2 weeks to go until The Mad Man’s Hope (The Commune’s Curse: Book 2) releases! This second book, for various reasons, is being self-published. It’s been a long road. If you wanna delve into this dark fantasy series, you can order Awakening & pre-order The Mad Man’s Hope via the link in my bio. 🙏❤️

Yessssssss I have breached 20,000 words on the first draft for my gothic fantasy WIP inspired by Phantom of the Opera. I’m so excited about this as it’s the most I’ve written on a new novel in quite some time. 🙌🏻 n, fellow authors? 😊 #fantasyauthor#fantasywriter#amwritingfantasy#freewrite

Ohhhh this makes me so happy. 🥲 I’ll do a proper post later discussing my very up and down journey with this series. Suffice to say, I am so excited for The Mad Man’s Hope to soon be out in the world. ⚔️ Awakening is out now & The Mad Man’s Hope is out 14th October. Buy here: linktr.ee/lucyamclaren

The Mad Man’s Hope (The Commune’s Curse: Book 2) is out on 14th October (in case you hadn’t seen my numerous other posts mentioning it 😏). I am delighted to say that you can now pre-order the paperback & ebook versions! Buy it here: books2read.com/TMMHTCC2#fantasyauthor#thecommunescurse#preorder

The lovely Lydia Baker and I have an exciting announcement! We’re starting a YouTube channel called Introverted Indies on which we’ll be featuring author interviews. More details to come on Sunday at 3pm BST. Tune in live on IG! See you there. 👋🏻 #fantasyauthor#authorlife#authorinterviews

Has anyone else noticed an influx of clearly fake author accounts on here? Like people taking real authors’ names/book info and posing as them? 🤔🤔🤔

Well, I have read it approximately 7,233 times at this point. And I do like it quite a lot. 🧐 #fantasybooks#thecommunescurse#fantasynerd#fantasyreader#amreadingfantasy#amreading#darkfantasybooks#darkfantasy#fantasywriter#fantasyauthor#fsfwritersalliance

The Mad Man’s Hope (The Commune’s Curse: Book 2) is out in 3 weeks!! If you’re an ebook reader, you can now preorder the ebook (see link in bio). The paperback preorders will be live very soon. 📖 #darkfantasybooks#thecommunescurse#fantasynerd#amreadingfantasy#fantasylover#fantasybookseries

Actually had a few of these recently, agents queried end of last year/beginning of this year that I’d long ago assumed were rejections anyway. 😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️ Although I think my record for a response time was close to 2 years! 🥶 #authorlife#writerlife#writermeme#authormeme#fantasyauthor#fantasywriter

The Commune’s Curse series has animal companions, perhaps the most popular being Cara the cat, companion to Hector. Here’s a diary entry I imagined she’d write, alongside the events in The Mad Man’s Hope (The Commune’s Curse: Book 2), releasing 14th October. See link in bio for ordering info. 👀