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!
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April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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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
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek
www.kqed.org/perspectives...
#booksky
April 8, 2025 at 4:23 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
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek
www.kqed.org/perspectives...
#booksky
… but still a work in progress outside.
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
… but still a work in progress outside.
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
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
What are YOU doing on International Women’s Day? This is the view from London!
March 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What are YOU doing on International Women’s Day? This is the view from London!
And off we go to London! Good setting for a new book?!
February 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
And off we go to London! Good setting for a new book?!
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.
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
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.
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.
The speech I listed to today was so amazing.
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
January 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The speech I listed to today was so amazing.
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
Hanging out with Barbara Kingsolver and @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social — how fun is that?! bit.ly/TWSKindle
January 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hanging out with Barbara Kingsolver and @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social — how fun is that?! bit.ly/TWSKindle
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!!!
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
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!!!
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!!!
2nd pass pages. This is fun! Who wants to help me find typos? 😊
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 AM
2nd pass pages. This is fun! Who wants to help me find typos? 😊
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
#authors #booksky #books #historicalfiction
November 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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
#authors #booksky #books #historicalfiction
Breath out. No blue sky in Carmel-by-the-Sea today (except this place, of course), but the mist was so ethereally gorgeous that I have to share.
November 24, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Breath out. No blue sky in Carmel-by-the-Sea today (except this place, of course), but the mist was so ethereally gorgeous that I have to share.
(Also sometimes messier)
November 18, 2024 at 4:41 AM
(Also sometimes messier)
And then some:
November 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
And then some:
I’m reading poetry still:
November 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM
I’m reading poetry still:
5 Women. 5 Writers. 5 Friends.
• EW 25 Essential Best Friend Books of all time
• New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestseller
•Target stores “Best of Book Club”
bit.ly/TWSKindle
bit.ly/TWS-Nook
bit.ly/TWS-Kobo
bit.ly/TWS-AppleBook
• EW 25 Essential Best Friend Books of all time
• New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestseller
•Target stores “Best of Book Club”
bit.ly/TWSKindle
bit.ly/TWS-Nook
bit.ly/TWS-Kobo
bit.ly/TWS-AppleBook
February 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
5 Women. 5 Writers. 5 Friends.
• EW 25 Essential Best Friend Books of all time
• New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestseller
•Target stores “Best of Book Club”
bit.ly/TWSKindle
bit.ly/TWS-Nook
bit.ly/TWS-Kobo
bit.ly/TWS-AppleBook
• EW 25 Essential Best Friend Books of all time
• New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestseller
•Target stores “Best of Book Club”
bit.ly/TWSKindle
bit.ly/TWS-Nook
bit.ly/TWS-Kobo
bit.ly/TWS-AppleBook
There is a lot to unpack f/the National Book Awards last night but I’m curious. I haven’t seen a mention no female winners. Have you?
A 2014 Ron Charles @washingtonpost.com piece included this chart suggesting women were making progress. Are we still?
(Rita Dove did receive Lifetime Achievement)
A 2014 Ron Charles @washingtonpost.com piece included this chart suggesting women were making progress. Are we still?
(Rita Dove did receive Lifetime Achievement)
November 16, 2023 at 12:28 PM
There is a lot to unpack f/the National Book Awards last night but I’m curious. I haven’t seen a mention no female winners. Have you?
A 2014 Ron Charles @washingtonpost.com piece included this chart suggesting women were making progress. Are we still?
(Rita Dove did receive Lifetime Achievement)
A 2014 Ron Charles @washingtonpost.com piece included this chart suggesting women were making progress. Are we still?
(Rita Dove did receive Lifetime Achievement)
So this happened — and while I was here to see it!
October 28, 2023 at 7:28 PM
So this happened — and while I was here to see it!
That thing where you find a lovely 39:21 minute video of the inside of your pocket…
Tell me that’s not just me?
Tell me that’s not just me?
October 21, 2023 at 7:43 PM
That thing where you find a lovely 39:21 minute video of the inside of your pocket…
Tell me that’s not just me?
Tell me that’s not just me?
Morning in Paris. Who wants coffee at our place?
October 17, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Morning in Paris. Who wants coffee at our place?
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Louise Glück has passed away.
I’m reading “Evening Star” this morning in her memory. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
If you have a poem or two of hers you love, please point me to them?
Thank you.
I’m reading “Evening Star” this morning in her memory. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
If you have a poem or two of hers you love, please point me to them?
Thank you.
October 14, 2023 at 6:50 AM
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Louise Glück has passed away.
I’m reading “Evening Star” this morning in her memory. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
If you have a poem or two of hers you love, please point me to them?
Thank you.
I’m reading “Evening Star” this morning in her memory. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
If you have a poem or two of hers you love, please point me to them?
Thank you.
What the heck kinda drugs is the Eiffel Tower on tonight? It’s been sparkling randomly for more than its allotted 5 minutes on the hour all night!
October 12, 2023 at 8:13 PM
What the heck kinda drugs is the Eiffel Tower on tonight? It’s been sparkling randomly for more than its allotted 5 minutes on the hour all night!