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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

She’s alive!!! The Messenger was officially published yesterday 🥳 You can find it on Amazon and Waterstones. The first review couldn’t have summed it up better - ‘A warm, gripping tale of grief, ghosts and murder. Lisa Jewell meets Victorian gothic’ 🖤 #indieauthor 📚💙 🩸📚 🪐📚

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Three days left. You can pre order The Messenger on Amazon and at Waterstones now!!! #booksky 📚💙 🩸 📚 🪐 📚

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Just five days to go!! I can’t quite believe it. The Messenger can be pre-ordered via Amazon and Waterstones now. It’s out 31st August. OMG 😱 #booksky 📚💙 #indieauthor #newbook #debutnovel #preorder #writer #books

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Holiday Read Number Four 📚🏖️ Some Japanese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn 1850 - 1904. Many stories are about what happens if you do not do the right thing in your current incarnation. A few stories definitely had me exclaiming out loud. They may be short but some are very twisted. #booksky 📚💙

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I cannot believe it’s just two weeks to go until The Messenger is a real life book that people can have on their shelves 🤩 It’s available to pre order at Amazon AND Waterstones. When I am home, I’ll give you a little treat in the run up to publication day 😉 #booksky 📚💙 #indieauthor #newbook

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Holiday Read Number Three 📚 🏖️ The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan An intriguing start to the book had me hooked. A touching story. The book has a restorative quality and I felt very contented once finished. I’ll be looking out for more Ruth Hogan books. #booksky 📚💙 #bookrecommendation #book

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Secret Van Tams by Carly Bishop This is a fast paced family drama that’s hard to put down. We follow twenty year old Remi as she becomes comfortable in her own skin and the truths she’s discovered. Sprinkled with Dutch proverbs it was a fun read. #BookSky 📚💙 #indieauthor #newbook #bookreview

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

These ones are going in the suitcase. It’s a driving holiday and I usually feel sick if I read in the car 🤢☹️ but I will give it another go this year. The Twisted Ones The Keeper of Lost Things Some Japanese Ghosts The Secret Van Tams Can you read in the car? #booksky 📚💙 #holidayread #books

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Latest Teaser Trailer for The Messenger 🧐 A Jack Russell, a high heeled boot and smoke in the air??? Whatever is going on here?? You can pre order your copy of The Messenger at Amazon and Waterstones - links in bio 🙌 #Booksky 📚💙 #writer #indieauthor #newbook #cosyfantasy

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New Blog has landed ⌨️ You can check my latest blog on my website - clairebamford.com ⭐️KDP Proof Fail ⭐️Pre Order Surprise ⭐️Running out of Doctor Who episodes ⭐️What we’ve watched at the cinema ⭐️What we’ve been reading #BookSky 📚💙 #selfpublishing #indieauthor #blog #writer

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Out with the pooch first thing. Very lucky to have a calming place to walk nearby. Plus it’s blackberry season. There’s a lot bouncing around in my head right now. This walk was just the ticket. #dogwalk #calmplace #selfpublishing #dogsofsky

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Teaser Trailer for The Messenger 🎥 🍿 A sneak preview of what you will find between the pages. But what does it all mean??? I have finally set up my LinkTree so you can find all my other socials, website and the all important preorder links in my bio!!! #BookSky 📚💙 #readingcommunity #writersky

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

PREORDER NEWS!! 🥳🥳🥳 The Messenger is now out for preorder in the UK on Amazon AND Waterstones!! The latter was quite a surprise!! #selfpublishing #BookSky 📚💙 #newbook #writersofsky #preorder

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Oi oi!! I have news to share….but you’ll have wait until tomorrow 👀👀👀 The Messenger - Out 31st August 2025 #BookSky 📚💙 #selfpublishing #booknews

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just finished Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson. This is a book lovers book and although I don’t know all the names mentioned, there are authors and books sprinkled in throughout this story. Being set around a bookshop is total catnip. Onto my next one. The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher.

