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Julie Stielstra

Reader – Writer – Librarian

  • You found me.
  • My Writing
    • The Wasp Queen – February 2023
    • Scratched – September 2022
    • Opulence, Kansas – June 2020
    • Protected Contact and Other Stories – 2017
    • Pilgrim – 2016
    • Anthologies / Collections
  • Little Fox Books
    • The Wasp Queen
    • The Far Side of Redemption: Collected Stories
    • Scratched
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Category: Fiction

Fiction, Kansas, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Come see me Saturday, Dec. 10 in Wichita

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by jstielstra

I will be there with copies of two youth novels, Opulence, Kansas, and Scratched. Would […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Lovely review of Scratched…

November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 by jstielstra

Thanks to Lisa Stewart, expert horsewoman and author of The Big Quiet, a memoir of […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Francophilia, World War I

The Lost Domain – Alain-Fournier

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 by jstielstra

Started strong, but went out with a whimper. Elegiac, romantic (decidedly not in the Harlequin […]

Fiction, Kansas, Writing - Mine and Other People's

J. Donald and Bertha Coffin Memorial Award for Opulence, Kansas

October 24, 2022February 3, 2023 by jstielstra

I am delighted to announce that the Kansas Authors Club has bestowed its 2022 J. […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Mourning Hilary Mantel

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 by jstielstra

My husband woke me up at 6 AM to tell me that Hilary Mantel is dead. She […]

Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Scratched – giveaway!

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 by jstielstra

For all you LibraryThing readers-n-reviewers (and for all you Goodreads readers-n-reviewers who should be on […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction

Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 by jstielstra

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have kind […]

Fiction, Russian Literature

Untraceable – Sergei Lebedev

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 by jstielstra

Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev My rating: 4 of 5 stars Maybe it’s just because I […]

Fiction, Kansas, Writing - Mine and Other People's

MIPA Book Award Winner: Opulence, Kansas

June 27, 2021September 26, 2021 by jstielstra

I am delighted to have been honored by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association with a […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Mystery / Crime

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer – Harold Schechter

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by jstielstra

I was born and raised in Michigan, and attended Michigan State University, 7 miles south […]

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