marlanesque

Martin Kee is an author, pseudonym, gamer, husband, Redditor, cyclist, paper-modeler, reader, and musician. He is the author of A Latent Dark (2012) and BLOOM (2013) He has also written numerous short stories and contributed to dozens of video games. He is perhaps most famously known for building papercraft Eve Online ships, which continue to haunt him wherever he goes. He lives near San Francisco with his wife and their myriad of pets. He is a huge fan of technology, cats, dinosaurs, music, robots, bad science-fiction films, drum corps, humor, books, steampunk, horror, ravens, and strangeness. You can follow him on twitter @fersnerfer, or on Facebook Who runs marlanesque? That’s me, Marlan. Martin Kee is a pseudonym. You can call me Marlan if you like. Why use a pseudonym? It’s easy to remember. It shows up better on an Amazon search. It doesn’t get mispronounced or misspelled. Does that happen a lot? Only since birth. I give “Smith” as a name when I order Starbucks. After a while hearing “Grande white mocha for… Mar….Marlene? Marlane?” get’s a little old. So what are you, some kind of writer? Sure. I write text for video games mostly. I wrote an entire story for a Marathon mod called “Sons of Ludd” in the 90s. Now I write copy and content for mobile games as well as test them. That’s it? No. I write novels and short fiction. For a living? Lol… no. Oh, so you aren’t published. No I am. I’ve been in newspapers, newsletters… I published a book called A Latent Dark. It’s up on Amazon and Smashwords. I have a second novel called Bloom that should be coming out next year. Oh, so not really published. Depends on your definition. The book has been workshopped, vetted and professionally edited. Also the cover is great! It would look good on any bookshelf. It’s gotten some excellent reviews from people who have read it. Do you do anything else? I play a lot of video games. I ride a bike. I build paper models. I like making stuff. Stuff, huh? It keep me off the streets. And it beats watching TV.