Clare Ashton - author
@clareashton.bsky.social
🌈 Sapphic romance and mystery author
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Bi / Pan 💗💜💙
She / her
https://linktr.ee/clareashton
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Bi / Pan 💗💜💙
She / her
https://linktr.ee/clareashton
The audiobook for my sapphic romance, Discovering Nicola, is out now 🙂
🌈 Sapphic awakening / late bloomers
✨ Enemies to friends to lovers
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Big family
🌳 Beautiful Oxford setting
Can be read as a standalone sapphic romance or book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
🌈 Sapphic awakening / late bloomers
✨ Enemies to friends to lovers
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Big family
🌳 Beautiful Oxford setting
Can be read as a standalone sapphic romance or book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The audiobook for my sapphic romance, Discovering Nicola, is out now 🙂
🌈 Sapphic awakening / late bloomers
✨ Enemies to friends to lovers
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Big family
🌳 Beautiful Oxford setting
Can be read as a standalone sapphic romance or book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
🌈 Sapphic awakening / late bloomers
✨ Enemies to friends to lovers
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Big family
🌳 Beautiful Oxford setting
Can be read as a standalone sapphic romance or book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
I've just signed a contract with Ylva to translate Discovering Nicola 🙂🙂🙂
This means the whole sapphic romance Oxford series will be available in German! 🌈📚
Writing's been very slow recently but I'm hoping to finish a short story that follows the Oxford bunch this November...fingers crossed...
This means the whole sapphic romance Oxford series will be available in German! 🌈📚
Writing's been very slow recently but I'm hoping to finish a short story that follows the Oxford bunch this November...fingers crossed...
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I've just signed a contract with Ylva to translate Discovering Nicola 🙂🙂🙂
This means the whole sapphic romance Oxford series will be available in German! 🌈📚
Writing's been very slow recently but I'm hoping to finish a short story that follows the Oxford bunch this November...fingers crossed...
This means the whole sapphic romance Oxford series will be available in German! 🌈📚
Writing's been very slow recently but I'm hoping to finish a short story that follows the Oxford bunch this November...fingers crossed...
🌈 Atmospheric sapphic mystery set from autumn to Christmas 🍂❄️
Full of secrets and suspense. An icy lady of the manor. A cast of characters all intertwined in a small town. Ace rep.
The ebook of The Tell Tale is 0.99 on Amazon until the end of October 🙂
Full of secrets and suspense. An icy lady of the manor. A cast of characters all intertwined in a small town. Ace rep.
The ebook of The Tell Tale is 0.99 on Amazon until the end of October 🙂
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🌈 Atmospheric sapphic mystery set from autumn to Christmas 🍂❄️
Full of secrets and suspense. An icy lady of the manor. A cast of characters all intertwined in a small town. Ace rep.
The ebook of The Tell Tale is 0.99 on Amazon until the end of October 🙂
Full of secrets and suspense. An icy lady of the manor. A cast of characters all intertwined in a small town. Ace rep.
The ebook of The Tell Tale is 0.99 on Amazon until the end of October 🙂
I joined a book club to talk about Discovering Nicola and the Oxford sapphic romance series at the weekend!
Thanks so much @sapphicworldbkclub.bsky.social for inviting me 🙂
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You can find the Q&A on YouTube youtu.be/tSqn2r5bB8E?...
Thanks so much @sapphicworldbkclub.bsky.social for inviting me 🙂
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You can find the Q&A on YouTube youtu.be/tSqn2r5bB8E?...
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I joined a book club to talk about Discovering Nicola and the Oxford sapphic romance series at the weekend!
Thanks so much @sapphicworldbkclub.bsky.social for inviting me 🙂
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You can find the Q&A on YouTube youtu.be/tSqn2r5bB8E?...
Thanks so much @sapphicworldbkclub.bsky.social for inviting me 🙂
🌈📚
You can find the Q&A on YouTube youtu.be/tSqn2r5bB8E?...
Enemies to friends to lovers ✨♥️🌈
I adored writing this sapphic romance between two fabulous mature women with sparks, banter, awakenings, spice and a big happy ever after 🥰
Discovering Nicola can be read standalone or as book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
0.99 on Amazon for the next week!
I adored writing this sapphic romance between two fabulous mature women with sparks, banter, awakenings, spice and a big happy ever after 🥰
Discovering Nicola can be read standalone or as book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
0.99 on Amazon for the next week!
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Enemies to friends to lovers ✨♥️🌈
I adored writing this sapphic romance between two fabulous mature women with sparks, banter, awakenings, spice and a big happy ever after 🥰
Discovering Nicola can be read standalone or as book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
0.99 on Amazon for the next week!
I adored writing this sapphic romance between two fabulous mature women with sparks, banter, awakenings, spice and a big happy ever after 🥰
Discovering Nicola can be read standalone or as book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚
0.99 on Amazon for the next week!
Nearly time for #sapphicseptember🙂🌈📚
Discovering Nicola is a toaster oven, enemies to friends to lovers, late awakening sapphic romance between two fabulous fifty-something women ♥️
Fits 2025 release, indie author and 40+ MC. Hope you enjoy it if you pick it up 🙂
Discovering Nicola is a toaster oven, enemies to friends to lovers, late awakening sapphic romance between two fabulous fifty-something women ♥️
Fits 2025 release, indie author and 40+ MC. Hope you enjoy it if you pick it up 🙂
August 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Nearly time for #sapphicseptember🙂🌈📚
Discovering Nicola is a toaster oven, enemies to friends to lovers, late awakening sapphic romance between two fabulous fifty-something women ♥️
Fits 2025 release, indie author and 40+ MC. Hope you enjoy it if you pick it up 🙂
Discovering Nicola is a toaster oven, enemies to friends to lovers, late awakening sapphic romance between two fabulous fifty-something women ♥️
Fits 2025 release, indie author and 40+ MC. Hope you enjoy it if you pick it up 🙂
Excited that Discovering Nicola will be available as an audiobook on November 4th!
Narrated by Shiloh Grey, this sapphic romance between two sapphic-awakening middle-aged women wraps up my Oxford romance series into a big sapphic family saga.
Can also be read as a standalone romance 🙂♥️
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Narrated by Shiloh Grey, this sapphic romance between two sapphic-awakening middle-aged women wraps up my Oxford romance series into a big sapphic family saga.
Can also be read as a standalone romance 🙂♥️
🌈📚
August 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Excited that Discovering Nicola will be available as an audiobook on November 4th!
Narrated by Shiloh Grey, this sapphic romance between two sapphic-awakening middle-aged women wraps up my Oxford romance series into a big sapphic family saga.
Can also be read as a standalone romance 🙂♥️
🌈📚
Narrated by Shiloh Grey, this sapphic romance between two sapphic-awakening middle-aged women wraps up my Oxford romance series into a big sapphic family saga.
Can also be read as a standalone romance 🙂♥️
🌈📚
A little bit battered in the post but my Goldie award has arrived! 🙂🙂🙂
Really thrilled that my sapphic romance Tempting Olivia won an award in the Long Romance category at the GCLS Conference ♥️
#romancelandia 🌈📚
Really thrilled that my sapphic romance Tempting Olivia won an award in the Long Romance category at the GCLS Conference ♥️
#romancelandia 🌈📚
August 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A little bit battered in the post but my Goldie award has arrived! 🙂🙂🙂
Really thrilled that my sapphic romance Tempting Olivia won an award in the Long Romance category at the GCLS Conference ♥️
#romancelandia 🌈📚
Really thrilled that my sapphic romance Tempting Olivia won an award in the Long Romance category at the GCLS Conference ♥️
#romancelandia 🌈📚
🌈 The screen idol of frosty lawyer, Olivia, walks through her door as a client, and Olivia would like her to walk right back out again please. Real people are messy and Olivia doesn't want her comfort films ruined thank you. But slowly the pair begin to like each other...a lot 🙂
Sapphic romance 🌈📚
Sapphic romance 🌈📚
June 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🌈 The screen idol of frosty lawyer, Olivia, walks through her door as a client, and Olivia would like her to walk right back out again please. Real people are messy and Olivia doesn't want her comfort films ruined thank you. But slowly the pair begin to like each other...a lot 🙂
Sapphic romance 🌈📚
Sapphic romance 🌈📚
A walkaround Oxford in Nicola and Geeta's footsteps from sapphic romance Discovering Nicola - video on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DLKG9Mk...
