About - Rachel Thompson

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Rachel Thompson is the author of the award-winning, bestselling Broken Places

2017 Journey Book Awards for Narrative Non- Fiction First in Category Winners, Chanticleer Book Review
2016 Bronze Winner Readers’ Favorite (Non-Fiction)
one of IndieReader’s “Best of 2015” top books
2015 Honorable Mention Winner in both the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Book Festivals

and the bestselling, multi-award-winning Broken Pieces, as well as two additional humor books, A Walk In The Snark and Mancode: Exposed.

She released her first business book, the BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge, (newly updated for 2020) to stellar reviews. Her second business book, How To Best Optimize Blog Posts for SEO, is also available to help writers understand the importance of blog optimization – always only 99c!

She is thrilled to be included in Feminine Collective’s two anthologies, Love Notes From Humanity: The Lust, Love & Loss Collection and Raw and Unfiltered Vol 1: Selected Essays and Poems on Relationships with Self and Others.

About: Business and Writing

She owns BadRedhead Media, creating effective social media and book marketing campaigns for authors. Her articles appear regularly in The Huffington Post, Feminine Collective, IndieReader.com, The Verbs on Medium, Vocal Media, Mogul.com, and several other publications. Connect with Rachel at RachelintheOC.com or BadRedheadMedia.com.

Not just an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, Rachel is the creator and founder of the hashtag phenomenon #MondayBlogs and the live weekly Twitter chats, #SexAbuseChat, co-hosted with Cee Streetlights and Judith Staff (Tuesdays, 6 pm PST/9pm EST), and #BookMarketingChat, co-hosted with author assistant Emilie Hudson (Wednesdays, 6 pm PST/9pm EST).

She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut. She lives in California with her family.

For a list of all of Rachel’s work, click here.

Staff Writers for Rachel’s Blog:

Bobbi is a therapist and trauma recovery coach who works with adult survivors of childhood abuse. Herself a survivor of childhood abuse, she uses her experience and expertise to co-host both #SexAbuseChat on Twitter and a weekly Google hangout for survivors. As a co-founder of the #NoMoreShame Project she works to provide education, support and coaching to trauma survivors as well as a platform for them to publish their stories, poetry and memoirs. Bobbi is also an author with one published book, Create Your Personal Sacred Text, and has two others in the works. She is a single mother from the Pacific Northwest currently sequestered to the state of Texas. Sparkly shoes are her personal kryptonite. You can learn more about Bobbi at BobbiLParish.com and NoMoreShameProject.com.

Will is a writer and an artist, born in Bridgeport, CT. He has always looked to the future and dreamed of what could be. After writing a short story in seventh grade, he discovered a love of writing that rivaled his love of reading. He currently lives in Ansonia, CT surrounded by character sketches and outlines. See more of his writing (and some artwork) at his site and find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, DeviantArt and Google+.