The issue may not be so much pulling independent publishing to pique the interest of the big traditional publishers as acting as an author and publisher yourself. The objective is to fully manage the evolution of some of our own works that, with a good dose of marketing and the vaunted creative democratization of desktop publishing, can rub shoulders with the authors of Planeta, Alfaguara or whoever ...
In it he walks Marta Martin Girón with its success carved from quality and versatility that as soon as it brings it closer to Dolores Redondo as it leads to plots more to the point of Megan maxwell, to name two great Spanish bestsellers in the antipodes within their performances in the noir and the pink.
By the way, it is still paradoxical that self-publishing serves the cause of creative diversification. Because once the vein of a genre has been discovered, the publisher on duty squeezes the author to continue giving birth to similar novels, new installments or whatever best suits the editorial line and the sales achieved. I say this because in the case of an author like Marta or many others, the creative vein is ahead of everything. Because you believe in what you write and write about whatever it is according to opportunity more than opportunism. Afterwards, letters will be taken in the promotional aspects. But the first thing is to write what you feel like so that interesting, lively, fascinating novels come out ...
Top 3 recommended novels by Marta Martín Girón
Every girl that died
The takeoff of a new series with a narrative pulse completely taken by the author. Plot, psychological profiles, action..., everything is perfectly blended in a rabidly natural way so that evil flows like a current throughout the novel...
What motivation pushes a murderer to act? What makes innocent girls become their victims? Inspector Carmen Prado and sub-inspector César Galán from UDEV Central, face one of the most terrifying unsolved cases in living memory. Five years have passed since the crimes of Lorena and Anabel, thirteen years old, found dead several months after they disappeared without a trace.
Now, the lifeless body of a ten-year-old girl found in the Desfiladero de los Tornos, in the province of Burgos, raises fears that it is a new fatality of the sadistic murderer whom the media have nicknamed the Bearded Vulture. However, despite the similarities, little Alicia was barely eight years old when she disappeared, which makes the Police fear that the killer is perfecting his modus operandi. If so, what will be her next step? Is he planning to return to acting? Has he already done it? Will the police be able to catch the murderer before he kills again?
Stewart Match's Secret
There is no secret without guilt or revelation without punishment. The difference between mystery and secret is somewhat similar to that between murder and murder. The treacherous fact of hiding the truth always has a morbid point that can point to the sinister when what is hidden could transform the farce lived around it.
Who would want to murder Stewart Match? Is it possible that he committed suicide? The death in strange circumstances of a sixteen-year-old at his own home brings detectives Liz Cromwell and Jeremy Pruner to the scene. Despite the evidence that it is a suicide, the forensic analysis casts doubt on it. The appearance of a new corpse in similar conditions will push the detectives to a desperate investigation.
But who would want to kill them? What connection was there between the first and the second dead? No footprints. No witnesses. Delving into the lives of the victims will bring terrible secrets to light. Time plays against you. A haunting scenario. A disturbing motivation where dementia and the desire to die are mixed with the desperation to preserve life. Discover Stewart Match's Secret, the crime novel that will throw you into a chilling reality.
White lady
Every crime novel is a challenge to our most balanced psyche, to our band of humanity as a species incapable of harm for harm's sake except for the most abject deviations. Only then… why do we read crime novels? Why this taste for the criminal as an argument?
What's on the mind of a murderer? What crosses that of the victim when falling into their hands? Detectives Yago Reyes and Aines Collado face one of the worst cases of their careers as homicide detectives. The victim, a young girl barely fifteen years old, is found dead and half naked in the rice fields of the Valencian town of Cullera.
Thus begins an investigation against the clock to catch the culprit. With each step taken, suspicions increase that someone from his closest environment could be responsible for his death. However, delving into their lives will reveal terrible secrets; the price to pay will be very high. A disturbing crime, a trail that will lead to a painful truth. Discover Dama Blanca, the crime novel that will make you question the limits of the forbidden.
Other recommended books by Marta Martín Gijón
Heartbeat in the basement
Half with another of the most renowned indie writers: Marcos Nieto Pallares. Do you remember that telltale heart that unhinged some character in Poe who precisely had been in charge of sandwiching his victim? Basements are the best place not to hear those beats of guilt, resentment, but also fear. Everyone is free to safeguard in their basements what best suits them ...
Detective Josh Lauper, in the final stretch of his career, finds himself facing one of the worst cases of his faultless career. Along with his partner, Margaret Casidi, he witnesses the scene of a horrifying crime: lying on a bank of the Kansas River, lies the remains of a boy with scorched genitals and obvious signs of violence.
The first signs point to a reckoning. The reality led them to a much more terrifying and disturbing scenario. On the sidelines, ready to finish what he started, the executioner continues to carry out his plan, placing the investigators against the ropes, leading the case into a race against time. No one saw it coming, no one was prepared. Not even the architect predicted the end of his own work.
