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Hayley Chewins

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Hayley Chewins is an award-winning author of middle grade fantasy and a published poet. Her debut novel, THE TURNAWAY GIRLS (Candlewick, 2018), received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, and was named a Kirkus Best Book of 2018 as well as a 2019 Amelia Bloomer List pick. Her second novel, THE SISTERS OF STRAYGARDEN PLACE (Candlewick, 2020), also received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, and was chosen as the 2020 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for Juvenile Fiction and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. Hayley is also the author of LOKI: SEASON ONE NOVEL (Marvel Press, 2023), a middle grade novelization of Marvel's LOKI television show, starring Tom Hiddleston. Her YA debut, I AM THE SWARM, is forthcoming from ...more

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Hayley Chewins Karou and Akiva from Laini Taylor's DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE series. Like, without a single doubt in my mind. I love them because Laini Taylor wrote…moreKarou and Akiva from Laini Taylor's DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE series. Like, without a single doubt in my mind. I love them because Laini Taylor wrote them in such a sensitive, vulnerable, devastatingly beautiful way. My heart still flutters when I think about it. (less)
Hayley Chewins For me, writer's block is just code for creative tiredness. Sometimes it's as simple as being hungry or needing more sleep. Other times I'm feeling ti…moreFor me, writer's block is just code for creative tiredness. Sometimes it's as simple as being hungry or needing more sleep. Other times I'm feeling tired of a scene because I secretly don't want to write it. When this happens, my strategy is usually to write something new -- something that makes my skin tingle. (A boring scene is never a necessary scene.) Then there are longer periods of time when I feel like my creative well is completely empty, which is generally when I take a break and read and watch as many beautiful things as possible. Usually it doesn't last long. When your heart is full of gorgeous words and images, it's pretty hard *not* to write. (less)
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Today’s episode of For Novelists Who is a bit more of a conversational one.

I’m one of those writers who waited for a long time to actually start writing.I waited because I didn’t have a Great Amazing Book Idea.I waited because my life felt small and insignificant.I waited because I had no idea what I wanted to say.If this is you, I have some stuff to tell you. Settle in with a cup of cof Read more of this blog post »
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“Good, says Sabine. Every girl needs her anger.
Every girl.
Needs her anger.”
Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“Words are never alone when they are spoken,” says Bly. “They carry their echoes with them.”
Hayley Chewins, The Turnaway Girls
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“And that’s the thing about stories: the teller’s more important than the tale.”
Hayley Chewins, The Turnaway Girls

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”
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