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"The true magic of these stories [is] the simultaneous predictability and unknowability of the people and creatures at their centers." — Shelf Awareness (starred review)

Today is the official publication day for Kathleen Jennings's first collection of short stories, Kindling. Kathleen has illustrated many of our book covers over the last 15 years. She worked with Kij Johnson and did the cover and many interior illustrations for The River Bank; she provided covers for two issues of our zine, LCRW;

Kathleen Jennings's new book, Kindling, her first collection of stories, is being trucked from printer to distributor and from there on its way to shops, cafes, backpacks, bedside tables, ship's libraries, and a few to alternate worlds. One of those worlds might be the one where her story The Heart of Owl Abbas is set:

Our first book of 2024 has received a good early review in Kirkus Reviews — there's a hilarious tag line at the end — but this will give you a good idea of why we're publishing it and how enjoyable it is: Old tales and new turning points converge in a dozen fantasy-rich stories. Here’s

I was writing a newsletter to go out tomorrow in celebration of Anya's novel coming out and I realized I'd never posted that the first trade review for Kathleen Jennings's Kindling had come in from Lucy Lockley in Booklist: "Following her debut, Flyaway (2020), Jennings here compiles a collection of 12 of her previously published

October 10, 2023 trade paper · 288 pages · $15 · 9781618732132 | ebook · 9781618732149 | Edelweiss A fabulous debut of folk tales and fantasies by an award winning author and illustrator. Small fires start in the hearts of Kathleen Jennings’s characters and irresistibly spread to those around them. Journeys are taken, debts repaid,

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