Author Bio: Femi Martin lives in the United Kingdom with his family, including four children and stepsons. A committed Christian, he writes faith-centred fiction to draw readers to Christ and to honour God. His works include Author of Life: Birth of Life, Jesus: The Egypt Years, and No Ratulent in Ratatatuvue. Although he first imagined stories while in Nigerian high school, he began writing seriously years later after a profound spiritual encounter. His novels translate those spiritual visions into accessible, imaginative stories that explore creation, mystery, and eternity.
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
A child of God
2. You grew up in Nigeria and later moved to the UK. How has this cultural journey influenced your outlook on life and faith?
I think it enlightens me more on how verse this world is and what God has done.
3. Looking back at your childhood, what memory still feels most connected to the person you are today?
I have no such memory, I’m a new creature in Christ Jesus.
4. Your mother played a strong role in your spiritual upbringing. What values from her still guide your daily life?
My mother’s instructions still guide me today even with my writing.
5. As a father of four, how has parenthood shaped your writing and your vision of the world?
By making me understand what’s important.
6. Why writing? What does storytelling give you that no other form of expression can?
I think to suite the media of today. We’re in a social media world today and all the words of the scripture are not understandable by today’s youth and public so I seek to express it in a more media tolerant way.
7. Who are some of your favorite authors or books that shaped your early love for reading?
Wilburn Smith, Jackie Collins, Robert Ludlum and of course the bible.
8. Are there any writers in your family, or are you the first to take up the pen?
No, I’m the only one.
9. How do you see your writing as a craft, a calling, or perhaps both?
I see it as both craft and a calling. I know if God wants to use you he will use something that you have in you, so I have writing in me, which he has already place there before hand so it’s God’s talent use for his glory.
10. Author of Life: Birth of Life deals with the mystery of creation. What inspired you to retell this story in your own way?
I see how the world is still skeptical about God and wants to address the issue.
11. You write, “God is Life.” What does this mean to you personally, and what do you hope readers take away from it?
I hope readers will recorgnise who God is and the answer to the question why we exist?
12. The book asks: What is the purpose of life? How has your own answer to that question changed over time?
You can look for the purpose of life from God’s view which the story expresses in good details.
13. What challenges did you face in balancing imagination with biblical truth while writing this story?
I just allow the holy spirit to guide me.
14. Did the process of writing this book change your relationship with God in any way?
Yes, in many ways but one thing I’m sure of is that my consciousness of god becomes firm.
15. Many readers today wrestle with questions about meaning and existence. How can Birth of Life speak to modern readers searching for answers?
They just have to read the whole series of Author of life.
16. If someone unfamiliar with Christian mythology picks up this book, what do you hope will convince them to keep reading?
I hope that the person is intrigue enough to want to know more about why we’re in existence?
17. In your view, how can this book help not only believers but also seekers or skeptics understand creation in a new light?
I think the trajectory focus of the story is towards the skeptics. To show how everything is possible by God. It will aid seeker to believe and believers to believe more. It helps me to identify God.
18. Why did you decide to focus on Jesus’s hidden years in Egypt, a period often passed over quickly in scripture?
I think that started when I realise that these years were hidden in the scriptures, then I look in history and find Egypt Coptic church, they draw out the journey pattern of the holy family. That’s when I know I have hit on the story. But beforehand I told the Lord that I want to write a story about him, and easily like that I draw out three books from our Lord Jesus life that the scripture didn’t talk about. I’m still looking to do more.
19. The holy family’s exile in Egypt mirrors the struggles of many displaced families today. Was that connection intentional, and what can modern readers learn from it?
It did come to my realisation as well and I see the holy family as one of these families migrating to another country nowadays.
20. How do you think readers will see Jesus differently after reading about his early years?
I think readers should understand that being Jesus wasn’t easy, he was persecuted from birth.
21. If you had to convince someone in one sentence to read Jesus: The Egypt Years, what would you say?
Understand who Jesus is.
22. With No Ratulent in Ratatatuvue, you entered pure fantasy. What did this story allow you to explore that faith-centered works could not?
Actually the work is faith focused. It’s a fantasy created around faith. Because if you reach the end of the story it makes us understand that our Lord Jesus Christ is our keeper and when he come he will take us into eternity just as the keepers did in Ratatatuvue. Eternity is the theme of the story so why won’t it be faith focused?
23. What future plans do you hold for your writing career — more Christian fiction, or new genres?
Wait and see, It’s God’s plan.
24. Finally, what message would you like to leave for those who are searching for hope, meaning, and faith through your writing?
Read them and understand, they’re full of knowledge.
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