About
My name is Marco Teixeira and I am a traveller, an artist and a storyteller.
I write and I illustrate that which no one else can do for me; all the thoughts and
ideas swirling in my head, all of my interpretations. I was born in Portugal in 1981
where I completed, what was at the time, the minimum scholarship. I have interest still
in all sorts of learning as well as all sorts of physical activities. In anything that can be considered
improvement. Currently I am living in Sweden, been doing so since 2009. I came here in search of opportunity.
It took well over a decade to finally bring it from a single paragraph or that first sketch
on a napkin, to its now concluded state. Its dark, but quite high-fantasy setting, takes
the reader through a journey with around 300,000 words, all the while being escorted
by over 100 hand-painted illustrations.
Inside the Mind - BuriedPlanet
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What inspired you to start writing?
I have always like to draw, I have been doing it for as long as I can remember. Landscapes, characters, weird machinery, wildlife and all sorts of wonderful things. So I guess it was inevitable that later I would began adding words to tie each of them. Even to this day it is not uncommon that the painting might come before the wording.
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Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
It is a fantasy-fiction narrative sprawled across 300,000 words and with over 100 colored paintings to illustrate it. Once embarked, the reader must escort a group into, and across, the depths of an ancient, at times impossible world.
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