Claudia Corneyea Writes

💜 At the Beverly Public Library for their local author fair!!

💜Last year I had 10 books and my smile, but this year I decked out my side of the table a bit more. It’s so much fun to be creative in different ways!

I had such a great time talking with about her new book The Electric Life of Lavender Lewis at 💜

It’s always a great time geeking out over YA fiction and teen angst!!

💜March and April reads!! It was full of hockey and horrifying history… balanced reading.

💜My favorite reads: The Long Game, Cleat Cute, and The Four Winds. Honorable mention: Role Model

💜It’s disappointing that Rachel Reid said some dumb s**t and then gave a watered down apology. Now, Meryl Wilsner also wrote an autistic love story and she’s a cool person from what I’ve heard.

💜Cleat Cute is a stand out book. Like perfect. No notes. Loved it. I love soccer and I love ladies.

💜The Four Winds and The Great Alone were devastating. The Great Alone was probably the least devastating of Kristin Hannah’s books, but still very upsetting. Did you know the only battle in WW2 that took place in America was in Alaska???? I didn’t!! I also learned nothing about the Dust Bowl and now I need to know everything.

💜Delilah Greene and her friends were sexy, yet deeply emotional. I couldn’t believe I was going from a crazy smutty scene to literally sobbing my eyes out. That’s what I want from my Q***r Romance… emotional whiplash.

💜What My Bones Know was a wonderful memoir about CPTSD and I learned a lot. I would suggest the audiobook because Stephanie tells her own story.

💜I did not finish The Summer I Ate The Rich. I am not a zombie fan. I was curious because it’s a Haitian immigrant story and Haiti has its own folklore about zombies, but I just couldn’t do it. Anytime the zombie stuff was mentioned… I was over it. Also The Wings of Starlight was not a favorite. I tried something new, but not for me.

💜I am still finishing Heart the Lover, and I’m listening to The Alice Network. My dad and I are reading Lord of the Flies for our book club, but neither of us have started it lolol

💜Next up: The Lion Women of Tehran, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About, Braiding Sweetgrass, and The Weaver Bride

I wrote this story when this administration started attacking our public lands and firing park rangers. It is a love letter to our National Parks and girlhood. I had the privilege of traveling around the States with my best friend. It was when I finally fell in love with this land and the beauty of our country. We cannot let greedy men take this preserved land for their own profit.

Read the story on my substack In Her Shadow!!

Come hang out with us at on May 5th!!

2 years ago I had my release party for Past Futures!! This was one of the best days of my life. I had worked on Past Futures for 10 years!!! I never believed that I would hold it in my hands.

Now 2 years later… I’m working on the sequel!! I’m on my second draft, so maybe I’ll give you a couple of clues to what this one is about…

Instead of a dystopian novel, the untitled PF2 is a Solar Punk novel!! And this one follows Mist as she becomes the youngest government official in The Nation.

Okay that’s all for now 😉

💜January and February reads!! You know your girl is inconsistent… with her post and reading lol

💜My dad and I have a book club together. This time we read Speak. I read it back in high school, but it’s a modern classic and revolutionary for it’s time. I thought it was a good read for my dad and he agreed!

💜 Cassandra Clare is my girl. I’ve been reading her since I was 18 and I am a die hard Shadowhunter stan. Better in Black was a love story to her readers and I appreciated it.

💜My favorite book I read was probably The Hate U Give. It’s been on my list for a long time and I was not disappointed. After finishing the Twilight series, I felt like I needed something… smarter??? Breaking Dawn truly broke my brain, but The Women was a LOT for my 2026 reality. It was a great book and I love Kristen Hannah, but it’s put me on a bit of a historical fiction break. Though The Hate U Give was also heavy, so I reread the newest Hunger Games lol still not very relaxing or distant from our current times…

💜 Half His Age was like stepping directly into someone’s life. I felt like I was reading someone’s diary. Though, the other day someone at the bookstore was talking about how “sexual” this book was and idk… in the Epstein era… don’t we know by now that a high schooler cannot consent to “sex” with a 40 year old!? But man. That guy had serious problems.

💜I ended the month with The Seven Daughters of Dupree. A classic Claudia choice. A generational story about seven black women passing down secrets and shames while trying to live their best life with what they have been given. Curses, trauma, beliefs… it’s all passed down from one mother to another. Truly beautiful.

