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Clay Cormany

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Clay Cormany is not a young adult, but he enjoys writing YA novels. The Secrets We Carry: Journal of a Girl in Trouble (Van Velzer Press, 2025) concerns a high school boy who, after finding her journal in his backpack, tries to rescue a female classmate in an abusive relationship. Because this story deals with sexual abuse, Clay is donating 2/3 of his book sale revenue to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network.

Clay's first novel, Fast-Pitch Love (Clean Reads, 2014), combines the angst of teenage romance with softball competition. His second novel, The Bullybuster (KDP, 2019), also involves a teenage romance as well as robots and revenge. Besides authoring YA novels, Clay maintains a blog,
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This blog is going on hiatus until at least January 1 of next year. There are two reasons for this break. First, I’ll be traveling a lot during the last months of 2023. That includes a cruise up the St. Lawrence River in October that will take the better part of 2 weeks. Although a […]
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