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

Image of a keyboard with one key showing reverse arrow labeled 'Oops'. Text: I do my best proofreading after I hit send.
Screen shot of an article entitled 'It's time to turn the page on 'romantasy'.' by Alexander Larman. Image is a white person with their wrists bound by a red ribbon holing a long-stemmed red rose. Inset photos is smug looking white dude who we can reasonably assume is Alex Larman.
A black cat with yellow eyes reclines on a cat stand near a window.
A black balloon with white lettering: sorry about ur internalized misogyny :frowny face emoji:
A beach at sunset with clouds and a small rocky point
Magazine cover showing a man's torso. He is wearing a dark suit with white shirt and blue striped tie, and black leather gloves. He is putting a silencer onto a pistol. Text: Take a Ride...Thrill Ride Magazine Issue 14: Assassins and Vigilantes
Three books by M. K. Martin - Survivors' Club, Ashfall, and New Avalon Rangers. All books have a black background and silouetted figures. Survivors' Club shows a woman holding a firefighter ax standing in front of a fire while a man with a first aid bag kneels to examine a blood trail. Ashfall shows two women, one holding a firefighter ax, the other holding pistol standing in front of a row of pine trees and behind a man wearing a cap, scarf, and red cross arm band. New Avalon Rangers shows a woman holding a pistol and a man carrying a first aid bag standing to one side while a woman holding a firefighter ax stands alone. All are in front of a mountain.
Screenshot: I paused, hovering in the darkness under the warped metal plating just inside Levion. A gust of homesickness blasted through me, filling every space the past few months of grief had hollowed out. Here was Artemis, my best friend and fellow knight. We survived the Passage of Lines together and fought through Levion side by side the night the city crashed. But what would I say to her? How would I explain where I’d been all this time, what I’d been doing? How to explain what I was?
Book cover for Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. Cover is pink with black woodcut style image of a woman holding an orb with a rampant goat on either side of her. Below her is a banner and a pentagram
Book cover for Survivors' Club by M. K. Martin
Screenshot reads: They called her Zoongie. Maybe it was a name; maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. Hair tumbling wild, a dress that caught and released light, laughter with iron under it. Eyes that skimmed and did not land, as if what she wanted was elsewhere and she had to pass through men to get there. She wore the island’s mixed bloodlines like a crown – African in the hips, Spanish in the cheekbone, East Indian in the hair when the rain kinked it, Carib in the way her gaze could bless and warn at once.
Screenshot reads: They called her Zoongie. Maybe it was a name; maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. Hair tumbling wild, a dress that caught and released light, laughter with iron under it. Eyes that skimmed and did not land, as if what she wanted was elsewhere and she had to pass through men to get there. She wore the island’s mixed bloodlines like a crown – African in the hips, Spanish in the cheekbone, East Indian in the hair when the rain kinked it, Carib in the way her gaze could bless and warn at once.
A slide show of various ruins or overgrown buildings with a grainy, dark filter. Caption reads: You wrote a book that's like The Walking Dead meets Contagion and you want the world to know!
A stygian owl sits in a tree. It has mostly dark feathers with some white ones. Two larger upright tuft feathers above its eyes, which appear to glow red.
Split screen image of Gavin Newsom, as smug white man with greying hair, and another white man wearing glasses and white earbuds. Both men are in front of bookshelves.
A patch of wild violets, small purple flowers
A spotted eel that has a white belly and yellowish top pokes out of a crevasse in a rock covered in coral and algae.
Three book covers - Survivors' Club, Ashfall, and New Avalon Rangers - by M. K. Martin Book covers have black backgrounds with silhouettes on them: Survivors' Club has flames fading from orange to red with a woman silhouette standing and a man kneeling in front of them. Ashfall has a row of blue pine trees with two women standing back to back. One holds a firefighter's ax and the other a pistol. A man wearing a cap and long scarf stands in front of them. New Avalon Rangers has a green mountain with a man and woman standing together while another woman stands apart.
A white woman with blue eyes and blond hair wearing a green knit jumper and a dangly earring
Text from a manuscript reads: A gust of homesickness blasted through me, filling every space the past few months of grief had hollowed out. Here was Artemis, my best friend and fellow knight. We survived the Passage of Lines together and fought through Levion side by side the night the city crashed. But what would I say to her? How would I explain where I’d been all this time, what I’d been doing? How to explain what I was?
A frog on a bed of pine needles and moss
Three book covers for Survivors' Club, Ashfall, and New Avalon Rangers by M. K. Martin Covers are black background with silhouetted characters.
Book shop window display with a stack of books including "Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women" and two posters for gatherings. Poster one has a Palestinian flag across the top and is for a candlelit vigil on Fridays at 6 pm in Dingle. The other is a drawing of a determined looking woman with a black and white checked head scarf holding a sign which reads 'Ní saoirse go saoirse na Palastine' (Irish)
Lemon’s arrest came after a judge rejected federal charges against the journalist and critic of President Trump in connection with his attendance at the protest. Prosecutors have not unsealed an indictment as of Friday morning.
A screenshot from the movie 'Civil War'. A blond white man wearing military fatigues and pink sunglasses holds an assault rifle. He says, "What kind of American are you?". Caption reads: Literally 2026
The first red of dawn streaked the sky as the last of the knights jumped, rolled, slipped, slithered, or fell off the Bentley. Her aft end dropped into the soft ground of the recently cleared field while her balloons still strained towards the sky. On the far side of the field, the shapes of Federation foot soldiers moved through the cover of the forested hillsides. They held a clear advantage both in their location and that they’d had a chance to set up their fighting positions. But how had they known the Bentley would pass over here, that she would be downed here? “By all the bloomers, if it isn’t Sir Valen himself.” I hardly recognized Chivayn all mud spattered, dented, and devoid of the glorious orange cape he insisted on attaching to his mecha. “Are you all right?” I checked him over, relieved that all that seemed injured was his sense of fashion. “Hardly!” He waved around. “Who attacks en route to the battle? Talk of jumping the starters’ mark. This is simply uncivil.”
Mural of a white woman with dark hair and pointed elf ears holding a finger to her lips as ravens fly around her. Facing her is a white man with his mouth wide as if yelling. He has red, orange, and yellow hair and beard.
Sunset over a field. In the middle distance is a hedgerow and farther on are mountains. Golden sunbeams break through puffy grey clouds
Pink background with black text reads: Schrodinger's Douchebag: (noun) a guy who says offensive things and decides whether he's kidding or not based on people's reactions
A line graph with marks from 0 through 10 with images of Sen Susan Collins of Maine. Her expression goes from happy at 0 to very unhappy at 10. Text reads: Collins Scale of Concern. Scale gradations are Not Concerned (0-1) Mildly Concerned (2-3) Moderately Concerned (4-5) Severely Concerned (6-7) Troubled (8-9) and Disappointed (10)
Book cover for The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson. Image is a teal background a woodcut of a dragon on the left and a unicorn on the right holding up a coat-of arms topped by a crown and a skull that is also topped by a crown with griffin's head and wings coming out of it. At the bottom is a pentagram.
A stone circle in a field on a sunny day
Castle on a high wooded riverbank over looking a field
Book cover for Exit Strategy by Martha Wells. Image is a spaceship leaving a port and heading out towards a star field.
Book cover fro Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Image is a white letter H with golden fern leaves and small animals around it, as well as sumac berries on a dark blue background.
Book cover for The Grace Keepers by Kirsty Logan. Image is a white woman with her hair up in a bun, wearing a white sleeveless dress and carrying a cage with a bird in it as she wade through the water. Around her are other cages, some empty others with birds in them.
Book cover for An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Image is an arched doorway with a map's markings in the center. A curved dagger stands in front of the door with a glowing outline of a cat twining around it.
Book cover to Deep River Rising by Karen Eisenbrey. Image is a green frame around an oval image. There are metalic corner embellishments on the green frame. The image is a collection of papers with handwriting on them, a bunch of red flowers, and a black feather with snow falling over them all.
Book cover to Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. Image is a flock of starlings which are iridescent green and indigo. Some are fighting, others carry golden keys or yellow flowers.
Book cover for Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells. Images is two figures standing on an platform overlooking a domed building.
Book cover for Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. Image is a pink background with a wood cut of a woman holding an orb in one hand and petting a goat with the other. Another goat rears up to her opposite side. Under her is an upside down star (pentagram).
Book cover for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Image is multiple stair cases criss-crossing over several scenes of dunes, a castle, a man running up stairs, a woman running upstairs, gates, and a cat.
Book cover for She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan. Image is a rider holding a spear in front of a line of cavalry with banners on a yellow background. Above them is an orange sun with a tattered black flag across it.
Book cover for The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. Image is a view of New York City from under a bridge with offset shadows in blue, pink, and yellow
Book cover for Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. Image is a person wearing futuristic armored environmental suite and helmet with closed visor standing on a platform as a spaceship flys over them.
Book cover for Idaho by Emily Ruskovich. Image is pale yellow flowers in a field of yellow and green plants
Book cover for Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher. Image is a dark haried white woman looking away. She is wearing a cloak of leaves, and thorny vines with small bones tied throughout
Book Cover to All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A painting of a person in an futuristic armored environmental suit with a helmet and closed visor. They stand in front of trees. In the background are planetary rings.
Book cover for What if We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht? - an anthology by multiple authors, edited by Chrys Gorman. Image is two orcas touching against a background of red and blue stripes
Book cover for Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. Image is painting of a forest with two figures, one wearing a white robe and the other a dark robe, looking towards a village. The figure in white is pointing at the village. The figure in the dark robe has a tail.
Book cover to Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire by Geri Halliwell-Horner. Image is a redheaded white girl wearing a white coat and dark trousers. She has a sword belt on and is holding the hilt of the sheathed sword. Behind her is a snow-covered volcano that is erupting.
Book cover for Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor. Image is a woman's face formed out of kelp and coral
Book cover to On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Navy blue background with white speckles. A black tree branch with orange leaves (probably birch, but I'm no expert).
Book cover for The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence. Image is a library with multiple levels connected by curving staircases under a vaulted ceiling. The library is illuminated by glowing spheres at regular intervals.
Book cover for How Not to Write a Novel by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark. Image is a revolver pointing at tabby kitten with its head cocked on a white background.
Book cover for The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher. Image is the skull of an otter in a glass dome with two butterflies, pussy willows and a clump of green - likely moss.
Book cover for What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher. Image is the decaying corps of a white horse against a red background.
Book cover for Tangled in Time: The Burning Queen by Kathryn Lasky. Image is a young woman and girl standing back to back. The woman looks resolute and wears a crown. She has her arms crossed and is dressed in a red dress gown with a wide collar. The girl looks worried but determined. Between them is a portal with the girl and a cat running away from a building with spires that appears to be on fire. Twining around the image is a gold necklace with a rose locket that is partially open.