ExperimentalWriting Image: Stephanie Ivanova
- Have a flash piece up at Guilty Crime Story Mag! www.guiltycrimemag.com/flash/we-wer...
- The Painted Veil The Emperor's Club The Devil Wears Prada Heartland Sum of All Fears These are all movies/series where the cinematic production is actually better than the book. Can you think of others?
- I have a new poem up over at As it Ought to Be Magazine! The January edition is full of some wonderful writers. Go check it out! asitoughttobemagazine.com/timothy-tark... #poem #poetsofbluesky
- Small books, too!
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- Has anyone paid for book reviewing services before? Is it worth it?
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- 💥 Action ♥️Romance 🚘 High-speed chases 💲Cryptoterrorism 🌃 International setting One Night in Prague is a short, action-packed romantic thriller with medium heat and a whole lot of excitement. Check it out!!! #romance #romanticthriller #ebook #newbook
- Reposted by Timothy TarkellyWord of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
- It's here! One Night in Prague by Timothy Tarkelly 50 pages of high-paced, high-stakes romantic suspense in an exciting city! 💥❤️🏰 The link is below!!!!!! #romance #romanticthriller #newbook #kindle
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- Very excited for this story to drop! If you like romance or international thrillers, this is the book for you! #romance #kindle #romanticthriller #newbook
- My latest Romance will be available very soon on the Kindle store! One Night in Prague tells the passionate story of a brave journalist and a rogue bodyguard as they fight to expose a dangerous terrorist and for a chance at true love. #romanticthriller #romance #newbook
- I have a romance/suspense story that's too short for most publishers (13,500 words), so I'm considering self-publishing it through KDP. Any thoughts? Anyone with experience?
