#yalitmentalhealth

[cherylrainfield]

I am delighted that #YAlit author Jamie Deacon, who also writes about #LGBTQIA teens who struggle, included SCARS in their list of 10 YA LGBT+ Novels To Read For Mental Health Awareness Week. You can check out all their recommended books as well as the books they've written at http://www.jamiedeacon.com/10-ya-lgbt-novels-to-read-for-mental-health-awareness-week/ #yalgbtbooks #yalgbtq #YAlitmentalhealth #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #stigma #letstalkaboutit #letstalkaboutmentalhealth #youareenough #jamiedeacon #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist #YAlit #YAbooks #bookstagram #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #booklove https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcXRHhgpUf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=552qfbn85gkx

[cherylrainfield]

I just had an awesome Skype talk about SCARS with Dee Schmidt Kramer's students who read SCARS as an independent reading book at Silver Creek High School in Indiana. The students asked such intelligent, thoughtful questions afterwards. I told them they could ask me anything and I meant it. And despite some technical difficulties - I couldn't see or hear them on Skype but they could see and hear me - it went really well. Dee helped solve it in a creative way, using her cell so I could see the students, typing their questions in Skype, and one student turned Dee's cell to landscape mode so I could see them all. I enjoyed it so much. I could see them taking it all in, and caring about it. I delight in readers caring about books - and authors! Petal also made an appearance! (laughing) She's always by my side, and at the end when I picked her up and she rested her head on my shoulder they awwed. (Smiling) . . . #authorskype #skypeauthorvisit #deeschmidtkramer #SilverCreekHighSchool #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist #YAlit #YAbooks #YAlitmentalhealth #yabookrecs #bookstagram #selfharm #sexualabuse #trauma #healing #MeToo https://www.instagram.com/p/BrX8oDVHypX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=86n9z8liaiue