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Happy Happy release day @marthawells.com !

Oh hey please subscribe I talk about writing, media, tea and various other things catching my fancy (and to everyone who remained subscribed while it lay fallow, thank you SO MUCH).

unfortunately there is no way to be so crystal clear that someone can't wilfully misinterpret you, the moment you put pen to paper to say "weekends are great" you almost guarantee that someone is going to come at you 10 years later screaming "you said paprika vampires are real so I killed my uncle"

There are a few signed copies of RAKESFALL you can get for supporting The Deadlands! psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!

New @marthawells.com novel. Hold my calls. #queendemon #squee

Hey folks I'm still short. Automatic payment didn't go through and now the clock is ticking and I'm kind of freaking out? I don't currently have any outstanding work that I can invoice or new work lined up. If you can help out I would really appreciate it and so would my cats. PayPal.me/fringee

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Tomorrow (Tuesday Oct 7) in Washington DC:

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

People! PEOPLE! @marthawells.com new book Queen Demon comes out tomorrow and I've got the audiobook on preorder and I am SO FREAKIN' EXCITED!!1! If you haven't read Witch King and love smart fantasy adventure with incredible worldbuilding (and a great narrator if you like audiobooks), try it!

With The Summer War, Naomi Novik returns to the fairy-tale atmospheres of Uprooted and Spinning Silver, delivering a short, lyrical novella about violence and power: reactormag.com/book-review-...

Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike books are investigating a TV adaptation 🔎 reactormag.com/robin-steven...

Tour dates and stops:

Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong. It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org! You can check out the list here: bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Tour dates and stops:

In case anyone else is like me and went looking for her tour dates/locations, you can find them here! us.macmillan.com/tours/martha...

This month's Tales from the Underpaid is about the haunted Home Depot where I used to work. Ghost story time! My newsletter is free, and 2025 has been stories from shitty jobs. Next year's theme will be announced soon! buttondown.com/megelison/ar...

I'm on tour! A blog tour and the first stop is Read Your Writes Book Review. Stop by and learn more about my latest release, Fabricated and enter the giveaway! readyourwrites.blogspot.com/2025/10/fabr... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #NewRelease #Giveaway

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Got up at 4 am to get to the first flight of the book tour on time. My back is not cooperating, but I’m looking forward to Boston today.

oh this is cool. If you're on the fence about getting my new Gothic romance ALL OF US MURDERERS (out tomorrow!) you can read the first two chapters here! Scary house / flickering gaslight / ghosts??? / terrible family secrets / gay second chance romance / hero with ADHD / Gothic nonsense

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"The proliferation of AI is an impending threat to travel."

A four post thread, eloquently reflecting my feelings, along with just about every author I know.

New YOTM blurb from @kateelliottsff.bsky.social !

On @ouropinions.bsky.social this week, we've got pumpkin season book recommendations and an amazing tale of science, hellbenders, and predator-phobia.

Help a buddy out right now?

Idk whose job this is but: do tag me into any discussions surrounding writing Expedition IP pls thx www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/margeaux-p...

UK friends, don't forget to pick up a copy of FIEND

Malka Older’s podcast is a Terrific, interesting podcast about real people doing essential work around disaster preparedness and sci-fi. Fascinating stuff.

Somersaulting in here to be like "There are war pteranodons in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but those are the least of everybody's problems for most of the book" :D

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11 artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Learning from history: In 1944 when Homer Rainey was fired, students went on strike and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11 artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

If you're in the following cities, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I are coming to a bookstore near you soon: New York, Atlanta, WDC, Houston, Portland, Boulder, and San Diego. Plus, a virtual event! See all the details here: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/appr... @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

"So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing." “Exit Strategy” Martha Wells @marthawells.com #SundaySentence 💙📚

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

Again: Marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the spread of "AI" because the people who use it are essentially being trained to think the machine is "like us" & can speak "for us," even as it simultaneously pressures you to disbelieve *Actual Us* when we tell you "it's not & it cant."

Thinking about the way (white) fans of The Murderbot Diaries missed the fact that it’s a slave narrative until @marthawells.com started saying, “IT’S A SLAVE NARRATIVE” in interviews.

This Oct, as a breast cancer survivor in treatment since 2021, I'm doing a thread on stuff I wish I'd been told. I'll update as I go, but the first thing I'll share is every person's body & treatment is different. Some fear symptoms or side effects they might never get. Don't be afraid to fight 1/3

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

This is the most amazing bit of cross-cultural mythmaking ever. I wonder if this was inspired by myths of Talos? Anyhow, I am very sorry that the secretive guild of ancient Roman robot engineers never existed, though pleased they were appropriately unionized.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Two of the limited edition tiers are already sold out!