Kelli Tatum

KelliTatum


Stories have a way of finding us.

Novels of magical realism

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The author

Stories where ordinary people stumble into extraordinary things

Kelli Tatum is a lifelong lover of books, folklore, theater, and the spaces where the real world brushes against the impossible.

She writes magical realism about community, courage, memory, and the strange power of stories.

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Portrait of author Kelli Tatum
A dark green cover with a gold triskele, standing in until the real one is ready
A parcel wrapped in paper, tied with twine and sealed with wax

The first book

Still wrapped

The first of three novels set in Echo's Edge. It has a title. It has a cover. It has a first line that Kelli has rewritten more times than she will admit to.

None of them are ready to be seen yet.

The well tends to hear things first.

The village

The well had been dry for forty years, which is why nobody thought to listen to it.

Walk into Echo's Edge Listen. The well has something to say.

A drawing of an old stone well in a wood, with a night sky where the water should be

Letters

Notes from the margins

A short postcard emailed to you every so often: what's being written, what's being read, and the odd thing found in the garden.

Elsewhere

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