by Mike Martin, @mike54martin.bsky.social Some people believe that Christmas can only be the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus. Others who are more secular think that it is a time to gather [...]
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by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Where do stories come from? That’s a question I get asked a lot. So do other writers. The simple answer is that we get our stories from everywhere. Sometimes [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin It seems like I have been writing the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series forever. Well, it has been a long time. The Walker on the Cape came out in 2012 [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin What’s different about writing for children than for adults? I hadn’t thought about that until recently when after 13 books in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series I ended up [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin I have been a writer all of my life. As long as I can remember I was captivated by the magic and wonder of books. And I wanted [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Somebody recently asked me how did one write a mystery series? That was a good question. Safe Harbour, the latest in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series is Book #10. [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin It has been a long year for many people. A very difficult one, too. If you have gotten sick, I hope you recover soon. If any of your family [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Christmas in Newfoundland: Memories and Mysteries was the longest book to write. Over a period of 10 years I wrote a Christmas themed story for my family. They started [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Darkest Before the Dawn won the 2019 Bony Blithe Award as the best light mystery of the year. Wow!! I was more than a little surprised to win. Mostly [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin All fiction requires the reader to suspend belief in order to follow the story. You have to pretend that you are in a different location with people that you don’t [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin The setting for the Sgt. Windflower Mysteries is not just a prop or a way to entice the reader to enter the realm of these books, although I certainly hope [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin In some ways it’s easy to write a series. You already have a frame in which to sketch your story. Usually, that means you have a general location or [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin I have often seen articles that talk about the best and the worst aspects of being an independent writer. Usually their central theme is that we should stop whining [...]
by Mike Martin I know you are not supposed to, but I do judge a book, at least whether I am going to buy it or not, based on the picture on the [...]
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