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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean you can’t keep reading spooky books… now that the evenings are longer and the sun sets earlier it’s the PERFECT atmosphere for some ghost stories. Maybe even a series of them? 👀

A black and white photo. Someone is sitting in a chair at a desk wearing a sheet over their head with a beanie hat with a ghost on it and a pair of glasses over the sheet. They are holding up the book Where The Shadows Hide by Amy Clarkin. What Walks These Halls and Who Watches This Place are on the desk in front of them. In spooky orange writing above and below the photo it says ‘Happy Halloween from PSI’.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I did not expect to see a giant photo of my face in the newspaper today and YET. I’m so delighted with this lovely review in the Irish Examiner.

Amy, a white woman with brown hair who wears glasses with black rims, holds a newspaper with a giant photo of her face up in front of her. You can see her eyes peeping over the top of the paper. The headline is ‘Things go bump in the night on an opulent cruise liner’.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I had a wonderful chat about Bisexual imposter syndrome, LGBTQ+ representation and writing LGBTQ+ books for young adults with Jenny Duffy for Shout Out’s podcast ShoutOut ListenIn, it’s available wherever you listen to your podcasts now

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My third book is officially out in the world today and I am being very normal and chill about it. Where The Shadows Hide is the third book in The PSI Investigations series, published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social and dare I say it’s the best one yet.

Amy, a white woman with long brown hair, is holding a blue book with an eerie hand reaching through water on the cover. The book is called Where The Shadows Hide and Amy’s expression is wide eyed excitement.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Obsessed with this tiny ghost. He’s now my mascot for Where The Shadows Hide promo and I’ll be bringing him EVERYWHERE.

A tiny ceramic blue ghost looks shocked. It is behind held up in front of library bookshelves

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The herding dog and the dog she’s decided is her sheep. (Spoiler, he’s not happy about it).

Coco Swift, a brown and white collie stands in front of the couch smiling happily. Her eyes are firmly fixed on Bailey, a white and brown cavachon who is sitting on the couch leaning his head against a pair of legs, looking like he’s been abandoned.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

And this is the design! I asked @karynmoy.bsky.social to create it and she made the PERFECT logo, I’m obsessed with it and I think PSI (even Davis) would love it too.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

One of my favourite PSI scenes to write in Who Watches This Place is the argument they have over the logo, so for Where The Shadows Hide promo I HAD to get it designed properly. This is the extract:

‘It was the outline of a house, with a small cartoon ghost hovering over it, and the words “Paranormal Surveyance Ireland” underneath it. It was so Archer.
“Is the ghost smiling?’ Davis asked, aghast.’

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Cover OUT Pre-Orders IN. Book 3 of the PSI series and it’s arriving just in time for spooky season. 💙🛳️👻

The cover of the book Where The Shadows Hide by Amy Clarkin - blue expanse of water, with a hand reaching up from the depths and just the tip of one of the fingers breaking the surface

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ve truly lost count of the number of times I’ve re-read this book, the absolute hold this book has on me. It was so kind of Becky Albertalli to write Imogen, Obviously especially for me but she didn’t have to call me out like this.

The cover of Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli. It’s light blue and has two pairs of feet, one wearing brown shoes and the other red converse style shoes, standing close together in a puddle facing each other. The brown shoed feet are on their tiptoes.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year, 2024 was a tough year in a lot of ways but it had some amazing memories with people I love. My sister and I are finishing it by making lemon pigs for good luck and watching The Eras Tour (aka reliving the joy of seeing it last June)

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Escaping the to-do list for a little while

A photo of the book The Starless sea resting on someone’s legs (taken from their POV). They are holding a mug that says ‘is this flirting?’ with their other hand, and curled up on a deep green couch. In front of them is a decorated Christmas tree with the lights on.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Me about the fact 2024 is nearly over:

A knight in silver armour and a red cloak talks to an older woman in a brown hooded cloak. The subtitles read ‘Old Crone Laughs In Excitement’

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think I’m the neighbourhood cats’ new TV show

A black cat with wide yellow eyes stares through a kitchen window from the outside. They are looking directly at the camera.

A close up photo of a tabby cat staring through a kitchen window from outside. They are looking directly at the camera.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Intro post because hi. I’m Amy, the writer of the PSI Investigation Series for The O’Brien Press 🖤Chronically ill 🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual 🎵 Taylor Swift fan 🇮🇪 from Dublin 🏎️ F1 nerd 👻 Will ask if you’ve seen a ghost 🏳️‍⚧️ rights Free 🇵🇸 📚Physically incapable of not yelling about other people’s excellent books

Amy, a white woman with brown hair, wears black rimmed glasses and holds up two books: one with a purple cover called ‘What Walks These Halls’ and one with a burgundy cover with gold foil and the portrait of a man with a scratched out face on it called ‘Who Watches This Place’. She is wearing a white shirt and a grey wrist support.

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Very serious Criminal Minds: Evolution scene but if you think my brain didn’t automatically repeat this in Nandor from WWDITS voice you are mistaken.

David Rossi from Criminal Minds with the subtitle ‘this fucking guy.’

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Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Your last saved celeb is your therapist… I mean, she kind of already is.

Taylor Swift holds a plastic cup up at a football game, cheering

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