Janette Rallison (born April 1, 1966) is an American writer best known for her light romance novels for young adults. She also writes young adult science fiction and fantasy under the

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C. J. Hill, and adult romantic novels as Sierra St. James.

Biography

Personal life

Rallison was born in 1966. She grew up in

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. Growing up in a small town influenced the settings Rallison writes about in her books. She later moved to

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. She began writing at the age of six years old, and has continued to write throughout her life in the genres of romance and science fiction. She attended college at

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where she studied English Teaching. She is married and has five children, including James Rallison, an

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and

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, better known online as

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. Rallison is a member of

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Writing career

Rallison published her first novels though

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publishing companies; however, after submitting one of her books to a national book company, her career took off. Rallison began her writing career working for an LDS publishing company writing romantic adult novels under the pen name Sierra St. James. She has recently acquired the rights to these books and has been re-editing and republishing them (her ''Erasing Time'' series under her pen name C.J. Hill is an example of this). After her books changed genres from romantic comedy to action, Rallison's editor had her use the pen name C.J. Hill. She has written the ''Slayers'' trilogy as well as the ''Erasing Time'' series under this name.

Themes in books

Rallison's books are upbeat and uplifting stories that are for pleasure and entertainment. She writes on her website that "If your teacher asks you to identify

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in my books, you have my permission to tell him/her that I didn’t put any in." However, she has also stated that the element of

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is very prevalent in her books and would be what she would classify as the overarching

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of her writing.

Books

As C. J. Hill

*''Slayers'' (2011) *''Friends and Traitors'' (2013) *''Slayers: Playing with Fire'' (2016) *''Slayers: The Dragon Lords'' (2018) *''Slayers: Into the Firestorm'' (2019) *''Erasing Time'' (2012) *''Echo in Time'' (2013)

As Sierra St. James

*''Trial of the Heart'' (1999) *''Masquerade'' (2001) *''What the Doctor Ordered'' (2004)

Novellas

*''Summer in New York'' (2013) *''A Long Time (and at one point illegal) Crush'' (2014)

References

External links

Author's website

Janette Rallison papers, MSS 7561
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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