BRUNO MARTINS SOARES

Claire is a multihyphenate who works as a writer, story editor and producer.Her first novel, At Last Count, was released by Invisible Publishing in June, 2022, and is available at bookstores around the world. At Last Count was finalist in the 2025 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Romance category, and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022. It was a summer reads pick by the Toronto Star, a CanLit book club pick by Zoomer magazine, an Editors’ Pick by 49th Shelf, and has been featured on CBC’s Ontario Morning, Global TV, the Kingston-Whig Standard, Amherst Island Radio, Mix 97, and elsewhere.  Claire has presented the book at the Manitoulin NorthWords Festival and at the Vancouver Writers Fest alongside authors Elif Batuman and Meira Cook. An audiobook is available.Claire’s second book, Lost In France, is a contemporary romance published by Alcove Press, and distributed by Penguin Random House. It will be published on June 23, 2026, and in May 2027, will be published by Bedford Sauare publishers in the UK.