Starting Fresh

I wrote a novel in 2016 that changed my life.

It came out of me in six weeks after an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru. 117,000 words that wrote themselves—three hours a day, seven days a week.

It's called The Billionaire and the Backpacker, and it has great reviews. It's also only sold about 40 copies in seven years, because I never properly promoted it.

Why? Because I was afraid it wouldn't make me "someone." Afraid fiction writing wouldn't prove my worth fast enough. So I spent 30 years doing other things—building businesses, making money, trying to be seen.

At 66, I'm done with that.

I'm a storyteller. That novel wrote itself because that's what I'm meant to do. Everything else has been a detour.

So this site is starting fresh. No transformation content. No guru positioning. Just a writer, finally doing the work he was meant to do.

I'll be sharing videos about my books, the writing process, and what it means to finally step into the work that flows naturally—even when it doesn't come with guaranteed recognition or commercial success.

If you want to read The Billionaire and the Backpacker, you can find it here.

More coming soon.

—Martin