Clarence A. Haynes - Author, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery

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

For your reading pleasure... The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, a glam horror urban fantasy... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

For your reading pleasure ... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...

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... ✨️🌻🌺💫

Clarence Haynes on "The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery" | Book Club If you're in the mood for an urban fantasy that mixes secrets with the supernatural and is set in NYC, then consider "The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery" by Clarence Haynes.

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...

Hannah, this is wonderful!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you...checking out playlist momentarily.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✨️🌺🌻🙌🏾

Thank you so much Thomas!!! Really appreciated.🙏🏾✨️🌺🌻

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.✨

Thank you so much!!!!🙏🏾🌺🌻✨🤗

TEXT - NEW BOOK ALERT. The cover of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery sits on the left as orange tabs poke out of the book to the right. The text on the tabs read - Black Lead; Paranormal Drama; Unraveling Secrets; Mysterious & Bizarre Incidents; Sexy & Funny. Text Below - Out Now! The open book logo on the bottom right reads - Monthly Book Drop HR 2.0.

New Book Alert!!
👻 The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes is out now & I’m pumped to tell you about it. 👻
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Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I began writing an urban fantasy glam horror novel—which follows Gwendolyn, a beautiful Black Harlem publicist with a…

@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?⁣
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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...

Read chapters 1 and 2 of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE by Sarah Beth Durst on Reactor

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...

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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...