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Hayley Chewins
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cape Town, South Africa
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Laini Taylor, Frances Hardinge, Angela Carter, Elana K. Arnold, Franny
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October 2010
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I Am the Swarm
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2025
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4 editions
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The Turnaway Girls
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2018
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13 editions
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The Sisters of Straygarden Place
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2020
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Loki: Season One Novel (Marvel)
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2023
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Sisters of Straygarden Place
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Fiction Vortex - April 2014
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for novelists who don't have a book idea (yet)
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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“Words are never alone when they are spoken,” says Bly. “They carry their echoes with them.”
― The Turnaway Girls
― The Turnaway Girls
“There are streaks of dirt on the backs of my hands.
Like I've fought with something and won.
That is the thing
I choose to remember.”
― I Am the Swarm
Like I've fought with something and won.
That is the thing
I choose to remember.”
― I Am the Swarm
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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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“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“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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