Author: Leonide Martin

Award winning author, Leonide (Lennie) Martin is a retired California State University professor, former Family Nurse Practitioner, Author and Maya researcher, Research Member Maya Exploration Center. Her books portray ancient Maya culture through stories about both actual historical Mayans and fictional characters. She studied Maya culture and history from scientific and indigenous viewpoints. While living for five years in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, she apprenticed with Maya Elder Hunbatz Men, becoming a Solar Initiate and Maya Fire Women. Other indigenous teachers in Guatemala included Maya Priestess-Daykeeper Aum Rak Sapper and Maya elder Tata Pedro. The ancient Mayas had the most highly advanced civilization in the Western hemisphere, and Martin’s work is dedicated to their wisdom, spirituality, scientific, and cultural accomplishments through compelling historical novels. Blog: http://leonidemartinblog.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leonide.martin Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2869611.Leonide_Martin
Cross-Genre Writing and Visionary Fiction by Leonide Martin
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Cross-Genre Writing and Visionary Fiction by Leonide Martin

ByLeonide Martin

Lately I’ve been thinking about the overlaps between historical fiction (my main genre), fantasy, Visionary Fiction, and metaphysical. There is a new term emerging in publishing that describes such overlaps as cross-genre writing or genre-blending. All three of the genres I mentioned are present in the stories I write about ancient Mayas, whose culture blended…

Writing Visionary Fiction Within an Historical Setting
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Writing Visionary Fiction Within an Historical Setting

ByLeonide Martin

Guest Post by author Leonide Martin Authors of Visionary Fiction encounter a special challenge when their stories take place in historical settings.  Each historic period shapes its cultures through a combination of forces, from evolution to technology and climate.  Within cultures, the unique chronicle of events, resources, worldview, and spirituality become defining forces. When cultures…