30. Niran, in the Last Days of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony, Part 2
(This is Part 2 of the Niran story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20-niran-in-last-6645787...
2017-02-21 17:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Martha Wells posts
FYI
The Harbors of the Sun is coming out simultaneously in paperback, hardcover & ebook, and the paperback is now up for preorder: 2017-02-14 17:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
29. Under the Colony Tree, During the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches
(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 hou...
2017-02-09 13:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostFYI News
Author 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 Gelde...
2017-01-31 21:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post28. Stone Returns to Indigo Cloud from the Golden Isles
"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 t...
2017-01-24 13:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostThree Worlds Map
I've posted a couple of images of the only map of the Three Worlds:
On my tumblr: 2017-01-18 15:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
27. The Sky Copper Clutch at Indigo Cloud
"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. The...
2017-01-13 13:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostFYI Murderbots
The B&N SF blog has the cover of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Redand an excerpt: 2017-01-11 20:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hidden Colony Part 4
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...
2016-12-21 20:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostNovella Up for Ebook Preorder
FYI, my new SF novella The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red from Tor.com is up for preorder in ebook at all ebook retailers 2016-12-14 13:41:16 +0000 UTC View Post
26. Malachite and Celadon at Opal Night
(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 Ce...
2016-12-09 15:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Continuing
So 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...
2016-11-30 15:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hidden Colony Part 3
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...
2016-11-26 15:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate
I've said what I need to say on my Facebook and Live Journal here
http://marthawells.livejournal.com/689699.html 2016-11-11 15:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
24. The Hidden Colony, Part II
Of 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 ...
2016-10-26 15:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNew Novella Sale Announcement!
www.tor.com/2016/10/25/announcing-the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells/
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Cushing Library Event
I 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...
2016-10-20 13:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post23. The Hidden Colony: in the Time of Indigo Cloud's Return to the Reaches
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.
...
2016-10-11 16:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post22. Stone and Moon in the Drylands
This 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...
2016-09-27 16:39:21 +0000 UTC View Post21. Selis at the Cordans' Camp
Two 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 Rea...
2016-09-13 15:24:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf you don't follow my Live Journal (http://marthawells.livejournal.com/) or other social media, FYI the cover revea...
2016-09-07 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostVideo
http://www.marthawells.com/compendium/MarthaShortReading.mpg
Video Transcript
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...
2016-09-01 00:39:57 +0000 UTC View Post20. Niran, in the Last Days of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony
(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.)
Schedule FYI
Just 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 rea...
2016-08-24 13:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post19. Chime and Flower: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony
"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...
2016-08-09 15:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post18. Stone and Azure: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony
(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.)
&n...
2016-07-26 17:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostFYI Storybundle
FYI, I have two books in a DRM-free historical fantasy ebook Storybundle curated by Melissa Scott:
2016-07-22 16:21:06 +0000 UTC View PostMoodboard and Schedule Update
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.
17. Stone and Azure: In the Time of Indigo Cloud's Eastern Colony
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 ea...
2016-07-12 16:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post