ABOUT MARTINE MOON

Martine  Moon is the pen name of Angela Timms.  Having a pen name started about twenty years ago as I liked the name Kathryn Moon.  As there is now a successful author of that name I switched to Martine Moon.  Martine was a name my parents had wanted for me but they got a dog first as they thought they couldn't have children.  So the dog got the name.  

I've always been a writer and I love to write.  I see the stories like a film or episodes as they are playing out and I log on to find out how the story is going as much as I would watch a series.  

The Eion Series started as Phoenix Rising which is now the "Infinitology" as I have no idea how many parts it will have.  

At school I had the problem of being "good" at Science so that seemed to take over my love of other things like Art and English.  I always seemed to turn a story into a Science Fiction themed piece and my English Mistress told my mother to try and turn me to writing other things.  At that time there was no money in Sci Fi.  Now the market is flooded but those are all excuses.

As a child I was insular, being an only child.  I had a friend down the road I was forced to spend time with as it was convenient but we didn't get on.  I had a male friend but his father was a problem so our playtime was spoilt by having to keep away from him.  

I preferred to spend time in my room writing and drawing.  That later evolved into making things, I love making things.

The friend I had I believe used to break my toys and one day she came running down the stairs saying that my doll had walked across the room at her.  Sort of a reverse Chucky, the doll was my friend.  It scared me a bit at the time but no doubt is the foundation of the Frixian stories of entities inhabiting toys given with love to protect children.

Life has never been normal.  My mother helped a political party so I was used to people on TV being in the house and being able to tell them about issues.  Again a reverse Damien, I was born in a place I could do good.  

My father was part of the Met Police Horticultural Society and of course he had an allotment.  I had no idea about shop bought vegetables despite living in London and I suppose that is why I want to grow things .

My life has been a huge jigsaw puzzle of all the things I need to do what I'm doing now.  

I joined the College of Psychic Studies and there I found a normality in my everyday life of strange happenings.  I was able to learn why I could do things.

Mum dying of cancer brought me to write again.  She had not exactly been against me writing but she had not seen it as anything of worth until she was ill and read some of my stories.  She encouraged me then and I wrote the original Phoenix Rising to amuse her and take her mind off of things.  It was one huge novel which has now been broken into parts.

Boyfriends and husbands always seemed to mess up my life.  I had to give up a great job with Collins Publishers to follow my fiance to Dorset.  The marriage lasted six months as the ten year age gap and his troubles with getitng on with people in the real world didn't help.  The next husband took me to Guildford and it was all very disruptive.  

The most disruptive all was the compulsive liar or delusional one who managed to get into a relationship with a Millionairess but still wanted to keep me.  That wasn't love, it was something much more sinister.  He had his cake and eat it too by telling me her worked for MI6.  Of course being from a military family, my father was an Ex Royal Marine Commando it was not unlikely and he did have pictures of his Aston Martin with a treasured plate and the money to back up his story.

His virtual threat to my parents and being fed up with being trapped by the situation and circumstance the News of the World got to hear about it.  A half page spread in the newspaper made sure that if anything happened to them he would be the prime suspect.  It took me years to stop the messages which seemed to come every three years.  

His wife found out about me and that I was more than a friend.  She left him shortly after marrying him and I visited their castle, Fairlight, in Hastings.  That was the inspiration for the "bad guy" house in Nemesis as I wanted it in writing to prove that I'd actually been there.  It meant that I got to Fairlight and it was an interesting spiritual situation as well.  

The chaos had left me in limbo as of course I was totally unable to write and where I had been in a great situation at Collins to get my books published I missed that opportunity.  I was going for drinks with the Fiction Editor!

I still write but life again has taken me on another adventure.  I had tried to set up a Care Farm/Community Farm and had bought somewhere with the intention of sharing it but wicked neightbours caused so much trouble that by the time I'd stopped their evil actions and started getting people coming to help with the farm covid hit!  I didn't have the resources to carry the place when there were no grants with the requirements to get things set up so I sold up with the idea of not doing anything charitable or useful again.

We wandered for a couple of years and have finally settled in Spain as it is better for my bad back.  I'm writing again.  Three months last winter saw me rewrite all the novels and I've been writing since.

The Non Lucrative Visa means that I can't publish for money until I'm offered a contract which is enough to qualify for a change to a Nomad Visa so I a writing for free.  I'm continuing the stories and each could lead to a book of its own should that situation ever arise.