A Goodreads user asked Mark Lind-Hanson:

What inspired You to be a writer? Tell me some more, about Your books? Best regards: A. Tomov – junior

Mark Lind-Hanson I think I was always headed towards writing, although my immediate and first ambitions were to work in music (and my general focus in life will always BE music) However at this time I live in a circumstance which makes travel to and from musical situations rather not a possibility. In the interim I decided to do what I can do without a need for a "steady ride" And writing does not necessitate the need for it. I can write from wherever I am however, using electronic means.
My books are actually things I conceive as being things I would like to read myself. I feel books ought to be an escape. Real life, as we all know, is bad enough. So my books to a great measure are intended as escapist fantasies. My last trilogy is just such a thing- headed in the medieval period of England. The next one is set in the California Gold Rush. And there are other ideas I am working on, which involve parallel, fictional realities. These are fantasies and as such they indulge quite a bit of poetic license. But so long as I have an international readership (which is growing) I am going to keep producing material fulfilling what I see as a means of leaving, at least for a few hours, the worries of modern economy.

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