London torn. Night and day. Sinners and angels. Debut novel by Mark A. King, available now
First new story in a couple of years. Writing a novel is a slow, and painful process, so it felt good to go back to small word counts and super-tight writing. Thanks for reading. If you can vote then that would be even better (it's in a comp). https://short-edition.com/en/story/5-min/sixteen-again Thank you kindly - M
It's birthday time - so for 14th and 15th Feb my novel, Metropolitan Dreams, and Prompt Stories, my short fiction collection, will be FREE in Kindle ebook format. Metropolitan Dreams UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metropolitan-Dreams-Mark-King-ebook/dp/B01N6T3TO8 … US: https://www.amazon.com/Metropolitan-Dreams-Mark-King-ebook/dp/B01N6T3TO8 … Prompt Stories UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/PROMPT-stories-collection-short-fiction-ebook/dp/B07HJHHG8S … US: https://www.amazon.com/PROMPT-stories-collection-short-fiction-ebook/dp/B07HJHHG8S … Hope you enjoy them, if you do, please leave a review. Thanks very much - …
A troubled 5 stars from me This is the story of the band New Order, as told by one of its founding members. I’ll start by saying I’m no Peter Hook fan. I went through a stage of liking New Order songs back in the early 90s (totally blows my mind to think of this …
Was this year a year of fireworks or going round in circles? What was 2018 like for me? Sure, I know there are a few days left, but what's really going to change? In 2018, I wanted to: Read 30 books. Grade: A+ I did this, which was fairly remarkable given the year I had. …
How not to do National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) One month. 50,000 words. That's how it's supposed to be done. But, me being me, I opted to do it differently. I tried to tackle the 23 chapters that still needed editing. How did I get on? 28,000 new words. Almost as many revised ones. So, …
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Last year, like many good folk, I ‘won’ NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, where the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days - a small novel for some, about half a novel for me). It was a very hollow victory, despite resounding initial success. I went in with a detailed plan. Despite the …
Yes, words that you rarely hear shouted. PROMPT Stories, my collection of short fiction, will be released on Amazon earlier than anticipated. This is to allow me to run a free ebook promotion, on, or near, the original release date. I won't be making any money from the book, almost certainly losing money - but …
My collection of short fiction (I can rhyme with the best of them,) is ready and available for pre-order. I've created a lovely taster dish for you to sample: Taster Link Enjoy.
Hey, it's been a while. Work has been busy and leaking into home time, but it's all good. Personal life is busy too, but I'm blessed and can't complain. Metropolitan Fear, my second novel, is fighting with me like a super-charged electric eel, but I guess nothing worthwhile in life is easy, right? Everything meaningful in …
In a continuation of collating winning stories, podium placing and feedback, I've trawled through some of the old flash fiction competitions. This post is dedicated to the world of the Angry Hourglass, run by LadyHazmat/ Dr Rebecca, pathologist, writer and good friend to flash fiction. Angry Hourglass allowed longer word counts than many other flash …
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