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June 8, 2018
National Spotlight: CBC’s The Next Chapter Talks FATE OF FLAMES
I’m so proud to share this with you all! Fate of Flames just got a huge Canadian shout out!
On Monday, singer Shakura Saida went on the national Canadian radio program, THE NEXT CHAPTER, to talk about FATE OF FLAMES as one of the YA books she’s enjoyed, alongside Susan Ee’s ANGELFALL
Why @ShakuraSaida is a fan of YA novel Fate of Flames by author @s_raughley https://t.co/3LtA0LNwy2 pic.twitter.com/i9CCw8z9Ro
— CBC Books (@cbcbooks) June 5, 2018
What I find so poignant about what she had...
April 16, 2018
My #CampCarePackage Week Begins Today!
I am so excited to be a part of @Nanowrimo’s Camp Nano as a counselor! Starting this week, I’ll have advice posted up to the website about how to get through the third week of writing and you can respond to my advice or just tweet me or ask me anything using the #CampCarePackage hashtag on twitter!
Writing 50K words in one month is bonkers and not for everyone. But for those who give it a try I say kudos to you and great job! Keep it up! Even if you don’t make it to 50K, even just giving it a...
April 12, 2018
GritLit 2018: A Place to Belong
So happy to announce that I’ll be doing a panel with Kerry Sakamoto and Narine holtz on community and belonging in fiction.
Narine Holtz, @KerriSakamoto and @s_raughley are coming to #gritlit2018 this Friday. Join three writers as they read from work that explores the human need and emotional desire to be part of something larger than themselves. Tickets here: https://t.co/INDLK3u7r6
— gritLIT Festival (@gritlitfestival) April 9, 2018
Fun fact, I read Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electric Field i...
February 7, 2018
Introducing LEGACY OF LIGHT!
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Effigies Book 3, LEGACY OF LIGHT, on sale November 2018
Synopsis:
The world is in chaos.
After Saul’s strike on Oslo—one seemingly led by Maia herself—the Effigies’ reputation is in shambles. Now they’re being hunted by nations across the globe, grouped in with the very terrorists they’ve been trying to stop.
With Maia’s resurrected twin, June, carrying out vicious attacks across the world, everyone believes Maia is a killer. Belle has gone rogue, Chae Rin and Lake have disappeared, and the...
December 20, 2017
Star Wars: The NeverEnding Story?
Okay, yes I in part mentioned The NeverEnding Story because it is a badass 80s movie that I loved, and the original Star Wars trilogy was a badass series of movies from the 70s-80s that I loved, so there’s a connection in there somewhere. Right?
The other connection is that after Disney announced another trilogy to be directed by Rian Johnson, it’s become clear that Star Wars, as a story, will never really end. The announcement was a month ago, but now with the Last Jedi releasing to a somew...
November 30, 2017
A Black Girl’s Thoughts on #OwnVoices
I am Sarah Raughley and I am a writer of color. African Canadian, to be exact.
So, I love seeing #OwnVoices. I love it because like others have mentioned, it encourages authors from marginalized groups to write books starring protagonists who are marginalized in the same way they are. This movement certainly leads one to recall earlier conversations about diversity in the infant stages of the big YA boom; these conversations often seemed to be around trying to push non-marginalized authors to...
November 27, 2017
Announcing the Giveaway Winners
I am so excited to announce the winners for my surprise Siege of Shadows Book Birthday Giveaway, selected via random draw!
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Who won?Prize 1: Siege of Shadows, Signed Copy:
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@EllenTalksBooks !Prize 2: Siege of Shadows and Fate of Flames, Signed Copies
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@SofiiBooklover !Prize 3: Siege of Shadows, Fate of Flames and the French version of Fate of Flames, Signed Copies
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@_itsTashiie !Prize 4: Siege of Shadows, Fate of Flames and Feather Bound, Signed Copies
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@Gryphongirl2007!And because I h...
November 21, 2017
Siege of Shadows is out into the world! Let’s have a GIVEAWAY
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SIEGE OF SHADOWS is now available at a bookstore near you! BUY IT HERE or head on down to your local bookstore!
Of course, I had to check it out and see for myself and lo and behold!
It looks like some have already been sold at my local Indigo!
I’m so excited to see this book out and about in the world and available for reading. I can never over-estimate or over-exaggerate just what an amazing feeling it is.
AND GUESS WHAT? To celebrate, I decided to host a giveaway of signed copies...
October 30, 2017
The Effigies Series and Nanowrimo
We are less than one month out to Siege of Shadows and I am so happy you guys are loving that ending (which I love to call #DATENDING in my head because I’d be too embarrassed to actually tweet that out…or would I? *evil grin*).
My editor Sarah McCabe sent me the first hard copy of Siege of Shadows AND the paperback of Fate of Flames, out November 21st 2017 like Siege of Shadows!
Just got a hard copy of #SiegeofShadows! And a paperback of #FateofFlames! Thanks S&S! #TheEffigies pic.twitter....
September 1, 2017
Happy September 2.0!
So September has rolled up on us once again! That means fall is upon us, back to school for some of us – thankfully not me – back to work after Labour Day Weekend. There’s all kinds of Going Backs happening. That can be exciting and dreadful for a lot of people.
I was going back in my blog’s archives and I saw another Happy September post I wrote three years ago.
It’s funny to look at now because this is the part where I get to ask myself what I was able to accomplish since then.
On top of...
