C. L. Clark

...and a GIVEAWAY! and STARS! Hi everyone! This newsletter is a bit late. October was full of things and then November was even more full of things. I'm sure you all know how it goes. As it is, this newsletter will be mostly a bit of an update.

Another Craft Round-up. This time, books! Howdy, everyone. The last couple days—weeks—etc. have been…something. In the meantime, I’m still writing The Unbroken 2, still editing at PodCastle—and now at the SFWA Blog and the WE’RE HERE: The Best Queer Fiction of 2020 anthology. I’

A Writing Craft and Publishing Industry Resource Round-up Howdy everyone! Most of this newsletter is for the writers in the bunch! But first… PodCastle, the podcast fantasy magazine that I co-edit, has the great honor of being shortlisted for the inauguratory IGNYTE awards with FIYAHCon, alongside a few other great

AKA Touraine's Arms: A Novel Howdy, everyone! So I’ve been sitting on this crazy exciting news since December last year and in case you missed it, The Unbroken, book one of The Magic of the Lost trilogy comes out March 23, 2021! You can pre-order it from

I'm thrilled to finally announce that I sold my debut novel (and its two sequels) to Orbit for publication in March 2021. (You can pre-order here and add it on Goodreads!) I've been fighting to keep this a secret since December last year, and oof. I&

With Muscles. Times are hard. Things are changing. I’ve been working on a novel (or three) about  revolutions against colonial regimes and there are definitely magical plagues in them. It’s too early for me to have any wisdom on the moment. I’m just trying live through it,

Welcome to C’s Newsletter by me, C. L. Clark (aka, Cherae). I’m a queer, black writer with short fiction in FIYAH, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and PodCastle. Nonfiction at Tor.com, Fantasy Magazine, and Uncanny. My debut novel, The Unbroken is the first in the Magic of the