THE FAITHLESS
To secure Luca’s power and Touraine’s freedom, the two of them must overcome their enemies, their history, and their heartbreak. Both have made promises they won't be able to keep.
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I loved this book. Especially on audio. It’s haunting, it’s beautiful. A fallen knight and a child saint go on an odyssey, a pilgrimage. Very ‘hell is empty and the devils are here’.
If you support this fuckery at all, if you ever opened your mouth to say ‘but what about Israel,’ do not speak to me. Do not read my books, do not invite me to your podcast, your magazine, your anthologies. I will check, and I will tell others to avoid you too.
Finally, I get to share some news I've been sitting on since last year!! So excited to be working with
@orbitbooks
,
@bhvide
, and
@Jenni_Hill
on this book of my heart.
And it's been hardest to keep quiet about this amazing cover from
@TommyArnoldArt
!!
Also it's gay. Real gay. ⚔️
So I neglected to tell you all some fantastic news but—thanks to all of your enthusiasm,
#TheUnbroken
went back for a second printing before it even came out last week! So thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting this very messy, very queer, very anti colonial book.⚔️
Acquisition announcement! Get ready for WARMONGERS, a standalone fantasy novel from
@C_L_Clark
!
Two women—once lovers and warriors at arms—are set on a collision course when years after their separation, one is crowned king and the other vows to kill her:
Every empire demands a revolution.
THE UNBROKEN
@orbitbooks
A military-political fantasy in the vein of The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a conscript and an imperial princess fight for a desert colony's fate.
INFO/BUY NOW:
GR:
One good thing: all of the sapphic trifecta posts make me so happy; thank you! And as it’s almost my birthday, here is my present to myself: the
@illumicrate
holy sapphic trinity, the sapphron sapphic trifecta, the Golden gaytimes trio!
The Unbroken was inspired as much by the colonial Israeli regime as the other colonial atrocities of the world. There should be no question where I stand on this. For a free Palestine and a right to human anger after the atrocities they’ve borne for decades—over a century. 1/
“Excuse me, do you have a moment to hear about our lord and savior Luca Ancier of The Unbroken—?”
Briefly met Emma D’Arcy over the weekend after seeing Bluets. They were very gracious as I stammered my hellos. 😅
(The play was also really good!)
We are thrilled to announce Fate's Bane, a fantasy Juliet & Juliet novella, from
@C_L_Clark
, the first of two novellas we've acquired!
For as long as she can remember, Agnir has lived among the enemy…
Y’all, I have so many books in the pipeline for you so why do I keep having this vision of a woman showing up half dead on her enemy’s doorstep saying she didn’t know where else to go? it doesn’t go with anything I’m supposed to be writing, but I see them so clearly!! 😭
Get your tall and moderately tall and tiny lesbians for cheap today!!
#TheUnbroken
ebook is on sale for $2.99! Perfect chance to get it and
#TheFaithless
in one fell swoop if you’ve been debating. (Art:
@Marceline2174
)
Apparently one of the ‘Best Books of the Year So Far’ is $2.99 on Kindle! If you’ve been waiting to grab this anti-colonial fantasy by way of Fanon, with a helping of women who would all happily step on you—
The three horsemen of the sapphron apocalypse converge on May 30! We would LOVE to see you at this once in a lifetime (hopefully not really) event! My muscles are bigger now than they were in these pics. Don't believe me? Come see! (Buy a plane ticket now.😜)
#sapphictrifecta
Some awesome Friday news today—The Unbroken is going back for a third printing! And so I just wanna say thanks to everyone who’s been reading and reviewing and telling other people to get reading, and artists who are helping people fall in love with Touraine’s literal Arms.❤️❤️❤️
First things first—Happy
#TheFaithless
day, aka
#TourainesLegs
day to everyone, from my leg to yours. Feel free to join in, this is an equal opportunity legs day. With bonus
#TourainesArms
just because. 😘 (next book is gonna be dangerous…🍑)
Everyone knows SWBTS is part of the sapphic trifecta, but do you know that if you liked The Unbroken, TLT, and Baru Cormorant, you will probably love A Memory Called Empire?? Sapphic examination of colonialism with a side of home brew neurosurgery and fun names? Yes.
