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M. K. Martin

@mkmartinwriter.com

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#Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · Dec 30

Are you excited about civilization's end?

Do you yearn for survival tips, flash fiction, cat pictures, and random observations about Ireland from an American living abroad?

If you said, "Meh, why not?" have I got a newsletter for you!

mkmartinwriter.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

A two lane highway winds between pine forests on a foggy day.

Text: Survivors' Club. Join Today!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Anybody whose worth their salt will not collect your data , they will have ways for you to contact them after

Don’t put any contact info on ANYTHING

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, ICE has set up a website to trap individuals attempting to do the right thing. Please exercise caution.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 3h

Sure what we really need are more men’s opinions on what women should or shouldn’t do 🙄

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 3h

It’s goddess ray season.

#speirgorm #wildatlanticway #rurallife

A field under a cloudy sky with sunbeams shining down

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

Happy spooky season, witches!🔮

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 8h

A Quest for Hidden Things by @kareneisenbrey.bsky.social, a fantasy adventure with a touch of cozy.
* A cursed village
* A self-taught wizard
* A secret healer
* A common enemy
What will it cost to free Deep River?

Get your copy: kareneisenbreywriter.com/a-quest-for-...

@writerstsunami.bsky.social

Book cover for A Quest for Hidden Things by Karen Eisenbrey.

Image is a crane with wings lifted in front of a mountain framed by a green field with metallic corner embellishments

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 9h

Can’t wait to never purchase anything from those publishers ever ever ever.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 10h

Thanks!

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

Worth it!

a man with black eye makeup is standing in front of a tree .

ALT: a man with black eye makeup is standing in front of a tree .

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

Must. Rub. Belly…

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

Want to hear a joke about a builder?

Too bad.

It’s still under construction…

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

From viral outbreak through civilization's collapse & rebuilding, the SURVIVORS' CLUB trilogy is a story of hope in the face of hardship & tentacles. So many tentacles...

Vibes? #LastOfUs #ResidentEvil

Get your copy today!

www.notapipepublishing.com/ourbooks#/su...

@writerstsunami.bsky.social

Book covers for three books by M. K. Martin - Survivors' Club, Ashfall, and New Avalon Rangers

Text: Now available. The Survivors' Club Chronicles complete trilogy

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

Thank you 😊

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

Nah, he’ll probably get a cabinet position.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

What a bloviating blowhard.

Easy mute.

He can patronize someone else if he can find anyone to listen to him besides his 3 podcast subscribers.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1d

We all know too much about this fucker

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 2d

Fair

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 2d

Hardly even a debate.

Except Dark Tower of course

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 2d

And it never was

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 2d

So tired of academia acting as if literary fiction is somehow exempt from genre conventions & tropes

Want to read about upper middle class white people problems?

Literary fiction’s got you covered-from should I have a baby to should I try to date my stunningly sensual student who’s decades younger

a woman sitting in front of a microphone wearing earrings and a strapless dress

ALT: a woman sitting in front of a microphone wearing earrings and a strapless dress

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 2d

Congratulations to @benjamingorman.bsky.social on today’s launch of YOU PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS, Book 3 in his THE CONVENTION OF FIENDS trilogy.

Baby werewolves and lesbian vampire librarians? Yes, please!

Find it here: bit.ly/YPAM

@writerstsunami.bsky.social

#ReadingRecommendation #YA #LGBTQ

Book covers for three books by Benjamin Gorman: Don't Read this Book, You Were Warned, and You People are Monsters

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching a class about STAR TREK! Next month I’ll explore how Trek reflects America’s “progressive” ideals in each era and how that both expands and limits how we imagine the future. It’s part of Goddard Spark, a program born from Goddard College’s 1940s anti-fascist roots. Learn more below!

A poster for Jessie's upcoming class "IM TEACHING A CLASS! "Star Trek as America's Self Portrait." NOV 14-17, 2025 PLAINFIELD, VT, IN-PERSON ONLY - The Goddard Spark. For more info and to register for my and other classes check out: http://goddardspark-org.us.stackstaging.com/instructors-and-classes/

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 3d

Hurricane Helene utterly destroyed parts of Western North Carolina, but not their resilience.

@gaphill1842.bsky.social‘s HURRICANE HELENE: RESILIENCY AFTER THE STORM helps us remember the victims and survivors of the storm and rejoice in their power of community.

@writerstsunami.bsky.social

Book cover for Hurricane Helene: Resiliency After the Storm, Part 1 by Rebecca Wells Philips.

Image is a two lane highway on a dark, stormy day. Brown waves of flood water are covering part of the highway.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 3d

Hey #WritingCommunity encourage your readers to shop at their local bookshops.

Prioritize your 'where to find my books' links to ones like Bookshop.org or other such distributors who contribute to rather than steal from communities.

#ShopLocalReadGlobal

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 3d

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 4d

And yes. I’m happy to never see or hear your name again.