Katie Strong

10/13/2025

09/19/2025

🎉📚 Hear ye, hear ye, book lovers! 🎉📚

In celebration of the Livingston Parish Book Festival’s 10-year anniversary, this year’s festival will feature a Renaissance theme 🛡, and we invite you to join us in the revelry 🎊!

Time to dust off your capes, crowns 👑, and courtly garb, because dressing up is encouraged! Immerse yourself in the magic of literature 📖 while reveling in the spirit of the Renaissance ⚔️. There will be fun activities, crafts, and plenty of books to spark your medieval imagination!

We’ve heard there may even be a wizard 🧙‍♂️ roaming the grounds that day.

So mark your calendars for the 10th Annual Livingston Parish Book Festival!

📅 Saturday, October 25

🕚 11 AM – 4 PM

📍 Main Branch in Livingston

Let’s make this an unforgettable celebration! ✨

07/18/2025

Katie Strong & The Merryton Amusement Park
by Janay Collins Kimble

Episode One is complete! Here's a sample from the first page!

EXT. SWAMP — DAY

A MURKY HAZE hangs low in the cypress trees. Moss hangs low on the dirt road. Alligators lurk just beneath the green water. Birds CALL and mosquitos BUZZ.

The lean and lanky JAY GRAY loads a large truck with thousands of CATS - big, small, black, white, gray, and orange. Small patches of gray hair poke from beneath his black hooded jacket.

His pale grey eyes narrow into thin black lines, and his yellow teeth show as he chuckles to himself and sings to the Cats.

Jay Gray
(singing)

KATIE, KATIE way too tall
KATIE, KATTIE watch her fall.
KATIE, KATTIE come out to play

He rubs his blue-grey hands together as he sings.

Jay Gray
(singing)
KATIE, KATIE let's ruin her day.

His lips curl into a crooked smile that fills his entire face.