About Marten Hoyle:
The Marten Hoyle Project (the initials of which stand for Mental Health Problems) is the name assigned to a Literary Endeavor based in the psychological setting of the Eglantine Home for the Poetically Unsound in Mettray, USA. The Project is held anonymously by the Voice of a being known as Vate C. Carmen.
Hoyle suffers from the disease, schizophrenia but considers the Voice of “Vate C. Carmen” (a genderless hallucination which has been with him since earliest childhood) to be the source of his creative output.
Born on April 15th, 1988, in Spokane, Washington, Hoyle began writing at the age of six. He began writing poetry regularly at the age of fourteen when he discovered both the Holy Sonnets of John Donne and the musical achievements of Pink Floyd.
Hoyle has been consistent in his output of prose and poetical works for nearly thirty years. His first professional publication was an epic poetry trilogy titled Symphoniya de Toska that was released from Wheelsong Books in 2023, and later that same year his first novel, Voces Animarum was published by I Ain’t Your Marionette Press.
Consisting primarily of written works, The Marten Hoyle Project produces visual as well as musical media to accompany the compositional endeavors, which Hoyle considers to be “Literary Symphonies.” Voces Animarum is the first book in a series of such “symphonic literary movements” titled Filii der Bedlam, all of which are scheduled for future release from I Ain’t Your Marionette Press.
Known themes in the Literary Endeavor of “Marten Hoyle” include melancholy, suicidal ideation, death, loneliness, isolation, philosophical theory on the subjective nature of reality, and insanity. The works of Marten Hoyle have been compared to those of such literary giants as Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and William Shakespeare.
What inspires you to write?
I hear a voice in my head, which (among the voices of my schizophrenia) has a name and personification in photo/videographic form. This voice calls itself, "Vate C. Carmen" and tells me what to write.
What authors do you read when you aren’t writing?
Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Baudelaire, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dickens, Dickinson…the list goes on and on really.
Tell us about your writing process.
I write what "Vate" comes up with. We never outline anything, we simply create as we go. There is only ever one draft. I never compose more than one draft because I do not want to relive the events which inspire the singular manuscript. All of my publications were first drafts, and were accepted by the first place(s) I sent them to. So, don't think for a moment that it cannot be done.
For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
No. Listening to "Vate" makes me feel insane enough as it is.
What advice would you give other writers?
I do not have any advice for other writers, and as a writer continues to mature and advance with their skill, they will understand why.
How did you decide how to publish your books?
I really do not have a straightforward answer to that. I was approached for the first three books, and the novel, Voces Animarum (along with the other six books that comprise its series) found representation about a month after I wrote it at the first place to which I sent it. I will emphasize again that I never, ever write more than one draft.
What do you think about the future of book publishing?
I tend to not think much about it.
What genres do you write?: fiction, horror, poetry, psychological thriller, LGBTQIA
What formats are your books in?: Both eBook and Print
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Link To Marten Hoyle Page On Amazon
Link to Author Page on Deviant Art
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