Saturday, November 15, 2025, Granby Children’s Book Festival 10-1pm

Join me and a whole crew of KidLit folks for a giant KidLit Book Fair!

The event will be held at Granby Memorial Middle School. There will be prizes!!!

https://www.granby-ct.gov/492/Granby-Childrens-Book-Festival

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 5pm, RJ Julia’s, Middletown, CT

LOCAL AUTHOR Event! Please join me for a wonderful event featuring three KidLit and YA authors. Registration information and author bios are included in the link below.

https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-11-05/local-author-series-kids-ya

Upcoming:

Granby Children’s Book Festival, Granby, CT, November 15, 2025 from 10am-1pm

Meriden Public Library Local Author Book Fair, Meriden, CT, November 22 from 1-4pm.

March 31, 2025

The Shoemaker of Siberia published in Gramarye: The Journal of Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction, Summer 2025, Issue 27.

Story and background information can be found on my Folklore/Short Story page

The Shoemaker of Siberia is a retelling of The Elves and the Shoemaker by the Brothers Grimm. This version is set during WWII at the time of the Russian invasion of Poland. Poles under Russian occupation endured horrific atrocities. Land was seized, and 1.5 million Polish people were sent to labor camps in Siberia—another facet of Stalin’s multi-part ethnic cleansing plan. 

Only one third of those deported survived.
The Polish national anthem opens with these lines: Poland has not yet perished, as long as we still live. Those lines, history, and bits of family lore, have shaped this retelling.

Please visit https://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/journal/ for information on ordering copies.