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Victoria K Martin

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she/her | settler on unceded Anishinaabe territory | writer, editor, owner of a very large dog | 💗💜💙

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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Updating my book bracket for the year, and it's been a good one for non-fiction so far. I would not be surprised if Like, Follow, Subscribe ends up the winner, though we'll see what challengers appear in the fall/winter. #amreading
An image showing the author's 2026 book bracket, including the following best books of the month:

January: Atmospher by Taylor Jenkins Reid
February: The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
March: Bride by Ali Hazelwood
April: Like, Follow, Subscribe by Fortesa Latifi
May: Platform Decay by Martha Wells
June: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
July: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
August: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte

Current top read of the year is Like, Follow, Subscribe.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If we are spitballing counter tariff options, how about geolocking season 2 of Heated Rivalry? #elbowsup
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I knew that I re-read Pretty Face by @lucyparkerauthor.bsky.social a lot, but I didn't realize that I was this consistent (I will blame the baby for missing out on 2024). I guess I know what I am reading summer of 2027 already 😂
A screenshot from the website Goodreads showing that Pretty Face by Lucy Parker has been read once a year between 2019 and 2026, except for 2024.
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I decided to switch up 3 of my 4 favourite films on Letterboxd the other day. Still debating if I'm happy with the current line-up, but I think it's a pretty good indicator of my specific tastes. Other nearly there contenders were Inception, The Devil Wears Prada, and Gone Girl.
Image of four movie posters under the title Favorite Films. The movies are: The Empire Strikes Back, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Inside Out, and Knives Out.
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:)
At the top of the image, text says: "now announcing..."
In the center of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1"
Below the book, text says: "find Locus on kickstarter"
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
bona-books.com
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I just backed khōréō: Year 6 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
kickstarter.com
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
GOOOOOOOOOAL! Canada is on fire! #worldcup
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Really good overview of the whole situation from @laurenpelley.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | The deadly hantavirus outbreak could keep growing, beyond the cruise ship. What have we learned? | CBC News
Hantavirus took hold on a weeks-long cruise before global health officials had any idea that a rodent-borne illness was silently spreading. More people keep falling ill back on land. Scientists expect...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/03/2026
Every time someone wants to sue over multiple pages of “similarities” like “our heroes are both sexy” “our heroines are both from the same state,” I always say that it is a bad idea and you will lose and it will cost you a lot of money.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/03/2026
article is pure clickbait but it got me too—it's so difficult to resist the gift of righteous outrage lol. the weirdest thing is how the article seems to understand point of view even less than the people it's mocking allegedly do, e.g. identifying third person entirely with omniscient narrators
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I am pretty sure I just drove through the Other World from Silent Hill. So much fog in Ottawa tonight.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Thanks, @bearmccreary.bsky.social, I needed to cry today.
Screenshot of a direct message that says: "listening to Spotify at work and a song with the Roslin and Adama theme starts but not sure which one it is, so I got to look."

Below is a screenshot identifying the song as So Much Life by Bear McCreary, from the Battlestar Galactica Season Four soundtrack.

Below that is three sob emojis in a row.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2025 Reading Life on Kobo!
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I won't be finishing any more non-board books this year, so finally ready to put together my full book bracket of 2025.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I am still hoping to get some more books finished before the end of the year, but the current graphics are pretty neat. #GoodreadsYearInBooks
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I miss my dog.
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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Canadian citizens and residents, there's a new official parliamentary petition raising the issue of electoral reform and proportional representation. Signing is a direct means of meaningful action toward improving our democracy, and it just takes a moment to do. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-6993 - Petitions
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy #SpotifyWrapped2025! No big surprises, though I feel like between working in the office more and having a toddler, things might be on the verge of change.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Every time I listen to the Dragon Age: Inquisition soundtrack (currently on the Dark Solas theme, and Lost Elf is next!), I so desperately want to play it again. Top-tier score from Trevor Morris; he should have been asked to come back for Veilguard.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I thought I had lost Whamageddon already, but I just checked the rules, and I guess it doesn't start until December, so I'm still in it! Here's hoping the person in charge of the music at my daughter's gymnastics classes gets it together!
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I see the book piracy discourse is going around again and all I can say is I know more than one writer producing acclaimed work that is considering jacking it in or reducing the amount they write because they don't make to justify it vs a job job. It's not only piracy, but piracy is costing us art.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The office ice cream is now gone (fair enough, as there is snow on the ground). But if there was some, I would definitely have had at least one by now because toddler was awake at 3am until nearly 5. At least it's peppermint mocha season.
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 20/11/2025
It hits different reading this whole thread.
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Image showing four text messages about fae in romantasy books:
Message 1: “Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!”
Message 2: “Didn't have getting dragged in the comments on my bingo card today. Thank you to those that were kind. I'm new to romantasy and fantasy in general. Until I had read SJM, I hadn't encountered books with fae described like that. I didn't make the connection between Celtic folklore, fairies, elves, or sprites with being fae since their characteristics and mannerisms are drastically different. Tink is tiny. Puck has goat legs. The closest I encountered were elves in LOTR, but those were not faeries.”
Message 3: “Forgive me for not knowing fae were inspired by Celtic folklore. I'm not Irish. I was never told these stories. I was just surprised two separate book series shared very similar interpretations of fae. I've enjoyed the genre of romantasy bc it's really gotten me back into reading. That's the goal, right? To continue to learn and escape into stories and discuss theories and celebrate the beauty of imagination? At least, that's what I'm gonna focus on.”
Message 4: “Clarifying my original point: I never said SJM invented fae. My post was only comparing how Quicksilver and SJM depict fae characters (their traits, dynamics, etc.) and whether THIS interpretation of fae is common in romantasy books, not the origins of the mythology. I also didn't grow up connecting fairies, elves, and fae as one mythology. They were always separate in my mind, so I'm still learning how interconnected they are across folklore. Thanks to those who pointed that out respectfully.”
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Signs my two-week long cold is finally getting better: I can now hit the A5 in Golden! No promises for how good it actually sounds, but I can get to it.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Could we sneak Joe Carter into this game somehow?
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Come on, best Bieber!
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Gonna need at least one more extra hour tonight to recover from that 9th inning.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
😭😭😭
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Baseball is stressful.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/10/2025
Country with massive housing shortage not sure what to do with all these empty office buildings
thebeaverton.com
Country with massive housing shortage not sure what to do with all these empty office buildings
OTTAWA - As employees continue to express their desire to work from home, owners of downtown office buildings aren't sure what they will do with all this unused space. Also in unrelated news Canada ha...
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Back at work after an unexpected 4-day weekend (it was supposed to be 3-day because of real Thanksgiving, but then I had to take Friday too because kiddo had a mild fever) and already had my first ice cream. Off to a great start! Not looking forward to when the office's ice cream stock runs out.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Home today with a toddler who had a fever yesterday, but today is back to just being all snotty, which has been the case since *checks calendar* the beginning of September, when she started a new daycare. The glamourous life of a SMBC of a toddler.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I am going to have a really hard time choosing my favourite book of the year. I have fallen in love with a lot of great ones.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
So happy that I finally picked up my copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches because I love it. I recently wrote a modern-day witch story (on sub to Tales & Feathers) and this is really inspiring me to turn it into something longer ... at some point when I have time (ha ha ... ha).
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 16/09/2025
Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
usatoday.com
New 'Murderbot' book promises 'family road trip from hell': See the cover
"Murderbot" fans are in for a treat with Martha Wells' eighth book "Platform Decay." The author shares what she's excited for readers to see.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
If you can get past the paywall, this article is very beautiful and also very sad. CW dementia and medical-assisted end of life. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m... The Paperbag Princess and Love You Forever were absolute staples of my childhood.
nytimes.com
When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I'm really happy to have found a system for getting myself to write that is, at least for the time being, working pretty well. I've been using Pacemaker Planner to create plans for various projects, but the daily goal is never bigger than 500 words.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
substack.com
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Jo French @gothinkdexign.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:
1. The following LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class is CERTIFIED:
All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. "Book" refers to any work possessing an
ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication.
Excluded are the directors, officers and employees of Anthropic, personnel of federal agencies, and district court personnel.
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This series gives me such joy. I particularly love how each one has centered on a different type of mystery, totally ready for Rian Johnson's take on a locked room mystery.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/09/2025
I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases. As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors. (No paywall) www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...
qasimrashid.com
How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids
Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
hey canadians! here's something politically actionable you can do about the payment processor censorship! sign the petition #CanPoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
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Victoria K Martin @victoriakmartin.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Whoever trained the ESPN prediction machine should have not included the obvious American bias. Anisimova definitely could win, but no way is that the more likely outcome here. My mother wondered if the A in AI stands for American instead of Artificial. #USOpen2025
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