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.

06/28/2025

05/06/2025

Song by
Robert Miles

If all the children of the world
Would hold each other's hands
They'll be giving off such a strength
That all the walls of hate, war, and racism
Will fall down

Children know, understand, and believe
That there'll be more and more love and peace
For eternity, love and peace for everybody

Children of the world, scream your dreams
Children of the world, never fear
Children of the world, scream your dreams
Children of the world, get together, get together...

Scream your dreams everybody
Scream your dreams everybody
Children, oh children
Children
Children, oh children
Children, don't report

Children, oh children
Children, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Love and peace for eternity
Love and peace for a future time
Love and peace for you and I
Love and peace for everybody

Love and peace for eternity
Love and peace for a future time
Love and peace for everybody
For everybody

Every beat, e-every beat...

Children of the world, scream your dreams
Children of the world, never fear
Children of the world, scream your dreams
Children of the world, get together, get together...

Love, love, love and peace for everybody
Love, love, love and peace, love and peace
Love, love, love and peace for everybody
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

04/27/2025

THE GIFT OF THE METAPHOR IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE on Amazon. Click the link below to order your copy today!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5WYKCQX

Poems and prose that create images and evoke emotions by using comparisons to nature.

04/26/2025

Poems and prose that create images and evoke emotions by using comparisons to nature.

04/25/2025

https://a.co/d/3e36V5k

Poems and prose that create images and evoke emotions by using comparisons to nature.

04/22/2025

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Store-Janay-Kimble/s...

04/22/2025

04/19/2025

Katie Strong and Happy the Dog have many adventures, and they all start on the OLD DIRT ROAD.

I used AI to help create this scene. The first picture is my version; the second is AI's version. Which version do you like best?

https://chatgpt.com/

04/16/2025