Mark Spears
I was born in Lexington Kentucky, the same city that my books Finding Eve and Devondale are set in. You’ll also find Lexington, and several small cities around Kentucky, in The Legend of Catfish Joe and Other Stories. I had a pretty good childhood and enjoy writing about some of the adventures, and misadventures, that I had growing up. I currently maintain my own library of nearly 6,000 books, and if I live to be 200 years old I may actually read them all.
I begin writing during my middle school years, my first story a six page piece of fiction along the lines of Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. I experienced my first public reading that year as I stood in front of my English class and read the entire story. Was the story memorable? Al
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