Hi, it’s me, Mark! If you’re here, you probably already know who I am, and you probably also know that writing has always been in my blood. Yes, my professional career has followed a very different path from what I expected, and I never wrote that best-selling fantasy novel in my teens (or 20s, or 30s…). But when I look back, creative writing has been a 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…”

Well, the dream lives! I’m well along in the process of writing a book in the “middle reader” or “middle grade” category…a children’s book, but not the illustrated sort, and also not so grown up as to be categorized as “young adult”. No dystopian empires or teenage warriors here! It’s a thrilling mystery in the same vein as The Three Investigators or The Hardy Boys–but a little more contemporary in every possible way. It’s set in a fictionalized version of a quiet seaside town here in New England where I’ve developed some ties over the years. The characters are entirely fictional, as they say…but some of them might make you wonder…

As it turns out, writing a book is a LOT of work. It’s more than just coming up with a creative idea. As a matter of fact, you spend a lot of time trying to remember what color your character’s eyes are, and what kind of toothpaste they prefer, and whether or not it’s realistic for ten-year-olds to be unsupervised at the beach.

All that aside,  I’ve got an awful lot of words written so far.  I’m hoping to write the rest…soon.

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