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 nov...
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 fantasy anthology Beyond the Black Gate from 2012, that only had two volumes and not much distr...
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 do it. I didn't realize it until Patron paid out the money, so I can't just issue refunds. I apologiz...
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 cool with me, if they want to stay so they can read the stories again, that's cool too. At this point I...
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 and living with all the layers of history, personal history and the history of your world. It...
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 you missed it, you can still see me and N.K. Jemisin here: 2020-05-10 13:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Murderbot’s first novel arrives on May 5th.
But ...
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 is a vlog that has highlights from my q and a session on the main stage and highlights of John Scalzi...
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 talking about The Murderbot Diaries and I think it will be recorded somewhere if people miss ...
2020-03-26 17:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostComfort, 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-raksu...
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...
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 each. Comment here if you want one, and tell me which book, first come first served, until w...
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 The other writers are Fran Wilde, Malka Older, and Curtis C. Chen.
The codes are for 10% off...
2020-01-22 21:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostToday, 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 cultu...
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 know if they've got him. It depends on his availability and I haven't heard anything.
I'll po...
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!
Here's some links for the new edition. The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths should be out in mas...
2019-11-19 18:31:32 +0000 UTC View PostNetwork Effect cover reveal and excerpt: https://io9.gizmodo.com/weve-got-the-exclusive-cover-reveal-and-opening-lines-o-1838069621
Ireland Trip Day 7 2019-09-16 22:12:05 +0000 UTC View Post
WorldCon Day 2 and 3 https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/484465.html
WorldCon Day 4 and 5 https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/484729.html
WorldCon, Now...
2019-09-03 12:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everybody, I've been doing some WorldCon posts over on my blog:
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/483743.html About the Raksura Colony Tree Community Art Project
So 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 Jessica Reisman) and an hour reading (I read from Network Effect and then answered questions)...
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.
* August 15-19, 2019. I'll be a panelist at WorldCon Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.
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 18 months, with breaks for working on Magic: the Gathering's Dominaria story and some othe...
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 relax. I've also been worrying about the situation with our new cat, who is in a hate/h...
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 anytime soon, because I have Patreons I'm supporting that I want to continue to read and support, plus ...
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 agent, Jennifer Jackson, Michael Curry, and my editor Lee Harris, publisher Irene Gallo and ever...
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.
https://raksuracolonytree.home.blog/
If you’re com...
2019-03-04 17:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 torrential storm and the cramped uncomfortable night in the leaky knothole, they could all use a rest, ...
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 in Moon typical? Do consorts look out for each other most of the time?
At this point, I d...
2019-02-19 00:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post