iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I like to think I’m a vaguely sentient, rational person and then two seconds of early sun hits my face and I remember I’m just a plant that overthinks

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Fighting for my life to make sure people know that my cottagecore book is ‘let’s pour our grief and rage into working in our garden bcos it’s the only safe space for it, and while we’re at it let’s think about snogging girls’ vibes, not a ‘let’s gloat about our rights being taken away’ kinda delio

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

‘How do you come up with book ideas?’ 1) think about all your friends 2) think about all the things that make them cry 3) write those things down Congrats! You wrote a book!

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Doing research for a book for the first time in my life and honestly…this kinda rules???

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haley | IG: @spoonie.reads @spooniereads.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

COVER REVEAL | Some Advanced Notes on Practical Dreaming i'm so excited to share this stunning cover (art by @miavern.bsky.social) for Clare Robertson's new novel— following a grad student revenge quest at a supernatural school! out 9/1/25— preorders start may 1st! @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social

book cover of Some Advanced Notes on Practical Dreaming by Clare Robertson; cover has white text and art depicting a redheaded girl in a school uniform lying down, face up, with a book clutched to their chest. they're atop a stone surface with vines creeping in; to their left is a hand mirror, and to their right is a long sword.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I could not be more excited or over the moon to finally reveal the cover for my debut novel SOME ADVANCED NOTES ON PRACTICAL DREAMING, as created by the amazingly talented @miavern.bsky.social !!!

Image shows a sleeping girl with a book clutched to her chest and a sword and hand mirror by her side

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Happy cover reveal day to me!!! Omg!!!

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Less than 24 hours until my cover reveal im levitating with excitement

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I’m getting that itch* again *thinking about dipping my toes back into trad pub again

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wait no stop so much good publishing news has happened for lovely friends this week, I’m literally so excited

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We’ve had sunshine in Scotland for two days in a row so suffice to say, I feel like I could fistfight god

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Currently on a mission to prioritise enjoying my writing above any other goal for it and I’ve gotta say it’s really working and my heart feels fuller than it has in ages

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Just saw a tumblr post which was like ‘is it a plot hole or did they just not spoon feed it to you bcos it’s obvious if you would just allow yourself to think about it for 10 seconds’ And I would like to tattoo it on my forehead pls

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Just realised my cover reveal is a week from now so that’s a lot to process all at once

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

You are fantastic. You are a living grimoire. You are the dreams of an eldritch goddess. You are a tiny library in the hollow of an ancient oak. You are a swarm of faeries writing poetry on the night sky with streaks of glittery flames.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Current WIP has a Gideon X Harrow but they’re running a kingdom together and it’s even *more* enemies to lovers kinda vibe and I’m having an excellent time

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Loved this! Some of the most gorgeous quotes from some of my absolute heroes 😍

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The most fun a girl can have is low key bullying her friend by sending increasingly traumatic updates about the horrors her character is experiencing

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It's 5 days until FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS is out in the US, so bringing back this, and if you have any other questions, let me know! #BookSky

D I need to read TIL DEATH DO US BARD first? No, both books are completely standalone, set in different worlds. You can read in any order.

TDDUB was described as a hug, is this one the same? I'd say it's more holding your partner's hand at the top of a rollercoaster. It's tenser.

Does FW&PS have D&D vibes like TDDUB? Not as such, but it is still full of adventure, conflict, and excitement, plus found family and ride or die crew

Will there be content warnings for this book? Yes, there will be content warnings both in the book and on my website

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

‘What if my friends all hate me?’ But imagine what if they think about you all the time. What if the tiny things you do live large in their minds. What if they’ll associate certain things with you forever, no matter how briefly those things were actually yours.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I saw a hare today out on a walk with a friend and I’m just superstitious enough to see it as a good omen. A sign of things on the turn. Just seeing it in itself was a bit of luck. With any luck it’ll spin off more and more and more

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Lied to a friend about my plans today so I can still write during my kid’s naptime, nature is healing

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My mom: hey babe, you seem like you’ve been having a tough time Me: how could you tell? Also me: *ghostly pale, massive acne outbreak, had three different sicknesses in two weeks* My mom: idk babe, just a vibe

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Your evergreen reminder to subscribe to my substack where you can see FUN GOODIES early--and this coming missive, Hollow's preorder art before anyone else!!! substack.com/@hallowedwords

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writing, publishing, & reading ✺ ✺ Hollow (Fall 2025) ✺ ✺ Of Auras and Shadows (Fall 2026)

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I have very gently started working on The Next Book and honestly it’s just a relief to remember I actively really enjoy writing?!?!

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Me: I’m going to try keeping this new WIP to myself just bcos I’m such a yapper and maybe it would be interesting to have a different creative experience Me, two seconds later: sends @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social my entire first page 😂😂

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

No one freak out but the cover reveal for my debut novel is NEXT WEEK? I’m sorry??? What? If you fancy sharing the cover to your feed here, on ⏰, 🧵 or 🦋 in return for an ARC, an early access signed pre order link and some goodies exclusive to the street team, head to my 🔗 in bïo to sign up now!

