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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · 1h

I think the music from the games is permanently stuck in my brain

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 13h

spoiler warning - people are going to really like this next book of Nick's.

Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a part of me that’s worried how people will respond to the next book I’ve written since it’s such a hard pivot from KoL but there’s also the part of me that’s like “It would be boring to write the same kind of stories over and over again for decades. Why not see how a new thing does?”

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 5d

For a limited time only, @jeremyteg.bsky.social's THE HAND OF THE SUN KING is on sale for 99 cents wherever you buy ebooks! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a part of me that’s worried how people will respond to the next book I’ve written since it’s such a hard pivot from KoL but there’s also the part of me that’s like “It would be boring to write the same kind of stories over and over again for decades. Why not see how a new thing does?”

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Voyage of the Forgotten’s Graphic Audio version is on sale to celebrate the one year anniversary of it being out!

A fantastic rendition, it honestly made me forget I wrote it!

75% OFF The Voyage of the Forgotten (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Legacy of the Mercenary King 3

'In this twistingly beautiful and epically thrilling conclusion to the fantasy trilogy The Legacy of the Mercenary King, Michael, the infamous Kingkiller, and Serena, the Hollow Queen, race again...

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Quote from something new I enjoyed writing

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Dec 22

Finally got them all! Wild to see that one of the series that started my path to becoming a writer finished after so many years! (For now)

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Dec 19

Genuinely don’t understand how a car rental place can take a reservation and then just be like ‘whoops we don’t have anything in stock 🤷‍♂️’ when I get there

Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Dec 19

Congrats man!

Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Dec 18

A reminder that if you want to know what the book I’m working on is—you can read the first chapter of it when you sign up for my newsletter.

Tentatively, the novel is called TERMINA STATION

Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 14

As always, the best place to keep up with what I’m doing is my newsletter.

And if you sign up you get the 1st chapter of what I’m doing next in the Welcome email. I’m biased, but it’s awesome

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Thank you!

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 26

Why did they make an Arizona Iced Tea advent calendar? Am I only one who bought it? Is it filled with just cans? And why does it make me laugh every time I see it?

Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 26

Yeah ngl I’m excited to get told this year I’m probably in the 0.01% of Kendrick Lamar listens

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 26

AI will always be a threat to creatives—just look at the latest AI ‘publishing’ company—but I genuinely worry in the years to come with authors will have to give up in contracts negotiation to secure rights about keeping AI out of their work in Trad.

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 26

If this were MySpace I would know your favorite song tho. So have we really advanced?

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · Nov 20

Coming in July 2025 - STONE AND SKY

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 19

WOW that’s looks fantastic

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The Broken Binding @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are beyond thrilled to be producing a special edition of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang! 😍🔥

This release has been amazing to work on, and we’d like to give a special thank you to @petrikleo.bsky.social for his art direction

The Broken Binding special edition of Blood Over Bright Haven, features a new cover by Danlin Zhang. Red flames going upwards to a glass ceiling with a figure stood in the middle of the flames

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 19

Underrated part of being an author is going into a bookstore and seeing so many books written by friends

Really brings it home how crazy it is to be in publishing that so many people I respect the work of are now peers

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 18

It’s been crazy to see the growth in this platform this past week. Huge influx of people

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 17

12k words written for the week, better than my usual 10k. With about 8 on one project then 4 on another. Hoping back between them seems to be keeping my pace a little higher than normal.

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 16

I can sympathize 💯 I pulled a book because it wasn’t the right thing to publish next. So now my next won’t be out until 2026 too. It’s…really odd to watch the release schedule pass by

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 12

I’m Nick Martell, author of the Mercenary King series and some weird other stuff.

I write fantasy novels about shattered moons, memory magic systems, magical serial killers, catastrophic love, odd trains, and a lot of broken people.

Here’s me next to all the editions of my books:

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hey! Any chance I could be added to this if there’s space?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Nov 15

Every single one of your favorite artists started out as a wannabe. They all worshiped other artists; were all told it would never happen for them. They all had an inner voice telling them they weren't good enough.

But they had the stones to tell all those voices to go screw and made art anyway.

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · Nov 15

Oh I get that 💯 Usually for me that rush of word count is at the 3/4 mark of the book, but only because I write out of order and the ending is typically already done