Kathleen M. Rodgers
@kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social
Author of The Llano County Mermaid Club, BOOK OF THE WEEK for Oct. 12 in Albuquerque Journal, University of New Mexico Press. Rep'd by Tracy Crow Literary Agency
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“For years I longed to write a novel that incorporated #writers and #books and elements of magical realism into the narrative.” – Kathleen M. Rodgers in her new @deborahkalb.bsky.social #author Q&A #writing #research @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social
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Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers
Kathleen M. Rodgers is the author of the new novel The Llano County Mermaid Club . Her other books include The Flyi...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“For years I longed to write a novel that incorporated #writers and #books and elements of magical realism into the narrative.” – Kathleen M. Rodgers in her new @deborahkalb.bsky.social #author Q&A #writing #research @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social
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On a new episode of Forgotten Hollywood, Chris Yogerst discusses the reasons he chose to write a deep-dive analysis of the John Ford film THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. #booksky #filmsky #westerns
Episode 378-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Podcast Episode · Forgotten Hollywood · 11/06/2025 · 22m
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November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Q&A with Mariajo Ilustrajo about her new children's picture book, OH, CARROTS!
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November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Q&A with Mariajo Ilustrajo about her new children's picture book, OH, CARROTS!
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Stop by the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto this weekend to see BROKEN ARROW on the big screen, and then check out Angela Aleiss's analysis of the film in her Reel West book of the same title—out now!
#booksky #filmsky #westerns
#booksky #filmsky #westerns
The Stanford graduate who changed Hollywood’s view of Native Americans
Stanford Theatre is screening the classic, game-changing Western ‘Broken Arrow.’
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November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers about her new novel, THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers about her new novel, THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB.
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Grateful to Deborah Kalb for the chance to chat about my latest novel. I’m also a huge fan of Deborah’s compulsively readable adult novel, Off to Join the Circus. @deborahkalb.bsky.social @unmp.bsky.social
Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers about her new novel, THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Grateful to Deborah Kalb for the chance to chat about my latest novel. I’m also a huge fan of Deborah’s compulsively readable adult novel, Off to Join the Circus. @deborahkalb.bsky.social @unmp.bsky.social
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Q&A with Marcia Argueta Mickelson about her new YA novel, THE WRITING ROOM.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Q&A with Marcia Argueta Mickelson about her new YA novel, THE WRITING ROOM.
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This exclusive excerpt from THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social on Fresh Fiction is a great chance to find out what this secret club of landlocked mermaids is all about! #booksky #litfic
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Kathleen M. Rodgers | Exclusive Excerpt: THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB – Fresh Fiction
Exclusive Excerpt for The Llano County Mermaid Club by Kathleen M. Rodgers:
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October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exclusive excerpt from THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social on Fresh Fiction is a great chance to find out what this secret club of landlocked mermaids is all about! #booksky #litfic
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🥰🧜♀️📚From my publisher:
This exclusive excerpt from THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social on Fresh Fiction is a great chance to find out what this secret club of landlocked mermaids is all about! #booksky #litfic
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Kathleen M. Rodgers | Exclusive Excerpt: THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB – Fresh Fiction
Exclusive Excerpt for The Llano County Mermaid Club by Kathleen M. Rodgers:
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🥰🧜♀️📚From my publisher:
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Published October 21st! THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social is a novel that walks the line between mystery and literary fiction as a woman returns to her hometown to figure out what led to her best friend’s tragic and mysterious end. 💙📚
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October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Published October 21st! THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social is a novel that walks the line between mystery and literary fiction as a woman returns to her hometown to figure out what led to her best friend’s tragic and mysterious end. 💙📚
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“In 2018, Rick Bass took the field as a member of the Texas Express, a semipro #football team based in the city of Brenham. It was his first season on the squad, a feat made all the more remarkable because of...his age—60...” Robert Ito of Alta Journal reports
Football As Religion
In his latest book, Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football, Rick Bass writes about briefly joining a semipro football team based in Texas.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“In 2018, Rick Bass took the field as a member of the Texas Express, a semipro #football team based in the city of Brenham. It was his first season on the squad, a feat made all the more remarkable because of...his age—60...” Robert Ito of Alta Journal reports
