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Mark retired in 2017 after thirty-three years working in higher education finance. The Wild Rose Press released Peculiar Activities on October 6, 2021. This is the first book in the Detective Henry Ike Pierce series. This manuscript won first place in the mystery category of the 2019 Oklahoma Writers Federation annual contest.
Shadowed Souls is the second in this series and was released on Halloween 2022.
Mark is one of thirteen authors releasing thirteen mystery, suspense, and horror stories each Friday the 13th. Each story is separate and contains 13 chapters, 13,000 words, and the antagonists and protagonists must have 13 letters in their names.
Mark’s stories are successive snapshots of an evil assassin and his odd family. His first, A Gentleman from the Darkness was released on May 13, 2022. January 13, 2023, was the next release in the series Hell is Empty. October 13, 2023, was the release date for A Wicked Fate. Two more short stories are coming in 2024: September 13th and December 13th.
Mark is working on a sci-fi/mystery called Tempus Mortis. The expected publication is 2024. A draft of this story won third place in the OKC Writers group 2023 contest for Adult Book, and a short piece from the story won first place in flash fiction and crème de la crème of the contest.
His flash fiction piece called “Alone in Warsaw” was published in the Autumn 2019 edition of the U.K. publication, Painted Words.
Mark grew up in Duncan, Oklahoma, then attended the University of Oklahoma, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science and public administration.
He and his wife have three grown children, their first grandson, and will celebrate their forty-second anniversary in November 2023.
Mystery/suspense/international intrigue novels are his favorite reads, and he’s found a niche with medieval murder mysteries, noting it’s interesting to see the lifestyles from other eras and how crimes were solved.
His favorite music includes Elvis, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Boz Scaggs (among many others).
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