S4 E11: Sarah Raughley & Even Heroes Aren’t Perfect

Claribel & Kat catch up with each other and talk about the
emotional ups and downs of building an author career. (CW: brief
discussion of trauma) Then they interview Sarah Raughley about
what it was like to get published in the before-times,
differences she’s felt releasing her newest series during the
pandemic, and how she researched the lives of Black people in
19th century Britain for her book, THE BONES OF RUIN.


ABOUT SARAH: Sarah Raughley grew up in Southern
Ontario writing stories about freakish little girls with powers
because she secretly wanted to be one. She is a huge fangirl of
anything from manga to scifi/fantasy TV to Japanese role-playing
games, but she will swear up and down at book signings that she
was inspired by Jane Austen. Sarah has been nominated for the
Aurora Award for Best Young Adult novel and works in the
community doing writing workshops for youths and adults. On top
of being a YA writer, Sarah has a PhD in English, which makes her
a doctor, so it turns out she didn’t have to go to medical school
after all.


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Effigies #1)


MENTIONS:


• Black Victorians, Black Victoriana by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina


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