Craig Martelle is the driving force behind the 20Booksto50K movement, which is transforming the independent author community. He is a top-100 ranking author on the Amazon Science Fiction charts, with over 360,000 sales in the past three-plus years. Regardless of those figures, I can tell that one of the biggest feathers in Craig’s cap is being compared by his readers to the legendary Sci-Fi author, Andre Norton.

Prior to writing books, Craig had careers as a Marine, a lawyer, and business consultant. The one constant? His love for reading stories.

One not-so-secret secret to his prolific output? His passion for storytelling, paired with an insatiable drive to keep improving at both the craft and business of writing and selling books.

I’m being more tongue-in-cheek when I also suggest that living in the middle-of-nowhere, Alaska, doesn’t hurt. With temperatures reaching lifting below zero, and daylight lasting just three-and-a-half hours, there’s plenty of time to write words!