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Recent Updates:
01/16/10 Just posted Houses of the Dead as part of the Crossed Genres Post a Story for Haiti effort.
12/29/09 Martha will be Special Guest at AggieCon 41 in College Station, TX, February 5-7, 2010. The mass market German edition of The Death of the Necromancer is now available.
09/15/09 New short story: Reflections, published in Black Gate #10.
08/11/09 New short story: Holy Places, published in Black Gate #11. If you enjoy the story, please consider putting a donation in the tip jar.
07/14/09 New short story: The Potter's Daughter, first published in Elemental: the Tsunami Relief Anthology.
07/10/09 New short story: The Forest Boy.
06/18/09 More books now available in Amazon Kindle Editions. List of agent blogs added to the links page.
06/01/09 Updated the list of Interviews and Questions.
04/24/09 The website RisingShadow.net, which is in both English and Finnish, just posted a short interview with Martha (in English) here. The Link List has also been updated.
12/17/08 The French edition of The Gate of Gods (translated by Anne Belle, cover by Amandine Labarre) will be available in late January from Amazon.fr.
9/03/08 For German fans: there's an interview with Martha up on Linda Dannenberg's blog fantasyfaszination.
06/22/08 Martha's story "Houses of the Dead" is available in Black Gate #12.
04/15/08
The German edition of The Death of the Necromancer is now available.
01/19/08 Some of Martha's older short stories are available in print again through Anthology Builder. And the links page has been updated.
See the old What's New.
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Reviews:
 "One of the best new writers the field has to offer."
- C.J. Cherryh
"The luxurious Queen Ravenna makes a fascinating backdrop for the culture clashes with the magic-hating Syprians (who regard all unfamiliar technology as magic), not to mention political squabbles among the refugees, troubles with ghosts, at least one spy, and the mad sorcerer locked in the makeshift brig. ... A vastly entertaining and refreshingly different fantasy adventure with a surprisingly satisfying conclusion for the middle book of so complex a series."
- Carolyn Cushman Locus for The Ships of Air
"The vivid setting of a gas-lit city, equal parts decadence and elegance, would eclipse lesser characters than these. Character construction and setting are so deftly interwoven with the swiftly moving plot that the prose literally swept me away. The reader should be warned in advance, it is difficult to close the covers of this book."
- Robin Hobb for The Death of the Necromancer
In Wells's fine follow-up to 2003's The Wizard Hunters, Tremaine Valiarde emerges as one of the fantasy genre's more distinctive heroines--intelligent, wry, bitingly funny and impossible not to like. With Ile-Rien overrun by the merciless Gardier, Tremaine's motley band of Rienish and Syprian fighters may be her country's only hope of survival. Luckily for Ile-Rien, Tremaine--with the help of Syprians Illias and Gillead--might just be resourceful enough to find a weakness in the seemingly impervious Gardier's military machine. But first, she has more important things to worry about, like convincing the rest of the Rienish contingent that she's competent to lead them. A nice twist at the end will leave readers eager for the next installment in this strong series.
- Publishers Weekly for The Ships of Air
"If you haven't read Wells yet, you've missed one of the more graceful wordsmiths currently writing fantasy, and if you have, you're in for a treat." "I have a weakness for clever dialogue. I have a weakness for wry observation. I have a weakness for clever people. Wells delivers all of these things, but without obvious flash; it's so much a part of her writing that you couldn't separate the two without stripping the book of words."
- Michelle West The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for The Wizard Hunters
Wrenches the Valiarde saga into a whole new dimension of wonder,
tension, and excitement.
- Kirkus Reviews  for The Wizard Hunters
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