Christine Roome

She/Her. Writer of Queer YA fiction. 🏳‍🌈📚 Avid reader and promoter of books. Occasional thespian. 🎭 Singer. Artist. No one is free until everyone is free.

[Christine Roome @CSRoome]

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Just posted a photo @ Salt Spring Island https://t.co/fBRXtgplKL

[Christine Roome @CSRoome]

I now have as many rejections as Harry Potter received, BUT I don’t have as many as A Wrinkle in Time.

Clearly, I need to keep putting my work out there.

#amwriting #amquerying

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Writing Prompt #47

Write a character profile of a villain who was once loved by someone.

#writingprompt #amwriting #amquerying

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Marriage, motherhood, crime, friendship, fashion, class, race, and the American dream. I’m not going to say more. @kirstin_chen's book Counterfeit is one you need to just pick up and read. You may not be able to put it down.

#librarybooks #amreading #amwriting

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Writing Prompt #46

Never again. And, yet, here she was with fingers gripping the bottom of her sweater, resolutely starting the climb back to the place she had thought she'd left behind.

#amwriting #amquerying #writingprompts

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#nationaltruthandreconciliationday #EveryChildMatters

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Writing Prompt #45

Describe a time when you learned something new and failed miserably. Describe the beauty of this failure?

#writingprompt #amwriting #amquerying

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One of the healthiest things we can do is to separate ourselves from our work, even when it is highly personal, which it is for most of us. The more we separate ourselves from our work, the more able we are to make it better.

#amwriting #amquerying #lgbtq

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Writing Prompt #44

She arrived breathless; the train had left the station.

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@kacencallender's "Felix Ever After” has it all; plot, voice, and an authentic, loveable, messy protagonist who finds love. And …. it’s set in an art school.
#supporttranskids #onmyshelf #BlackLivesMatter #diversity #bookschangelives #romance #lgbtqya

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We promised you exciting content for #BiVisibilityMonth and we are delivering! Watch and listen as Rachael Moore, representing our Bisexual Committee for Europe and Central Asia, explains why #BiVisibility is so important. #BiWeek

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Bisexuality is a valid sexual identity! It is African to be bisexual. Respect people for who they are! Happy Bi Visibility Day! #activists #powerofpride #bisexual

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Writing Prompt #43

Fall on Salt Spring Island

What gets left behind.

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When I’m not sitting at my computer creating fictional characters and storylines, I’m pretending to be someone else with other incredible humans who are also pretending to be someone else.

First Scene Rehearsal last night.
#localtheatre #shakespeare #saltspringisland

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Writing Prompt #42

Fall on Salt Spring Island

Write about a character who is obsessed with autumn, death and the changing of seasons.

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What banned books have you read?

#bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks #bookstagram #libraries #booklover #freespeech #freeexpression #americanlibraryassociation #lgbtqbooks #blacklivesmatter #bookschangelives #antioppression #antiracism

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Writing Prompt #41

Write about a character who lives a seemingly charmed life.

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It’s 99.9% possible that I won’t be an overnight sensation. It’s 100% not personal when someone says “no thank you.”

I promise to remember that if you do too.

Just. Keep. Writing

#amquerying #amwriting #LGBTQ+