Bio:Mark A. Mellon

Mark Mellon is a novelist who supports his family by working as an attorney for the FDIC. His life has been checkered with past experience as a mover, lifeguard/swimming instructor, door-to-door salesman, carpenter's helper, Russian translator, soldier, phone solicitor, collections counselor, and teacher.

Mark's work has appeared in Aberrations; Chasm; Gothic.Net; Terra Incognita; Anthrolations; Albedo One; Black Satellite; Aoife’s Kiss; Hadrosaur Tales; Premonitions; and Whispers From The Shattered Forum. A new short story has just been published by Rope And Wire magazine. His Western novel, The Pirooters, is published by Sundowners, a division of Treble Heart Books. The book recently won the Books and Authors.Net prize for Best Western of 2008. More information about the novel may be found at:. Also, a novella, Escape From Byzantium, will be published by Withersin in the fall. A website featuring Mark's writing may be found at.