Okay, so--first thing's first--Happy
#TheUnbroken
aka
#TourainesArms
Day to everyone, from my arms to yours. Feel free to join in, this is an equal opp arms day. ;)
Second, lots of things going on today, including an
#AMA
over
@Reddit_Fantasy
:
Dear Twitter,
What is the biggest, most painful food betrayal (to you)?
This question brought to you by a beloved tortilla chip skewering the roof of my mouth right behind my teeth. 😭😭😭
Another loop around the sun for this birthday bro! 🥳 As always, feel free to celebrate with your own flex pics! If that’s not your style, you can always buy/gift a book about sad sword lesbians (
#TourainesArms
for all)! Thanks for being a part of this awesome year!
rough fucking week/year/whatever for lesbian visual media...but at least we have books? great time for that. Grab a copy of A Day of Fallen Night or The Faithless or The Mimicking of Known Successes or I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself or Feed Them Silence or--
So honored to help reveal the gorgeous cover for
@aliettedb
's lesbian space pirate romance! 😍
A bot maker and a pirate queen in an arranged marriage trying to survive an interstellar war? And they start falling--?
Pre-order links
@gollancz
👇
Art: Alyssa Winans
Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, a conscript and a princess haggle over the price of a nation in
#TheUnbroken
. But some things aren't for sale. Luckily, the books is: $2.99 US
#KindleDailyDeal
! (Link👇)
Then admire this art by
@Marceline2174
:
Thank you, everyone! I'm so so thrilled and so honored, I'm just screaming around the house right now. You can read the story or listen to it on
@levarburton
's podcast! Links below!
The Ignyte Award winner in the category of Best Short Story for 2021 is “You Perfect, Broken Thing” by
@C_L_Clark
and published by
@UncannyMagazine
and also featured on LeVar Burton Reads.
Congratulations!!!
#IgnyteAwards
In a week and a half, if all things go as planned, I'm heading back to the UK to be home with my partner after half a year of COVID/visa shenanigans. It's been a very, very long time. So here is a picture of us being ridiculously cute bc I miss them and I like embarrassing them.
I will truly never understand the ‘gotcha’ of people saying ‘well, without colonialism, you wouldn’t have [insert dubiously white technology]’—have you truly never heard of ‘trade’? It’s possible to share things without subjugating—hard to comprehend, I know, but some 2YO manage.
Happy release day to
@say_shannon
and this amazing, gorgeous, and yes, painful, yes, sapphic book. Some pages I still keep going back to. Pick up A Day of Fallen Night if you haven’t already—it’s worth its considerable weight, and every moment of the time you spend with it. 😉
Just want to say, to everyone who has ever recc’ed The Unbroken—in someone’s tweets, in a post, in a TikTok, in a bookstore, to a friend, to a fam, with art, with memes, in a train, on the street, to someone queer, to someone not—thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏🙏🙏
It’s been a blow to see so many whose work I valued and wanted to emulate show such a rotten core—or that the insight they showed in their work stopped as soon as it left the page, or couldn’t extend it to Palestinians. I expected more, but all I can do is be better than them.
We interrupt this packing/revision day for an important announcement!
The biceps are getting bigger, most especially the right one, which is the smaller one on account of a surgery and non-dominance.
(They are named Hulk and Thor respectively.)
I know The Faithless is coming out soon, but can I interest you in-Some More News?
So excited to stretch myself and experiment with a new form. We'll have a new setting, new magic, and new characters that I hope you'll love as much as I do.
For as long as she can remember, Agnir has lived among the enemy…
@TorDotComPub
is delighted to announce two novellas from author
@C_L_Clark
— the first, Fate's Bane, is slated for early 2025
Yesterday I turned in the first proper draft of Book 3! Just in time to get hyphy about The Faithless!
Surprising no one, she grew 😬
Gonna spend the next few days catching up on all the reading and gaming I want and doing absolutely nothing else. 😌
CELEBRATING WRITING EXCELLENCE at
#Nebulas2022
: This tweet celebrates C.L. Clark, whose The Unbroken is a finalist in the novel category for the 57th Nebula Awards. The novel was published by Orbit US/Orbit UK. Congratulations, Cherae!