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transposed on top. Text reads ‘join my street team: cover reveal February 28th 2025. Incentives: ARCS, early pre order access, stickers + bookmarks)

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Something that doesn’t get said enough is how important it is to have writing friends who hype you up to rest as much as they tell you to write. Who help you care for your whole self 🩷

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🎉ANNOUNCEMENT TIME🎉 So excited to get to say that I have another book coming out AND that you get to start reading it in just a matter of weeks! BITTERSWEET is a queer, adult Romance ft a trans LI so hot it’ll make a t*rf cry.

Text shows a yellow background with three pink boxes down one side. Each box has a different image over the top: a trans pride flag, a ginger cat and a pink piping bag. Pink text reads ‘Bittersweet: a queer romance about food, flirting and the healing power of queer love. Subtext reads: new chapters weekly on my pay what you can patreon’

Image shows a sunset with white text transposed on top of it. The text reads: Star baker Lenny just left her fiancé, her city and her life of awkwardly B-list celebrity.

Carey just became the U.K.’s first trans chef to win a Michelin star.

Sparks may fly the first time they meet but safe to say, these two are not on the same page. Throw in a pride brunch in peril, the queer found family Lenny never had, the world’s most awful cat and a book proposal that won’t write itself and it looks like these two friends with benefits aren’t ever leaving their hookup phase. But any good baker knows it only takes a little bit of sweetness to fix all that bitter…’

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Two and a half hours left, I’m personally losing it ☺️☺️☺️☺️

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Just saying that if you subscribe to my newsletter…it might be the time to check your emails 🥰🥰🥰

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

One day until I get to announce one of my fav things ever 🥰🧡😍☺️🥰😍🧡☺️🥰🧡☺️😍🌟😍🥰🧡🌟

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Six word horror story ‘What if Gmail had read receipts?

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’ve never thrown away a book in my life but every time I find a N*il G*iman that survived our initial purge I feel a *very* sustaining wave of satisfaction when I yeet it into the recycling bin

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bluesky I need your help: I have done a WILDLY bad job about posting over here the last few weeks bcos sick kid/sick partner/no childcare and now *im* getting sick. But I have a huge announcement to make on Friday! If you could keep your eyes out for something at 16:00GMT…I would be very grateful 😭🧡

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 03/02/2025

Scarlett, the survivor of a sexual assault perpetrated by Neil Gaiman, has officially filed a civil case both against Neil Gaiman and also Amanda Palmer. This is hard to read, but the book world NEEDS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Less than two weeks until my big announcement and I’ve had 75% of my days of childcare cancelled for the last month *and* no childcare next week. This is fine. I’m fine!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash. None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None. But a LOT are caused by bigots.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m the most exhausted I’ve been in ages this month but I have also read the most I have in literally years so, you know, silver linings

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Can there pls be some middle ground where we’re decent to people who love romantasy bcos literally why tf wouldn’t you be, while *also* not platforming z*onist writers pls and thanks

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I get asked a lot about how to find the motivation to start writing and the best I’ve got is: you will rarely, if ever, write a book that you fight motivated to write all the time. The fact that you feel restless doesn’t mean you’re on the wrong project - you may just have to pick one and commit.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Literally two chapters into the Sunbearer Trials and already ready to cancel all my plans until I get to the end. Simply obsessed @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You can choose for yourself which you think is which

Image shows two cats lying on a purple and white quilt. One is black and white and the other is ginger.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yup and it’s fully 10/10, very good, excellent, no notes except they’re better looking and nicer and more talented than me and that shouldn’t be allowed

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My goal for this week is to take better care of myself and honestly I’m low key devastated how quickly drinking enough water and living on more than caffeine has made me start to feel better 🙃

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Some friends give great writing advice, all I’ve got is whatever this shit is 😂 cc: @ameliagthorn.bsky.social

Image shows a screenshotted text conversation. The text reads I think it’s just about realising that not being proud of yourself is literally only in the best interest of people who do not give a shit about you and then being petty enough not to let the motherfuckers win

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Can’t stop talking about this today but I just found out that most people who read the early drafts of my debut are *still* thinking about the romance years later so I literally do not know how to lose, everyone say thank you Clare for writing an all time great book boyfriend.

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every time an author is up front about the amount of time and effort they put into promo and isn’t afraid to be seen trying, an angel gets their wings

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My book isn’t that spicy bcos I couldn’t make it work but my god if you like it when two idiots are so clearly in love but are too consumed by their own muppetry to actually do anything about it then do I have a book for you

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Clarey 🌞 @clareyrobwrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Perennial reminder that Scotland, Ireland and Wales are real countries where real people live, with incredibly complicated histories and *aren’t* just magical tourist traps for you to borrow from without doing your due diligence just bcos you like the accents and the folklore.

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