Don Martin

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🐈‍⬛ NYT/USA Today Bestselling Author of YA Fantasy, Non-Fiction, & Poetry ⏳Pre-Order: VERITY VOX AND THE VEIL OF DEATH 📩: mgmt@byDonMartin.com

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Here's a tip from someone who used to have a very small platform and suddenly got a much larger one: (this is about the Mein Kampf book lady)
Everything you put on social media platforms that thing.
If I post a photo of my nachos, l'm platforming nachos. It comes with the tacit endorsement of nachos.
Now you can post a problematic thing without the tacit endorsement aspect, but you must be clear & intentional when doing so.
If I post a shopping haul photo, & it's clothes, jewelry, and a gun

Photo of Don next to his new Aventon ebike

AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY
NOW!
yA Fantasy
Age: 12-18
Yes i mean 12.
do you miss whimsy?
Agatha & Elphaba &
winifred & verity
do you miss The Dark is Rising, The Lost Years of Merlin, or Animorphs?
Verity dox
AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE.
for kids who found themselves on the wrong end of scripture but the right end of choir
inspired by real
Appalachian history & folklore
a cat-who-is-not-a-cat
DON MARTIN
that'sa
nightjar...
it could be importantess
Kiki's Delivery Service meets old Gods of
Appalachia but gay?
a race to break a curse,
Finding a missing gin
•solve the mystery of what's really under the mountain

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@abduking. • 1 hour ago
shushhhh THE PIRACY WILL NEVER END.
You should take it as a compliment that people would bother to pirate your books.
回

BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS, EDUCATORS!
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Verity Vox
AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE
The cat with the smoke trails coming off of kim?
That's
DON MARTIN
Jack.
He's a cat-who-is-not-a-cat.
I'd say more bat...
spoilers.
I have LOADS more references and bits of folklore and hidden details to share, bat it's a long way til August so we must pace ourselves.
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Verity's name is very special.
Verity Vox
AND THE CURSE OF
This unique lettering was drawn by the cover designer, Katie Beasley. I told her that Verity needed & style unique to her. Something young readers could instantly identify. Iconic.
She delivered.
There is a lyrical sheet music quality to her name, which references Verity's magical singing voice. Bat it also is reminiscent of threads, which are important to the story for reasons that will become clear once you read it.

Verity Vox
AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE.
Everyone on the team took a lot of TLC with the title. Big shout out to Katie here.
The color was chosen to match the color of actual foxfire, whick is a kind of bioluminescence found in fangi in decaying wood. It is often found in the Appalachian hills.
The word itself is also the name of a
online>
exiire b
book series that documented the history and lore of the region.
The Vulcan Oil Company"
THE VULCAN
Even the roughness of the fort traces back to documents from the real life mining company that partially inspired the
story.
DENINE CONTRIY
GBL E

For the vibes I warted this to feel like a forgotten classic. A return to those
Che
Dark Is Rising
Sequence
SUSAN COOPER
gorgeous painted covers of
T.A. BARRON
fantasy adventure books I
LOST YEARS OF MERLIN
loved as a kid.
Like these from Susan
Cooper and T.A. Barror
# Peter Gendry • Saen's Secret
I also drew a lot of
inspiration from the cozy but isolated mountain villages in the artwork of Francisco Fonseca.
As well as the photography of Victoria Veil and-
Briscoe Park
think
Gaby
nailed it!

These aren't just any birds!
They're nightjars.
Nightjars are noctarkal birds found all over the world.
Sometimes called righthawks or dragon birds
Like a lot of nocturnal animals, they have some curious folklore.
I'd say more but...spoilers.

Featuring images of nightjars.

Foxfire is based on a real town in West Virginia, and so the mountains in the distance are reminiscent of the Appalachian hills.

Cover for Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire. Features a teenage girl with hair flowing in the wind carrying a broom. A cat is next to her. In the distance is a town and beyond that are looming hills.

Text reads:

Cover Reveal!
Verity Vox
AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE
DON MARTIN
Swipe for hidden details & inspo

Don wearing a black robe, carrying a broom, on a hastily made cover dupe for his book Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire.

Photo of Don at his desk smiling

Book cover for THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS!

Photo of Don holding the children’s book THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS!

Don, shirtless, wearing a denim apron holding a cream pie.

Text reads:
updated types of love the Greeks didn’t give a name to

the love of convenience
the love of hope you will become more
the love of the person you are
when you are dancing and
you know all the moves
the love of the person you would be
if you’d had a different 3rd grade
teacher

the love you project onto a stranger you know
you will never see again
the love of your naked body when you
step out of the shower and no one
is around to perceive you
and you can be the most gorgeous thing
ever given flesh

A photo of Don

Don at the gym holding a kettlebell

Don & Bella (cat) standing next to Christmas tree

Photo of Don & Robyn over a burning city with fireworks in the background.

Text says BURN 2024 DOWN with Don Martin & Robyn Valentine.

Don, shirtless, wearing Christmas sweatpants

A stupid thirst trap of Don standing in a mirror at his gym. He is shirtless indicating he wants you to look at his body and wearing a pink hat with a rainbow on it indicating he is gay.

Photo depicting Senator Josh Hawley (R) from Missouri being interviewed. Behind him is a handsome young staffer silently staring at him with longing in his eyes and hunger on his pouty lips. Hawley is totally the bottom.

Confirmation of 2 tickets to the Jinkx & Dela Holiday Show in Chicago, IL on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 8pm at the Auditorium Theatre

Photo of a Bernese mountain dog in a field of green grass and dandelions. He is perfect.