Martha Wells

16. Stone and Cloud: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony

(Note: this is the first part of a multi-part Stone and Azure story I'll continue in the next couple of Patreon posts, depending on how long it turns out.)

Most of the time, Stone didn't remember there had been a time without Azure.<...

Update

Just a note, I'll be at Comicpalooza in Houston this week, so the next Raksura story (#16) will be posted on June 28.

15. Moon and Celadon at Indigo Cloud

Celadon asked, "Did you ever remember anything else?"

Moon shrugged his spines. He said, "No, nothing," and hoped she dropped the subject.

They we...

14. Malachite and the Sky Copper Clutch at Indigo Cloud

Frost didn't understand why the teachers were all so agitated. Queens had visited the Indigo Cloud nurseries before. Jade and Pearl, of course, but once Zephyr from Sunset Water. It was nothing new. And Frost was a queen, and so were Solace, Sapphire...

Schedule Update

Just a note, everybody, that the next Raksura story will be posted on May 24th. That will give me a bit more time to work on it.  The next novel, The Harbors of the Sun, is due on June 1, so the last half of this month is going to be a bi...

13. Jade and Balm: at the Court of Opal Night

Jade said, "So, that...  Didn't go like I thought it would."

Balm had to agree. They had assumed Malachite was just a queen trying to get an advantage over another court. They had been so wrong, so stupidly blind.  Balm blamed herself...

12. Teaching the Fledglings to Hunt: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches

Moon always took the Sky Copper clutch out himself. Not that he didn't trust the Arbora and warriors, but he hadn't been much older than Thorn when he had first learned to hunt and he thought that insight might make it easier to teach the cl...

11. Moon and Stone, Crossing the Southern Drylands

They had been flying all night, taking advantage of a strong south wind, and Moon was relieved when Stone circled down to the valley. It wasn't an ideal place to stop and rest, but at least it was there.

The terrain was mostly barren sandy grou...

Crosspost From the Blog: Raksura Week

(Since this is the release week for The Edge of Worlds, I'm cross-posting this.  I'll be posting new eleventh story snippet here tomorrow, April 5.)

(Raksura week: It's like Shark Week, but not as commercially successful.)

Th...

10. Jade in the Golden Isles: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony

Jade took one last look at Moon. He lay sprawled face-down on a low couch in the center of the open court, his hair still wet with saltwater. The white clay walls reflected the sun and made the court baking hot, perfect for half-drowned Raksura. Jade...

9. Tempest and Ember: At the Indigo Cloud Court

Bark and the other Arbora arranged the bower and the tea set as if Ember's life depended on it, and it took Ember several tries to shoo them out. "She's my birthqueen," he reminded Bark. "It's too late for me to impress her."

   &nbs...

Some Notes

For people who don't follow my blog, I wanted to post this here too: 

I'll be doing a signing for The Edge of Worlds at Murder by the Book in Houston, TX, on Saturday April 9 at 4:30, where I'll be co-signing with J. Kathleen C...

8. Jade and Balm: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony

Jade climbed down the wall toward the garden of the teachers' court. She stopped above the doorway, clinging to the stones of the vine-covered lintel. She could hear the Arbora inside talking in confusion, excitement, dism...

7. Bramble and Rill: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches

"Rill, are you down there?" Bramble called. She stood in one of the large curving wells in the bottom of the tree, below the work areas and store rooms. The walls here had no carving, the wood left rough, and the floors hadn't been smoothed. But the ...

6. The Death of Dash: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches

Moon was warm and buried under the blankets, Jade curled around him, when

someone said quietly, "Jade?"

Jade sat up and leaned over the side of the hanging bed. Still half asleep, Moon shoved himself up to see it was Blossom, standing bel...

5. Jade and Balm: in the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony

Balm looked up as Jade dropped into her bower from the ledge above. Her expression and the angle of her spines made what had happened plain, but Balm said, "I guess Pearl wouldn't change her mind?"

"No." Jade's spines twitched as she paced. The...

4. Moon and Stone: the Time of the Eastern Colony

Flying over the plain was hypnotic, the wind sending waves and ripples through the tall grass like a deep green dryland sea. The day was so dreamlike, seeing the sky start to darken toward sunset was almost a surprise.

They had been ...

I want to thank everybody again for supporting this Patreon.  I'm scheduled to get the roof leak fixed tomorrow, and this really helped make that possible.

The next snippet post should be on December 22, and please feel free to keep making...

3. Moon and Chime: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches

Moon had one of those questions. It was something that seemed obvious to him, but knowing how tricky Raksuran customs, particularly Aeriat customs, could be,

he decided to ask Chime about it. "When I give Jade something, is there anything I should...

Thanks for the wonderful comments!  I'm glad you guys liked it. Though I do want to come up with some snippets that are more up beat.

For December I should be posting snippets on the 8th and 22nd.

2. Things Left Behind: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches

Note: This is set between The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths

"We knew there was a block somewhere around here," Snap said as he led Moon and Chime down the spiraling ramp.

Moon was willing to look at whateve...

Thank you all for the comments!  This is fun. :)

I'm thinking at this point that the second snippet should be ready to post on November 17th.

1. Stone and Cloud: In the Time of Umber Shadow

Cloud woke slowly, conscious only of being curled on a fur pallet in a warm bower. After days of tense, rapid travel through the suspended forest, with only brief stops for exhausted sleep in the rain on marshy platforms, it was a luxury. Still drows...

I just wanted to update everyone and let you know I'm almost done with the first snippet, and I'll be posting it here on Tuesday, November 3.  Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks so much to everyone who signed up! The response to this has been awesome and I really appreciate it.  Thanks to everyone for all the kind words in your comments.

We hit both goals, so I'll be doing two new snippets per month, st...

Okay, here we go! I'm still figuring out how this works, but I'll start working on the first snippet post and we can go from there.  At some point maybe we can figure out extras and rewards and things like that that people might be interested in...