💜Up Next: The Delilah Green series, Heated Rivalry (and The Long Game), Heart the Lover, Lord of the Flies (our next book club book), and I still really want to read The Lion Women of Tehran.

(I’m also editing my first draft of the Past Futures sequel!!!)

My winter reading is always slower than my summer. Winter is for writing 😉

💜The Glassmaker was a book that a customer recommended because of our mutual love of historical fiction. This one took me a second to get into with the mild magical realism sprinkled throughout the story, but in the end I really enjoyed it.

💜Between the World and Me is a book I’ve been meaning to read since 2020. I got more out of it by listening to it rather than reading the physical book. This is truly required reading. It made me uncomfortable in the way that made me look deeper into my white privileged while seeing this country through a different perspective.

💜Then I took a bit of a turn lol I think maybe the critical thinking from Coates encouraged me to move to something silly. I DNF’d Parable of the Sower because it was too depressing. Listening to it was intense and I think if I do read it, that’s a physical read. I NEEDED something silly.

💜Can you believe I have never read Twilight!? Me, who loves Vampire Academy and the Shadowhunters… but it’s true! So I have been on the Twilight journey. I really wish I did like live tweeting or something bc I really felt like I needed to connect to other readers!! This series is insane!! I also understand my generation and their dating habits now. I am a quarter of the way through Breaking Dawn as of now.

💜Jumping from commentary on race to Twilight was a bit jarring and though I needed the silly, I started to feel dumb listening to the series back to back, so I took a break to read something amazing.

💜Atmosphere is an incredible book. Though I am not a huge fan of the author on a personal level, this book really took me on a journey. At first I was not into the NASA stuff, but it only took 2 chapters for me to get hooked. I sobbed.

💜Lastly, I Who Have Never Known Men. I took me 3 months to finish this 164 paged book. My neuro-spiciness couldn’t handle the stream of consciousness. I need the dopamine hit from finishing a chapter. I am glad I read this though. It’s a very unique story.

💜Next: The Women, Better in Black, and Rouge.

Any and all suggestions welcome!! Especially historical fiction.

August and September reads!! I’m consistently inconsistent so we’re jamming both months into one post lol

💜I finished rereading The Hunger Games for the 100000th time. Just as good as always. I could close my eyes and read Catching Fire by memory.

💜I’m Glad My Mom Died was amazing. Jeanette reads the book herself and it’s a beautifully gruesome story about eating disorders, family ties, and fame.

💜 By Any Other Name was recommended by my cousin and I would have never read it without it. My TBR pile is never ending, so it’s hard to read something not on it, but this was so up my alley. I love historical fiction and I love reading about a woman’s impact on history. I had a Shakespeare teacher in college who was obsessed with “him” and when I brought up that they’re not positive he wrote everything, she hated me. Forever in my mind, Emilia will be the author of those plays whether it’s true or not lol

💜Then I had to read the Summer I Turned Pretty books. The show stole my life. This is one of those rare moments that the books are not better than the show. It was still fun, but if I had read these before watching the show… I probably wouldn’t have.

💜I finished rereading The Bell Jar, but it took me two months to finish it. The first time I read it, I was amazed. I had never read a story that felt so closely connected to my experience with depression. This time, the hospital scenes stood out to me more than anything else. I think after reading Trust, women in mental hospitals really intrigues me. I reread this to reference in the second Past Futures book… a little 😉 hint at what I’ve been working on.

💜This month I am reading The Glassmaker, I Who Have Never Known Men, and hopefully I’ll finish the last Buffy: The Next Generation novel.

💜What was your favorite summer read this year? And why was it Past Futures ☺️😉

[Hello, 2019 Claudia! It’s me, 2025 Claudia]

The movement opened the minds of our country. Even though we aren’t completely there yet, people are now talking about sexual assault and believing most survivors. [Oh, little optimist] Even three years ago that seemed impossible. All of us survivors were hiding what had happened to us as if it were our fault, but now we all know that there is only one person to blame, and it ain’t us.

With all of this liberation, we [when I say we, I am referring to white women] have forgotten some fellow survivors. We have ignored an entire group of girls who have been suffering for over a decade. These women started to come out with the movement, but were put on hold. I’m not sure where we went wrong, but now we can fix it. A lot of white feminists haven’t seen Lifetime’s new docuseries Surviving R. Kelly or haven’t heard of it yet, but that may be because they feel like it doesn’t have to do with them, which is wrong.

Read more at the link in my bio 💜