Sarah Raughley's Blog

As a Proud Canadian, I’m always looking for more Canadian authors, Canadian book bloggers, Canadian media outlets, and even just members of the Canadian bookish community! O, Canada! Drop me a line!

Though I am no longer on Twitter/X, you can find me on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky, where I am quite active and typically respond to serious inquiries!

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Hello y’all! It is time for a Giveaway/Contest/Project!

The Queen’s Spade is releasing from Harper Collins on January 14, 2025! And since this book is basically Queen Charlotte as a revenge thriller, I’m giving a special opportunity to Bridgerton fans to win finished copies of the book! So what do you have to do?

Every Thursday, between now and December 19th make social media posts about The Queen’s Spade on your social of choice (TikTok, Instagram etc.). As many posts as you like!...

Watch me speak to Laura Coates about the Black women, misogynoir and fan culture in the Megan thee Stallion case! 8/8/23

It’s finally the year where you get to meet Iris and her dangerous, sexy exploits in apocalyptic Victorian London!

Go over to my Books Page RIGHT NOW to pre-order and add on your To-Read Lists!

You know I had to do this. I held a little Instagram read-along of Chapters 1 through 3 a few weeks ago, but couldn’t continue. I was too busy working on my own book series, The Bones of Ruin, a YA Fantasy coming Fall 2021. But I just had to finish this book and share with you all what I thought. Here we go!

Non- Spoiler Review

As a K-POP fan, and as a YA author published under the same publisher and imprint, I just had to pick up this book. My own trilogy, The Effigies Series (Sailor ...

This past weekend, I participated in the Infusion YA Book Festival! Usually it takes place in Vancouver, but this year is was online, but boy did it ever run JUST as smoothly! Thank you to all those working behind the scenes to make these panels truly great!

My panel was the last one: “Is This the Real Life…Or Is This Just Fantasy” and with such a diverse array of authors involved, I’m proud to say that our discussion of the fantasy genre went beyond discussing just the conventions of fantasy...

On Juneteenth, I participated in an online rally, #KidLit4BlackLivesCanada with some amazing children’s authors, illustrators and publishers, celebrating black life and diversity in children’s literature! Check out the video below!

Fate of Flames

Hey guys,

Long story short, I’m getting a new site! So for the next little while there may be some wonky stuff happening with the look of the site and some comments might get lost, but never fear!

Last Friday, Ottawa held their annual Teen Authors and Illustrators Festival! I was one of the mentors along with some amazing and familiar artists!

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It was a full day thing. I lead two workshops, talking about the industry and building upon creative writing!

Lucky students to get to speak and work with such talented authors @SajidahWrites and @s_raughley at @MASConline’s Your Story: Teen Authors ans Illustrators Festival #ocsbEnglish Look for upcoming opportunities for your students. ...

(image from: Guelph Local – keeping it Canadian!)

So another year is upon us!

Don’t have much to say except keep your heads up this year, keep moving forward, keep striving, keep hoping, keep trying!

Cuz that’s what I’m going to do!

My energy going into 2020 pic.twitter.com/hWk8bX3pZT

— Sarah Raughley (@s_raughley) December 22, 2019