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R.M. Romero

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in Denver, The United States

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Children's, Historical Fiction, Fantasy

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R. M. Romero is a Jewish Latina and author of fairy tales for children and adults. She lives in Miami Beach with her cat Henry VIII and spends her summers helping to maintain Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

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	The Dollmaker of Krakow 4.10 avg rating — 5,820 ratings — published 2017 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghosts of Rose Hill 3.94 avg rating — 3,730 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Warning About Swans 3.99 avg rating — 798 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death's Country 3.69 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tale of the Flying Forest by R.M. Romero (Goodreads Author), E.K. Belsher (illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tear Collector 4.30 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Festival of Lights: 16 Hanukkah Stories by Henry L. Herz (Goodreads Author), Lesléa Newman (Goodreads Author), R.M. Romero (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mermaid of Warsaw it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2027 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Ghosts of Rose Hill

I'm thrilled to announce that my debut YA novel in verse, THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL, will be published by Peachtree Teen in May 2022!

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“No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.”
― R. M. Romero, The Dollmaker of Krakow

tags: hope, remembering, storytelling

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“You can destroy a person, Karolina, but destroying their story is far more difficult. No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.”
― R.M. Romero, The Dollmaker of Krakow

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“The final girl survives because she can be just as
ruthless as the monster who wants to destroy her.”
― R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

tags: girls

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“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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