About Trey Martin

          I never disregard their names as they enter my head and I never ignore their significance or the potential they have. As they introduce themselves to me I come to understand each of them. I begin making plans about where each of them belong and where they will end up. I begin to understand what they truly mean to me, because without them, I wouldn’t be able to create what I love. After all, what are books without characters? The dragons, the trolls, the goblins and the fairies have always been there to bring adventure and wonder to the pages on my journey as an author, all of it possible because I was born with autism.

         Noise scares me, really scares me. And not just really loud noise, the kind of noise that most people tolerate easily, such as the kind of noise you might hear in a high school cafeteria. It's the chaos, the unpredictability, the social conversations people are having that I might not be a part of. I begin to think people are laughing at me, and sometimes they are.

It's that kind of noise: social, chaotic, unpredictable, make fun of someone kind of noise. It's the kind of noise that can really get to people like me. People with autism. 

         The best way I found to cope with this teenage noise was to avoid it, eating alone in the library or a quiet hallway. It was then that I began to listen to mysterious characters that came to me. It was through them that I found my voice and figured out what was important to me. It was then that I started writing down their stories with their friends, their families, their foes, and their mysterious worlds. 

         Years later, I have not stopped. I am doing what I love to do, what I am meant to do.