To share, for those in NY, please join me and my publisher Krishan Trotman at the @strandbooks.com launch for my urban fantasy novel The Broken Hearts Agency, tonight Monday June 29th, 7pm...E. 12th Street and Broadway. Event intel at www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-a... Hope to see you there.✨️🌺

My novel The Broken Hearts Agency is officially on sale, available wherever books are sold!✨️ The story focuses on Linda Villanueva, a psychic PI who can sense when people are reeling from heartache & must also face a shadowy supernatural force. More info: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

To share everywhere, announcing the cast for The Broken Hearts Agency audiobook, on sale June 23, preorder now! A team of spectacular narrators were assembled to create what I'm calling an urban fantasy masterpiece theatre listening extravaganza. ✨️ Listen to excerpt: m.soundcloud.com/hachetteaudi...

One month countdown to pub of genre blend urban fantasy The Broken Hearts Agency, on sale June 23, preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare... Stay tuned for book tour announcement, audiobook casting announcement, poster art, story reveals & reels. We've only just begun. Excelsior.✨

To share, thrilled to announce our first giveaway for The Broken Hearts Agency. Folks can visit @thestorygraph.com at app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/da... for a chance to win a free print copy. A story that has urban fantasy, mystery/thriller and romance elements rolled into one.✨ Excelsior.🌺

Very special book club announcement, pls share: My publisher and I will be providing an exclusive 3 chapter sample of The Broken Hearts Agency to all book clubs upon request. More details in reel, pls msg me or email [email protected] Intel about book at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

Thrilled to share words of support for The Broken Hearts Agency from the great Del Sandeen, author of the forthcoming These Walls Remember. Thank you Del for the kind words, for shouting out my mischief.✨️ The Broken Hearts Agency, available for preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

I'm beyond thrilled to share words of support for The Broken Hearts Agency from Cebo Campbell, author of the acclaimed, world-changing Sky Full of Elephants. Cebo, hand to heart, thank you.✨️🌺 The Broken Hearts Agency, available for preorder now at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

For reviewers, book influencers and the like, beyond thrilled to announce that The Broken Hearts Agency is available for request via NetGalley, link at www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... Happy reading. Excelsior✨️

A short, sweet preorder message about my upcoming novel, The Broken Hearts Agency… more info at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

Cover reveal, please share! My next urban fantasy, THE BROKEN HEARTS AGENCY, will be published on 6.23.26, available for preorder.✨️ The story focuses on Linda Villanueva, a P.I. who’s an empath, able to help troubled souls discover their true self. More at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

Thrilled to share Ghosts of Gwen M is listed as one of the 10 most underrated books of 2025 by Book Riot. Thank you very much to fellow author Susie Dumond for shout out w/ words: "All of these books deserve to be on best-of-the-year lists." Beyond grateful, full list at bookriot.com/underrated-b...

Happened to arrive at event last night at same time as writer, educator, and literary curator extraordinaire Brown Girl Booklover, www.browngirlbooklover.com, aka Leslie-Ann Murray. Recommend folks check out her page at for great insights and content, including interviews with array of authors.

✨ Our Día de los Muertos Book Pick: The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by @clarenceahaynes.bsky.social! 👻 Día de los Muertos was last weekend, but we always have space & room to think about the ancestors. 📚 Snag your copy (if you dare) at www.sistahscifi.com or at your #locallibrary. #SistahScifi

Past wkend was one of my last book tour stops for year. I'll be in writer retreat mode as I finish working on book project that I can't wait to tell folks about, a mix of paranormal fantasy, mystery, and spicy romance that's an out of the box meditation on desire. Thank u as always, pls stay tuned.✨️

A few hours left... Link to purchase... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

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Continuing to honor spooky season, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery e-book is on sale for $2.99 for rest of Oct., available through digital book retailers. ✨🌺🌻 Link at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare... Please share as you like. 🙏🏾🤗

I’ll be at @bklynlibrary.bsky.social’s Clinton Hill branch on Sat. Nov. 1, discussing all things Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. Signed copies will be available. Free rsvp link at www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cla... Please spread the word, hope to see you there.😊✨🌺🌻

This Sat, Oct. 11 at Eastern Parkway Library in Brklyn, I’ll host a free workshop “How to Write a Ghost Story.” I’ll discuss world-building, characterization, supernatural themes, and craft. Attendees will have opportunity to write, receive feedback. RSVP at www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/how... ✨

Just a few days left for The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery e-book sale, only $2.99, available through digital book retailers.💫🌺✨️🌻 Shop now at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

Earlier this weekend Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery hit No. 1 on Kobo’s ebook Fiction & Literature, African American chart. And it’s doing its thing on LGBTQ+ and Fantasy charts as well. Pleasure to rep Black Diaspora, my communities. Grateful for the support. ✨Link at www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

✨Reminder that The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery e-book is on sale for $2.99 for all of August, available through a variety of digital retailers. ✨️🌻🌺💫 Link at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...  

Very thrilled to share The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery e-book is on sale for $2.99 for all of August, available through digital retailers. E-book links at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare... ✨️🌻🌺💫

A grand honor to share that The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery can be found on CBS New York platform as a Club Calvi book club featured title.✨️🙏🏾🌺🌻 Dream come true. Link to interview: www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide...

