Martin is an award-winning author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, though his work often tends to bleed into multiple genres. He delights in bringing his readers stunning literary prose mixed with glorious cinematic-style writing with subtextual commentary.
While other 80’s kids watched G.I. Joe and Transformers, he was scared to death from Alien and The Terminator (probably not the best content for an eight year old). While his friends growing up were reading Tolkien, Martin explored the lost landscapes of Robert E. Howard’s Hyboria with Conan.
These works and movies shaped the kind of writer he became. Books should be cinematic and epic and adventurous and dangerous. The theatre of the mind is the greatest of all, and heroes should be normal people who find their power through extraordinary circumstances. Even Martin’s first faltering attempts at playing Dungeon Master contained big ideas with epic storylines, even if they fell short of the mark he aimed for.
He set aside creation as adulthood and life happened, as they always do, but returned to it around 2009. He published his first novel in 2011.
“In the end, I’m just a guy who likes to tell stories and headbang in the car. I hope you’ll come along for the ride.”
