Mark’s first novel, Stevenson’s Treasure was published by Fireship Press in 2014, and was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. His screenplay about Shakespeare’s family, “Taming Judith” was a finalist in the Academy of Motion Pictures’ writing competition and was optioned by a film company. He earned residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha’s Vineyard Writers’ Residency, and the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. A psychologist who in his day job researched the criminally insane, Mark lives in Sacramento where he is working on two more historical novels.