In the winter of 2025, a collaboration began with action and animation Director Martyn Pick. The purpose? To visualise an answer to one basic question. What do readers see when they read vivid scenes in a book?

Every author’s job is to stir emotions in readers. To bring them into a world they cannot inhabit for real, but to make it feel real. As authors, we never get to actually see what readers see and for sure it is NOTHING like what you had in your head when you wrote the story!! This is a place where magic happens, and that’s one of the reasons I love to write.

Therefore, I am so please to be able to share the outcomes of Martyn’s work. Five scenes he chose for himself, the art his own interpretation of what he saw in his mind’s eye. It’s not what I imagined…but then, isn’t that the point, each scene the reader’s own to enjoy as they wish.

Martyn Pick writes: “Our collaboration lead me to create a more ‘drawn’, ‘painterly’ variation on the style I have created for epic projects, partly as a reaction to AI. I have always had an interest in ancient historical narratives with truly epic sweeps. This chimes perfectly with Aletheia.”

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