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Claire Daines

@221bees.bsky.social
22 followers 29 following 7 posts

Seamstress, novelist, poet, Sherlockian, Whovian, Pratchetteer, Middle Zealander, ADDer, dog lover, cat worshipper, caffeine... (What's the opposite of an addict? Teetotaller? Ascetic?)

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Claire Daines @221bees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My author's copies of 'Straight On Till Baker Street' arrived this week, been having fun doing photo shoots with my collection of props. Vote for your favourite in the comments!
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Claire Daines @221bees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My latest novel is coming out on October 7th, squee! A magical retelling of the Sherlock Holmes case 'The Final Problem', in which Holmes must protect his friends from Professor Moriarty while struggling to deal with a flood of long-buried memories. Because all children grow up... even Peter Pan.
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Claire Daines @221bees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'...when the juggler misses the first chainsaw it is only the start of his problems. Some more will be along very shortly.' Terry Pratchett, Jingo Claire Daines here, juggler of various chainsaws in the not-so-fair land of Middle Zealand. To be a halfway successful writer nowadays, I'm told, (1/3)
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