Katiaesque

  • Giveaway to Celebrate!

    Dear readers! Welcome to my new site, designed by the talented Hafsah Faizal of Icey Designs! To celebrate all the magic in this beautiful new space, I am giving away three awesome prizes! Prize 1: A signed early copy of my debut novel CASTLE OF CONCRETE Prize 2: A beautiful hand-painted Russian swan princess fairytale…

    Katia Raina

  • #1 in YA Jewish New Releases

    It’s so surreal, I just have to share. My debut novel, so embarrassingly many years in the making, a little under four months now before its actual launch, is currently a #1 in New Release in Jewish Teen and Young Adult Fiction on Amazon. Just as incredible, as of this writing, it is sharing a…

    Katia Raina

  • Day 7: CASTLE OF CONCRETE

    CASTLE OF CONCRETE by Katia Raina, Young Europe, June 2019 #YADebut2019 #MagicMirror Aaaaand here it is, my friends: the news and the big mystery; here it is, the secret revealed! My historical YA debut, CASTLE OF CONCRETE, set in the last year of the falling-apart Soviet Union, is the story of a timid Jewish girl…

    Katia Raina