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Amberley Martin is a pen name.
Pronouns: she/her
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Amberley Martin is an author from Aotearoa New Zealand. She enjoys baking cookies and drinking tea and can often be found escaping to fantasy worlds.
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Amberley Martin is an author from Aotearoa New Zealand. She enjoys baking cookies and drinking tea, and can often be found escaping to fun, fairytale worlds. Before she started writing fantasy for adults, her YA manuscripts were shortlisted for both the Tessa Duder Award and the Ampersand Prize.
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Amberley Martin is a fantasy author from Aotearoa New Zealand, where she lives on a lifestyle block near Hamilton. She spends her days working as a web developer and her nights lost in imaginary worlds. She enjoys baking cookies, drinking tea, and curling up with a good book (one she preferably didn’t have to write herself.)
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Amberley Martin is a fantasy author from Aotearoa New Zealand, where she lives on a lifestyle block outside of Hamilton. She spends her days working as a web developer and her nights lost in imaginary worlds. Before she started writing for adults, her YA manuscripts were shortlisted for both the Tessa Duder Award and the Ampersand Prize.
Her first novel, The Rogue and the Peasant, is a fun, fairytale adventure featuring non-romantic main characters. It blends the story of Rapunzel with Shakepeare’s Hamlet and features secret identities, long lost family, and a fairy godmother with a taste for trickery.
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Publication date: 1st February, 2022
Publisher: Caveline Press
epub ISBN: 978-0-473-59391-9
Softcover – POD ISBN: 978-0-473-59390-2
Softcover – POD ISBN (2nd edition): 978-1-0670325-0-0
Available In: ebook | paperback
Genre: Fairytale Fantasy
Everyone knows a girl locked in a tower is supposed to wait for a prince—but that isn’t the destiny this girl has in mind.
Esme’s life has been filled with secrets. Her mother says she’s destined to be a queen, but she won’t say when. Or how. Or who Esme’s father is.
When Esme’s imprisoned by the evil fairy godmother, she only has more questions. Who is the young man guarding her? Why is he so interested in her father’s identity? And can she convince him to help her escape before she’s forced to marry whichever self-absorbed prince with a hero complex turns up to rescue her?
Since his father’s murder, Rory’s life has depended on keeping his identity secret. Working for the fairy godmother seems like a fair trade for his safety, until he’s sent to kidnap a girl who wears his family ring, a girl his father’s ghost is suspiciously quiet about.
Unraveling their connection might do more than save them both from the fairy godmother. It might save the fate of an entire queendom.
But can Esme achieve her destiny when Rory’s trying to avoid his own?
The Rogue and the Peasant is a fun, fairytale adventure that blends Hamlet with Rapunzel to make something completely new.
Title: The Demi-Wolf and the HunterPublication date: 9th August, 2022
Publisher: Caveline Press
epub ISBN: 978-0-473-62877-2
Softcover – POD ISBN: 978-0-473-62876-5
Available In: ebook | paperback
Genre: Fairytale Fantasy
Everyone knows that a girl living a life of drudgery is meant to be saved by a prince—but what if one never arrives?
Donella has always dreamed of being rescued from her miserable life working in her father’s tavern, and when the fairy godmother offers to help her in exchange for one simple task, she readily accepts.
After all, how hard can it be to retrieve the heart of the Dead Prince?
Harder than she thinks, because the Dead Prince is very much alive and likes his heart right where it is.
Too scared to break her deal with the fairy godmother, Donella knows that outwitting her is the only way to save the Dead Prince’s life, but how can a humble waitress beat the wickedest witch of them all?
With her curiously intelligent pet wolf at her side, Donella will have to deal with haughty nobles, fight her way through a labyrinth, and overcome her own demons if she wants to save the prince and make her dream come true.
The Demi-Wolf and the Hunter is a fun, fairytale adventure that blends a less-murderous Macbeth with a platonic Beauty and the Beast retelling to make something completely new.
Publication date: 24th January, 2023
Publisher: Caveline Press
epub ISBN: 978-0-473-66286-8
Retail price: US$2.99 (ebook)
Available In: ebook
Genre: Fairytale Fantasy
Everyone knows that a girl living in the woods is meant to chase away anyone who breaks into her house—but what if they can help her break out?
The gingerbread house has been Avalon’s prison ever since she sacrificed herself to save her sister. When she finds a young rogue asleep in her bed, her first thought is to send him away before he becomes a prisoner, too. But instead of leaving, he gives Avalon hope: if she wishes for her freedom, the fairy godmother will grant her wish—for a price.
But the fairy godmother’s price is high. She sets Avalon three seemingly impossible tasks, made all the more difficult when Avalon and the rogue are bound together by a magical, unbreakable chain.
Either both of them will escape … or neither of them will.
And their freedom isn’t the only thing at stake. If Avalon isn’t careful, she’ll have to face up to some truths that she’s been working very hard to ignore. About right. And wrong. And the blurred line between.
Mollification For a Giant is a fun, fairytale adventure inspired by Hansel and Gretel.
Publication date: 15th August, 2023
Publisher: Caveline Press
epub ISBN: 978-0-473-68367-2
Available In: ebook | paperback
Genre: Fairytale Fantasy
When Lenore recognizes the bracelet’s magical ability to spin lies, Cassia thinks that the stubborn llama farmer might be the key to finding the gingerbread house, rescuing her sister, and killing the witch for good.
All she has to do in return is help recover Lenore’s stolen spindles.
And convince Lenore to sell one of her llamas to Cassia’s new employer, the duke.
And somehow untangle the lies she’s told to the duke, Lenore, and herself, before her story falls apart and she loses her sister for good.
The Spinster and the Free Maid is a fun, fairytale adventure that blends Twelfth Night with Hansel and Gretel to make something completely new.