Katiaesque

  • Are we there yet, story?

    So, here is another writing update for you. I basically have most of the manuscript back from my two loyal amazing friends who gave up such huge chunks of their time for me in the midst of their incredibly busy lives. So the verdict is — incredibly — they love it, with a few “buts,” of…

    Katia Raina

  • The winners!

    Thanks so much for participating in this week’s  “Books Are Our BFFs” giveaway where my friend Joyce and I were giving away autographed copies of two of her books. The winners are of the contest are ….  Barbara Krasner and Shannon Hitchcock! Barbara is an award-winning author of stories and articles for children and adults. She…

    Katia Raina

  • Working

    Hi there! Thanks for sticking around. I am still here — still working hard. Here is what my planner page for last week looked like: All those numbers in different  colors? Totally unrealistic estimates of the chapters I should be revising. (That’s why there are so many of them.) 🙂 After a few weeks of beating…

    Katia Raina

  • Everyone is a winner!!!

    This was my first giveaway ever. I loved the experience. I did have one worry. Five people competing for three prizes? Hmmm . . . That would mean, instead of having three winners, I’d end up with two “losers” on my conscience. Not cool. To me, that is NOT what the beautiful act of GIVING AWAY should be…

    Katia Raina

  • Wow!

    Oh My God. This is so weird. Good weird! I just clicked on Hip Mama magazine website, to see if their new issue was ready yet, and found my picture on the cover of their magazine!!!! http://www.hipmamazine.com/Home.html  I have an essay in that issue — this month’s theme: secrets and “resisting the powers of silence,”…

    Katia Raina

  • The super-duper list of contemporary historical fiction: a work in progress!!!

    I had no idea it would take so much digging, so much research and so much guesswork to come up with the titles for this list. What I found out: there isn’t so much out there. Many, many books, but scattered all over the net, all over amazon, all over awards lists, etc., in categories…

    Katia Raina

  • Compiling a list of great contemporary historical fiction!

    Here is an exciting new focus I found for this blog (with the help of my super-duper agent!) :): contemporary historical fiction – writing it, reading it, thinking it, dreaming it, okay, okay, I’ll stop here . . . I am compiling a “master list” of awesome contemporary historical books for YA and middle grade audiences.…

    Katia Raina

  • Tween girls curious about history: if your life were an outfit, what would it be?

    Check out my guest blog post (a first!) posted today on GirlMogul.com:  http://girlmogul.com/2844/if-life-were-an-outfit-win-some-clothes/ If you end up winning some clothes, I’d love it if you dropped me a line! (GirlMogul is the one giving it away, not me; I’m just curious!) Katia

    Katia Raina

  • A little story about one man’s big journey

    A peace-loving Vietman vet is going back home in just a few days. Read what his “home” is, in a small piece I wrote for a Readers Exchange section of Ode Magazine: a publication for intelligent optimists (incidentally, I think optimists are intelligent by definition!) 🙂 http://www.odemagazine.com/exchange/13228/ Best of luck, Manus!

    Katia Raina