To share, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery audiobook was chosen by @locusmag.bsky.social & @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social as a top fantasy pick for July! Folks can visit locusmag.com/2025/07/audi... 🌺✨️ Beyond grateful.✨🌻

Dream come true to visit @allofitwnyc.bsky.social studio and be interviewed by host Alison Stewart, one of the best in the biz. We had awesome spoiler-free chat about my new novel The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. Folks can listen at www.wnyc.org/story/the-gh... Grateful.✨🌺🌻

Sound on please, so you can listen to @andreonthemic.com award-winning narration of Chapter 2 from The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. The POV here is from the character Fonsi, an early reader fave. Audiobook excerpt courtesy of @hachetteaudio.bsky.social ... short, sweet, to share.✨

New Book Alert!! 👻 The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes is out now & I’m pumped to tell you about it. 👻 (🧵1/3) #theharlemrenaissance2 #newbooks #paranormalfiction #booksky #BlackBooksky @clarenceahaynes.bsky.social @harlemrenaissance2.bsky.social

@clarenceahaynes.bsky.social explains how (and why) to craft your novel soundscape: “I needed sounds that were lush, that could carry these characters’ emotional weight.”

To share, I’ve crafted my first essay for @literaryhub.bsky.social. I discuss how I used music to deepen the emotional experiences of the two main characters in The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. I particularly relied on the sounds of Babyface and Toni Braxton. Link at lithub.com/clarence-a-h...

To share, for those in DC area, @loyaltybooks.bsky.social will host convo between myself and @venessakelley.bsky.social on Thurs., July 10 at 7pm, at the DC Pop-Up as we discuss The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery and When the Tides Held the Moon. For free RSVP, visit loyaltybookstores.com/gwendolyn

This one is for all the 'New Yorker Risings'! The spectacular @tiawilliams.bsky.social and myself chat about the real main character in our books...New York City?⁣ ⁣

To share, this coming Saturday, June 28, please join me at Montclair Book Center, 2pm, for book signing for my solo debut novel The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. Event is free. Get ready for sparkling, layered chat in cozy venue. ✨🌻🌺Please RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-a...

To share, celebrate the launch of my solo debut novel THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY w/ my publisher Krishan Trotman at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social this week, June 19th, 7pm. An array of treats are in store, tix at www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-a...

Sneak Peek at THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! Reactor magazine has posted the first two chapters and will continue posting two more chapters every week for four weeks, leading up to pub day on July 15! Eight chapters in all! Happy reading! reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

📚✨ Black Utopias: Imagining Futures Through Literature ✨📚 What if Black writers could rewrite the past and the future? Join #SistahScifi at the #SchomburgCenter’s LitFest for a powerful convo on Afrofuturism, liberation, and Black storytelling. 🎟️ RSVP now: www.eventbrite.com/e/black-utop...

Sound on please, to listen to Brittany Bradford's exquisite narration of Chapter 1 from The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. An audiobook excerpt...short, sweet, to share. Available for preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

It’s my pleasure to share excerpt of just published Kirkus review of my upcoming novel The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. Link to full review at www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... Beyond thrilled, thankful.✨🌺🌻

2-week countdown to the publication of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, and I’m beyoooooond thrilled to share my book tour dates. ✨I’ll be in NY, NJ, Washington, DC, and Martha’s Vineyard, w/ more appearances to be announced. Can’t wait to meet readers in person, pls spread the word. Wooyah!!!✨🌺🌻

The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, a glam horror fantasy about a NY publicist with a secret mystical past. A sultry homage to powerful Black women, Diaspora, and Latinidad that explores desire across orientations and identities. On sale June 17, preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

On Juneteenth in NY, come celebrate launch of THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social, June 19th, 7pm. Array of treats in store, including convo w/ publisher Krishan Trotman, music & video, & a reading kit giveaway. For 🎟, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-a...

One month countdown to pub of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, and it's my pleasure to share words of support from one of my all-time literary heroes, the phenomenal @tananarivedue.bsky.social. Beyooooond grateful. ✨ Available for preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

Very honored to have beenrecently featured on Pride Index website, talking about my writing. 🌺✨️🙏🏾

Just announced… I’ll be participating in the Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival in August, presenting my novel The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. Thrilled and thankful.✨🌺🌻🙏🏾 More intel at www.mvbbf.com

I’m beyond thrilled to share words of support for The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery from NYT bestselling fantasy author @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social✨🙏🏾🌺🌻 The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, a glam horror urban fantasy available for preorder at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

It’s my honor to share words of support for The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery from @veronicaghenry.bsky.social Full quote: “With orishas, angry ghosts, and a breach between worlds that can only be sealed by a badass mystical heroine, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is a gritty New York feast.”

Standout looks from Black style gala at Met, from those who attended or inspired by event. I took to the suits, especially Lupita and Zendaya…✨

Happy book rebirthday to THE RELUCTANT QUEEN! Harper Voyager is re-releasing my Queens of Renthia epic fantasy trilogy with gorgeous new covers by Alexander Jansson! Book two is out today, book one came out last month, and book three comes out on 6/3. www.sarahbethdurst.com/ReluctantQue...