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My days out now seem to revolve around books and chocolate 📚🍫 📚IRL by Jenny Goebel 📚The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens 📚Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai #dubaichocolate #BookSky 📚💙 #bookrecommendations

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Cover Reveal - It’s the back!!! I see loads of great cover reveals but never celebrating the back of the book, where the painfully put together blurb lives 😄 I love the back of my book 😊 as well as the front. #BookSky 📚💙 #coverreveal #selfpublishing

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just finished ‘The Suspect’ by the fabulous @robrinder.bsky.social Another one where I was racing to get to the end, just the same as ‘The Trial.’ I think it’s the mix of the classic ’who dunnit’ coupled with the fascinating goings on in the world of law and order. #BookSky 📚💙 #bookrecommendation

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The Messenger - Cover Reveal 🥳🤩 Here she is 😊 #BookSky 📚💙 #selfpublishing #coverreveal

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Cover reveal for The Messenger - this Wednesday Eeekk! Hope you like it 😬 #BookSky 📚💙 #coverreveal #selfpublishing

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I am a lucky girl today to have been gifted my own copy of The Secret Van Tams by the gorgeous Carly Bishop! A family saga with plot twist to boot! #booksky 📚💙 #newbook

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

After a minor drama my second KDP proof arrived yesterday. She is alive!!!! Here’s the highlights of when the first proof arrived! - ⁠Size was wrong - ⁠Colour was wrong - ⁠Had a little cry - ⁠Pulled myself together - ⁠Mistakes happen Cover reveal soon! #booksky 📚 💙 #selfpublishing #writerlife

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

What taking the day off work to write your next book actually looks like #writersky #booksky #writerlife #mynextbook

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai Beautiful inside and out. Themes of grief, loss and what it means to move on. I enjoyed the Japanese cultural references throughout. A nod to climate change and how nature can heal cracks in time. Not the type of book I usually read but very glad I did. #booksky

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Book Stack to match my dog 🐶 🐾 📚 There’s three @spookypurcell in this stack. I have all of her books, love them immensely including the two which feature her short stories. I am looking forward to getting into the rest. Read any of these? What did you think? 📚💙 #booksky #dogsky #bookstack

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Sounds like Waterstones our side of the pond. You go in adamant you won’t buy any more books. Then come out realising you have nothing to pay your mortgage with 😂

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Been making homemade granola for a while now. Pretty sure it’s one thing that has helped my cholesterol go down. No statins for me, yet! #hearthealth #homemaderecipe

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Catfish Rolling. It’s serene and traumatic and mind bending at the same time 🌊

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s National Bingo Day!! Think it’s the US 🤔 I’ve read two of these so far! The Silent Companions and Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe. Both I really enjoyed! If you want to play along pick ten numbers or you can use ours. 2, 6, 14, 16, 22, 27, 31, 34, 45 and 49.

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

IT’S TIME! 😍 Friends, I have been sitting on this cover for SO LONG and now I can finally share it with you - AAAAHHHH! Not only that, but the ebook for this Medusa retelling is now available to pre-order! 🤩 🔗 below. IT’S GETTING REAL, PEOPLE Cover by the very talented @faylane.bsky.social 🩷

A pink graphic with white text saying “cover reveal”.

Below is the book cover for Of Serpents and Sorrow by Katherine Shaw, depicting a faded grey human heart entwined by a pink-white serpent and decorated with pink flowers

Beside the book are the words

Sapphic Medusa retelling

Unapologetically feminist

Tragic but full of love

With a button at the bottom saying “pre-order now”

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I am gagging to reveal my cover but patience! This is stunning!

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That board has no hope today!! Very blustery!

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Every author needs reviews. It’s so important to leave an honest review for a book, yes, even if it wasn’t completely your bag. Go find a book on your shelf that you’ve read and leave a review on your favorite platform. If you didn’t totally love it, be kind but leave that review 🙌 📚💙

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Summer Solstice!! ☀️ 🎶 I woke up this morning and had a wild idea to create Book Stonehenge. So here it is! Do you see any of your favs among the stones?? 📚 🪨 📚💙 #summersolstice #bookstack #Booksky

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Some core memories around this album. It was more or less in my cd player permanently.

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Train reading 🚂 📚 really enjoying The Shadow Key so far, just need more time for reading it!! #Booksky #readingcommunity

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very pleased with my delivery from @bertsbooks.bsky.social Looking forward to reading The Suspect by 📚💙 #BookSky #CrimeBooks #readingcommunity

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Week in pictures. Wedding Anniversary, looking up stuff for my next book, obligatory dog picture, charity shop book haul. How’s your week been? What’s been the highlight? 📚💙 #BookSky #WriterLife #SelfPublishing #dogsofbluesky

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Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Not read any of these but seen quite a few people with ‘When the Moon Hatched’ in their posts.

Claire Bamford @cbamfordwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe by Emma Torzs was 🤩