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Meg Waite Clayton, Author
@megclayton.com
Author 9 novels, most recently the instant USA Today bestseller TYPEWRITER BEACH and the international bestsellers THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS and THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON. Knows the secret handshakes for NBCC, The Writers Lab, OpEd Project, CA Bar. #GoBlue!
August 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Gratitude to my writer friend @almakatsu.bsky.social for this Typewriter Beach shoutout!
July 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thank you to my writer pal, @wendytokunaga.bsky.social !
Fun to celebrate the release of "Typewriter Beach" by @MegClayton.com at Keplers in Menlo Park last night along with fellow authors @susannepari.bsky.social, @cynthiawgentry.bsky.social and @betsyfranco.bsky.social.
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July 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Meg Waite Clayton, Author
Can’t wait to dig into TYPEWRITER BEACH by @megclayton.com, one of my absolute favorite authors of historical fiction! (I didn’t wait to dig into the salted caramels…)
July 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
That thing where you open your Washington Post app to read the evening news and … woo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Thank you @washingtonpost.com and Kat Trigarszky!
5 works of historical fiction to read this summer
Our picks include new novels by Hazel Gaynor, Nell Stevens, Meg Waite Clayton, Norman Lock and Heather Clark.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Librarians rock! Thank you thank you thank you, @libraryreads.bsky.social , Virginia, Lainey and Grace at @librarylovefest.bsky.social and all the librarians all over the country for this love!
🎉 TYPEWRITER BEACH is on the July 2025 @libraryreads.bsky.social list! A big congratulations to
@megclayton.com!

@harperbooks.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Can you think of anyone who could use this free online @harvard.edu course? 😉

pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...
American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard University
Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
pll.harvard.edu
May 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Heads up: @barnesandnoble.com is running an exclusive preorder offer for their Premium & Rewards Members: 25% off TYPEWRITER BEACH from 4/23-4/25! Coupon code is PREORDER25 – grab yours today! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/typewriter...
April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’m a writer in part thanks to librarians who were so important to lonely 11-year-old me. Here’s my homage to them from the @kqednews.kqed.org @npr.org Great American Reads some years ago, and my photo from that library contest.

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek

www.kqed.org/perspectives...

#booksky
April 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Perhaps it’s a metaphor? Notre Dame, nearly burned to the ground, is rebuilt to be even more inspiring than I have ever seen it. It’s done inside… #paris #notredame #writinginspiration #inspiration #art
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Early copies of Typewriter Beach, which Publishers Weekly, in a STARRED review, calls “Irresistible… Readers will be riveted.” goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410280-typewriter-beach
Book giveaway for Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025. Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unf...
www.goodreads.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What are YOU doing on International Women’s Day? This is the view from London!
March 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Oh no. I studied under John Casey one year at the @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and learned so much. One story: his editor told him a novel was too long, so he revised…and made it longer, and then it wasn’t too long. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2... If you haven’t read him, start with Spartina.
John Casey, prize-winning novelist of ‘Spartina,’ dies at 86
He won the National Book Award for his novel, which one reviewer called “possibly the best American novel about going fishing since ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
And off we go to London! Good setting for a new book?!
February 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
So proud of this!

Opinion: In 2024, Hollywood managed to create at least one level playing field - Los Angeles Times

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

It’s a subject I plumb in the new novel—preorder at bit.ly/TB-BookPassage or bit.ly/TB-Keplers bit.ly/TB-Bookshop amzn.to/3YhZ25y or bit.ly/TB-BN
Opinion: Last year, Hollywood managed to create at least one level playing field
For the first time since researchers started counting, Hollywood's top-grossing movies featured the same number of male and female protagonists.
www.latimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Meg Waite Clayton, Author
NBCC member @megclayton.com's "Typewriter Beach" (Harper, July 1) was just named a Zibby Most Anticipated Book of 2025:
Typewriter Beach
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's...
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February 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just saw that Karen Solem died a few weeks ago. She was my first agent, when she was at Writers House before she started Spencer Hill, and such a sweetheart. Sigh.
February 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
HarperCollins is giving away 50—50!!!—advanced reader copies: bit.ly/TypewriterBeachGR

Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, TYPEWRITER BEACH is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.
February 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The speech I listed to today was so amazing.

Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
January 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Hanging out with Barbara Kingsolver and @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social — how fun is that?! bit.ly/TWSKindle
January 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Can you imagine a better birthday present?! Two days late but in today’s mail!!!Typewriter on the cover! Dang, this is when it begins to feel like a book.

These are advanced reader copies, but you can preorder hardcover, ebook or audio NOW at amzn.to/3YhZ25y bit.ly/TB-BN or your favorite store!!!
January 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
2nd pass pages. This is fun! Who wants to help me find typos? 😊
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Tell me you love the desk and typewriter they snuck in at the edge, #readersinthesky! Coming from @harpercollins.bsky.social July 1, 2025!

#authors #booksky #books #historicalfiction
November 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM