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Kathleen Jennings
@tanaudel.bsky.social
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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HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
I just think they’re neat
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I is for ‘Incubus’ in my #folkhorroralphabet a 1966 film starring a young William Shatner. A slow-build horror set on a seemingly idyllic island inhabited by demons that prey on the vain and self-centred. They’d have a field day on social media.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Need some bats? They're frolicking here (on various objects):
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/9038...
A frolic of bats by tanaudel | Redbubble
A flock of bats pursue stars.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I was revisiting this post while looking for some images for slides — it's about finding the language for FLYAWAY
tanaudel.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/s...
Sketching with words
The post on Illustrating Flyaway, over at Tor.com, has a few location sketches on it from when I went to Hanging Rock with Belinda Morris (yes, that Hanging Rock, and yes we had a picnic), trying t…
tanaudel.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Need some bats? They're frolicking here (on various objects):
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/9038...
A frolic of bats by tanaudel | Redbubble
A flock of bats pursue stars.
www.redbubble.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
buses and hotels booked to get back to the airport and home ALAS
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am 3/4, by content, tarragon chicken
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Last day!
Final countdown for The Saintly Hollows kickstarter. We've secured EU- and UK-friendly shipping, and all stretch goals are unlocked.

Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
www.kickstarter.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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i'm reading this now. it's got great vibes, almost fulci-esque dreamy-creepy... fun to read about brisbane in this way, too.

i need more weird lit set in australian towns.
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
These read like obscure insults
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The angst involved in preparing a talk about something you think you could discuss fairly creditably if only it were impromptu.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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We are doing a second printing of the 2026 Ulla Thynell Calendar, but can't say if there will be a third - so if you were planning to get one, or buy for gifts, now is a great time!
2026 Ulla Thynell Calendar - Atthis Arts
Beautifully illustrated hanging wall calendar, designed and illustrated by Ulla Thynell. Now shipping!
www.atthisarts.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
also there’s not a whole lot of wi-fi here, and I have some unexpected online meetings, and at one point I was going to be sent to a mystical woodland at 2am for its inexplicably crystalline mobile reception
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it is rainy and windy on the edge of the moor, which is good for I have much to do — most of it in an enchanted library with harps playing below
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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All of which is to say we've got an amazing group of people working on something pretty special, and if you or that especially discerning nerd in your life wants in, this is the time 🌛
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Thanks to stretch goal unlocks, we'll have custom character sheets by @alderdoodle.bsky.social, a Mythic Bastionland conversion kit by @willjobst.bsky.social, and a Shadowdark conversion kit by @nightnoon.games. Plus More Stuff of Many Varieties.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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And we're lucky to be working with a such a talented group of artists, including Theo Black, @danielharila.bsky.social, Eon Fontes-May, @amandalee.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @queerwizard.co.uk, @perplexingruins.bsky.social, and @ianreed.bsky.social. Total dream team.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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My pal @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social is a brilliant writer, and he's doing some of his best work yet for these books. I can't wait for folks to explore these deranged and visionary territories.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Final countdown for The Saintly Hollows kickstarter. We've secured EU- and UK-friendly shipping, and all stretch goals are unlocked.

Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The house will bequeath to the girl knowledge, if she will bring more innocents to it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Such an interesting panel
Home from World Fantasy, really enjoyed chatting with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @tanaudel.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari on the Nature Writing in Fantasy panel and getting to read these fab books 😊🌿
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#birdoftheday #standingonthings is a Blue Faced Honeyeater standing on a table at a cafe in Australia.

#wildlife
#nature
#wildlifephotography
#naturephotography
#birding
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Currently reading:
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM