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 i...
2021-12-02 13:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi, 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 fant...
2021-07-27 14:18:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey, 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 d...
2021-07-05 12:49:46 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone 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 coo...
2021-03-25 16:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostI have a new fantasy story out called The Salt Witch https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-salt-witch/
It's about witches and ghosts...
2020-12-02 14:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostJust 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.)
2020-05-24 15:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostLast 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 ...
2020-05-10 13:41:29 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.tor.com/2020/04/20/download-all-4-murderbot-books-for-free-before-network-e...
2020-04-20 14:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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 i...
2020-03-30 16:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf you missed the livestream, you can watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llu2nQI1USI
2020-03-26 20:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostI will be on the Doubleclicks' livestream https://www.youtube.com/thedoubleclicks/live
today (Thursday, March 26) at 11:00 am PDT
We'll be ta...
2020-03-26 17:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostComfort, Connection, and Community in Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura by Kali Wallace
2020-03-25 15:15:21 +0000 UTC
View Post
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...
2020-03-20 12:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostWell, 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 e...
2020-03-16 15:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey, 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 2020-01-22 21:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 th...
Just found out I can talk about this now -- there will be an audiobook of The Harbors of the Sun!
The publisher finally got Audible to do it and finish off the series! We've asked for Christopher Kipiniak to be the narrator again but I don't...
2019-11-19 23:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I just lost the first version of this post so I see Patreon hasn't changed a bit. Let's try again.
It's funny that Thank You, Patrons Day is on the same day as the mass market release of The Cloud Roads. Anyway, thank you all! 2019-11-19 18:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Network Effect cover reveal and excerpt: https://io9.gizmodo.com/weve-got-the-exclusive-cover-reveal-and-opening-lines-o...
2019-09-16 22:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostWorldCon Day 2 and 3 https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/484465.html
WorldCon Day 4 and 5 2019-09-03 12:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, everybody, I've been doing some WorldCon posts over on my blog:
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/483743.html About the Raksura Colony Tree Communit...
2019-08-31 00:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo I was at ArmadilloCon this weekend and it was awesome! Even more awesome than it usually is.
I was Special Guest this year and had a lot of programming, especially on Saturday, including an hour interview (conducted by the lovely Je...
2019-08-06 01:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostUpcoming Conventions
* August 2-4, 2019. I'll be Special Guest at ArmadilloCon in Austin, TX.
I just finished a draft of The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect. This is the first time I think I almost cried at finishing a novel, not because it was sad, but because I am so fucking relieved to be done. It took about...
2019-05-22 13:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you know, I have problems with anxiety and it's been really bad lately. This book has been a bear to write and even now that I'm past the difficult bits and am finishing up, my brain refuses to believe it's possible to...
2019-05-16 12:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostEverybody, I think I am going to have to discontinue this Patreon, As far as stress goes, I am about at the end of my rope, and I feel terrible that I can't continue to add stories and content here.
I'm not going to delete it any...
2019-04-18 14:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quickie post:
The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition is a Hugo finalist in the Best Novella category!!
This is pretty awesome news and I'm extremely happy to be nominated.
Thanks to my ag...
2019-04-02 20:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis is so cool! I saw this on File770 yesterday. Someone is doing a community art project for the WorldCon in Dublin, making a knitted diorama of the platform of a mountain-tree.
When Moon, Chime, and Root didn't come back when the others did, Jade wasn't worried. She had spent the day at their camp on the mountain-tree platform because she needed the time, and she assumed Moon did as well. After the tor...
2019-03-02 19:22:02 +0000 UTC View Posteh asked I'm rereading the Raksura series and I'm currently on The Siren Depths (my favorite). I love the scenes at Viridean Sea - the other consorts are so kind to Moon. Will he ever get to see them again? And is the interest they took ...
2019-02-19 00:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post