JJ Clapton
@jjclapton
Reader. Writer. Crafter 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇮🇨 Chronically ill. Queer. Autistic Agender, bi, ace, & aro-spec ME/CFS, cats, crochet, f1, SFF books, Lego, diamond painting ✍️📚: A Stage Over Ruthless Stars, Fight for me, & Haunting of a Witch (Oct 26) jjclapton.com
Nonfiction book: Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the worlds greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Was interesting to read the differences between the real account and the TV show. Also horrifying how many people that were just sacrificed to clean it all up
Fiction book: Worst case scenario by TJ Newman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’m just reading all this authors thrillers about plane crashes & being concerned they were a flight attendant. But they’re great Amusingly this book is about a plane crash into a nuclear plant & my next book came in from hold while reading it👀
Fiction book: Eternal sonata by Jamie Metzl DNF @20% I wanted to like this as it sounded like a really interesting premise but um, all the characters were just really badly written 😭 I tried.
Documentary: Documentary: Murdaugh murders season 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It left out so much? Having read a book about it before this, it just felt very shallow. I know there is a second season but meh Is season 2 better?
June! Fiction book: Drowning by TJ Newman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of those kind of ridiculously set up thrillers with a count down that you can consume in one sitting 👍🏻 perfect
I wrote a book with an MC just like me. #pwME Haunting of a Witch by JJ Clapton will be released on October 1st 2026. This severe ME day it would be great if you could add it to your goodreads, preorder the ebook or request your library to buy a copy. 💙📚🌈
Movie: Puss in boots: the last wish ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Another family fun film while dad was away. Who doesn’t love puss in boots. Cats are so cute.
Nonfiction book: Devil at his Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the fall of a southern dynasty by Valerie Bauerlin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This case is everywhere lately. There were so many books on it to choose from but this was the one my library had available. Once again a story about rich people being fucking corrupt
Documentary: The Armstrong Lie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ He’s a little shit. But also apparently most of them were? But just looking you straight in the eye and lying. I actually don’t care about cycling but this was interesting enough.
Movie: Zootopia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I know I’m late on this but dad was back in England for cancer treatment so I was picking fun family films for me and mum to watch and this was perfect. I love all the little bunny mannerism. So cute!
Nonfiction book: Trapped under the sea: one engineering marvel, five men and a disaster ten miles into darkness by Neil swidey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kudos to the cave divers who went in because nope. But also corporate greed is so infuriating! Even when they doing something good like cleaning the environment!
Rocky is not interested in the football but she is interested in sleeping beside me while I watch it.
Last call! ARCS are available for Haunting of a Witch. My sapphic disabled witch book coming October2026. If you are interested the form is below! It’ll make my week! 💙📚🌈
I am very sick and should be doing more promoting but here is an awesome bundle combining both Pride with disability pride 🌈 We exist without permission is a bundle of queer disabled stories. 25 books by queer disabled authors for just $25!
Me, trying to choose yarn colours online like: (Ps genuinely these are different colour options)
TV: The twisted tale of Amanda Knox ⭐️ DNF after half an episode🙀 I’ve watched documentaries on this before so I thought it would be interesting but it felt really kitschy & fun teen drama? Like an episode of Emily in Paris or something? I noped out quickly. It felt v weird. Does it get better?
May time! At some point I’ll catch up enough to actually post as I’m consuming 😅 Nonfiction book: We have your daughter: the unsolved murder of Jonbenet Ramsey by Paula Woodward ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A very biased account and very funnily refers to her own research as official files throughout 🙄
It’s my birthday which means A LOT of yummy food. (Waiting for the Chinese takeaway for dinner to arrive) But also. I got these aluminium wall poster boards of my book covers 😍 temporarily situated in the living room until someone can be bothered to hang them in my study They look so cool 🙀
A Stage Over Ruthless Stars is a YA sci-fi thriller set at a space station circus during a big tech competition. Two ex bestfriends team up to enter but competitors start dying & they might be next. Aro rep & QPR 🌈 (As well as chronic illness & ND rep) Buy links & full blurb: jjclapton.com/books/
Went out for brunch today. It was absolutely delicious. Pancakes were so fluffy! Yum ! Now I am exhausted though. Psssh. Hate having ME.
Nonfiction book: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the mind of an American family by Robert Kolker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Twelve kids, six diagnosed with schizophrenia and how their lives played out. The abuse and neglect.
TV show: The Pitt: Season two ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not as good as season one but still very good.
Nonfiction book: We Breed Lions: Confronting Canadas Troubled Hockey Culture by Rick Westhead ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have actually never read anything this horrific before? Holy shit. WTF Every chapter was just me staring horrified. Everything the players themselves went through and what the players did too.
Games: Subnautica: Below Zero - Switch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I absolutely loved the first Subnautica game so was very excited to start this one.
Film: War Machine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The absolute whiplash of reading The Fort Bragg Cartel about all the bad shit special forces do at the same time as watching this film about how amazing they are at saving the world 😅😂
Non fiction book: The Fort Bragg Cartel: drug trafficking and murder in the special forces by Seth Harp ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Very belated April update! Games: 🎮Pokémon legends Arceus - switch lite re-play through I completed the Pokédex! I caught them all! Wooo. I didn’t actually complete it the first time so that’s very cool.
ONE WEEK until the cover reveal for my upper YA witch book: Haunting of a Witch!! 🌈📚💙 Featuring: 🌈Sapphic love 👩🦽➡️Chronically ill MC 🩸Haunted house 👻Violent, unstable ghost best friend 🔪Trapped hopeless housebound feeling 👿Ableism & discrimination 💚Friendship & belonging Cover Reveal on June 1st!🎉🎉🎉