Hello, internet explorers!
Welcome to my website.
I'm Clara.
I am a reader first. I grew up reading above my grade level (my greatest accomplishment to this day) and from there, fictional stories were the backbone of my personality.Now after 25+ years of reading under my belt (fine... 20+ years of independent reading), I figured it's time to take the training wheels off and have a go at it myself.I draw from a unique background of experience (how unique depends on who you ask); I grew up an anxious immensely shy bookworm who never raised her hand at school, but was the leader at home as the eldest daughter to Iranian immigrant parents. As a teenager, I worked customer service, tutored on the side and finally after graduating from York University in Toronto, I dove headfirst into full time work in the corporate 9-5 marketing field. All this to say, it's a blessing that I get time to write.I live for the complexities of deciding what the point of life is (really what are we doing here), the power of female friendships, the ambition of an independent woman and also the hopeless romantic. There's so much that could go wrong, but then at the same time, there's so much beauty in it all. I like the simple little things and the way they make you think and feel. My favourite authors include Natalie sue, holly gramazio, Gabrielle Kevin, Alison espach and dolly alderton.
From the vault (aka books I wrote from the heart)
Trillion Trees - a speculative fiction novel I wrote after my first real heartbreak (I had lost hope) about a modern Earth in which convicts are left behind to plant trees while the rest of civilization vacates to Mars. Comparable to INSERT NAME
Bad Call - a sporty romance novel that I wrote out of pure spite because I was angry about an unreciprocated crush (I made him like me back in this book, although it's an enemy to friends ordeal so he might reject me in the sequel)
The Alignment - INSERT BLURB
Trillion Trees
Speculative Fiction | Completed (2023)
In a modern Earth abandoned for Mars, convicts are left behind as a final workforce to plant trees and restore the atmosphere. A high-concept story about survival, heartbreak, and ecological hope.
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That's all folks!
Honestly, all I want to do for every single hour of every single day for the rest of my life is write. That's probably why I have more notebooks in my room than matching socks.I just want to write.
Plain and simple.I wrote these stories because for a moment I was lost in their world and all my own stress, worries and anxieties all melted away. I get to dive into this new world and bend the stories to my whim. It's the most magical thing in the world. I hope to continue writing for as long as I live. So far I've only been fuelled by my own fun in this art and I hope that that continues to fuel me until my last breath. Do it for fun. Do everything for fun. Fun is all we got.
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