Hi, it’s me, Mark! If you’re here, you probably already know me, and you probably also know that writing has always been my thing. Yes, my professional career has followed a very…different path from what I expected. Not bad! (Actually, pretty awesome!) Just, different.

I never wrote that best-selling fantasy novel in my teens (or 20s, or 30s…). I never went into journalism (despite that Newhouse degree–go ‘Cuse!)

But when I look back, writing never stopped being a big part of my life: from cheeky work haiku, to song lyrics, to emails written with the most outlandish of analogies. And I’ve never completely given up on the dream of “getting published…”

So don’t call it a comeback; I never left!  I’m well along in the process of writing a book in the “middle reader” or “middle grade” category. It’s a thrilling mystery in the same vein as The Three Investigators or The Hardy Boys, and set in a fictionalized version of Rockport, Massachusetts–where I’ve developed some pretty close ties over the last few decades! The characters are entirely fictional, as they say…but some of them might make you wonder…

I’m plugging away and making steady progress…and I’d like to have you along for the ride! My newsletter gives you an inside look at just what it takes to write, edit, and publish your first book! And you’ll even have a chance to shape the book itself…