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Sheila M. Averbuch

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Sheila M. Averbuch is a former journalist who's interviewed billionaires, hackers and would-be Mars colonists. She co-founded SCBWI Scotland and is author of the middle-grade thriller FRIEND ME (Scholastic 2020) and PITCH YOUR BOOK (ENNclick Editions 2025). She holds a 2019 New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. ...more

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Sheila M. Averbuch I had writer's block for about six months when I felt so low, I couldn't possibly write. I felt like the part of my brain that made words come togethe…moreI had writer's block for about six months when I felt so low, I couldn't possibly write. I felt like the part of my brain that made words come together was misfiring. I threw myself into learning Japanese -- I had some memory from a college class I took that picture languages use different parts of the brain to process language. That helped me!(less)
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What I’m reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Any reader who loves sci-fi and its tropes — advanced technology, society in the future, what makes us human when the world around us is changing so fast — has Ray Bradbury’s stories somewhere in their soul. It was only well after I’d written my debut Friend Me that I realised a school bullying scenario from a Bradbury short story set on an imagined Venus, “All Summer in a Day,” had made its way d

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“drop my phone onto my clothes. “Come on.” I yank Lily back outside. “We have some brothers to beat.” We splash and shout and mess about in the pool for ages, and finally we relay race. I come this close to beating Hiro, and the others give me such a cheer, I feel like I’m at a swimming competition again. Michael makes me stand high on his shoulders, and he shouts that I’ve won a silver, and the others applaud, and this feeling … this feeling floods me that I thought was gone forever: Everything”
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“If I live to be a thousand, I won't see anything sweeter than the shock on Zara's face. Her mouth hangs down, like I'm a dog who suddenly learnt to talk. Like it never occurred to her that I might bite.”
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“If I live to be a thousand, I won't see anything sweeter than the shock on Zara's face. Her mouth hangs down, like I'm a dog who's suddenly learned to talk. Like it never occurred to her that I might bite.”
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“If I live to be a thousand, I won't see anything sweeter than the shock on Zara's face. Her mouth hangs down, like I'm a dog who suddenly learnt to talk. Like it never occurred to her that I might bite.”
Sheila M. Averbuch, Friend Me

“If I live to be a thousand, I won't see anything sweeter than the shock on Zara's face. Her mouth hangs down, like I'm a dog who's suddenly learned to talk. Like it never occurred to her that I might bite.”
Sheila M. Averbuch, Friend Me

“drop my phone onto my clothes. “Come on.” I yank Lily back outside. “We have some brothers to beat.” We splash and shout and mess about in the pool for ages, and finally we relay race. I come this close to beating Hiro, and the others give me such a cheer, I feel like I’m at a swimming competition again. Michael makes me stand high on his shoulders, and he shouts that I’ve won a silver, and the others applaud, and this feeling … this feeling floods me that I thought was gone forever: Everything”
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