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CL Montblanc
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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · Dec 2
RE-INTRO POST 🤠

There are so many social medias™️ now and I signed up for all of them without bothering to explain who I am or what I'm doing here. So. Here I am. I still don't know what I'm doing.
CL Montblanc I write mystery/thriller/horror for young adults My book Pride or Die is a campy & goofy mystery I like video games & all things horror-related I dislike making graphics lmao please save me if you like Do Revenge, I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Bottoms check out Pride or Die
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BIANCA TORRExLAMAR GILES

When town sweetheart goes missing, Etta can’t pass up the chance to fix her financial issues and debunk the town swamp monster. But when fact blurs with fiction, it leaves her overwhelmed questioning who—or what—she can trust
#roundtablementor #YA #M #UN
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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you can now read my book early 🔪

it's a YA mystery with murder and twists and stuff but there's also enemies-to-lovers banter between an enby MC and autistic LI and you'll have to find out if they maybe get to kill people a little bit too 🥰
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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They Want Us Dead is about to start making its first baby steps into this world 👶
So here are some basic facts about the book that should help with what to expect and how to categorize it!
September 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Queer books from our giveaway! Check out my 📌 on IG for details.

Thanks to @transhorrors.bsky.social, @tqsims.bsky.social, @xvictoriawrites.bsky.social, @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social, @nghivo.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social, @sophieburnham.bsky.social, @clmontblanc.bsky.social & more for your books!
September 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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autistic people make the best music but then they'll go on hiatus for 10 years to run an aviation magazine or give lectures on soviet bootleg technology
August 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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coping with grief in the normal ways: becoming a gym bro. collecting bags full of hair. working at a haunted house. carrying a platypus everywhere.
July 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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it's understandable to have angry thoughts about the publishing industry but somehow time and time again it ends with authors fighting other authors—a lateral or downward punch—and no meaningful action
July 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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heyyy so while you're taking advantage of the sales how about you throw me into your cart?? 😚🔪
this book is perfect if you like queer romance but have the attention span of a fly and want some murder and mystery to season your banter. it comes out april next year—and that's a threat.
July 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.
June 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I am weeping
As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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🌈 195 2025 Young Adult Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈
popgoesthereader.com/195-2025-you...
#BookSky #YALit #KidLit #Pride #PrideMonth
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers in shades of pink and purple. Books featured include if We Were A Movie, I Love You S'More, Love At Second Sight, Togetha, Out of Step, Into You, Finding Prince Charming, Call Your Boyfriend, Chaos King, Hit Me With Your Best Charm, The Assassin's Guide To Babysitting, All-Nighter, Why On Earth, Run Away With Me, On Starlit Shores, There's Always Next Year, We Were Villains, Lucha of the Forgotten Spring, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, The Good Vampire's Guide To Blood and Boyfriends, The L.O.V.E. Club and Come Home To My Heart.
June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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🎓THIS WEEK🎓
I'll be visiting Dallas this week to do an event with @clmontblanc.bsky.social at @interabangbooks.bsky.social!
Join us at 6pm to chat about writing and get your books signed!

📚 interabangbooks.com/event/2025-0...
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🏖️ 70 2025 Young Adult Books For Your Summer Beach Bag 🏖️
popgoesthereader.com/70-2025-youn... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit
A collage of twenty-one young adult books being published in 2025. Books featured include With You Were Her, All Paths Lead To Paris, Never Thought I'd End Up Here, Get Real, Chloe Torres, Amelia, If Only, Summer Girls, How To Survive A Slasher, Audre & Bash Are Just Friends, Run Away With Me, Wandering Wild, Love At Full Tilt, The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick, Take A Chance On Me, Donut Summer, Nothing Bad Happens Here, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, Wish Upon A K-Star, All-Nighter, If We Were A Movie, I Love You S'more and Salvación.
June 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This is what happens when you write a NB/M rom-com but then decide forced proximity would be way more fun if they're fighting for their lives against a murderer.

And it's available to order NOW from wherever you get your books!

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250340535/theywantusdead/
June 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Happy Pride Month! This year, LGBTQ Reads is partnering with @bookshop.org for a sale on over 100 books by LGBTQIA+ authors using code PRIDE25! bookshop.org/info/pride
A stack of queer books rests on a surface above the Bookshop.org logo. Words at the top read "Join Bookshop.org and LGBTQ Reads as we celebrate pride." A badge reads "20% off titles w/code PRIDE25".
June 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Happy Pride! Check out these 2025 debut novels with sapphic rep. Want to help a debut?

Repost this, follow and interact, add to goodreads and review, request on netgalley and upvote/review, request from library, review on major retailers, preorder//order.

Books listed in alt text and comments.
ALICE RUE EVADES THE TRUTH by @ emilyzipps HER FAKE WEDDING DATE IN SICILY by @authorjennylane TARNISHED by @ericaroseberhart THE BELLES by @lndhop THE ELYSIUM HEIST by @ymresnik THE FACELESS THINGS WE ADORE by @stopithester THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER by @maddiesmartinez THE NEEDFIRE by @mkhardywrites ALL (DEAD) GIRLS LIE @piperlwhite BEA MULLINS TAKES A SHOT by @authoremilydeibert HOLLOW by @taylorlgrothe IT’S A LOVE/SKATE RELATIONSHIP by @carlijcorson MY LIPS HER VOICE by @llmadridwrites PRIDE OR DIE by @clmontblanc PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER by @isabellekellywrites THE LIBRARY OF LOST GIRLS by @kristenpips
June 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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🎉JUNE EVENTS🎉

9 June | 6PM | Austin, TX
Join @jasmineintheskye.bsky.social and me at BookPeople!
info 🫀 shorturl.at/jddMY

18 June | 6PM | Dallas, TX
Join @clmontblanc.bsky.social and me at Interabang Books!
info 🫀 shorturl.at/2opVZ
May 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
clmontblanc.bsky.social
📢 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢

my next YA mystery, THEY WANT US DEAD, releases on april 28, 2026!

if this sounds like something you'd enjoy, stay tuned, because more news is coming very soon! 💛🤍💜🖤
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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✨🪞 She’s here 🪞✨

I’m *beyond* excited to team up with @LGBTQReads to reveal the cover for THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY, out February 17th, 2026.