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June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A walkaround Oxford in Nicola and Geeta's footsteps from sapphic romance Discovering Nicola - video on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DLKG9Mk...
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🌈 Book one of my sapphic romance series is 0.99! 🙂
😍 Friends to lovers
❤️ Imperfect people
🌳 Beautiful setting of Oxford
😍 Meet all the characters of the series
#sapphicromance #booksale #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #romancelandia 🌈📚
😍 Friends to lovers
❤️ Imperfect people
🌳 Beautiful setting of Oxford
😍 Meet all the characters of the series
#sapphicromance #booksale #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #romancelandia 🌈📚
June 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🌈 Book one of my sapphic romance series is 0.99! 🙂
😍 Friends to lovers
❤️ Imperfect people
🌳 Beautiful setting of Oxford
😍 Meet all the characters of the series
#sapphicromance #booksale #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #romancelandia 🌈📚
😍 Friends to lovers
❤️ Imperfect people
🌳 Beautiful setting of Oxford
😍 Meet all the characters of the series
#sapphicromance #booksale #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #romancelandia 🌈📚
I love maps for settings in books so I've added the locations used throughout the sapphic romance Oxford series to a Google map here 🙂 www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I love maps for settings in books so I've added the locations used throughout the sapphic romance Oxford series to a Google map here 🙂 www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
Door 1 is ready to open! 🙂
Jae's super sapphic Pride Month Book Calendar starts today! 🌈
Giveways, free ebooks and book sales from 100+ authors of sapphic fiction! And I might have a small clue for what’s behind Door 1... Have a look and see what you *discover* 🙂🌈📚
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
Jae's super sapphic Pride Month Book Calendar starts today! 🌈
Giveways, free ebooks and book sales from 100+ authors of sapphic fiction! And I might have a small clue for what’s behind Door 1... Have a look and see what you *discover* 🙂🌈📚
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
June 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Door 1 is ready to open! 🙂
Jae's super sapphic Pride Month Book Calendar starts today! 🌈
Giveways, free ebooks and book sales from 100+ authors of sapphic fiction! And I might have a small clue for what’s behind Door 1... Have a look and see what you *discover* 🙂🌈📚
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
Jae's super sapphic Pride Month Book Calendar starts today! 🌈
Giveways, free ebooks and book sales from 100+ authors of sapphic fiction! And I might have a small clue for what’s behind Door 1... Have a look and see what you *discover* 🙂🌈📚
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
🌈 Making a rainbow flag with my sapphic books 🙂
We've already kicked off #pride where I live and the local charity shop is full of rainbows in the window display 😍
Wishing you more than ever this year a happy pride!
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We've already kicked off #pride where I live and the local charity shop is full of rainbows in the window display 😍
Wishing you more than ever this year a happy pride!
💛💜🤍💗💙🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
May 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🌈 Making a rainbow flag with my sapphic books 🙂
We've already kicked off #pride where I live and the local charity shop is full of rainbows in the window display 😍
Wishing you more than ever this year a happy pride!
💛💜🤍💗💙🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
We've already kicked off #pride where I live and the local charity shop is full of rainbows in the window display 😍
Wishing you more than ever this year a happy pride!
💛💜🤍💗💙🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
🌈 Series tropes!
Each sapphic romance can standalone but the whole series is a story of awakenings - queer, neurodivergent, family understanding.
❤️Meeting Millie-friends to lovers
❤️Tempting Olivia-forbidden celebrity romance
❤️Discovering Nicola-enemies to friends to lovers
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Each sapphic romance can standalone but the whole series is a story of awakenings - queer, neurodivergent, family understanding.
