Cheryl Rao

Mom, first last and in-between, then everything else – wife, sister, friend, dog lover, reader, writer, in-law, outlaw…

Books

Three things people don’t know about you?

Am pretty sure people aren’t interested…

What’s your greatest fear?

Like most other people: losing loved ones.

High point of your life?

Becoming a mother.

Low point of your life

Losing family, friends…

Which living person do you most admire?

I admire too many people to be able to choose just one: friends, family, do-gooders, those who can stand up and speak out, writers, athletes, musicians, the list is endless.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Again, too many to name just one. I would say the hero/heroine of whichever book grips my heart and mind way beyond the time I spend reading it.

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Whom I love to hate…? Can’t think of it…

Who are your favorite authors?

Would have to start with writers from a couple of centuries ago and then go down through the ages…

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

The minute I start picking them out, the list becomes endless, so I wouldn’t dare to try.

Is there a book you love to reread?

Ditto – but in each repeat I discover things I had overlooked earlier.

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Ditto

One Superpower you wish you had?

Invisibility.

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

No need for an epitaph at all.

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

Pretty happy with this time period and the place hopping done so far… But if I had a time machine, I would like to make many stops in the past - with cavemen and women, at Troy, at the building of the pyramids, marching with the Roman legions, hunting with the Comanche, etc., etc., and also travel way into the future – all with my superpower of invisibility, of course.

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Music and art.

Which book you wish you had written ?

The next one…

When and where do you write ?

Try to write daily. Reclining, sitting up straight, on the settee, at the desk, on paper, on the laptop/desktop. It all depends on how the day progresses…

Silence or music?

Both – depending on where my mind is at the time.

One phrase that you use most often?

You know…

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

Not really.

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Rarely feel guilty about reading – unless it makes me put off meeting a deadline.

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Keep at it…

Being a teenager is not easy. While teens may sometimes wish to remain under their parents’ protective wings forever, most often they yearn for independence and hate having people looking over their shoulder. They would rather try and fail on their own account than pay heed to all those warnings that float around them constantly. This collection of stories about teenage lives has many aspects readers will be able to identify with or believe could easily happen to them. The stories deal with animals and their relationship with us humans; our relationships with our peers, parents and grandparents; and the past, present, and future. Whether wacky or weird, real or true, sad or happy, enjoy reading them all! Cheryl Rao plans to be 12-going-on-13 for as long as she lives and therefore writes for others like herself, and younger. Her books include A Passage to Adventure, A Friend for Raju, A Mixed Score: Ghost and other stories, Camp Adventure, Adventures in the Desert, etc. Some of her titles for younger children are: Dusty the Dachshund, Late for School, The Kite Festival, At the Fair, On the Train, and Little Painters. When she is not writing, she facilitates creative writing programmes for children and has authored a series of workbooks, Fun with Creative Writing, for levels 1 to 8.



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