Martin Bolton was born in Cornwall in 1979 and now lives and works in Bristol.

Previously he concentrated on his artwork and writing small pieces of nonsense for the amusement of his friends, before deciding to do some serious creative writing. His first published work, a full length novel co-written with David Pilling, The Best Weapon, was published by Musa Publishing on 02 March 2012.

His work is inspired by such authors as Robert E Howard, Joe Abercrombie, Bernard Cornwell and Iain M. Banks.