For years I’ve been writing mystery and suspense. It was a
natural genre for me. I started my journalism career as a police reporter. I
was also involved in maritime law enforcement in the Coast Guard Reserve. Also,
my late father-in-law was Robert Wade, the great mystery writer who – with his
writing partner, H. Billy Miller – wrote under the pen names Wade Miller and
Whit Masterson. If you’ve ever seen Orson Wells film noir classic “Touch of
Evil,” that was Bob’s book. Bob encouraged me a great deal. Recently, however,
my short fiction has been trending toward science fiction—dystopian settings
and speculative fiction. I like to include social commentary in my work, and
sci-fi is more open to that.
Do you use an outline or just start writing?
Both. Typically I have an opening sentence or scene in my
head and write it down. Then I have to figure out where to go from there. I use
a program called Plot Builder to outline the story. By the time I finish doing that, the story is
fully developed in my head and I write it down without looking much at the
outline.
What is your next project?
I have a full novel coming out titled “The Killing Depths.”
It’s a mystery suspense story that takes place on a submarine. It’s been
completed for some time. “Duty” was a training exercise in indie publishing to
prepare me for publishing “Depths.” The next project I have is a murder mystery
called “Empty Places.” I’m also still writing short stories.
Do you write full time or part time?
Part-time. I still have to earn a living. I’m a research
analyst for the Navy.
When did you start writing?
I wrote my first piece for publication when I
was in the third grade. It was an article for the school paper. I’ve been
writing ever since except for a roughly 10 year gap after 9/11. I was mobilized
for Coast Guard duty for a while after the attacks, and then I went to work for
the Navy just before the Iraq war started. Our op tempo was so high I didn’t
have time to write. Thankfully, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are ending. Website: Martin Roy Hill
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