Mikaela Stamataki
Hello, and welcome. I’m Mikaela, a writer of character-driven literary fiction, with a first novel on its way. I’m glad you’re here.
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Personal letters about books, writing and ordinary life, and the first news of Take Me Home, before anyone else hears it.
Books, writing, and the ordinary things in between.
Take Me Home.
My debut novel. Its cover is a painting, painted to look like a canvas you could lift straight off a gallery wall. Keep scrolling and the book turns in your hands.
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Nothing disappears while someone remembers it.
Jane Carter paints portraits because she believes every life deserves to be remembered.
When an unexpected opportunity arrives, the future she has imagined begins to shift in ways she never anticipated.
Tender, quietly devastating, and deeply human, Take Me Home is a novel about memory, belonging, and the people who become home to us.
One finished, two on the way.
While Take Me Home gets ready to meet you, I’m writing Honey, You’re Familiar and Letters from Kiko. Subscribers hear how they’re going first.
For the ones still trying to find their way home.
My shelf, so far
Letters from Mikaela
Notes on books, reading, writing and ordinary life. A letter now and then, with news of my novels.
You’re warmly invitedAlmost a decade at sea.
Before I wrote novels, I worked in hospitality aboard cruise ships, meeting people from every corner of the world. I became fascinated by the quiet stories they carried: love, loss, hope and resilience, so often left unspoken.
A little about meMemory Identity Grief Belonging
I’m drawn to the spaces between people: the conversations left unfinished, the rituals that quietly hold families together, and the ways love keeps shaping us long after somebody is gone.
A place for books. And the people who read them.
Thank you for stopping by. If you’re drawn to character-driven stories and the quiet complexities of being human, I hope you’ll feel at home here.
A little about meA slower kind of conversation.
What I’m reading, what’s happening at the writing desk, and news of the books as they take shape. No hard selling, and you can leave whenever you like.