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September, 2012 — KINDLE VERSIONS Mark now has two of his three previously published novels published on Amazon’s Kindle. The Climbing Boy: The story of a nineteenth century, five year old orphaned child that was illegally sold into London's chimney sweeping trade. The Climbing Boy had been optioned for a movie and could easily become a new Dickens’ type Christmas classic. Price: $3. See it here. Becoming: Do you remember the first time you inhaled a cigarette? Your first swallow of hard liquor? Your first true love? Remember when as a people we loved America, and showed it? Then you might be ready for a nostalgic, funny, romantic, humanistically sexually frustrating novel. A novel that may remind many of us of ourselves, ‘way back then,’ when God’s most mysterious creation was the opposite sex. Beginning in 1939, Becoming is a novel about life and the often funny, sometimes sad, day-to-day things that stir the memories of our lives.” Price: $4.95 See it here. |
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November, 2010 -- AN OPTION CONTRACT HAS BEEN SIGNED between Mark and Mechnology, a Burbank, California production company for a film production of The Climbing Boy with the intention of creating an everlasting, ongoing Christmas classic in the moral vein of It's A Wonderful Life. |
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“Would you like to have Santa come down your filthy chimney?” That was the heading on a flyer I made for my company “The Flue Bug Chimney Sweep” in 1982. It became the thought that prompted my writing of The Climbing Boy. As tedious as writing, re-writing and self-editing may be I found these to be the simple, the fun, the enjoyable parts of writing. In 1984, after finishing the rewriting and self-editing, I began the task of finding an agent or a publisher for The Climbing Boy and The Writer’s Market became my bible After hundreds upon hundreds of queries, each including a "SASE", a self -addressed, stamped envelope (this was before my time with computers), and after receiving hundreds upon hundreds of rejections, I discovered the 'Catch-22' of the publishing industry: agents will not look at a new writer unless he/she has been published, and publishers will not look at a new writer unless he/she has an agent. But I had discovered that writing had become a very enjoyable and important part of my life. So as I continued to look for an agent or a publisher for The Climbing Boy, in 1986 I began Captain Midnight and the Toothpaste Thief, which I later renamed Becoming. Lo and behold, after twenty-two years of trying
and never giving up The Climbing Boy
was published in 2004. Four years later, Becoming
was published and two years afterwards, For Better or
Worse was published in 2010.
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"This is indeed a book worth reading for the sheer enjoyment of remembering the way we were and those people who made it interesting..." |
