London torn. Night and day. Sinners and angels. Debut novel by Mark A. King, available now
A work of fiction created as part of the #vssPhD project. Short story created and published : Feb to March 2024 For details of the project click here. This is the second #vssphd story (as released on social media).The story tense was selected by an anonymised poll. Both present and past tense scored highest. Which …
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A work of fiction. Short story created and published : Jan to Feb 2024 For details of the project click here. This is the first #vssphd story (as released on social media).The story location and main character name were chosen by anonymised polls. (c) 2024 Mark A King. This is a work of fiction. All …
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How are you? It's been a very long time since I last posted. Sorry about that. Life has been somewhat delayed. I am thankful for many things, one being that I was many months ahead of my novel that I am working on as part of my UEA Creative writing MA (I'm very proud of …
Greetings friends, As you may have seen, I've been working day and night to get the anthology ready. Thank you to all those that responded while we were performing author checks. Reading the stories, communicating with the authors (and those that contribute each day) has reaffirmed what an incredible pool of talent we have and …
Greetings. While I've just posted exciting news on the plans for a #vss365 anthology, I haven't updated the blog on writing progression (or lack of it) for some time. An update What have the last few months entailed? The tragic loss of a friend which hit me fairly hard as he was full of life, …
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 - …
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.
I had the most wonderful news recently. The British Fantasy Society (a big deal in Fantasy writing, films and conventions all the way back to 1971), were looking to find and promote the next generation of talented Fantasy writers. They've deemed one of my stories to be worthy of such an honour. Their initiative is …
Metropolitan Dreams 