Author of "Pop-splat" Inspired by Virginia Tech Massacre

April 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Cape Town

South African author Ian Martin is about to release his latest novel as an ebook. "Pop-splat" is "the disgusting story of Matt Dreyer's short life", which culminates in a shooting spree and the murder of his mother and his uncle. The book was partly inspired by the massacre that took place at Virginia Tech in April 2007.

"Pop-splat" is a contemporary take on "Hamlet", and is the first story in Martin's projected Shockspeare Series. "Pop-splat" will be available as a free download (normal price $9.95) for the first two weeks in May from Smashwords at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/13635 The hard copy version can be ordered from online bookstores for $15.

This story of a doped-up Hamlet of the 21st century is as relevant today as it would have been three years ago when Cho went on the rampage. Maybe more so.

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About Ian Martin

Ian Martin was born in Cape Town in 1950. He spent the first ten years of his adult life as a drifter and a barfly, listening to hundreds, if not thousands, of true stories about life's would-be heroes. He worked as a hospital orderly for 3 years and then went to Gough Island for a year. Back in South Africa he began work in the building trade and for 17 years he toiled to support a wife and consequences. Then, aged 49, he saw the light. He had acquired a worldview, and it was time to write about it.

He now leads a reclusive life well away from the mainstream of everything.