The Magus Conspiracy by Michael J. Synnott

I am pretty clueless about how best to market my books, I’ll be honest. What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books? I’m also preparing for the final book in the trilogy, as yet unnamed, which will be published in December 2014. I’m currently working hard on the sequel to The Magus Conspiracy, ‘The Lebor Stara’ which is slated for publication in March 2014. There are elements of all those things in my first book.

I also love hard-boiled thrillers with edge of the seat action, detective novels and stuff with ancient puzzles which get uncovered and must be solved. I’m also blown away by epic sci-fi with really clever extrapolations of what will be possible with physics and mathematics in the future stuff like EON by Greg Bear, the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons and almost anything by Iain M. I’m hugely influenced by fantasy or sci-fi books that involve alternate universes or realities. What authors, or books have influenced you? I used to listen to music or doze in that time but I found out accidentally that if I find a quiet seat and crack open my laptop, I can be amazingly prolific during those fifteen hours. I still work in IT and I have about fifteen hours a week where I have to sit on my arse on a coach. Here’s a strange one: I do most of my writing on public transport. It was inspired by the places I hung out in and comics I used to read as a child in Wicklow, Ireland in the 1970s. In May 2013 I published my first novel, The Magus Conspiracy (CreateSpace ISBN:1470080842.) It centres around three teenagers who get embroiled in a 12,000 year old conspiracy when their parents disappear in mysterious circumstances. What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?

I’ve been writing technical articles for IT industry magazines on and off for twenty years, but I published my first novel, The Magus Conspiracy, Book I of the Tír Saga, in 2013.

My name is Michael J Synnott and I’m a sci-fi/fantasy writer from Ireland. Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.

The Magus Conspiracy by Michael J. Synnott