Review
Advance review 2018 by Phil Heywood, former Associate Professor and Head of Urban and Regional Planning in the Queensland University of Technology and President of the Queensland Division of the Planning Institute of Australia.I think your "Presumed Dead " is very publishable- you have a great command of narrative dialogue, just enough occasional poetic word use to keep the reader alert and a convincing grasp of the way that individual and social events are tied up to produce a convincing and interesting story line on topics of currently seething public interest, including over-development of coastlines, political corruption and the roles of individuals and the media within contemporary society.
About the Author
Martin Knox was born in England in 1946. The speculative fiction novel The Grass Is Always Browner was published in 2011 and general fiction novel Love Straddle in 2014. Presumed Dead was published March 2018. Running Out of Time, a general fiction novel about marathon running, is planned for publication about 2020. Early in his working life he was a chemical engineer and later, a management scientist researching alternative models of government planning. He worked in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australian nuclear, tar sands, petroleum, coal and coal-to-oil industries. He was awarded 1st Class Honours in Chemical Engineering from Birmingham University and worked in the petroleum industry in Canada. Martin Knox researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He emigrated to Australia to be employed in mining development. At age 40 he became a high school science teacher and wrote a textbook that was published, during that time. After which he wrote full-time for several years publishing a course in Senior Multi-strand Science and went on to teach it on-line to distance education students. Since 2013, his main occupation has been writing fiction novels. His two marriages resulted in wonderful children and grandchildren, but also divorce. Always a thinker and doer, he writes letters, sings in a choir, draws figure art, discusses books, movies, philosophical ideas, government planning and current events. Since August 2016, after completing Presumed Dead, he rewrote an abridged version of Love Straddle, Short of Love, 2019. There's always a new writing project in the pipeline.
