Jessica Francis Kane
@jfkane.bsky.social
Novels (Rules for Visiting, The Report). Story collections (This Close, Bending Heaven). New novel, FONSECA, out now from Penguin Press!
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I’m pretty sure that every time a Penelope Fitzgerald fan takes a chance on reading FONSECA an angel gets her wings.
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’m pretty sure that every time a Penelope Fitzgerald fan takes a chance on reading FONSECA an angel gets her wings.
I’m pretty sure that every time a Penelope Fitzgerald fan takes a chance on reading FONSECA an angel gets her wings.
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’m pretty sure that every time a Penelope Fitzgerald fan takes a chance on reading FONSECA an angel gets her wings.
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Unsung Heroes of Motherhood
Our 3rd most-read article of 2025.
- - -Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor w...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I am trying grayscale on my phone to reduce the amount of time I spend on my phone and I must say that three days in it appears to be working.
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I am trying grayscale on my phone to reduce the amount of time I spend on my phone and I must say that three days in it appears to be working.
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Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.
Biblioracle: Our 2025 Biblioracle Book Awards in fiction
When I tallied the contenders for my fiction Biblioracle Book of the Year Awards, I counted 32 contenders. Here are 10.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.
Clicked on one cat bed ad and now it’s cushions and cat accessories everywhere I look.
December 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Clicked on one cat bed ad and now it’s cushions and cat accessories everywhere I look.
Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.
Biblioracle: Our 2025 Biblioracle Book Awards in fiction
When I tallied the contenders for my fiction Biblioracle Book of the Year Awards, I counted 32 contenders. Here are 10.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.
Beautiful! I can’t wait.
Book merch alert! The Manderley Press Tote Bag is in production and we expect stock early in the new year. Does this mean we are no longer a fledgling indie press but a fully formed publishing enterprise?!?
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December 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Beautiful! I can’t wait.
I love the season of Advent.
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I love the season of Advent.
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A term I'll hang on to from McCracken's A Long Game is "the ventriloquail," for a sentence where a character simultaneously speaks and takes an action that makes speech impossible. ("You look wonderful!" she said, drinking her martini.) Ventriloquails drive me nuts. This is a good shorthand for why.
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A term I'll hang on to from McCracken's A Long Game is "the ventriloquail," for a sentence where a character simultaneously speaks and takes an action that makes speech impossible. ("You look wonderful!" she said, drinking her martini.) Ventriloquails drive me nuts. This is a good shorthand for why.
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Just announced - a brand new book for Christmas 2026: Sledges to the Rescue by Raymond Briggs. Fully illustrated throughout by Briggs himself, and introduced by international best-selling author Jessie Burton, who grew up in Wimbledon, London, where this children’s book is set!
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Just announced - a brand new book for Christmas 2026: Sledges to the Rescue by Raymond Briggs. Fully illustrated throughout by Briggs himself, and introduced by international best-selling author Jessie Burton, who grew up in Wimbledon, London, where this children’s book is set!
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December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Penelope Fitzgerald. She was, as she said, “an old writer who had never been a young one." She achieved fame for her writing at the age of 80. She was an utterly distinctive talent with no obvious debts to anybody. Today is her day.
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Penelope Fitzgerald. She was, as she said, “an old writer who had never been a young one." She achieved fame for her writing at the age of 80. She was an utterly distinctive talent with no obvious debts to anybody. Today is her day.
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From the archive for Penelope Fitzgerald, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, thoughts on her marvellous novel AT FREDDIE’S.
Oh, the drama of life at a London stage school! Fitzgerald is on brilliant form in this darkly comic novel, tinged with touches of tragedy. 💙📚
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Oh, the drama of life at a London stage school! Fitzgerald is on brilliant form in this darkly comic novel, tinged with touches of tragedy. 💙📚
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At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald
Set in a London stage school in the early 1960s, At Freddie’s is another of Penelope Fitzgerald’s marvellous tragicomedies, reasonably similar in style to her earlier works, Human Voices and Offsho…
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December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
From the archive for Penelope Fitzgerald, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, thoughts on her marvellous novel AT FREDDIE’S.
Oh, the drama of life at a London stage school! Fitzgerald is on brilliant form in this darkly comic novel, tinged with touches of tragedy. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/a...
Oh, the drama of life at a London stage school! Fitzgerald is on brilliant form in this darkly comic novel, tinged with touches of tragedy. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/a...
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Other readers make year-end best book lists, but I bestow book awards on behalf of all Jenkind. In this month's Tumbleweed, it's the 4th Annual Jenfolk Book Awards! @loriostlund.bsky.social @jfkane.bsky.social @erikakrouse.bsky.social jennyshank.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
The Fourth Annual Jenfolk Book Awards
Four years into this, and no Jen has stopped me yet.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Other readers make year-end best book lists, but I bestow book awards on behalf of all Jenkind. In this month's Tumbleweed, it's the 4th Annual Jenfolk Book Awards! @loriostlund.bsky.social @jfkane.bsky.social @erikakrouse.bsky.social jennyshank.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I miss my mom most in December. She LOVED Christmas and her birthday was the 20th.
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I miss my mom most in December. She LOVED Christmas and her birthday was the 20th.
Have gone smaller in the empty nest era and don’t mind. 🎄
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Have gone smaller in the empty nest era and don’t mind. 🎄
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Now that they've got us clicking "Reject All" and "Do Not Consent" without thinking about it, they've probably rewritten the terms to mean "Reject all constraints on having my data exploited for profit" and "Do not consent to being left out of any possible marketing."
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Now that they've got us clicking "Reject All" and "Do Not Consent" without thinking about it, they've probably rewritten the terms to mean "Reject all constraints on having my data exploited for profit" and "Do not consent to being left out of any possible marketing."
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After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.
That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature
Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too
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December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.
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Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?
Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?
Does anyone else feel like RFK Jr.'s eyes are slowly moving closer together?
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Does anyone else feel like RFK Jr.'s eyes are slowly moving closer together?
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The RELIEF that I don’t have to care about these two words in 2026: “most anticipated.” For all the writers gearing up for a 2026 release, my heart is with you.
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The RELIEF that I don’t have to care about these two words in 2026: “most anticipated.” For all the writers gearing up for a 2026 release, my heart is with you.