J. Mertens
Author · 7 books
J. Mertens was born in Lüdenscheid in 1968. Before working as a freelance author, he held a variety of jobs, including merchant, salesperson, factory worker, insurance representative, journalist, artist, everyday companion, warehouse worker and copywriter. Some of his unsettling stories appeared in local magazines. From 2007 onward, he devoted himself to writing fantastic fiction. Earlier, he had studied occult and psychological subjects extensively. In addition to prose, he wrote poetry and worked as an illustrator.