My media takeover continues! I was invited onto the Decoder Ring podcast to talk about how some made up conspiracy theory nonsense led to the demise of the once great Pumpkin Spice Latte recipe. Also…community, nostalgia, & loneliness. Listen here: slate.com/podcasts/dec...

I wrote an article about loneliness as a tool for creativity. Writer’s Digest published it. www.writersdigest.com/the-nature-a...

It’s my pub day!!! I’m returning to nonfiction with my new audiobook, Where Did Everybody Go?,! Buying on @libro.fm now through 11/13 gets you an invite to my digital launch party, in conversation with @abbycox.bsky.social! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

I wrote an article for Katie Couric Media about loneliness, fascism, and front doors. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

🎃 CHICAGO READERS!! 🎃 Come join me and Miranda Sun TONIGHT at The Book Stall at 6:30! I am giving away Tacita’s Heart! (The anatomical heart 🫀 wax melts I made in collaboration with The Librarian’s Candle Co. that smell like Foxfire). thebookstall.com/event/2025-1...

Want to read a Harry Potter alternative about queer witches? Are you tempted by Prime Day deals, but don’t want to support an evil corporation? @bookshop_org is having an Anti-Prime Day sale! IT ENDS TODAY!!! Might I suggest Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire? bookshop.org/p/books/veri...

Agent friends: I zoomed through the audiobook of VERITY VOX AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE this weekend and it was great and had everything I want in a YA fantasy. Cool witchy magic! A fun voice! Cozy, but still important stakes! SAPPHIC!!! If you have anything like this, send it my way? :) #MSWL

Signed a fresh stack of books at Anderson’s Bookshop! I know a lot of these are for backorders, but they also have some left if you’re looking for a signed copy! Any copy of Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire purchased through them will be signed! andersonsbookshop.com/book/9798890...

So I just found out Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire did get another starred review of a sort. Common Sense Media gave us a 5 star review and named Verity Vox to their Common Sense Selection for teens: www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews...

This Friday, one night only! I'm talking with @bydonmartin.bsky.social about his new bestselling book, Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, and YA lit with @ryanlasala.bsky.social and @claribelortega.com. Join us, because I've been married for a week and I will be RUNNING back home the next day.

🚨EMERGENCY UPDATE ABOUT MY PANEL AT STRAND IN NYC🚨 IT IS NOT SOLD OUT! The website mistakenly made it look like the event was sold out so nobody was buying tickets. THERE ARE LOTS OF TICKETS AND BOOKS LEFT SO IF YOU ARE IN NYC PLEASE COME SEE ME NEXT FRIDAY! www.eventbrite.com/e/ya-panel-d...

Forgotten History: the Vulcan, West Virginia bridge collapse and how it inspired Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Qqp2kd/

Author @bydonmartin.bsky.social graces the @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social podcast as The Bradberry of Tullagherin  pod.link/1611976417 Don's new Young Adult Fantasy novel Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire is out now!  Find Verity Vox and the Curse on Don Martin's website bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1

@bydonmartin.bsky.social talks about why representation in books matters and why all magic kids deserve magic stories 📚💖✨ If you want to help WNDB send magic stories (like Don's!) to trans & nonbinary youth, consider supporting our new bookish care package initiative: 🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/MagicCarePackages

'There is a quietude that invades spaces where deeply personal secrets have been recently divulged. To tie it to a feeling, to say it is sad, or it is awkward, or it is worrying, is to try and tie up the wind with a handkerchief. It is insufficient.' - @bydonmartin.bsky.social #VerityVox

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT AUDIO BOOK!!!!! by @bydonmartin.bsky.social reading by jennifer hale on audible #amreading #ya youtube.com/shorts/kHaz_...

Oh…you’re here. I was definitely ready for you! Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire is AVAILABLE NOW! bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1

Announcing the tour schedule for Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire! There might still be one last little event or two upcoming, but as far as major city bookstore tour appearances go this is it! Hope to see you out there! This is my very first book tour! AHHHHHHHH

AHHH just got this email from the library! 🥳

If a poet wrote a novel, it might sound like this. Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire comes out August 5th! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT62D3uG7/

Quick reminder that if you are looking for SIGNED COPIES of Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, the best way to do that is to pre-order with Anderson's Bookshop! You get a signed copy + lots of other goodies! andersonsbookshop.com/book/9798890...

