Don Martin

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin

Don Martin. Page Street, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-89003-270-6As a teenage witch in training, Verity Vox—accompanied by her shape-shifting familiar, Jack—travels from one community to another, offering her magical services at no cost as practice toward perfecting her ability to cast spells through song and spoken spells. Her latest request, mysteriously delivered to Verity upon a leaf, reads: “We’re cursed...

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin

Jeannine Atkins. Atheneum, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6659-7754-8In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from the trauma of sexual violence and finding her voice through poetry. Circa 1972, 18-year-old Atkins returns to her Massachusetts childhood home to process “the word that ends one story and starts another.” When her stoic parents offer little support, she gains fleeting comfort from Sylvia Plath’s poetry.

2 months ago | medium.com | Don Martin

Member-only storyTraditional, long lengths wasted his time until it led him to this discovery. Based on the FOUR PILLARS he shares here. Don Martin, real-life writer, author, storyteller. ·Follow3 min read·--Photo by Tai Bui on UnsplashMy Personal Four Pillars. I like to think of myself as an author. But I am an author who works best with a schedule and a plan. It just works better for me. And I don’t pretend to know it all, but I have learned a few things that work for me which I am sharing with you.

Feb 28, 2025 | medium.com | Don Martin

About my musical tastes and my writingDon Martin, real-life writer, author, storyteller. ·Follow5 min read·--PandoraMe, the host:As I have said before, I have taken to listening to Celtic folk music, and some is almost quite a different language. Does Wales speak a combination of German-ish and lazy English? Smarter me, Frank, my guest:Welsh (Cymraeg) is actually a completely separate language from English and isn’t a Germanic language at all.

Feb 26, 2025 | medium.com | Don Martin

AgainDon Martin, real-life writer, author, storyteller. ·Follow2 min read·--Photo by Peggy Anke on UnsplashI intend it to bring a powerful one-two punch to bludgeon both your common sense and your good taste. In a way, I hate to call it “hump-day humor” because that may be a great disservice to the word humor. There is, however, no cute alliteration for the word oddness. Some items here in the future may not be funny but only strange.