[4] Martin credits this teacher, along with Mexican writer Rafael Ramirez Heredia with giving him support in his very early career.

[5] While he regularly gives workshops in Mérida, he states that to be a writer one needs three things: to read much, to learn technique and a lot of hard work and talent.

He is a member of the Centro Yucateco de Escritores and the editorial board of the Navegaciones Zur literary magazine.

[1] His highest honor so far is the 2012 Max Aub International Short Story Prize (Spain) for Montezuma's Revenge, which he presented at the Mérida Fest.

[3] Authors that he also admires include Thomas Mann, Paul Auster, John Cheever, Hemingway, and Juan Rulfo but considers his style closer to that of Raymond Carver, Enrique Serna and Agustin Monsreal.

[4] Author Rafael Ramirez Heredia wrote that Martin is a writer who does not appeal to conscience but rather profiles men and women and their passions, pain, loves and losses, leaning to humanity's darker side.

For example, Montezuma's Revenge is a bloody and erotic story set in Mérida, Playa del Carmen and Holbox[3] The following work, Montezuma's Revenge y otras deleites is a story of a Mexican man and foreign woman, studying mostly the dark aspects of Mexicans’ attitudes towards those from other countries.