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Sarah Opatz
@opatzsarah.bsky.social
Events Assistant @ Blue House Books 📚

Creator & Editor-in-Chief of Kenozia- local Kenosha Art Zine 🖌️

My personal art Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/distinctivemediums 🖤

Kenozia Zine Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/kenozia 🎨
Received my Kenozia crewneck today and I’m so happy. I can’t believe we have merch!

If you want to buy your own Kenozia merch- head over to this link: theletteringmachine.com/kenozia/shop...

$5 from every sale proceeds will go to a non-profit each quarter. Help me raise funds for a food cause!
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
All set up for the Haunted Simmons library event. People can come in for a ghost tour and then see our film, “What Happened to Dorothy Bell”. Which was filmed here. Feels good to be back. 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Issue 2 has arrived 🥳
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Had to control my fangirling last night as I got to meet @caitlinstarling.com !!! If you love horror or weird girl fiction - you have to get all of her books. 🙌

She was at BHB for the release of “The Graceview Patient” (which we do have signed copies of btw and can ship them to you 😉)
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Such a great event last night with @blairbraverman.bsky.social and @patzmiller.bsky.social - highly recommend Blair’s children picture book debut and all of Pat’s children picture books. Great themes to teach young ones. Such aspirational women. Happy to have met you both!

#booksky💙📚
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s photos of the cats participation 🥹
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Working on the cover for the fall/halloween issue of Kenozia! ☺️
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Not the best picture admittedly, but, my Kenozia stickers have arrived! All yearly subscriptions will get a sticker. They’re so cute and great quality. Shout out to The Lettering Machine.

Sign up for a yearly subscription on our ko-fi page (under the Shop option) ko-fi.com/kenozia
August 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Got my art print back from the printer and sending it off to its new home tomorrow! I really love how cute it is! 👻

If you want your own print of my original painting called Ponder, it’s only $15 on my ko-fi page.

ko-fi.com/s/65692215e0

#sheetghost #originalpainting #artprint
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Went to the Renaissance Faire today! Did some archery and knife throwing. Archery I didn’t do too bad, but not so good with knife throwing. 😅 overall, would recommend.
August 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I work at a Cemetery then and I love that for me. 👻😊
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I ordered branded envelopes/mailer for when I mail out the Kenozia issues and gah, they are so cool. I am feeling so official. Will have to post a photo when they arrive. 😎
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My coworker sent me this, apparently I’m in the newspaper today! Woohoo! 🙌 go Kenozia! 300 copies were put out around Kenosha, get yours for free before it’s gone!
August 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I have been consistently keeping food outside for the stray cats in the neighborhood.

One cat is a regular, I’ve been watching this one grow from kitty to adult cat this past year.

Welp, she is also a momma and had kitties and is now staying in our backyard with them. 3 kittens in total. 😍
August 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Last post, for awhile about Kenozia. I just love how it turned out. And I’m geeking over issue #2 already. It’s going to be a fall/halloween twofer. 🤩
August 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Kenozia has arrived! I will be distributing them this weekend/monday! Ahh. 🥳

If you’re in Kenosha, you can get the zine at Blue House Books, Cut Stone Pizza, Public Brewing Co, the Lettering Machine, East View Coffee, all library branches, Educators Credit Union, the Anderson Arts Center, & more
August 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Another great author event tonight!

Charlie Donlea with his release of “Guess Again” - it came out today!

With @joshuamoehling.bsky.social as his conversation partner- if you haven’t read his series, you need to! The first one is “And There He Kept Her”.

Such wonderful people & a great event!
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A true tragedy 🎭

My Sanderson book apparently fell into my cats bowl of water and now it’s this…
July 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It was such a great event tonight with @danielkraus.com and @jimmyjuliano.bsky.social !!!

Daniel’s book- Angel Down, comes out tomorrow!

Jimmy’s book- 13 Months Haunted, comes out August 12th!

Highly recommend! 🙌 #booksky
July 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
July 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
June is happy when I get to work from home but she also gets irritated every time I need to move my arm to, heaven forbid, type something. 😆 cats…
July 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy 5 years with this amazing person @dannyvillanuevajr.bsky.social 🖤
July 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Timeline cleanse- the beautiful wildflowers in my backyard. Wish more grew, might have to try planting more.
July 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today is a great day for releases. “The Bewitching” by @silviamg.bsky.social is out today and I am currently listening to it on @libro.fm and just wow. I’m only 33% in and I’m so hooked. I guess you can say it has bewitched me.

I love the different timelines and I can’t wait to see what happens! 🙈
July 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy release day for “Killer on the Road” by
@sgj.bsky.social

I recently finished the audio version & the entire time I kept thinking “holy shit, holy shit, no way”! 👁️

It was a killer read. I’m pretty excited to read the other story “The Babysitter Lives” and get the book at work today.
July 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM