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Janet E. Cameron

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Janet E. Cameron was born in 1970 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grew up in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. In 1991 she graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in English and spent the next ten years at a number of pursuits: living in a cabin in Nova Scotia, slopping coffee in Vancouver, getting qualified as a teacher in Montreal (specialising in English as a second language), teaching business English in Toronto, and writing plays – her second effort won a student playwriting contest. In 2001 she went to Tokyo for what was supposed to be one year of teaching and stayed for four. During her second year in Japan she met an Irish journalist who was in town for the 2002 Soccer World Cup, married him three years later, and then moved to Ire ...more

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Janet E. Cameron Hi Aimun,
I'm really sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I don't visit Goodreads very often.
Well, to answer your question, I stumbled on the st…more
Hi Aimun,
I'm really sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I don't visit Goodreads very often.
Well, to answer your question, I stumbled on the story of Cinnamon Toast more or less by accident - I actually began it as a very short story that was homework for a writing class and Mark was originally the main character. Then I switched narrators as an experiment and was overwhelmed by Stephen as a character. He just seemed very real to me and I wanted to tell his story. (I wrote an article about this for my website if you'd like more details. Here's the link: http://www.asimplejan.com/index.php?o... )
So I didn't start by thinking I wanted to write a story about 'a gay teenager'. I started with Stephen, who happens to be gay, and I became very involved in his struggle because I loved this particular character. I did grow up in a small town very like Riverside and always felt like a misfit and a weirdo there. I was extremely shy and had a lot of difficulty connecting with anyone outside my family. This is most likely what motivated me to write about an outsider in a small community, though I'd never claim to have any insight on the experience of being LGBT myself. Most of the book was just me using my imagination and trying to put myself in Stephen's position. I believed in this character and he still seems very real to me.
I hope that answers your question. If you'd like to contact me about it outside of Goodeads, my email is asimplejan@gmail.com I'd be happy to hear from you. Thanks so much for reading!
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Janet E. Cameron Thank you so much! It seems like the book was published a million years ago, so great to think of someone still remembering it and reading it. And I l…moreThank you so much! It seems like the book was published a million years ago, so great to think of someone still remembering it and reading it. And I love the soundtrack idea! Now to answer your question, I did write a novel set in the same time and place as Cinnamon Toast. It was set in 1988 and centred on the MacBride family - Emily and Eleanor MacBride were in the background of Cinnamon Toast around the party chapters and afterwards. However, I wasn't able to find a publisher for it, I think partly because it was a bit too dark. It's about a family imploding after one of the siblings dies. Not too much fun, although there were some lighter moments. After that I was too discouraged to get down to writing another book for a long time, but I finally finished another novel several months ago. Will it be published? I might know more in a few months. It's set in 2016 and the main character is a girl trying to find out which member of a terrible Canadian 90s grunge band is her father. So a bit lighter than the second one. Once again, thank you so much for your kind words about Cinnamon Toast!(less)
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“Stupid, demented hope. Leave me alone. I’d pray if I knew how. For patience, for more time. For self-control – just enough so that I wouldn’t make a complete disaster out of this.

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“I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face was made of cement. Nothing would come out. On winter days, I'd feel myself turning grey at the edges and fading into the walls.

Was this defensive strategy? It was paralysing. And it went on for years.”
Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

“It's not the end of the world.'
That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now.”
Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

“It's not the end of the world'. That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now'.”
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“It's not the end of the world.'
That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now.”
Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

“Earth and fire and water and air
We solemnly promise, we solemnly swear
Not a word, not a hint, not a sound to declare
Earth and fire and water and air!”
Hilda Lewis, The Ship That Flew

“I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face was made of cement. Nothing would come out. On winter days, I'd feel myself turning grey at the edges and fading into the walls.

Was this defensive strategy? It was paralysing. And it went on for years.”
Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

“It's not the end of the world'. That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now'.”
Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

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