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Read our new blog post, where author Susan Aizenberg shares her connection to Frank O'Hara and offers advice for new poets. Discover why she urges writers to stay focused on the pleasures of the work rather than the outcome! 📚 ✒️ #poetrysky
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September 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Read our new blog post, where author Susan Aizenberg shares her connection to Frank O'Hara and offers advice for new poets. Discover why she urges writers to stay focused on the pleasures of the work rather than the outcome! 📚 ✒️ #poetrysky
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🦸🏿 OUT NOW! 🦸🏿 small lives by Gary Jackson is a collection of (mostly) prose poems that follow a cast of larger-than-life superhero characters—The Invincible Woman, The Telepath, and The Willpower Man—through the everyday moments that punctuate their adventures. #poetrysky 💙📚
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September 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🦸🏿 OUT NOW! 🦸🏿 small lives by Gary Jackson is a collection of (mostly) prose poems that follow a cast of larger-than-life superhero characters—The Invincible Woman, The Telepath, and The Willpower Man—through the everyday moments that punctuate their adventures. #poetrysky 💙📚
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"Growing up in the desert town of Sandhill, New Mexico, Marigold Hubbard and her friends wanted only one thing: to see the ocean..."
Enter to win a copy of @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social' "The Llano County Mermaid Club" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social' "The Llano County Mermaid Club" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
July 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Growing up in the desert town of Sandhill, New Mexico, Marigold Hubbard and her friends wanted only one thing: to see the ocean..."
Enter to win a copy of @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social' "The Llano County Mermaid Club" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social' "The Llano County Mermaid Club" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
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UNM Press titles have been sparking a lot of conversations! Mark Sundeen on Radio Free Mike, Nan Fischer on Write On Four Corners, Matthew F. Schmader on KUNM, Judith Taylor on Garden Masterclass, & many more.
See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books:
See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books:
Interviews, Reviews, and Conversations with UNM Press Authors
UNM Press titles have been sparking a lot of conversations!
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June 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
UNM Press titles have been sparking a lot of conversations! Mark Sundeen on Radio Free Mike, Nan Fischer on Write On Four Corners, Matthew F. Schmader on KUNM, Judith Taylor on Garden Masterclass, & many more.
See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books:
See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books:
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Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/482wc746
Win a signed copy—see the first post!
Learn more: tinyurl.com/482wc746
Win a signed copy—see the first post!
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/482wc746
Win a signed copy—see the first post!
Learn more: tinyurl.com/482wc746
Win a signed copy—see the first post!
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Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky
US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.
US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky
US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.
US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.
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"Dream of the Bird Tattoo depicts the interplay of the personal and the social in its vision of grief for a parent, and it does so movingly and with powerful softness."
Thanks to @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for this excellent review! #booksky
Thanks to @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for this excellent review! #booksky
Dream of the Bird Tattoo by Juan J. Morales
Morales is able to highlight the blocky quotidianity of life after loss alongside the necessity of imagination in beginning to move forward.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Dream of the Bird Tattoo depicts the interplay of the personal and the social in its vision of grief for a parent, and it does so movingly and with powerful softness."
Thanks to @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for this excellent review! #booksky
Thanks to @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for this excellent review! #booksky
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Cowardice, nonsense, and complete bullshit. These are not normal times. I stand with @padilla.senate.gov for doing what it takes to stand up to injustice.
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Cowardice, nonsense, and complete bullshit. These are not normal times. I stand with @padilla.senate.gov for doing what it takes to stand up to injustice.
Thank you for believing in my book, @unmpress.bsky.social I'm proud to share the savvy cover reveal. TY to my agent @tracycrow.bsky.social
We’re delighted to show off the cover of THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social! It comes out September 16th. This could be your next book club read! 💙📚
Cover art and design by Felicia Cedillos
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Cover art and design by Felicia Cedillos
Learn more and preorder at www.unmpress.com/the-llano-co...
May 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Thank you for believing in my book, @unmpress.bsky.social I'm proud to share the savvy cover reveal. TY to my agent @tracycrow.bsky.social
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:
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Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
February 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.
I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.