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Charlie Mawer's avatar

Marty pre-ordered! Your map alone looks stunning! Huge congrats in advance of the launch

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Claire Powell's avatar

Ahhhhhh!!!! HELLO CHARLIE!!!! Thank you for supporting me. Hope you're well xx

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Sofia Filipchuk's avatar

I am waiting for my Marty❤️🐾 and wish You strength and inspiration. Love Your work so much🤗

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Claire Powell's avatar

❤️❤️ You’re so kind and thanks for sending strength. I will suck it up like Voldemort 😂

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Sofia Filipchuk's avatar

😂✨

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Ella Beech's avatar

Congratulations on the book, Claire!! It will be gifted to nephews and nieces for sure!! It looks fab! And a debut of your very own - so exciting!! I relate to all of this SO HARD! Pre-publication (and post publication) marketing etc is absolute madness, and enough to send any old innocent children’s book author/illustrator quite bonkers! Good luck!! Xxx

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Claire Powell's avatar

Thank you Ella! Did you get my email a couple of weeks ago? No probs if you did and ignored it 😂 but wanted to check you did get it! Xx

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Ella Beech's avatar

No! Was it an invite? I’ll check…

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Claire Powell's avatar

Yes! To the launch :)

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Ella Beech's avatar

Ooh! Exciting! I just checked my email and it was I my junk!! Will message you! X

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Eva Lydon 🌺's avatar

I loved everything about this post Claire 👍🥰 Off to pre-order BOTH books! 🤗🎉

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Claire Powell's avatar

Thank you! Book two is out in the autumn 🍂

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Eva Lydon 🌺's avatar

Yep… looking forward to a nice surprise, when I will have inevitably forgotten about it by then! 🤦🏽‍♀️😆

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Michael C. Nachoff's avatar

Somewhere there is a garden store with a stellar herb section that will buy your POTSAGE stamp off of you! And congratulations on getting your work out there!

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Claire Powell's avatar

HAHAHA why didn’t I think of that! Off to local garden centres RIGHT THIS SECOND (I actually do need to go to one to return the broom I bought from them which fell apart the moment it touched a leaf 🍁😆)

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Amy Makechnie's avatar

😊😊😊😊 well…I think you have it covered. And it’s going to be amazing!

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Gillian McMurray's avatar

This was wonderful to read. It reminds me of me :D I hope all goes well with the book launch.

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Gunja Bhatt's avatar

What a lovely post to read what you go through when a book is coming out. I had hold my seat in anxiety dreaming of this. Wishing you all the very best for the book launch event. Let me know when and where is it happening, I'll spread the word if you want more people in there! :D And if possible I might join in, too. 🥳👍🏼

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Wendy Bowen's avatar

I loved reading this post ! It’s got my day off to the best start 💕 thank you ! (( now you’ve also made me continue debating if I should go to Bologna)

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Candy Gourlay's avatar

Congratulations!

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Helen Nesburg's avatar

When you mentioned that stamp I was like oh a fellow ADHD’er here 😅❤️

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Naomi Jones's avatar

Promoting books is definitely a full time job in itself!

James and I absolutely loved chatting to you and can't wait to share the interview soon over at Words and Pictures.

We hope you have a wonderful time in Bologna. I love it there!

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Emma Carpendale's avatar

Eek! Just reading your task list is making my palms sweat with anxiety! 😆 The book looks STUNNING Claire, you should be very proud.

Thank you for sharing those honest insights about your ADHD journey, I took the test on the app, it was very illuminating! 😳

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