Martha Wells

A little update

Hey, everybody! I hope you're all doing well and having the best holidays possible under the circumstances. 

If you haven't been following my Twitter (marthawells1) or dreamwidth blog (marthawells.dreamwidth.org/) for updates (or even if you have, I have been super terrible about keeping up with updates) , I finished a new fantasy novel called Witch King which will be published in 2023 from Tordotcom. I'm working on the next Murderbot novella (which will take place right after Netw...

Fantasy Story

Hi, everybody. Well, I couldn't get anything new done this month (I'm still trying to finish the new fantasy novel by the end of August) but here's an older sword and sorcery story that hasn't been reprinted anywhere. It's from a shared world fantasy anthology Beyond the Black Gate from 2012, that only had two volumes and not much distribution. But I really had fun with these two characters, so I hope you enjoy it.

Revenants

By Marth...

I messed up

Hey, everybody, I messed up and forgot to come here and push the button that tells Patreon to not bill Patrons for the month. (You can only turn off billing for one month at a time.) I always have it on my calendar but just screwed up and didn't do it. I didn't realize it until Patron paid out the money, so I can't just issue refunds. I apologize.

The thing I can do is come up with a story to post here sometime this coming month, so that's what I'll do. 

Anyway, sorry about t...

Update

Someone asked a question and it suddenly occurred to me I should share the answer with everybody!

Re: this Patreon: I want to keep the Raksura shorts available, but I'm not planning to add to it. If people want to quit, that's absolutely cool with me, if they want to stay so they can read the stories again, that's cool too. At this point I'm not planning on starting a Murderbot patreon and I'm continuing to turn off billing every month for this one.

New Short Story Online

I have a new fantasy story out called The Salt Witch https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-salt-witch/ 

It's about witches and ghosts and living with all the layers of  history, personal history and the history of your world. It took me a  year to write this story, and it's very personal to me, (the main  character is named after one of my aunts). It came from livin...

Quick post

Just to remind/let everybody know, the monthly payments for this Patreon are turned off for June, and I'm going to turn them off for July also. (Patreon only lets you do it for one month at a time.)

State of Me

Last week Network Effect was released and it was a trip. If the  pandemic hadn't happened I would have been about to leave on my first  ever book tour. Instead I got a virtual tour, which has been a lot of  fun so far. (If you missed it, you can still see me and N.K. Jemisin  here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/murderbot/register and me and John Scalzi here: 2020-05-10 13:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Murderbot Ebook Giveaway

https://www.tor.com/2020/04/20/download-all-4-murderbot-books-for-free-before-network-effect-arrives/ 

Murderbot’s first novel arrives on May 5th.

But before that happens, Tor.com Publishing and the Tor.com Ebook Club are giving away ALL FOUR PREVIOUS AND OFTEN TIMES AWARD-WINNING NOVELLAS!

Some JoCo Cruise videos

If you're bored, some videos of the JoCo Cruise I went on a few weeks ago are making their way online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9mYjJedVRQ This is a vlog that has highlights from my q and a session on the main stage and highlights of John Scalzi, N.K. Jemisin, and Rebecca Roanhorse, and bits from our panels. And she films parts of the ship and the food, etc.

2020-03-30 16:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Interview

If you missed the livestream, you can watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llu2nQI1USI 

Murderbot Interview

I will be on the Doubleclicks' livestream https://www.youtube.com/thedoubleclicks/live

today (Thursday, March 26) at 11:00 am PDT

We'll be talking about The Murderbot Diaries and I think it will be recorded somewhere if people miss the live version.

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Great article on the Books of the Raksura

Comfort, Connection, and Community in Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura by Kali Wallace
https://www.tor.com/2020/03/25/comfort-connection-and-community-in-martha-wells-books-of-the-raksura/

Billing Paused

Hey, everybody. I just figured out (from another Patreon creator) that I could pause my billing cycle but still allow you access to the content. So I've done that. (I should have done it earlier but I didn't realize it was an option.)  Anyway, I have to pause it on a month by month basis so I'll make myself a note to pause it for May 1 also. I'm doing okay, so I want people to save the money for other patreons who aren't doing so well.

And I'm still dealing with credit card issues ...

Super Fun Times

Well, here we are. I hope you all are doing well and able to stay at home without too much hardship.

I have too many paperback copies of The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths, so I'm doing a giveaway of five copies each. Comment here if you want one, and tell me which book, first come first served, until we run out.

Conditions: 

* You will need to message me your address, and yes, I'll ship world-wide.&...

Machina

Hey, all, I have been given 10 discount codes for Machina, the serial SF story I was a guest writer on for Serial Box.  https://www.serialbox.com/serials/machina The other writers are Fran Wilde, Malka Older, and Curtis C. Chen.

The codes are for 10% off, and I think the price for the whole thing right now is $9.99 (if you've never done Serial Box before here's the how to do it link: 2020-01-22 21:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Couple of Things

Today, I have a short story, "Obsolescence," in a new free collection called Take Us To A Better Place: Stories.
It's  a collection of original art and short stories commissioned by the  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with the goal of "using the power of  fiction to help us imagine, explore, and talk about what a culture of  health looks like and how to get there."
There's a forward and intro by Roxane Gay, and Pulitzer-prize winning Pam Belluck.
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