C. K. Kelly Martin

 You can now pre-order e-copies of my upcoming sci-fi RISE, TOMORROW GIRL at Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Google. On June 21st e-copies will also be available at Apple and paperbacks v...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2024/05/pre-order-rise-tomorrow-girl.html

Anyone interested in speculative fiction might want to check out my upcoming sci-fi novel, Rise, Tomorrow Girl, which I'll be releasing as Cara Martin . In the near future seventeen-year-old...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2024/04/coming-soon-rise-tomorrow-girl.html

The below entry has been cross-posted to my www.justlikeyousaiditwouldbe.com site. With Microsoft Designer in free preview I recently fooled around with the software—purely for fun—and ended...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2024/04/amira-and-darragh-envisioned.html

Today is the 15th anniversary of the release of my first book, I Know It's Over. To celebrate I've designed and released a fresh cover and put e-copies on sale for $1.99 U.S. (or equivalent i...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2023/09/i-know-its-over-15th-anniversary.html

The following is aimed at residents of Canada. If you live here you already know we're in a health care emergency across the country. As Prime Minister Trudeau and Health Minister Duclos go i...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2023/02/canada-protect-our-public-health-care.html

I'm temporarily deactivating my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts for a much-needed social media break. I expect to be back on at least some of these platforms late next month. In the mean...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/10/social-networking-update.html

After arriving home in Ontario last Friday (June 3rd) I received an email from the federal government Monday morning saying that I’d been randomly selected for Covid testing post-travel (ne...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/06/my-misadventure-experience-with-post.html

Since I’m not an Irish resident I had no vote in Ireland’s 2018 Abortion Referendum but I was in Dublin when the vote to overturn their abortion ban came in, and I rejoiced at the nation’s ...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/05/repealing-eighthsaving-roe-v-wade.html

 I don’t know understand how this has been allowed to continue for so long but we’re on day SIXTEEN of Ottawa’s occupation. I’m not sure how much people from outside the area underst...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/02/occupation-of-ottawa-day-16.html

Trump 2024 flag carried on horseback in Ottawa's occupation. Things are deteriorating even further in occupied downtown Ottawa. The city councillors and MPPs doing safe community walks downto...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/02/ottawa-occupied.html

For the third day in a row Ottawa City is being held hostage by a convoy of white supremacist fascists (and their sympathizers) seeking to oust a democratically elected government. The convoy...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2022/01/canadas-capital-city-is-under-siege.html

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/11/november-3rd.html

I'm massively behind on the WIP so it's time for a social media hiatus, except perhaps for the odd photo on Instagram (undoubtedly rare as I won't be doing much except taking a Carleton U cou...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/10/dear-universeon-hiatus.html

If there's one time of year you want to lose yourself in a book that will make you shiver, it's October, when the light is fading and the spirits raise their voices loud enough that we can hear t...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/10/ottawa-book-awards-2020.html

I was incredibly thrilled to learn my latest novel, Shantallow (published under the name Cara Martin ), has made the longlist for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literatur...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/06/shantallow.html

As people across the U.S., Canada and numerous other countries around the world protest racism and police brutality, Chantel Moore, a young Indigenous woman from B. C., was shot dead by a police...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/06/chantel-moore.html

About six months have passed since I finished up my previous cover version of Just Like You Said It Would Be. Between the coronavirus pandemic and other worrying things going on in my life i...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/05/the-cover-is-thing.html

Bill Withers, 1976 | public domain photo I was so sad, this morning, to hear of the passing of the great Bill Withers . I was feeling edgy walking down narrow pharmacy aisles yesterday tryin...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/04/bill-withers.html

Happy St. Patrick's Day! It's by far the strangest one any of us have ever seen but we can still celebrate Ireland. Here's one of my favourite Irish songs in honour of the day. I can't get twe...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/03/paddys-day-2020.html

  Eleven years ago I spent a lot more time blogging than I do these days. MySpace had just lost its place as the largest social networking site in the world, Barack Obama was the President o...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2020/01/the-kind-of-books-i-want-to-write-and.html

> Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. > — Carol Nelson Yuletide decorations and festive lights are going up everywhere, the air's turned col...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2019/12/christmas-book-sale.html

“Every election is determined by the people who show up.” —Larry Sabato So see you at the polls tomorrow, fellow Canadians! This has been one tough & stressful election. My plan is t...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2019/10/canadian-election.html

On September 23, 2008 my first book, a contemporary YA novel called I Know It’s Over was released in the U.S.A. and Canada. Today, eleven books, eleven years and one day later, my first hor...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2019/09/horror-release-day.html

While waiting to see a doctor at the U of Ottawa walk-in clinic early yesterday afternoon an older woman with a Caribbean accent touched my shoulder, leaned over me and said, "It's an excell...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2019/09/lo-tech-sometimes.html

Yes, I borrowed the title of this post from the great Leonard Cohen . I miss him terribly but we were so lucky to have him among us for a time. If you want to read more about my Leonard Cohen...

https://www.ckkellymartin.com/2019/08/you-want-it-darker.html