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Shelley Thompson

Actor/Writer/Director, debut novel ROAR.

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LGBT

Canada

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On my mind

Working to get my debut novel - ROAR - to folks I believe could use a little prod toward understanding/supporting the trans community. I'm working on my next publication (short stories for Nimbus/Vagrant Press, fall/2025) about the complexity of family dynamics Christmas from 1900 to 2025. I'm finishing up a doc series, on screens in 2025. Still acting and avidly following politics across N. America!

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Why I'm excited to talk

I love conversation. I love knowing what folks THINK. I'm curious about responses to books I've read, and book(s) I've written. I'm keen to peer through as many windows into other people's lives as possible.

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Right now, conversations across borders are so important. Storytelling requires engagement, dialogue changes minds. I believe that books change lives and therefore, the course of history. I want to be part of that.

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Shelley Thompson

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Roar

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The MacInnes family is grieving. The loss of Miranda has devastated her husband, John Andrew, her eldest daughter, Tammy, and her youngest child, Dawn. Not Donnie anymore but Dawn, like sunrise, who transitioned while her mother received cancer treatment ― without the rest of the family knowing. Now, when Dawn leaves Halifax for rural Nova Scotia to attend her mother's funeral, she knows she'll be meeting her sister and father for the first time as herself.

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With Dawn's revelation, John Andrew and Tammy find themselves grieving for the son and brother they once knew, while Tammy's fiancé, Byron, becomes an unexpected ally. Between the complicated reaction from her family, unwanted attention from local bigots, and whispers from curious neighbours, Dawn wonders if she can ever really come home.

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A work of fierce allyship, of enduring love, and of gentle hope, ROAR follows a family through grief and estrangement as they become catalysts for change in their rural community. Told from multiple points of view, with confidence and tenderness, actor and screenwriter Shelley Thompson's debut novel is profoundly authentic, drawing on her own experience as the mother of a trans child and a fierce activist for the trans community.

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"WOW, WOW, WOW I want to roar READ THIS BOOK!... A debut novel it may be, yet it introduces the voice of an enlightened, gifted storyteller".

Sheree Fitch, award-winning Canadian author

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