❤️Meeting Millie-friends to lovers
❤️Tempting Olivia-forbidden celebrity romance
❤️Discovering Nicola-enemies to friends to lovers
🌈📚 Romancelandia
May 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌈 Series tropes!
Each sapphic romance can standalone but the whole series is a story of awakenings - queer, neurodivergent, family understanding.
❤️Meeting Millie-friends to lovers
❤️Tempting Olivia-forbidden celebrity romance
❤️Discovering Nicola-enemies to friends to lovers
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Each sapphic romance can standalone but the whole series is a story of awakenings - queer, neurodivergent, family understanding.
❤️Meeting Millie-friends to lovers
❤️Tempting Olivia-forbidden celebrity romance
❤️Discovering Nicola-enemies to friends to lovers
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Jae @jaeauthor.bsky.social has put together a super sapphic book event for Pride!
100+ authors of sapphic fiction have contributed to a Pride Month Book Calendar. Every day from June 1 to June 30, you get a free ebook, a book giveaway, or a book on sale.
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
100+ authors of sapphic fiction have contributed to a Pride Month Book Calendar. Every day from June 1 to June 30, you get a free ebook, a book giveaway, or a book on sale.
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
May 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jae @jaeauthor.bsky.social has put together a super sapphic book event for Pride!
100+ authors of sapphic fiction have contributed to a Pride Month Book Calendar. Every day from June 1 to June 30, you get a free ebook, a book giveaway, or a book on sale.
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
100+ authors of sapphic fiction have contributed to a Pride Month Book Calendar. Every day from June 1 to June 30, you get a free ebook, a book giveaway, or a book on sale.
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
Writing two mature, complicated characters in this sapphic romance was so much fun 🙂
I love reading about them too (please send recommendations!!!)
🌈 Double sapphic awakening
😍 Complex, mature MCs
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Family healing
Standalone / Oxford romance book 3 🌈📚 #romancelandia
I love reading about them too (please send recommendations!!!)
🌈 Double sapphic awakening
😍 Complex, mature MCs
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Family healing
Standalone / Oxford romance book 3 🌈📚 #romancelandia
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Writing two mature, complicated characters in this sapphic romance was so much fun 🙂
I love reading about them too (please send recommendations!!!)
🌈 Double sapphic awakening
😍 Complex, mature MCs
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Family healing
Standalone / Oxford romance book 3 🌈📚 #romancelandia
I love reading about them too (please send recommendations!!!)
🌈 Double sapphic awakening
😍 Complex, mature MCs
🧊 Ice queen melting
♥️ Family healing
Standalone / Oxford romance book 3 🌈📚 #romancelandia
Some of the categories my latest sapphic romance matches in this year's sapphic book bingo challenge run by fab author @jaeauthor.bsky.social 🌈🙂
#romancelandia 🌈📚
#romancelandia 🌈📚
May 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Some of the categories my latest sapphic romance matches in this year's sapphic book bingo challenge run by fab author @jaeauthor.bsky.social 🌈🙂
#romancelandia 🌈📚
#romancelandia 🌈📚
Out today!!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Enemies-to-lovers, mature characters, big personalities, queer awakenings, so much melting 😍
Discovering Nicola can be read as a standalone sapphic romance, or as book 3 of my sapphic Oxford romance series ♥️
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Ebook on KU, paperback available mid May
Enemies-to-lovers, mature characters, big personalities, queer awakenings, so much melting 😍
Discovering Nicola can be read as a standalone sapphic romance, or as book 3 of my sapphic Oxford romance series ♥️
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Ebook on KU, paperback available mid May
May 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Out today!!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Enemies-to-lovers, mature characters, big personalities, queer awakenings, so much melting 😍
Discovering Nicola can be read as a standalone sapphic romance, or as book 3 of my sapphic Oxford romance series ♥️
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Ebook on KU, paperback available mid May
Enemies-to-lovers, mature characters, big personalities, queer awakenings, so much melting 😍
Discovering Nicola can be read as a standalone sapphic romance, or as book 3 of my sapphic Oxford romance series ♥️
🌈📚 Romancelandia
Ebook on KU, paperback available mid May
A mini catchup with my sapphic romance series set in Oxford! 🙂
Book 1 Meeting Millie
Book 2 Tempting Olivia
And now Discovering Nicola is out on Thursday!!!
