Long
before I was an author I was a fan of books about
Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne of Green
Gables and anything by Judy Blume. Throughout high
school my favourite class was English. No surprise,
then, that most of my time spent at York University
in Toronto was as an English major—not the
traditional way to graduate with a B.A. in Film
Studies but a fine way to get 
a general arts education.
After graduation I headed for Dublin,
Ireland and spent the majority of the nineties there
in forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable
people and enjoying
the buzz. I always thoughts I'd get around to
writing in earnest eventually and I began writing
my first novel in a flat in Dublin and finished
it in a Toronto suburb. By then I'd discovered that
young adult fiction felt the freshest and most exciting
to me. You have most of your life to be an adult
but you only grow up once!
As a writer, I'm naturally crazy
about good books – but also good movies
and good music. My recommended
reading list is available on this site, along
with a collection of literary
and general interest
links and other assorted
favourites. An avid interest in web site design
prompted me to design my first writer's site, The
Start of Something.com, which was named one of the
top ten in Writer's Digest 2001 Best Web Site Competition.
The C.K. Kelly Martin web site is now my main site
– every inch designed and maintained
by me.
Currently residing near Toronto with
my Dub husband, I became an Irish citizen in 2001
and continue to visit Dublin often (although not
as often as I'd like!) while working on novels.
My first book, I
Know It's Over, came out with Random House in
September 2008, and was followed by
One Lonely Degree,
The Lighter Side of Life and Death and My
Beating Teenage Heart. My next young adult novel,
Yesterday,
will hit shelves September 25th and at the end of
June I'm releasing my first 'new adult' novel, Come
See About Me, as an ebook. You can read more
about the novel and 'new adult' fiction in general
on my March
26th blog entry.
Still looking for more info? Check
out the FAQ/IAQ
and this list of other places
you can find me.
