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Claire’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Claire Oshetsky
Goodreads Author
Born
Menominee, Michigan, USA
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Influences
Vladimir Sorokin, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Ariana Harwicz
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Member Since
December 2020
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Chouette
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published
2021
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2 editions
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Poor Deer
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published
2024
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9 editions
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Evil Genius
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expected publication
2026
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3 editions
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Claire’s Recent Updates
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added a status update: Today I’ll be speaking with librarians about Evil Genius. I think I’ll tell them about The Crab Queen. She is the 3rd monstrously strong supernatural female guardian I’ve created to guide the protagonists in my novels. In Chouette it was “The Owl Lover.” In Poor Deer it was “Poor Deer.” The Crab Queen is my favorite monster-guardian of all though. Fearless. All powerful. Metes out justice without mercy. I love her.
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added a status update: What a joy to meet Jeff Vandermeer and to hear him speak about Area X! What a generous soul! I was bowled over by the attentiveness of Jeff's answers to the audience ?'s. Each of his answers was so thoughtful, and so personal. His is a great listener, and a great observer, and these qualities shine out in real life as much as they do in his novels. I can't recommend the his work enough, for a first read or a re-read!
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It's July 6 2025 and the first review copies of Evil Genius will be out in 10 days and the story will no longer belong to me. I'm spending a quiet time today, thinking about why I wrote this novel the way I did. You could say Evil Genius was written ...more |
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Terrie wrote: "Dang AI!!"
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It’s a little nerve-wracking for me, tbh
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Belinda wrote: "YES your writing style would work so well for horror. Love to hear it!"
Oh, gosh, this is exactly what my daughter keeps telling me. We ...more " |
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Thanks, Lesley, André, Jacqulyn. (Wow such great names.) And now I’m trying to figure out what to write next. For me, thinking up an idea, the ‘what i
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Thanks for the yesses...if that word can be a plural...
Anyway. On my website I describe this next book like this: A comic novel about a young woman who ...more " |
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I re-read this novel in preparation for writing a scene in my novel Poor Deer, one that involves a car, plus some intense emotions. I don't know a lot of writers personally but the ones I do know seem to write very differently from the way I write. T ...more |
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“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“I begin to understand what a gift I've been given, to have been chosen for this task. The truth overwhelms me, and humbles me. The birds are telling me that my life's work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself- and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you, owl-baby- rather than mold you to be what I want you to be, or what your father wants you to be.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
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| LOTSA SPELL CHALL...: August 2021 LSC MEMBER SPELL | 151 | 17 | Nov 14, 2021 02:50PM | |
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| 21st Century Lite...: One Book That Surprised You, One That Disappointed You, & One That Deserves More Attention From Your 2021 Reading Year? (11/21/21) | 13 | 62 | Dec 08, 2021 12:29PM |
