(This is Part 2 of the Niran story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20-niran-in-last-6645787 )
Niran had tried to help Blossom and Rill build the cooking pit for the preparati...
2017-02-21 17:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Harbors of the Sun is coming out simultaneously in paperback, hardcover & ebook, and the paperback is now up for preorder: http://marthawells.livejournal.com/696314.html
2017-02-14 17:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
(This POV is Hiak, the Kek friend that Merit made during The Dark Earth Below, in the second volume of Stories of the Raksura.)
Hksktst was in the healer's house, planting the new crop of twistvines in the ceiling, when Cthstk ducked into the door and said, "...
2017-02-09 13:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Tananarive Due will be one of the guests of honor for World Fantasy Con 2017 in San Antonio! Other guests of honor are Karen Joy Fowler, Gregory Manchess, David Mitchell, Gorden van Gelder, and I'm the toastmaster. Dates are November 2-5 2017 2017-01-31 21:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
"Moon's not here."
It wasn't the first thing Stone had expected to hear when he stepped into the greeting hall after returning from the Golden Isles. He hadn't expected the trip to take this long and he hadn't expected to come back with yet another flying boat and yet another cr...
2017-01-24 13:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostI've posted a couple of images of the only map of the Three Worlds:
On my tumblr: http://marthawells.tumblr.com/post/156038048012/im-not-getting-much-done-this-week-as...
2017-01-18 15:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
"I'm going to do it," Frost said.
"It's a bad idea," Thorn told her. Bitter nodded solemnly.
Frost felt her spines lift. She had expected them to support her. They always supported her. "You're just jealous you can't do it," she snapped.
Thorn was unimpres...
2017-01-13 13:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe B&N SF blog has the cover of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Redand an excerpt: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blo...
2017-01-11 20:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
They left the ruin hurriedly. Moon threw one last look at the statue as the others climbed back up the steps. Jade caught his arm and tugged him along.
Once they reached the upper hall again, it was a scramble to get the Arbora out. Jade tossed Bramble at Moon and hissed, ...
2016-12-21 20:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostFYI, my new SF novella The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red from Tor.com is up for preorder in ebook at all ebook retailers http://publishing.tor.com/allsystemsred-marthawells/9780...
2016-12-14 13:41:16 +0000 UTC View Post(I'm still working on the Hidden Colony story, but in the meantime, here's this. Hopefully I'll be able to post another Hidden Colony section later this month.)
When Celadon walked into the reigning queen's bower, she knew something had happened.
Malachite...
2016-12-09 15:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostSo we made the next goal, yay! And the patreon will definitely be continuing to at least July 2017 when The Harbors of the Sun will be released. I'll keep going with the Hidden Colony story, and also may intersperse some unrelated Raksura snippets. If there's anything you'd like to see, ...
2016-11-30 15:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The lighted moss bundles they had tossed into the ruin yesterday were still glowing. As Moon made his way over the cracked, uneven floor, it gave the shadowy hall the temporary illusion of an inhabited colony. It made Moon's spines twitch.
The warriors had already climbed up to ...
2016-11-26 15:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've said what I need to say on my Facebook and Live Journal here
http://marthawells.livejournal.com/689699.html
, so here I'll just say briefly: if you're a Trump supporter, I don't want your money...
2016-11-11 15:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostOf course the Arbora wanted to see the ruin of the old colony. Moon could tell Jade was reluctant to agree, but also reluctant to tell the Arbora no just because of her own feelings. She also hadn't been exactly thrilled to hear that Moon had been the one to go a...
2016-10-26 15:02:00 +0000 UTC View Postwww.tor.com/2016/10/25/announcing-the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells/
I've sold two new SF novellas to the Tor.com novella line, and the first one
The Murder...
2016-10-25 15:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostI gave a lecture on worldbuilding in SF/F and did a question and answer session on the TAMU campus last night, as part of Cushing Library And Archives Hal Hall Lecture Series. It was a great audience of students and faculty, and I had a lot of fun.
Here's the talk I gave about worldbuildin...
Moon should have been the last one to want to explore a strange doorway deep in a disintegrating trunk of a dying mountain-tree, but here they were.
Granted, there hadn't been much choice after Fair had fallen into it and they had had to go after h...
2016-10-11 16:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a missing scene from The Harbors of the Sun, but there aren't any spoilers.
Moon hated it out of all proportion whenever Stone got hurt. Even when it was an injury that he knew Stone would shake off within hours. B...
2016-09-27 16:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostTwo notes before the story:
* Pixel Project: On Saturday, September 17, 2016, at 7:30 CST I’ll be doing an online reading and an interview as part of The Pixel Project’s Read for Pixels Fall Edition 2016-09-13 15:24:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you don't follow my Live Journal (http://marthawells.livejournal.com/) or other social media, FYI the cover reveal for The Harbors of the Sun is at 2016-09-07 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.marthawells.com/compendium/MarthaShortReading.mpg
In the next post, I'll try to post a link to a video of part of the reading I did at WorldCon. It's from The Harbors of the Sun and is therefore a bit spoilery.
If it doesn't work, which, let's face it, it probably won't, here's the text I read:
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2016-09-01 00:39:57 +0000 UTC View Post(This is part one of this Niran story. I also have two videos of my reading at WorldCon to upload, hopefully this week. (I had to get someone's help to shrink them down enough to post.)
In his heart of hearts, Niran had expected to have been eaten by now. If...
2016-08-30 17:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let everybody know, the next story will be posted on August 30. (I just got back from WorldCon on Monday and am still bleary with tiredness.
At the con, I did have a friend film my reading with an iPad, so I may try to upload that as an extra. Hopefully the file won't be too bi...
2016-08-24 13:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post "He really didn't know he was a consort," Chime said to Flower. They were in the back of her bower, sitting on the furs, the storage baskets stacked around them providing a little protection against prying ears. "He really didn't know what a Raksura was."
&n...
2016-08-09 15:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post(Note:I realized finally that I made some timeline errors in the first story about when Indigo Cloud left the Reaches. I'll correct them at some point and repost it as an extra.)
To make it worse, Stone woke up that morning missing the old colony in the Re...
2016-07-26 17:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostFYI, I have two books in a DRM-free historical fantasy ebook Storybundle curated by Melissa Scott:
https://storybundle.com/fantasy
If you pay the minimum of $5.00, you get:
• ...
I was trying to do a moodboard/aesthetic thing for The Books of the Raksura
and this is what I came up with, so I thought I'd share it here. It should be attached to this post.
I'm revising The Harbors of the Sun, which is due in to the publisher on July 31, and the ne...
2016-07-17 17:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
On the day the delegations from Wind Sun and Mist Silver were to arrive, Stone ended up sitting in the opening to one of the airshafts. The others had been up
here earlier, watching as the visitors flew in, but they hadn't lingered. Stone wasn't sure why he hadn't l...
2016-07-12 16:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post