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Melanie Marttila

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Poetry, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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March 2012

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Melanie Marttila (she/her) is an #actuallyaustitic SFF author-in-progress, writing poetry and tales of hope in the face of adversity. She has been writing since the age of seven, when she made her first submission to CBC's "Pencil Box." She is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s masters program in English Literature and Creative Writing and her poetry has appeared in Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight, and Sulphur. Her short fiction has appeared in Pulp Literature, On Spec, Pirating Pups, and Home for the Howlidays. She lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that bears her surname, with her spouse and their dog, Torvi. ...more

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The next chapter: March 2026 update

An anthology launches! A decision is made! Next up: waiting for the fallout …

Life in general

The month started out with the literal bang of the US-Israeli bombing of Iran, what is now being called the 2026 Iran War. The conflict actually brought February to a close, on the 28th, but none of us knew about it until we woke up on March 1st and heard the news.

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	Home for the Howlidays by M.L.D. Curelas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Angele Gougeon (Goodreads Author), Sarah Hersman (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pirating Pups : Salty Sea-Dogs and Barking Buccaneers by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chadwick Ginther (Goodreads Author), J.B. Riley 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Floating really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bastion Issue #3 June 2014 by R. Leigh Hennig (Editor), Kurt Bachard (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Sperduto (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulp Literature Spring 2023: Issue 38 by Mitchell Toews (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Anat Rabkin (Illustrator), Mel Anastasiou (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudbury Superstack: A Changing Skyline by Melanie Marttila (Goodreads Author), Emily Andrews (Goodreads Author), Lindsay Bayes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polar Starlight, Issue 13, February 2024 by Rhea E. Rose (Editor), Carolyn Clink (Contributor), Robert Dawson (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My Mother Joins the Resistance

by Richard Harrison

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Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

by T. Kingfisher

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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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“Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

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