I do scarves and blankets to donate once someone contributed yarn by giving me her late mom's knitting bag I couldn't bring myself to tear up all of the stuff so I made a thing where the mom knit stuff were cocoons and her needles were the branches re: podcast convo cc: @bydonmartin.bsky.social

✨New Patreon Ep✨ @ianxcarlos.bsky.social + @theadamsass.bsky.social revisit Buffy's "Restless" for the ep's 25th w ‪@bydonmartin.bsky.social‬ @michaelvarrati.bsky.social @iannitram.bsky.social‬ +Sabrina Sub to our Royalty tier+ up to watch the 3hr deep dive vid rec: www.patreon.com/posts/131976...

Things my fact checker had to verify for my upcoming audiobook Where Did Everybody Go? To which bathhouse did James Baldwin bring Marlon Brando? Did Jason Bourne ever use a fork as a weapon? Exactly how many enzymes are in buffalo saliva that improve the regrowth rate and viability of grass?

Just added new tour dates! So far you can catch me all over Chicago, St. Louis, West Virginia, Boston, NYC, Baltimore, with more dates coming in DC, California, Austin and beyond! Find a stop near you on my Events Calendar! bydonmartin.com/events

I just got the greenlight to announce who the mystery voice is that is narrating Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire. I’ll be announcing it in just over an hour over on @blerdwithoutfear.bsky.social’s YT channel.

What even is pop culture anymore? with Nadira Goffe youtu.be/_J_GXDkn_PQ

EVERYONE MEET VERITY & TACITA! The voice and heart of Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire! My friends at Anderson’s Bookshop are hosting a preorder giveaway! andersonsbookshop.com/book/9798890...

Y’all sick of me and my gay books yet? Because the preorder link for my new audiobook WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO? just hit Libro.FM and all your favorite audiobook services. Or request it from your local library! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Every time you comment “who is here from Booktok” or “you summoned Booktok” or “where my Booktok girlies at” under a mediocre white man’s thirst trap you have to buy a book by a living marginalized author published in the last 3 years. These are the new rules.

Oh good… the weird homophobes that equate queerness with CSA found out I wrote a YA novel and have immediately proceeded to be incredibly normal about it.

Never getting over this: www.publishersweekly.com/9798890032706

late night reading 🖤 I can’t tell you how much joy this upcoming book by @bydonmartin.bsky.social is bringing me. It’s been a while since I’ve felt truly captivated by a novel…let alone a novel about Witches. But this is like stepping into a world that feels…familiar? Like going home.

applying for jobs again

Help! I swear I had an article somewhere in my notes about how The Center in NYC began life as a bathhouse. I…cannot find it now and though I see the information affirmed in previews of a number of articles when I go to read them it is no longer there. (Or Google is now hallucinating things.)

Heyyyyyyyy fellow gays…. Now that it’s Pride Eve remember WE are not shopping at Target either. (You were supporting the boycott this whole time, right? RIGHT???) Use the @everywhereisqueer.bsky.social app and find somewhere else to spend your money.

My publisher is saying the words “promo” at me a lot and prodding me to put myself forward for podcasts. Would you be open to having me on your show in the coming months to talk about Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire? I’m available in May/June! You can reach out here: bydonmartin.com/contact

Just a quick reminder for any duckies who want to meet me and hear me talk about Hollis! There are still a few tickets left! Tickets and info here: andersonsbookshop.com/event/2025-0...

[Not] Hypothetically if I were to do some traveling to promote Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, would you come see me? Definitely Chicago & West Virginia (Huntington, Charleston). Also looking at NYC & mayyyyyybe LA. Possibly Dallas or Austin as well. Would you come? If so, where?

Some thoughts on platform, context, and that Mein Kampf book lady.

Barnes & Noble Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off all pre-orders from April 23rd through 25th! Premium Members get an additional 10% off! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/verity-vox...

The new photos update for iPhone lets you use pretty much whatever language you want to search your own photos. So if I search for “shirtless selfies” I know exactly how vain I am, and how vain I’ve progressively become over the years.

Ask and he shall receive

In order for you to have escapist literature, someone else needed to want to escape. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRABVSF/

Author Media Training 101 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJ4StAF/

I'm so excited to announce that THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN's release event will be hosted by Anderson's Bookshop! I'll be joining forces with @bydonmartin.bsky.social author of the upcoming witchy wonder 'Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire'. Ticket info below!

I hung out* with Judy Blume to talk about Florida’s latest book banning attempt via HB 1539. *not a chance she knew I was there or that I exist, but honestly that’s for the best because I would melt if perceived by the Queen www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2KTF7kS/