Victoria K. Martin's Blog, page 4
June 30, 2018
My book watchlist, 2018; #BookishBloggersUnite
#BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly hashtag that a group of bookish friends participate in to talk about books. This week’s host is Bookish Bron, check out their blog for more links. Today, I’m taking a look at the upcoming releases for the back half of 2018 and listing the titles I’m most excited about. I have […]
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June 28, 2018
I’m still alive – and preparing for a writing weekend
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, for a variety of reasons. The primary one is that I just finished up editing a book for the amazing Renaissance Press, which took up a good portion of my free time that would otherwise be spent writing things like blog posts. The other reason is that […]
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May 25, 2018
The Read Harder Challenge
For the last several years, I have attempted to complete Book Riot’s Read Hard Challenge, which aims to introduce new genres, new authors, and new worlds, both real and imaginary, into your reading life. And each year, I have failed
Happy birthday, Renaissance Press!
For the last several years, I’ve had the privileged of editing books for the amazing Renaissance Press. And now, with the publication of We Shall Be Monsters (which you can still support on Kickstarter), I am going to be a Renaissance author as well! This year, Renaissance turns 5 years old and I couldn’t be […]
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May 18, 2018
A Book for All Seasons; #BookishBloggersUnite
#BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly hashtag that a group of bookish friends participate in to talk about books. This week’s host is Sarah @ Reviews & Read-a-Thons, check out her blog for more links. It took awhile, but Ottawa is finally beginning to warm up and get some sun. Naturally, my thoughts start turning to good […]
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May 14, 2018
I’m participating in Bout of Books!
It’s time for another readathon! I’ll be participating in the Bout of Books 22. This one is a bit different from Dewey’s Readathon but promises to be just as fun. Here’s the info for those who haven’t heard of this one before (which included me until this morning, when one of my Book Riot Insider […]
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May 10, 2018
We Shall Be Monsters
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein‘s publication, Renaissance Press is releasing We Shall Be Monsters, an anthology of short stories from a diverse group of authors, many of whom represent marginalized voices. I am excited to announce that one of my stories, “Mother Monster,” will be included in the collection. There is currently a […]
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My Life in Books Tag; #BookishBloggersUnite
#BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly hashtag that a group of bookish friends participate in to talk about books. This week’s host is Sue – check out her blog to find links to other posts. This week, we were inspired by a post @ Talking Tales and decided to do our own life in book tags post, […]
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April 30, 2018
Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon; #BookishBloggersUnite
#BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly hashtag that a group of bookish friends participate in to talk about books. This year, I participated in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon for the first time and had a great time. I not only got to spend a day reading, I also finished a number of books and got to have […]
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April 18, 2018
Favourite Side Characters; #BookishBloggersUnite
#BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly hashtag that a group of bookish friends participate in to talk about books. It is really hard for me to pick favourite side characters, because I have so very many of them. In fact, it’s fairly rare for the main character to be my favourite. I once heard the difference between […]
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