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Kathleen Jennings
@tanaudel.bsky.social
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Writer, illustrator. Dr!
Australia.
Agent: Shena Wolf.
https://linktr.ee/tanaudel
Next book: HONEYEATER

@girlfleeshouse.bsky.social & @improbablemaps.bsky.social

#artthoughts #storynotes

Prints: tanaudel.redbubble.com
Support: patreon.com/tanaudel
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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Sep 17
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow OUT NOW
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Do you like mouth-full-of-marbles wordy books? With-blackest-moss-the-flowerpots sentence structures? You should read this and see what I put my audiobook narrator through.
tanaudel.bsky.social Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Sep 17
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow OUT NOW
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Smug
Hand with inky thumbnail holding little inked drawing of crowned frog
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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After the trip (and prior art show prep): returning the studio to some semblance of functionality.
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Currently reading:
Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Ships a-sailing! Available on phone cases, and other things...
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3783...
Ships a-sailing by tanaudel | Redbubble
Sailing ships and sea monsters.
www.redbubble.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Book Moon is a wonderful, beloved local bookstore. Now they are working to buy their building. We can help them by buying books there!
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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A few paper goods brought back from the UK
Programs, chapbooks, cards, business cards, art, advent calendars…
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Lest you think I’m the only book person who matches her socks to her book covers…

#booksock
tanaudel.bsky.social Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Jul 26
It's a Brisbane winter so — socks to match the book (Fairy Wren and Blue Banded Bees from thesockery.com.au )
HONEYEATER by Kathleen Jennings next to "salt ash" socks, one with fairy wren on fern, one with blue bee among leaves
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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@charlesatan.bsky.social !! THE BOX IS FULL OF WONDERS!
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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A spell for returning... available as stickers, and other things:
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1170...
A Spell for Returning by tanaudel | Redbubble
A spring-crowned skull, from a cut-paper silhouette — originally very small, so the hand cut roughnesses show through.
www.redbubble.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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From time to time when she is alone, she imagines she hears whistling.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Skeleton orchestra! Available on various things...
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5872...
Skeleton orchestra by tanaudel | Redbubble
An accompaniment for a danse macabre
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November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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As I gradually return to my regular schedule: a round-up of October's blog posts
tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/o...
October 2025 — round-up of posts
It is now late November, but I have been on the road without a dedicated desk! First at the World Fantasy Convention, then driving around Devon and Cornwall, then hiding out in Dartmoor sheltering …
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November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Gave a short story workshop for PhD candidates this morning, had a meeting about an illustration project, then went as a guest to a local book club!
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Also revisiting @victoriazelvin.bsky.social 's "A Sunrise Every 90 Minutes" — a small dose of a very particular feeling
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-su...
A Sunrise Every 90 Minutes
Visit the post for more.
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Rereading @wiswell.bsky.social 's "We Are Not Phoenixes" for a thing (hits differently over time)
firesidefiction.com/we-are-not-p...
We Are Not Phoenixes
Remember that they are people. Most of them will be just as awed by what you can do as all your other audiences. If they’ve invited you, then they want you h...
firesidefiction.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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A series of questions and demands seen in one corridor on campus
Collage of cropped questions from flyers: Want a better sleep? ARE YOU A COMPETITIVE CHESS PLAYER? • aro needed for an online study Are you enrolled in a health-related degree? What is the research about? AT A GLANCE Will my responses be anonymous? How Creative Are You? Find Out in a Brain Stimulation Study! Can you make the right call under pressure? Seeking social connection? Are you looking for clarity on your career direction? • Undecided about your career direction? • Seeking advice on job search strategies? • Keen to explore alternative career options? WHO WE'RE SEEKING? H0 Unn WHAT'S INVOLVED?
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Also, this is the sort of house in which HONEYEATER takes place...
tanaudel.bsky.social Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Sep 17
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow OUT NOW
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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(note these are likely to be cutting it fine for Christmas but they would make a fabulous January gift!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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The Queenslander house design as teatowels!
Available from my Spoonflower:
Green: www.spoonflower.com/en/home-deco...
Blue: www.spoonflower.com/en/home-deco...
teatowel with pattern of high-set Queenslander houses and gardens, with blue and red details, some chooks, etc, on a green background teatowel with pattern of high-set Queenslander houses and gardens, the houses coloured white, on a blue background
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Books in flower (you can get this in three different colourways, and it looks particularly nice on a scarf or throw)
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1449...
Books in flower — orange by tanaudel | Redbubble
Old books put on leaves and flowers. Now in an orange colourway (with blue books)! (My favourite) A pen and ink illustration, coloured digitally.
www.redbubble.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Also revisiting @victoriazelvin.bsky.social 's "A Sunrise Every 90 Minutes" — a small dose of a very particular feeling
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-su...
A Sunrise Every 90 Minutes
Visit the post for more.
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
tanaudel.bsky.social
Rereading @wiswell.bsky.social 's "We Are Not Phoenixes" for a thing (hits differently over time)
firesidefiction.com/we-are-not-p...
We Are Not Phoenixes
Remember that they are people. Most of them will be just as awed by what you can do as all your other audiences. If they’ve invited you, then they want you h...
firesidefiction.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Look what I have!

The Cold House (Out now!) titanbooks.com/72446-the-co...
A Forest, Darkly (Preorders) titanbooks.com/72448-a-fore...

by @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Hand holding books: The Cold House and A Forest, Darkly, by AG Slatter
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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'Artfully written this exploration of mystery in the face of complacency is steeped in creek water and deeply rooted in subtropical gumtrees' FERGUS FALLS JOURNAL honeyeater KATHLEEN JENNINGS PICADOR OUT NOW
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM