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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 21/09/2026

From Ireland with lasers...love. Ó Éirinn le léasair...grá. #SpeirGrom #RuralPhoto #Rainbow

A cloudy afternoon over a rural one-lane road, which passes a white house with trees at the front and back. A rainbow appears to be beaming from the clouds to the house.

M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 18/09/2026

Thank you for hosting! I’ll share my viral apocalypse trilogy - perfect for all you Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, and/or Walking Dead fans. Available at the library for free, Bookstore.org, Amazon (cuz I have to), and direct from publisher @notapipe.bsky.social

Three books by M. K. Martin: Survivors’ Club, Ashfall, New Avalon Rangers.

Text: Now Available - the Survivors’ Club Chronicles Complete Trilogy

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 18/09/2026

She’s threatening to sue me in US court.

Screenshot of Alli Roberts post on Bluesky: thank you for plainly admitting you intentionally lied, defamed and harassed a queer person for standing up to facism. all the screenshots are saved, MK. for you, there are consequences because we both live in the US -smiley face with hearts emoji

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 18/09/2026

Y’all, she’s going to get me in TROUBLE & she think I live in the US For context, Alli has been harassing a trans woman for hours cuz she isn’t a fan of candidates like Talarico who throw trans folk under the bus to appeal to bigoted voters Screenshoted as Alli is blocking to avoid accountability

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 12/08/2026

A breath-taking astronomical event…as seen from Ireland #eclipse

A cloudy sky with the sun shining through

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 01/07/2026

Shhhh, only you and about 4,738 other writers noticed.

Image of a keyboard with one key showing reverse arrow labeled 'Oops'.

Text: I do my best proofreading after I hit send.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 29/06/2026

This 4th of July, I'm participating in @notapipe.bsky.social's Anti-Fascist Write-Athon. I'm working on a short story & Levion Book 2's 1st draft. If you'd like to sponsor me, or anyone else participating, you can do that here: www.notapipepublishing.com/checkout/don... #AntiFa #WritingCommunity

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 10/06/2026

🧵 Not linking the article because feck their engagement, but I have thoughts. Buckle up... #Romantasy

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 05/06/2026

I'd love to hire you! Unfortunately, I'm also broke. What else can I do fellow editor? Would this picture of a cat help?

A black cat with yellow eyes reclines on a cat stand near a window.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 04/06/2026

Salutations - I'm a reader, writer & editor. To relax, I use a mindfulness app to try to slow my brain down for 10-15 min. I also love long walks on the beach or down a country lane - yes, I live in a post card. Best relaxing is in the bath tub 🛀 with a book 📗 and tea 🫖 or something more adult 🍸

A beach at sunset with clouds and a small rocky point

A single lane road between hedgerows with green fields to either side on a sunny day with puffy clouds.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 02/06/2026

Looking for a fast-paced #ShortStory? 'Assassins & Vigilantes' is out now from Thrill Ride Magazine. Check out stories by me (yay!) and @blazeward.bsky.social (also yay!) as well as all the rest of the syndicate. #ShamelessSelfPromo #Thriller thrillridemagazine.com/book/assassi...

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

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 25/05/2026

If you're into #LastOfUs and/or #ResidentEvil this fast-paced viral apocalypse trilogy is for you. Plus, no AI!

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 22/05/2026

In my current WIP, my MC is returning after some major trauma and has been set apart from his original unit of steampunk mecha pilots (Yes, it's amazing! Yes, I watched too much Macross and Evangelion growing up). He's missing community he took for granted now he's an outsider looking in.

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?

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 22/05/2026

Big fan of the women in Her Majesty's Royal Coven, especially the way they rally to protect Theo from that TERFy witch and her literal...anyway, read it!

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

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 20/05/2026

I write books about a viral apocalypse. I'm a real person who doesn't use AI. I'm half nice... #BuyLocalReadGlobal

Book cover for Survivors' Club by M. K. Martin

Book cover for New Avalon Rangers by M. K. Martin

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 20/05/2026

Ah, no. I'm not interested in reading sexist pieces written using AI, thanks. Let me guess, next up...women breasting boobily down the stairs? FFS - do better!

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 20/05/2026

OMG have y'all read Granta's 'winning' story wherein we take 'breasted boobily' to the next level with (likely) help of AI? They should be ashamed to have published this sexist, racist piece, but apparently this is what passes for 'literature' these days. #WritingCommunity #MenWritingWomen

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 01/05/2026

Thanks for hosting! If Andromeda Strain had mutant, undead Cthulhu babies, this would be the offspring. Find my books at awesome indie bookstores, Bookshop.org, at Amazon (if you must), or free at libraries. #ReadGlobalShopLocal

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 29/04/2026

Fun fact - Newsom is a terrible parent.

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 21/03/2026

Hey, hey, hey! I’m just wondering about those submissions I sent out. Hey. Hello? Hey, you. Yes, you. You with the acceptance letters, yeah - get to work, you. Also, I love you! #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

A spotted eel that has a white belly and yellowish top pokes out of a crevasse in a rock covered in coral and algae.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 20/03/2026

Thanks for hosting, Steve - glad you're feeling better. Today, I'll share my trilogy (unlike some Martins, I can finish a series 😜). If Contagion and The Walking Dead had a book baby with Cthulhu as the midwife - but it all ends well(ish). not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/product/surv...

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 06/03/2026

I got little earrings with mine, if you're looking for ideas.

A white woman with blue eyes and blond hair wearing a green knit jumper and a dangly earring

Book cover for Survivors' Club by M. K. Martin. Black background with fire silhouette shading from orange to red behind a black silhouette of a woman with a ponytail holding a firefighter's ax and a white silhouette of a man kneeling with his hand on the ground near a red blood smear. He has a medical bag with a red cross on it.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 06/03/2026

From my current WIP - steampunk fantasy with flying cities, mechas, and assassins with shadow magic (yes, I'm part of the problem!)

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?

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 02/03/2026

Not a natterjack but in the neighborhood.

A frog on a bed of pine needles and moss

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 25/02/2026

I'm cheating a bit because I have three covers (three - ah-hahaha!) But they're all so pretty I can't pick my favorite two

Three book covers for Survivors' Club, Ashfall, and New Avalon Rangers by M. K. Martin

Covers are black background with silhouetted characters.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 30/01/2026

Guess what - it's time to delete your misleading posts 😜 thehill.com/homenews/med...

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 23/01/2026

From my steampunk WIP featuring a flying city, spirit powered mecha armor, and shadow magic assassins.

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.”

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 16/01/2026

Post a picture YOU took, just a picture, NO description.

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 05/01/2026

Never fails. But sure, don't take any responsibility for your unhinged behavior.

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

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 03/01/2026

Might even have to raise the concern level to Disappointed.

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)

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 02/01/2026

'The Shadow Cabinet' by Juno Dawson. Ciara is back - unbeknownst to the other witches. She's taken her twin's body & is about to become High Priestess of HMRC. Meanwhile, Leonie's searching for her brother who went missing while tracking Hale. #Contemporary #LGBTQ #Witch #FavoriteBooks 🪐📚 42/42

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 16/12/2025

No one's jelly. Not even a little bit. We have our own castles...

Castle on a high wooded riverbank over looking a field

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Exit Strategy' by Martha Wells. GrayCris has done it this time! They've kidnapped Mensah as a means to flush out Murderbot. This time our favorite rogue Sec Unit must face not just enemies, but being reunited with its...friends?...ok, some humans it knows. #SciFi #Space #LGBTQ 🪐📚 41/?

Book cover for Exit Strategy by Martha Wells. Image is a spaceship leaving a port and heading out towards a star field.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Hamnet' by Maggie O'Farrell. A very long, often beautiful exploration of the grief parents feel at the death of a child. While the story takes pains to never say that this is about William Shakespeare, it's clearly about the Bard & his witchy wife, Agnes(Anne). #Prose #LitFic #BookClub ⏳📚 40/?

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'The Grace Keepers' by Kirsty Logan. North is the bear girl, performing in the circus that travels from island to island. Callenish is a grace keeper, doing penance - until she meets North. To put her past to rest, Callenish must brave unfamiliar seas. #CliFi #Romance #LGBTQ #Mythology 39/?

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'An Ember in the Ashes' by Sabaa Tahir. Laia is a Scholar. Elias is a Martial & the best student at their premier military school. He wants to escape. She wants to find her brother, imprisoned by the Martials. To do so she has to infiltrate Elias's school #YA #Academy #Rome #Historical 🪐📚 38/?

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Deep River Rising' by Karen Eisenbrey. Book 2 could almost be a standalone. It follows the lives of Deep River folk after the wizard's curse isolating their village is lifted, which sounds good, but now they have to deal with outsider for the 1st time in decades. #Cozy #Fantasy #LowSpice 🪐📚 37/?

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Starling House' by Alix E. Harrow. A fav for the year. Eden is haunted - by the beasts from Underland & by regular old human greed. Opal wants to get her brother out of town & Arthur wants the curse of Starling House to end with him. #Gothic #Horror #Contemporary #LGBTQ #Romance #Mystery🩸📚 36/?

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.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Rogue Protocol' by Martha Wells. SecUnit continues their exploration of the galaxy while investigating their own past as well as GrayCris's involvement in sabotaging other exploratory teams. More snark, more action, and Mickey, the pet bot. #SciFi #Space #LGBTQ 🪐📚 35/?

Book cover for Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells. Images is two figures standing on an platform overlooking a domed building.

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' by Juno Dawson. Witches, warlocks & demons-Oh, my! A group of friends must grapple with a dire prophecy that threatens not just their bonds of sisterhood, but possibly all of witch-kind. #Contemporary #LGBTQ #Witch #FavoriteBooks 🪐📚 34/?

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).

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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 13/12/2025

'Katabasis' by R. F. Kuang. #DarkAcademia goes to Hell - literally. After her thesis advisor dies in a magical lab accident, Alice decides to go to Hell & bring him back. Peter, her rival (but not really) tags along. They learn some shocking truths about themselves. #Mythology #LitFic 🪐📚 33/?

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.

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