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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: Animals / Birds / Nature

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

MIPA Silver Award winner, 2023

July 12, 2023July 12, 2023 by jstielstra

Thanks to the Midwest Independent Publishers Association for honoring my YA novel, Scratched, with a […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Cats, Dogs, Fiction

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 by jstielstra

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link – forthcoming March 2023 My rating: 4 […]

Dogs, Fiction

Available now!

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by jstielstra

For anyone who would enjoy a warm-hearted low-fantasy story about good people facing down cruelty, […]

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 […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads

Birds and Us – Tim Birkhead

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 by jstielstra

What a delightful read! This bird nerd was enchanted from the opening chapter describing a […]

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 […]

Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Available now – new youth novel!

August 12, 2022August 23, 2022 by jstielstra

The color, the power, the excitement, and the beauty of horse-racing happens between the starting […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Art / Art History, Dogs, Francophilia, Horses

Art is a Tyrant – Catherine Hewitt

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by jstielstra

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt My rating: […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads

The Hawk’s Way – Sy Montgomery

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 by jstielstra

Similar to her previous The Hummingbird’s Gift, Montgomery has repackaged a chapter from her 2010 collection Birdology into […]

Cats, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Two bits of news…

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 by jstielstra

The Midwest Independent Publishers Association has posted a Virtual Reading series on YouTube from their […]

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