About me
Journalist
Sofia Martin worked for twenty years as a journalist for mainstream magazines. She lived in the United States for ten years, where she produced reports for the French press. A lover of Ireland, she now divides her time between France and the Emerald Isle.
Author
Trained as a journalist, Sofia Martin spent years roaming the world with a notebook in hand.The journeys, encounters, and gathered stories became the spark that pushed her toward another form of writing. Gradually, reality opened the door to fiction — and that is how she found her voice as an author.
« My experiences and encounters provide the inspiration for my fictional worlds »
Thrillers
Kids & Teens
Passion for reporting
Passionate about mysteries and legends since childhood, I turned my curiosity into a true driving force in my professional life. I began my career as a journalist wandering through the dark corridors of Scotland’s haunted castles. I accompanied “ghost hunters” during their investigations, entering old manor houses to discover whether they sheltered invisible presences.
Always in search of mysterious stories, I continued my journey in Transylvania, following in the footsteps of the mythical Count Dracula.
After settling in the United States, I broadened my work to social investigations. Constantly in the field, I immersed myself in the world of teenage gangs in Los Angeles, exploring the spirals of violence that destroy so many young lives. I entered high‑security prisons where minors were serving long sentences, and met a death‑row inmate who was only thirteen. In the southern states, I investigated the children of the Ku Klux Klan, indoctrinated into the movement’s ideology from an early age. In Arizona, I shared the daily life of the Hopi and witnessed the Native rites marking the passage from teenager to adult. In Pennsylvania, I discovered the Amish way of life, still moving at the pace of horses, far from the modern world.
I also carried out social investigations in France: crimes of passion, organ trafficking, domestic violence, medical errors, addiction, teenagers suicide (among others). I collected numerous testimonies and interviewed psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, which deepened my understanding of psychology.
My many travels also allowed me to produce travel features in the United States as well as in France.
All my reports have been published in the French press.
