Page 260: When she pulled back the cat used the gap to jump into James’ lap, as if it didn’t want to be left out. Emily ran her fingers through its warm fur. “I’m calling him Charles,” James said. Emily sat up. “You can’t call it Charles!” “Why not?” “Charles isn’t a cat name!”

Korrine Crawford@almostwriting.bsky.social · 2d ago

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It’s my book’s birthday!

JJ Clapton@jjclapton.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s release day for Haunting of a Witch! 🎉🍾 🌊Upper YA contemporary fantasy set in an English seaside town 🌈Sapphic housebound witch with a chronic illness 👻A haunted house, a violent unstable ghost, & villains who appear as friends Ebook available everywhere (Amazon, Apple, kobo, etc) #pwME 💙📚🌈

Haunting of a Witch by JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social

It’s release day for Haunting of a Witch! 🎉🍾 🌊Upper YA contemporary fantasy set in an English seaside town 🌈Sapphic housebound witch with a chronic illness 👻A haunted house, a violent unstable ghost, & villains who appear as friends Ebook available everywhere (Amazon, Apple, kobo, etc) #pwME 💙📚🌈

Page 127: Emily pulled her phone from the charger and tapped on the last number she’d used. She lay down, praying quietly for the call to be picked up.

Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe@aebrossbooks.com · 2d ago

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It’s been printed and dispatched!!! I’ll still have to wait a week to get the proof but at least it exists now. Fingers crossed paperback release will be within two weeks. Phew!

JJ Clapton@jjclapton.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m going to have to postpone the release of my paperback. I’ve ordered a proof copy and it’s over three weeks later and they still haven’t printed it, let alone shipped it. Pub date is next week 😅

Page 24: James stepped closer. The magic made him feel so much bigger, as if the room closed in around him. Walls built up to protect them both. “You need to rest,” he said gently to her, and then his voice hardened when he added, “and she needs to leave.”

Inge ZV (she/her)@ingezv.bsky.social · 3d ago

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Page 16: All the old wives’ tales and herbal remedies were supposed to be bonded to magic. Non-witches had forgotten that part. Ginger biscuits from Tesco’s might help with nausea in a small way but not like ginger biscuits where magic had been bound to the ginger.

Skye Kilaen@skyekilaen.bsky.social · 3d ago

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Haunting of a Witch is out in TWO DAYS! To celebrate ebook publishing please play a pre-release game with me. 💙📚🌈 Pick a page number between 5 - 264 and I will reply with a quote from the book 🔪🩸🌈

Haunting of a Witch is out in TWO DAYS! To celebrate ebook publishing please play a pre-release game with me. 💙📚🌈 Pick a page number between 5 - 264 and I will reply with a quote from the book 🔪🩸🌈

I’m going to have to postpone the release of my paperback. I’ve ordered a proof copy and it’s over three weeks later and they still haven’t printed it, let alone shipped it. Pub date is next week 😅

Found my first AI written fanfic slop today. Sigh. It was so obvious after a few chapters too. I’ve heard a lot about there being loads of ai slop appearing on fics but this is the first time I’ve seen it. And with how obvious it is, I’m going to go ahead and assume I haven’t just missed it before!

Thinking I might have to postpone my paperback release for Haunting of a Witch because nobody is printing my author proof copies for me to check. I’ve been waiting a couple weeks and it’s only one week left now. 😬😬

Do we call them pets because we pet them? Or Do we pet them because we call them pets?

Cute Cat Being Petted

Alt: Cute Cat Being Petted

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I feel like the fact that Netflix made a Squid Game Game show is more dystopian than the original squid game was.

Darius just wanted to live quietly and cope with his past. So, of course, he gets a late night call telling him to help a time traveling mage find the way to stop magic from being loosed on the world. You know, "quiet." 😩😂 Universal: bit.ly/b2r-WWC Itchio: bit.ly/itchWWC

I'm watching the 15:17 to Paris. And this is a very bad film. Like. Very bad.

Cat threw up. Again. On my bed. Again. Poor thing and everything but why is it always my room?!?

Hearing that the latest development on this Ed Sheeran business is that all the other opening acts have quit as have his own band. The band that joins him for the Irish songs, because they are Irish. So ofc they were like nope. Fuck genocide. Free Palestine. Hilarious.

After years of not being able to listen to podcasts because my audio attention is shit I realise I CAN when I colour or play switch! Woo. So. Any recs for podcasts that are in depth on a specific crime/event/disaster? As in, a season per topic rather than ones that switch every episode or two?

Right. Race time. I only have 2 and a half hours before the football starts so hopefully there won’t be TOO MANY red flags 😅 #f1

Last night my cat, Rocky, started growling & howling at the glass door to outside. There was another cat out there taunting her. Before I could get up to scare it away, Rocky full body threw herself at the glass with a loud THUD! I mean… it worked. The other cat ran from my insane one so 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Haunting of a Witch is out in less the 3 weeks! 👻🔪🩸🌈 Check out this really cool blog post about it from Every Book A Doorway: “I Can’t Wait For…Haunting of a Witch by J.J. Clapton” 💙📚🌈 #chronicillness #queerbooks #indiebooks

I Can’t Wait For…Haunting of a Witch by J.J. Clapton - Every Book a Doorway

A chronically ill witch, squatting in a haunted house!

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Anyone have any fav poems that have rhythm and rhyme?

JJ Clapton@jjclapton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I really have the urge to find some more poems to love. Here are my favs: 🔸Ode - Arthur O'Shaughnessy 🔸The old astronomer to his pupil - Sarah Williams 🔸Invictus - William Ernest Henley 🔸The highwayman - Alfred Noyes 🔸Fire & ice - Robert frost Yes. I need rhythm & rhyme in my poems😅 Any recs?

Haunting of a Witch is out in 3 weeks!! And you can order it in the Barnes & Noble pre-order sale now for 25% off! 📚💙🌈 🌈Sapphic witches 👻Unstable Ghost best friend 🏠Chronically ill housebound MC 🔪Lots of murder and blood

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I really have the urge to find some more poems to love. Here are my favs: 🔸Ode - Arthur O'Shaughnessy 🔸The old astronomer to his pupil - Sarah Williams 🔸Invictus - William Ernest Henley 🔸The highwayman - Alfred Noyes 🔸Fire & ice - Robert frost Yes. I need rhythm & rhyme in my poems😅 Any recs?

At 10pm cat just threw up on my bedroom floor 🫠 But hey. I’m proud of her for getting off my bed first

Anyone have any book recs for me? 🌈📚💙 Looking for fiction books by queer men: ⭐️Can be nearly any genre (fantasy, sci-fi, thriller, mystery, historical, romantasy etc) but not contemporary romance or lit fic ⭐️ not a tragedy ⭐️ adult not YA please ⭐️ preferably not loads of POVs either

My iPhone updated automatically last night and I woke up to all my apps looking different. Eeww.