Shoutout to cover artist @vetyyr and designer L. Whitt for bringing to life the dramatic cover of my dreams. Check out the full reveal over on LGBTQReads!
A young woman stands hunched over a dark desk in the bottom half of the picture. Her face is hidden behind shoulder-length golden-blonde hair with strawberry undertones. Her dress is long with pink and blue accents, but leaves her shoulders and upper back exposed. A white, smoke-like fog rises off her and into the painted portrait behind her, which holds a young figure in white with a malicious glint in their eye and a wicked smile. The frame is curved and wooden, and the backdrop of the portrait is an ominous purple smoke. At the bottom of the image is the title "This Wretched Beauty" in a large, elegant font, as well as the words "A Dorian Gray Remix" framed beneath it in a smaller, sleeker font. At the top of the page is the name "Elle Grenier" in the same font as "A Dorian Gray Remix." The cover sits in front of a dark magenta background with a smoky texture, and is surrounded by a dot-line silver frame with elaborate detailing across the four corners. The background is the same smoky magenta as for the cover reveal. This time, in the middle of the same silver frame is a text box holding the following words: London, 1867. Dorian Gray is the heir to a title and their family’s estate, but they’ve never been given the chance to decide whether that’s actually what they want out of life. Forcibly estranged from their father by their manipulative grandfather, Dorian feels trapped in the life that has been decided for them. Then one night they sneak out of their grandfather’s house, they meet a sweet and talented young painter named Basil, who immediately recognizes Dorian as his new muse. They agree to sit for Basil for a portrait, and Dorian is struck by the beauty and depth that Basil paints into their likeness—and they dare to begin hoping there might be more to life than being their grandfather’s perfect, empty-headed heir. Dorian is further elated when Basil introduces them to the world of molly houses and drag performers—they’ve never seen such joyful variety of humanity and gender expression. But, as the barrier between the London she knows and the one she's discovering begins to crumble, Dorian must face the fact that freedom and safety do not always come hand in hand. The aftermath of this realization pulls Dorian into a terrible downward spiral, torn between guilt over their own actions and hatred for the suffocating expectations of society, prompting them to push away those closest to them, surrounding themself instead with vapid courtiers and decadent socialites. And as Dorian’s spiral of self-loathing deepens, something strange happens—Basil’s portrait of them begins to change. Their smile becomes a little sharper, the glint in their eyes a little colder. Dorian will have to choose—embrace the wickedness within and allow themself to become what they were always meant to be, or dare to try for something far more fragile and dangerous: a life of their own making.
May 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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if you were trying to buy a grave plot but the dude's name was Colton would you go somewhere else
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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got maam'd at the store yesterday and sir'd today so basically I'm they/themming by PEMDAS
April 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🌈TOMORROW🎉

Join @clmontblanc.bsky.social and I at @bookpeople.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of PRIDE OR DIE!

📖 bookpeople.com/event/cl-montblanc-pride-or-die

"A swift and suspenseful mystery full of righteous anger, comedic cynicism, and queer joy."

- School Library Journal
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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PRIDE OR DIE IS ✨OUT✨ NOW!

four years ago I wrote a chaotic gay mystery with zero hopes in my heart—only the desire to make something that would’ve brought me joy as a teen.

all I can think right now is just how grateful I am for all of you. love y’all and hope the book brings you a smile or two 💕
April 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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✨ TRADE REVIEWS! ✨
as of now I've had four of them, and each had wonderful things to say! 😭 they called Pride or Die "witty" "clever" "comedic" "delightfully authentic" and full of "joyful queer chaos" which is so cool bc that was always the goal!
“A murder mystery without the murder, this debut hits all the right notes of the genre without being too formulaic. Witty, strongly characterized teens speak clearly about the forces they’re up against, with steadily developing action and believable red herrings. VERDICT: A swift and suspenseful mystery full of righteous anger, comedic cynicism, and queer joy in spite of small-minded attempts to suppress it." “The fast-paced plot and delicious mystery more than carry the narrative. A delicate queer romance that slowly blossoms throughout the story is the icing on the cake. [An] engaging queer not-so-murder mystery with a touch of humor and a splash of romance.” “In addition to modeling accountability reasonably and well, the teen characters are delightfully authentic down to the way they each message their group chat. Joyful queer chaos is present and accounted for throughout.” “Using arch prose, debut author Montblanc candidly depicts the queer protagonists’ experiences living ‘in a town full of ‘traditional’ families with bigoted values.’ An unlikely romance and splashes of gallows humor add playful energy to this clever mystery.”
April 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I always associate pivotal moments in my life with whichever memes were prominent at the time, meaning I'll forever remember my debut alongside 🤪 CHICKEN JOCKEYYY 😏 and that's pretty great
April 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM