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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.

Graphic with the book cover for haunting of a witch by JJ Clapton on one side. On the other, the words: pick a page number between 5-264 for a quote. Ebook out October 1st

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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!

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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.”

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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.

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reposted by JJ Clapton

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 🔪🩸🌈

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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 😅

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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!

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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. 😬😬

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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

Alt: Cute Cat Being Petted

Cute Cat Being Petted

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 21/09/2026

Reposted by JJ Clapton

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

A trope/theme map for "Where We Converge" by A.E. Bross. It contains the following:

Hurt/Comfort MM Romance
Introverted mage dealing w/anxiety & depression
A kid who is way too mature for her age.
A smart-ass nurse who is absolutely over it.
Abuse of magic.
Demi, bi, and pan rep.
Confused time-traveler (who is a mage, and cute).
Present day Chicago

Now available across retailers!

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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.

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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?

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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

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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!

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone have any fav poems that have rhythm and rhyme?

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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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Haunting of a Witch

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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?

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

Reposted by JJ Clapton

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A boot hoist in our car would mean I’d be able to take my electric wheelchair out and would make a big difference. But. Lanzarote population: 165,000 Places that are able to adapt cars on the island: 0

Alice in Wonderland: Frustrated Sigh

Alt: Alice in Wonderland: Frustrated Sigh

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am watching the Raygun untold documentary on Netflix and my friends. This is even more cringy that that Olympics.

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Attempting to finalise my paperback for publication in October = computer says no. KDP won’t process my updated cover file Ingram has glitched and says my book will cost £(1.00) to print & I will be in negative royalties and is refusing to let me upload anything 🫠 fml

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I bought some acrylic paint pens & a colour by number book to do while in bed & I am loving it 🎨🖌️ The pens do not smell! Woo! (I can’t use alcohol markers or sharpies because of the smell) The book is 40 places in Spain (They don’t have Lanzarote where I live but they do have other Canary Islands)

Photo of a Spanish colour by number colouring book. The title reads colorea tu viaje. Destinos de España. The images are 1920s style travel posters of 40 different Spanish destinations

Set of 72 acrylic paint pens in a black case.

A page that has been coloured in with the title formentera and a beach with a sun chair and parasol

Another page that has been coloured in of Doñana National park with flamingos

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Don’t miss out on loads of awesome books this weekend by indie authors 💙📚 I have made a shortlist of ten books to buy and that’s only because I bought loads last time! (And the time before that!) Indiebook.sale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

29 - 31 August

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s #narratess sale time again which means I’ll buy way too many awesome books to go into my pile of other awesome books I’ve got from @narratess.com before! My book is taking part for the first time too! Which is exciting. A Stage Over Ruthless Stars is only $1.99! indiebook.sale

Graphic showing the book cover for a stage over ruthless stars by JJ Clapton

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If I got one review each from all these people emailing me AI reviews of my book trying to get me to pay them to get more reviews for my book. Then I wouldn’t need to pay someone to get more reviews 🙄

ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reposted by JJ Clapton

Trawling through the hundreds of Queer books on Kobo+ can be a bit of a slog - I put this handy list together so you don't have to! There's a variety of genres, pairings, and identities🏳️‍🌈 #Booksky

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Kobo+ Queer Reads

Great Queer Books on Kobo+ Sowing Spells: A Field Guide to Becoming a Wizard's Apprentice by Cay Fletcher Genre: Cozy Fantasy Rep: M/M mai...

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

These books are AMAZING. Go get them.

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Watching Trash. Gotta say, these are the most ridiculous shark attacks I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂 Gotta love a good bad film

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Are freckles just moles we like the look of? 🤔

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Saw about Jason Ardays death before I went to bed last night & was quite upset about it. As an autistic, I am unsurprised it ended this way when he was hounded like that. Nobody cares about the white men professors that do shit, but no, let’s dissect every aspect of this Black mans life instead

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m going to try to remember how to format my paperback today. I haven’t done this for a year and a half so good luck to me 😅

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In the last month I have somehow managed to go from 7 books behind on my reading goal to ‘on track’ for the first time since January 😅 Watch how this slowly slips away from me again from here.

Alt: man reading a book in each hand and balancing another on his foot

Novel Nymphs Reading

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today is #severeME day. An illness that is all too common & debilitating yet misunderstood. 25% of ME sufferers are severe. We are housebound or bedbound. Unable to work or study. Trapped in a house or in a single room. Some living in the dark & quiet. This has been my reality for 17 years #pwME

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We have a NutriBullet blender. Which is supposed to be for smoothies, and juices and healthy dips and sauces etc. You know, healthy things. Literally the only thing it ever gets used for is to make milkshakes 😂😂😂

JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You know what I truly don’t understand? Why are there no Pokémon figurines that you can buy to paint? They have them for all sorts of games, right? It seems like a huge gap in the market. And by that I mean I WANNA PAINT POKÉMON FIGURINES 😭😭

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Watched the film Tuner last night and it was brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have 14 bites on my legs from a mosquito in my room last night. I found it. I have killed it. There is now a smear of my blood on the white wall as a warning to any thieves who think stealing my blood is a good idea.

Scar: Kill Him - The Lion King

Alt: Scar from the lion king with the caption kill him