It can be read as standalone or book 3 of my Oxford Romance series.
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Book 1 Meeting Millie
Book 2 Tempting Olivia
And now Discovering Nicola is out on Thursday!!!
It can be read as standalone or book 3 of my Oxford Romance series.
🌈📚
April 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A mini catchup with my sapphic romance series set in Oxford! 🙂
Book 1 Meeting Millie
Book 2 Tempting Olivia
And now Discovering Nicola is out on Thursday!!!
It can be read as standalone or book 3 of my Oxford Romance series.
🌈📚
Book 1 Meeting Millie
Book 2 Tempting Olivia
And now Discovering Nicola is out on Thursday!!!
It can be read as standalone or book 3 of my Oxford Romance series.
🌈📚
So happy that Tempting Olivia has been shortlisted in two Goldie Award categories! Thank you to everyone who voted in the Ann Bannon award and thank you @goldencrownls.bsky.social for supporting sapphic fiction! ♥️
Congratulations to all the finalists 🥰🎉
#sapphicromance 🌈📚
Congratulations to all the finalists 🥰🎉
#sapphicromance 🌈📚
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So happy that Tempting Olivia has been shortlisted in two Goldie Award categories! Thank you to everyone who voted in the Ann Bannon award and thank you @goldencrownls.bsky.social for supporting sapphic fiction! ♥️
Congratulations to all the finalists 🥰🎉
#sapphicromance 🌈📚
Congratulations to all the finalists 🥰🎉
#sapphicromance 🌈📚
Current state of the writing corner. The post-its for Oxford sapphic romance book 3 have all dropped off or faded and I'm polishing up a (maybe) final draft. Aiming for May publication 🙂
March 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Current state of the writing corner. The post-its for Oxford sapphic romance book 3 have all dropped off or faded and I'm polishing up a (maybe) final draft. Aiming for May publication 🙂
Blue skies and big blousy blossoms 🌸
March 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Blue skies and big blousy blossoms 🌸
Lots of fun on the sweet vs spicy panel at the TLR 2025 con!
This was a great event and I really enjoyed this panel with @bryceoakley.bsky.social @albrookswriter.bsky.social and @melissatereze.bsky.social
Thanks @thelesbianreview.com for a fabulous sapphic fiction event! 🌈📚
This was a great event and I really enjoyed this panel with @bryceoakley.bsky.social @albrookswriter.bsky.social and @melissatereze.bsky.social
Thanks @thelesbianreview.com for a fabulous sapphic fiction event! 🌈📚
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Lots of fun on the sweet vs spicy panel at the TLR 2025 con!
This was a great event and I really enjoyed this panel with @bryceoakley.bsky.social @albrookswriter.bsky.social and @melissatereze.bsky.social
Thanks @thelesbianreview.com for a fabulous sapphic fiction event! 🌈📚
This was a great event and I really enjoyed this panel with @bryceoakley.bsky.social @albrookswriter.bsky.social and @melissatereze.bsky.social
Thanks @thelesbianreview.com for a fabulous sapphic fiction event! 🌈📚
I don't think I've had a book mentioned in a publication like the New York Times before 😳
I love the description they've given. The friendship was always as important as any possible romance in this book ♥️
#sapphicromance #friendstolovers #romancelandia 🌈📚
I love the description they've given. The friendship was always as important as any possible romance in this book ♥️
#sapphicromance #friendstolovers #romancelandia 🌈📚
March 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I don't think I've had a book mentioned in a publication like the New York Times before 😳
I love the description they've given. The friendship was always as important as any possible romance in this book ♥️
#sapphicromance #friendstolovers #romancelandia 🌈📚
I love the description they've given. The friendship was always as important as any possible romance in this book ♥️
#sapphicromance #friendstolovers #romancelandia 🌈📚