Interview - Sarah Raughley and The Bones of Ruin Trilogy

Canada Reads American Style

Tara interviews author Sarah Raughley about her trilogy, The Bones of Ruin (The Bones of Ruin, The Song of Wrath, The Lady of Rapture), as well as her new novel, The Queen's Spade, out January 14, 2025. Sarah grew up in southern Ontario writing stories about freakish little girls with powers because she secretly wanted to be one. She is a huge fangirl of anything from manga to sci/fi fantasy TV to Japanese role-playing games. As a writer, Sarah has been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Young Adult novel and works in the community doing writing workshops for youths and adults. As an academic, Sarah has a PhD in English. She has taught at McMaster University and acted as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Ottawa. She currently teaches creative writing at Lakehead University. Her research concerns representations of race and gender in popular media, youth culture and post colonialism. Highlighted titles:

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer
• Legendborn; Bloodmarked; Oathbound (3/2025) by Tracy Deonn
• Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
• Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
• Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
• Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi
• Basara by Yumi Tamura
• Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
• Sugar Sugar Rune by Moyoco Anno
• The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda
• Fushigi Yugi by Yuu Watase
• Bleach by Tite Kubo

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