@C_L_Clark
@orbitbooks
The
#2022LocusAwards
winner for Best Anthology is We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)!
I just realized that
#TheUnbroken
came out this Tuesday a year ago. My life and the world has changed so immensely within that year, in both beautiful and tragic ways, some of both I haven't even come to terms with.
I've been floored by your support for this book, for Touraine,
So for real (and for fun) I'm gonna do a 30-for-30 challenge where I try to practice swords 30min for 30 days. I'm calling it my Training Montage. At the end, we'll see how good the farmboy can get with the blade he just found out he was destined for within the plot constraints--
Okay y’all, real talk—how are we approaching Nona?
I haven’t read Harrow for 1 million years and none of the shorts in between. Am I…setting myself up for failure if I go in cold? 😬
Bc I don’t have time to reread it all before it comes out and these streets will be Unsafe.
Fuck them all, every last one of them, fuck them into a hell on earth that we make for them. They deserve no peace to enjoy the gains they’ll get from their warmongering.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to give Israel $14.3 billion in more weapons to deepen US complicity in Israel's genocidal attacks against Palestinians in Gaza. A shameful day in Congress.
CHARACTER ART REVEAL (mild
#spoilers
for
#TheFaithless
, as this is from a moment in the book)(cough chapter31 cough)
Art
@gildedruin
, who absolutely captured the essence of Touraine and Luca and the tensions between them. The expressions, the colors! Perfection.
#FuckLuca
So I’m on deadline (woo! I should change my Twitter name!) and 2 Unbroken 2 Break is due at the beginning of September. Thinking to do a progress thread here since that helped me finish Book 1. Behold, there may be snippets, word count pics, and process stuff below!
Just getting back into the sovereign for revisions and like any artist, questioning every decision I’ve ever made in my life (or the characters have made in their lives). then I see a bad ass piece of fan art and I hear Mufasa’s voice above me:
“Remember who you are.” (cunty)
It’s my sister’s bday and my lil nephew Vincent isn’t doing so hot. He’s recovering from a multi-organ transplant from last year and can’t catch a break. If you’re able and willing to send some good vibes and maybe donate to his care...
I have been thinking about this lately also…for reasons. It’s not even that they never get published…but often who gets to. And how loudly to certain demographics of readers that have an inordinate influence on publishing complain about books being too long or complicated…
over the past several years, and as recently as a few days ago, i have seen SO many authors, agents, editors, and readers say things like "why don't we get expansive sprawling fantasy like kushiel's dart anymore". and i can answer that. these wordcounts do not get published today
Watched a good movie at a film festival. In the Q&A, though, the writer said something that annoyed me and seemed ill thought out.
So I’ll just say, if an interviewer asks me about the sex scenes in my book(s), tl;dr is because I wanted lesbian sex scenes for the lesbian gaze.
This is for everyone who supported me in the hunt for a jersey-style crop top for the summer, here are your just desserts 🧁
tell someone to buy a book or something I guess? 😏
Every empire demands a revolution.
THE UNBROKEN
23.Mar.21
@orbitbooks
A military-political fantasy in the vein of The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a conscript and an imperial princess fight for a desert colony's fate.
GR:
PREORDER:
#ToTSelfieSunday
I got inspired to join in this week thanks to
@CTnapier
Did I do it right?
Anyone hiring a
#SnaccWarder
? This is the look I will give when I 'forget' snacks...
I started working on Book 3 today. 😐
That’s really all I have to say; this hasn’t gotten easier and the prospect of closing down my first series is quite terrifying. 😬
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Look what I got! The next up from
@TravisBaldree
and
@torbooks
.
Time to head to the bookstore and meet this little owl pug I’ve heard so much about…I fell in love with Vic immediately in Legends and Lattes, so I’m excited to get some of her old life.
I have a new essay out today
@fantasymagazine
! I talk a bit about my thoughts on why and how we write war in fantasy, which, as you might know by now, is something I have a particular interest in.