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Category Archives: YA author
Take good, gentle care of yourself. You deserve your tenderness.
Take good, gentle care of yourself. You deserve your tenderness. It’s so easy to absorb negative messages from others–our parents, the media, people around us. So easy to work so hard we forget to find joy or take a moment … Continue reading
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Comments & letters like these two from readers are a HUGE part of why I write
Comments from readers like these two–by Miracle and Annie–are a HUGE part of why I write. It is incredible to hear that my books help people stay alive and get through hard times, or stop cutting and get help, or … Continue reading
Posted in Cheryl Rainfield, Scars, STAINED, YA author, YA Saves
Tagged #booknerd, #YA, bibliotherapy, booklove, booknerdigans, CherylRainfield, feminist, healing, stronggirl, yalit, YAsaves, yawriter, youngadult
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I love it when my talks on my books move people. My STAINED talk was a success! A post in pictures and words.
I was nervous before my talk on STAINED yesterday at Chapters Scarborough. I’m always nervous before I give a talk! (Part of it is that whole “we’ll-kill-you-if-you-talk” thing my abusers used to tell me, and part of it is that … Continue reading
Posted in Cheryl Rainfield, STAINED, YA author, YA books
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#YesAllWomen
Recently a 22-year-old man killed his roommates, then shot and murdered a number of women, and wounded others, because he felt he’d been rejected sexually and was furious that he was still a virgin. He called it his “war on … Continue reading
Posted in Cheryl Rainfield, child abuse, violence against women, YA author
Tagged #YesAllWomen, misogyny, rape culture, violence against women
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Q & A with Kristi Helvig, author of YA novel Burn Out
I’m happy to be able to talk with Kristi Helvig about her writing, writing process, and her new YA sci-fi suspense Burn Out. In Burn Out: Most people want to save the world; seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Burn Out, Kristi Helvig, sci-fi YA, YA suspense
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YA Author Cheryl Rainfield on Writing LGBTQ Characters In YA Fiction
I spoke at York University the other day on writing LGBTQ characters in YA lit. It was a fantastic class, and I Loved hearing from so many of the students afterwards about how I am their new role model, hero, … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ, LGBTQ YA fiction, YA author
Tagged Cheryl Rainfield, Hunted, lesbian author, lesbian teen author, lesbian YA author, LGBT YA author, LGBT YA fiction, LGBT YAlit, LGBTQ fiction, LGBTQ YA fiction, LGBTQ YAlit, queer author, queer YA author, queer young adult author, SCARS, STAINED, writing LGBT fiction
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Guest Post on Human Trafficking: Jasmine of Berlin by author S. Bergstrom
Today author S. Bergstrom talks to us about human trafficking–an inhumane practice that happens all too often–as well as his new book The Cruelty. Human trafficking is very close to what I went through myself as a child and teen … Continue reading
Posted in child abuse, YA author, YA books
Tagged human trafficking, S. Bergstrom, The Cruelty, YA fiction
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I am honored that YA author Jennifer Brown called me a hero and a woman author she admires
I think it’s so easy as a writer to get insecure. To start off with, we’re creative people in a confining world. We’re usually different in some way (who isn’t?), and many of us have had painful experiences or painful … Continue reading
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