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Melanie Marttila

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in Sudbury, Canada

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Poetry, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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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: October 2025 update

My continuing adventures in caregiving. And buckle up, folks, this is an epic update (!)

Life in general

A picture of a cloudy sky above spruce trees.

It was October 2nd, and I was cocooned (weighted blanket, weighted eye mask, ear plugs) and sleeping when my phone started ringing around 2 am. I roused and checked the number. No caller ID. From Utah? Who would be calling me from Utah? I ignored it. Then there was a second call.

Later, there

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Average rating: 4.32 · 44 ratings · 22 reviews · 6 distinct works

	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 4.69 avg rating — 13 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
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	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

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The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack

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The True Origins of World War II: The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle

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Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

by Cait Gordon (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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