Welcome to Santa Land—a grown-up fairytale for the soul. Each week, writer and storyteller Tony Felice shares a short story and heartfelt reflection, inviting listeners into a quiet space where wonder, grief, healing, and love all have room to breathe.
Guided by a wise little cricket, these stories unfold like bedtime tales for grown-ups—gentle, honest, and deeply human.
Whether you feel like you don’t quite fit in, or you’re simply seeking something real, Santa Land is here to remind you:
You belong. You’re not alone. And your story matters.
Follow the wise cricket, and discover the Santa Land within you.
"Perception is the instant of existence; all that follows is art." --Tony Felice
Production Notes
Season One: Part magical story, part behind-the-scenes revelation—Santa Land is a podcast where author Tony Felice shares the heart of his novel, a fairy tale for grownups exploring grief, hope, and the soul’s journey. Through episodes of narration and intimate reflections on the creative process, listeners are invited into the making of a hidden world where love, imagination, and the search for self create a path toward salvation—and the power of believing again.
Season Two: Season two begins with the first two chapters of the Santa Land Fairy Tale & then while pursuing publishing, Tony next shakes things up a bit. In this season Tony reads from classic literature. One of his talents is: Tony has the ability to read copy he's never seen; character voices and all. Often in one take. So come along weekly to hear him read from the original first editions of classic literature. Including:
A Christmas Carol
Complete
Pinocchio
In Production (first episode drops end of January 2026)
He thought, wouldn't it be fun to bring you in on the conversation? Listen to Tony read from classic literature or about his favorite author of the moment. They all have one thing in common though: they express love as the answer to every question.
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If you are an author and would like to have pages of your book read and/or to be a guest on the show. If your content fits in the Santa Land world, give us a shout using the form below.
Cast & Crew
Tony Felice
Host & Creator
Ashlee Singleton
Showrunner
Tim Sanfelice
Executive Producer
Gaven Waldrop
Producer
The Santa Land Novel
Santa Land - A Grown-Up Fairy Tale is a layered literary novel told in the tone of The Little Prince or Winnie the Pooh for grown-ups. It is a story where loss, wonder, and the search for meaning intertwine across two worlds: the life of a grieving author and the fairy tale he writes to heal himself.
After his mother’s death, acclaimed novelist Tom Sanders finds himself paralyzed by grief, unable to finish the book his publisher is waiting for and haunted by a childhood terror and her tragic death. His husband of 30 years is the bedrock on which he places all his dreams. It is their relationship that forms the basis of metaphor and simile that follow.
One day, a mysterious cricket begins speaking to him. First as a whisper of conscience, then as a muse, and ultimately the narrator for the reader. Through their exchanges, Tom begins to write again, pouring his sorrow, hope, and questions about existence into a story called Santa Land. Nestled in the dialogue of the cricket, we learn slowly but surely where we are going and why we are traveling together.
Within Tom’s manuscript, a new world takes shape: a snow-covered realm where a lost soul known only as The Beloved awakens in the company of the same wise cricket. Guided by love, memory, and forgiveness, The Beloved’s journey mirrors Tom’s own path toward redemption.
In Santa Land, we meet a wolf named Trust, a child named Hope and a quest for the search for identity and the true meaning behind questions such as: Who Am I? And: Why do I exist?
Told through a novel within a novel, Santa Land bridges the tangible and the transcendent, between the prosaic and the uncanny. It explores grief, identity, and the human longing for connection through a blend of literary realism and magical allegory. Poetic yet accessible, it invites readers to rediscover their own childlike wonder and to “love forward” into a world aching for hope.
