Baptiste Pinson Wu, as some of you may know, is French, from Normandie, and… You know what, let’s not pretend someone else wrote it.
Let me start again.
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Hi everyone! My name is Baptiste Pinson. I added the Wu because it belongs to my wife and without her, I wouldn’t be the writer I am today. Plus, I don’t cook as often as I should, so at least I did something nice for her.
I was born in France and stubbornly remained in that beautiful land of Normandie (right next to Mont Saint Michel) until I got myself an internship in China. That was thirteen years ago, and since then I haven’t spent much time back home. I now live in Tokyo, where I’m trying my best at this parenting thing you might have heard about. It’s tough! Should have gotten a dog, really.
On the off chance you landed on this page by luck (and lucky you are), what matters here is that I am an author, mostly of historical fiction set in ancient times, mostly in eastern Asia, and mostly in the action/military/adventure subgenres.
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As I write this author bio, I have three books published, all of them in the Three Kingdoms Chronicles series. Feel free to check the books here. And since there’s a big chance I’ll forget to update this text over the years, please do check the link to know more about my new books.
The other day I was interviewed on a YouTube channel and was asked the question: “Why did you decide to become a writer?” I don’t remember what I replied, but here is the truth, or at least my opinion, I don’t think anyone decides to become a writer. It’s not a choice—or not a very wise one at least—and most likely comes from the Machiavellian voice of an inner demon laughing like a maniac for our future struggles.
Most seriously, it’s a combination of things. In my case, it happened in four stages.
The first happened when I was thirteen and my French teacher lent me The Green Mile by Stephen King after I told him I loved the movie. He had this glint in the eyes, as if he knew I was about to fall in love with reading, which I did.
The second was three years later. My best friend and I were getting ready to welcome our pen friends from England, and we thought of buying a video game that we could play together. I forgot why we chose this one, but we ended up buying Dynasty Warriors 4, the game that would shape my future. I finished it and basically ran to buy a copy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, my new passion for life. Technically, I had to wait three weeks before it arrived because there was no Amazon back then.
One autumn morning shortly after I turned nineteen, I picked a worn-out copy of The Old Man and the Sea at the university’s library and realized I could not only read a whole book in English but enjoyed it tremendously.
Then, finally, in 2016, I ordered a copy of The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell, and it hit me in the face, I had to write something like this. I would be a writer or nothing!
So, it’s basically a mix of Stephen King, Dynasty Warriors, Hemingway, and Cornwell that made this author. And if you want to know more about me: contact me, have a chat (Twitter/Facebook), check my videos, or, another suggestion, my books.
