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Melanie Marttila

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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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When I stopped working on July 30th, I think I went into shutdown. It might be more accurate to say that my nervous system crashed. I didn’t do anything for the first three days. There were still things to do (there are always things to do, aren’t there?), though, and I rallied myself to do them, but there were signs of ramp

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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 — 13 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 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	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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“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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