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J. Martain, ALLi Author Member
Location: United States
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Poetry, Women's Fiction
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
J. Martain is a coastal North Carolina native who spends most of her time questioning the way the universe and all the beings in it work. This often leads her down a deep research rabbit hole until she resurfaces with a new theory and a backstory to explain it.
She writes poetry and emotive Southern fiction with characters who may or may not be human, and hosts "The Creative If" podcast.
J. Martain's books
Forgetting the Lost
Most children are afraid of the dark. She knows better.
Six-year-old Madeline Galloway knows she's unlikeable. Unlovable. Uncanny. But when she encounters a strange man she believes to be a fallen angel, her abilities might save her life.
Or ruin it.
Set in coastal North Carolina in the 1940s, this powerful novella can be read as a standalone, or as a prequel to the paranormal/sci-fi novel "Daughters of Men." Part Southern gothic, part supernatural suspense, this literary work has a bittersweet ending that will haunt you long after finishing.
My Alien Life: A Novelette
A sassy and sweet bit of Southern fiction.
Four chapters of laughs, tears, and everyday strangeness...
"My mother was a no-nonsense woman. If it wasn’t in the Bible or on Jerry Springer, then it couldn’t happen. Of course, there’s a lot of freaky stuff in the Good Book, with ladders to heaven and angels with animal faces and such. And crazy, muckraking talk shows probably aren’t the best yardstick for anything short of how depraved humans can be. But the point is that when she was abducted by aliens and impregnated with me, she had some trouble processing. I’m pretty sure Jerry actually covered that one, but I guess she missed the show that day. TiVo hadn’t been invented yet, ...
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Daughters of Men
Forces stronger than hurricanes are at work in the Cape Fear.
For thirty-one years, Lila has hidden her extrasensory abilities, creating a small life in the same coastal North Carolina city where she was born. But her nightmares have grown worse, her angels still haven’t learned Morse code, and raising a thirteen-year-old genius requires the kind of mental focus that Lila has never quite mastered. Still, the abnormal seems fairly normal—until a strange young man appears and a new friend confides a shocking truth about her pregnancy.
Sal, on the other hand, has never attempted to hide. In his experience, humans do not see what they do not wish to acknowledge. He moves among them, id ...
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