Ask the Author: Ian Martyn
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Ian Martyn
Welcome to the afterlife pub. No, sorry, we only sell lager.
Ian Martyn
The Northumberland of my Inspector Kirby series. All the natural magnificence with a bit of magic thrown in.
Ian Martyn
Bit late, but I'm working my way back through all Terry Pratchett's Disc World Series. Also, Conn Iggulden's series on Julius Caesar. All interspersed with a bit of Space Team nonesense.
Ian Martyn
Having read science fiction since my teens I guess I've absorbed so many ideas and concepts that are then percolating in my brain. However, sometimes inspiration for a novel might come from a short story written for my writing group (always a rich breeding ground for ideas), or often the just the world around me, what's in the news perhaps that might lend itself to the sci-fi treatment.
Ian Martyn
I don't suffer from 'writers block'. If the book is not going well, I try a short story or work on my next blog.
Ian Martyn
Simply, after working in industry for many years I am now doing what I want to do.
Ian Martyn
Just write - anything, short stories, poetry whatever grabs you. Oh and joining a writing group, always good for inspiration and support.
Ian Martyn
I'm currently revising my third novel 'Bleak'. I have also just finished a first draft of a sequel to my first novel 'Ancestral Dreams'. The intention is to make it a trilogy, so I will delay publication until the third is also ready to launch.
Ian Martyn
It seems to me we are ruining our planet for future generations, I wondered where this might take us.
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