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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 4h

i can’t wait!! and this will also be my first trip to canada so i am doubly excited!

Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 4h

One week to go! Join us next Tuesday to celebrate the release of @clclark.bsky.social's THE SOVEREIGN!

The Story Engine @storyenginedeck.bsky.social · 12d

The Sovereign is here - and so is @clclark.bsky.social (if you're in Toronto)!

The new Magic of the Lost book hit shelves Sept. 30, and the author will be in Toronto to celebrate the launch. Join us @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 6pm for our interview, a book signing, and a Q&A!

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Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 4h

One week to go! Join us next Tuesday to celebrate the release of @clclark.bsky.social's THE SOVEREIGN!

The Story Engine @storyenginedeck.bsky.social · 12d

The Sovereign is here - and so is @clclark.bsky.social (if you're in Toronto)!

The new Magic of the Lost book hit shelves Sept. 30, and the author will be in Toronto to celebrate the launch. Join us @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 6pm for our interview, a book signing, and a Q&A!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Mailbag Monday! Today we have queer mysteries & dark romances, tales of resistance & commitment to justice, sapphic terrors on the broad back of the sea & in the courts of queens, strange circuses, & true classics from fantasy masters. Stories from beloved authors & new voices alike! Any faves?

A stack of books flanked by dark and light pink cosmos (bottom to top): WE WILL RISE AGAIN ed. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older; CINDER HOUSE by Freya Marske; MIRAGE CITY by Lev A.C. Rosen; SAVAGE BLOOMS by S.T. Gibson; BIRDS, BEASTS, AND BEDLAM by Derek Gow; THE GILDED ABYSS by Rebecca Thorne; THE SOVEREIGN by C.L. Clark; SHADOWPLAY by L.R. Lam; NIGHT’S MASTER by Tanith Lee

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 7h

i’ll carry tissues for you 😘

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 7h

Time to find out if I’m ready (if not @clclark.bsky.social I’ll cry at you or something in Brighton).

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8d

The shameful part is that Palestinians were always telling the world what's happening & were always getting killed by Zionists. But those deaths were not enough. It took a full blown genocide for most westerners to come around...and even now some people have the audacity to say "it's complicated"

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 11h

selling books?! in THIS economy?!

yes please 😭

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 1d

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30

'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile

Extremophile

Pre-order now:

geni.us

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 11h

Yes!! We just got an update on that. Turns out that it’s coming from the “US” so it took more negotiating or something. But it’s coming! Hope you enjoy!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

If you need some excitement from a different dimension (instead of ours), check out these new titles we received in the mail! #TheSovereign #Apprehension #RedStarHustle #Moonflow

@hachettelibrary
@clclark
@sentencebender
#MaryRobinetteKowal
@bitterkarella
@hachettelibrary

#LocusMagazine

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting piece from @jpnudell.bsky.social: joshuapnudell.com/2025/10/10/i...

Is Our Children Reading?

Reading discourse is back, but I hold out hope that a lot of young people harbor a desire to read more despite the many factors that are contributing its erosion.

joshuapnudell.com

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ScarletBea @scarletbea.bsky.social · 2d

2025-38. The Faithless, by @clclark.bsky.social - 5/5
Even better than book 1! I love plots of 'what happens after the revolution', +the character development was amazing, especially for the 2 main characters. I also wanted to slap them to stop being silly and talk oh-so-many-times!😁👩‍❤️‍👩
*picks book 3*

Book cover: one of the main characters sitting on a big throne. She's blonde with long-ish hair, in a blue suit, with a cane, legs spread apart.
If she was a redhead she'd totally be my type haha

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

what a steal 👀

hybrid havoc @hybridhavoc.com · 2d

#ChirpBooks has the audiobooks of The Unbroken and The Faithless by @clclark.bsky.social for just $3.99 a piece.

The Unbroken

This “unique epic fantasy” (AudioFile) with over 3,500 five-star Goodreads ratings won an Earphones Award! Soldier Touraine begins to doubt her loyalty to the empire when she’s ordered to stop a rebel...

www.chirpbooks.com

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

been given an arc of the shipwright and the shroudweaver by rafael torrubia and it is blowing my MIND with how good it is

also, lots of student work

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m in a novella mood and first up I’m finishing The Cold House by AG Slatter for a great taste of modern horror. What are you reading at the moment?

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

yessssssssssssssss

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 4d

Recently, I had the immense pleasure to read an early copy of CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, the newest collection from Neon Hemlock, and I absolutely adored it!! Ten stories in matched pairs, structural brilliance for a thrilling, magical, and deeply humane, this is a MUST READ!!

The cover of CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell against a jovial marbled backdrop.

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

i’ll get back to you in a week or so

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

listen to brian. if you don’t trust me (you shouldn’t) do trust him.

brian says boo @brianthegleeman.bsky.social · 5d

45. FATE'S BANE by @clclark.bsky.social

i just finished fate’s bane and i need everyone to understand that cherae committed emotional violence in 166 pages. don’t look it up. go in blind. just read it. suffer. thrive. go into the woods alone. trust.

amzn.to/4gYmspe

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fate's Bane

amzn.to

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

i am so far away—but who is your editor/publicist? i might make some polite inquiries 👀

Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

go do this, you’ll make me jealous ;)

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 5d

Going to #NYCC?

Want a YEAR OF THE MER galley?

I'll have a secret word for you every day of the con. Be the first or second person to whisper it in the ears of the @sagapressbooks.bsky.social team at their booth and a copy can be yours!

First code tomorrow (10/9). Stay tuned!

ARC of Year of the Mer paperback in hand

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

The event is tomorrow, Thurs October 9, at 5:30 PM ET/10:30 PM GMT. Would love to see you all there! This is, at current, the only virtual program on the books, so if you are in the states, this is your main event!

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Ash's Ashes @uponashensands.bsky.social · 6d

"Often in books where romance is central, our romantic leads come to the page with no apparent pasts—no exes, no awkward one night stands—unless, of course, those pasts are the villains or deliver narratively necessary trauma. They are narratively, if not literally, virginal." GREAT read, damn

Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

reactormag.com

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

reactormag.com

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Birbieghoul @birbiegorl.bsky.social · 6d

C.L. Clark ( @clclark.bsky.social ) is my religion. Let’s fucking go. I’m so (not emotionally) ready to devour this

The sovereign, a book by C.L. Clark. The cover contains two beautiful tragic lesbians

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 7d

prologue and first chapter are up now! meet the protagonist of my epic fantasy: the saddest grad student on earth 😂

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d

Calling all lady knights, anxious historians, and those doomed by the narrative...

Reactor is THRILLED to be hosting a serialization of The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social!! Join us every Tuesday through October 28th for an extended preview, starting today!

reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow: Prologue and Chapter 1 - Reactor

The lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent through time to ensure she plays her part…

reactormag.com

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · 7d

Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark @clclark.bsky.social
What a beautiful and bittersweet fantasy romance novella!! 🌱 #booksky

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