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Jenny Kalahar
@jennykalahar.bsky.social
Novelist. Publisher & editor Last Stanza Poetry Journal. I write novels about used books, foster cats, antiques, mysteries from history, and romance. https://tinyurl.com/jennykalahar Former Premier Poet of Indiana 2022-2025. Used & rare bookseller.
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Enter this scene while reading my novels set in a used & rare bookshop that fosters shelter cats. All is as warm as a fluffy cat soaking up the sunshine pouring through a bookshop window. www.amazon.com/Turning-Page... #cats #catbooks #KU #cozybooks
When the dog has thrown off his booties three times in three minutes and everyone is annoyed Susan's determined to keep them on his paws.
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Photobooth madness! #dogs
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Poets! Please consider submitting to Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 23. One hundred-dollar prize & a published interview per issue. If you have 1 to 3 poems about a neighborhood, I want to read your words. Deadline Dec. 31. Details laststanzapoetry.blogspot.com #poetryjournal #poetrysubmissions
December 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Were they ever actually good? #cats
December 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Enjoy your Caturday!
December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The one and only acceptable way to dog-ear book pages. #dogs #cute #reading #books
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Who else in Indiana has paid their holiday watching tax this year?
#AChristmasStory
December 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
15th century Lucia Bride cat.
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Reposted by Jenny Kalahar
More comparisons between illustrations from the 1890s and stills from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice series. ##PrideandPrejudice #JaneAusten
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Reposted by Jenny Kalahar
A fun comparison between the illustrations from the 1890s and stills from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice series. ##PrideandPrejudice #JaneAusten
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Less than two weeks left to submit to Issue 23 of Last Stanza Poetry Journal.
I'm seeking submissions for Issue 23 of Last Stanza Poetry Journal. I award a single $100 prize and a published interview. Details are on the blog: laststanzapoetry.blogspot.com #poetrysubmissions #poetry #poetryjournal #poems #submitpoetry
December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Speaking of Vanity Fair and photo shoots, the only time I staged an area to photograph a cat / kitten was when I placed Puff on a staircase draped in vintage fabric and old books. She could have been a professional model! #cats #vanityfair
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I have a feeling this will get knocked to the floor a few times per day. #cats #funny
December 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The first in a contemporary antique shop romance series set in a small Indiana city, Lumi’s Curiosities is a heartwarming novel of first love, repressed memories, nostalgia, and mystery from history. #KU #Audiobook #romancebooks #romanceseries www.amazon.com/Lumis-Curios...
December 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The tiniest nope. #cats #snow
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I don't mean to brag, but my parents let me have my own phone when I was like three years old.
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Enter this scene while reading my novels set in a used & rare bookshop that fosters shelter cats. All is as warm as a fluffy cat soaking up the sunshine pouring through a bookshop window. www.amazon.com/Turning-Page... #cats #catbooks #KU #cozybooks
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Everybody sing this weird hedgehog Christmas carol! #ChristmasCarols #song #holiday #hedgehogs #WinterWonderland
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The "Shelve Under C" experience. Foster cats and old books, a red sofa, soft music playing overhead, cozy, warm vibes, friendly shop owners, happy customers browsing in the rooms or seated to flip through a book stack. www.amazon.com/Turning-Page... #cats #catbooks #KU #fostercats #cozyreading
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Here’s a warm, involving series that’s a treat for cat fans, used book lovers, and anyone who wants an escape to a cozy downtown used & rare bookshop. Rare book discoveries, found and rediscovered family, twists and surprises, and humor and heart. Start with Shelve Under C. #cats #catbooks #KU
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
He has a perfectly respectable name, Winnie, and yet they all call him Pooh. That's actually pretty harsh. #WinnieThePooh #books #kidsbooks #literature
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The one and only acceptable way to dog-ear book pages. #dogs #cute #reading #books
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It was totally like that when I came in here! #cats #funny #Christmas #ChristmasTree #CallMyLawyer #totallyinnocent
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Problems of the domesticated dog.
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Some of us are more excited about mitten season than others. #cats #winter #cute #kittens
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM