Featured Interview With Mandi Martin
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a UK author. Since my childhood I have had a multitude of health issues and I have used writing as an outlet. I love to lose myself in creating worlds and hopefully giving people something to enjoy and to think about.
I live of the Isle of Wight with my mother, two cats and a gorilla AKA my brother.
There isn’t much to say about me, I’m just me. Slightly bonkers, sometimes a bit over opinionated, possibly due to Aspergers, and socially awkward!
I love animals and caring for them and I adore sitting watching the waves. I also like graveyards, rather nice to be surrounded by history!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I loved books at a very young age. My mom always read to me and so did my grandparents. They read classics to me and children’s versions of Shakespeare and other great writers so my fascination with the old style written word began then.
I also used to love myths and legends, the old tales of gothic spectres and grim fairies. I still do!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Hard to pick! I love so many styles and authors. I have to say my favourites are all long dead, I find modern fiction somewhat generic and not as captivating.
However I do like The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, probably due to the classical style.
Honestly? No one inspires me as such, I just love to write.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I have an interest in mental health due to issues of my own and I found it intriguing to read and research how older generations treated it.
From macabre, horrific and heinous to those who truly wished to help. This sowed the seed to my latest, set in a Victorian asylum.
James Grey is one of the warders. His day to day quite literally forgettable. Until now. Slowly the world around him starts to change. Plagued by lucid dreams, a haunting drawing and visions of a pleading female he feels his mind is dissolving. Aided by the enigmatic Silas and silent Marianne he seeks to solve the mysteries that are tormenting him.
He is also held back by the unpleasant doctor and unhelpful staff, not to mention the uneasy presence of their most dangerous patient; Atrocity.
Took me over a year as I went into researching and also plotting the twist took a bit of time.
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