Authors

Author of: Elias, Ridley, The Best Year, Standing in Shadows, Are You Christian, Roommates, Finding Alex, Force of Nature, and others. Mostly a Romance Author that dabbles in Poetry and Modern Fantasy. *Newest Story - Learned to Lie* - Now complete.

I love writing sexy plots. You can always find me on tumblr, where I post stuff related to my writing, previews, story excerpts, and I reblog hot guys.

Originally from the land of Shakespeare, I've been slogging away at writing for many years (on and off). It's been fun, hard work, but rewarding and has been a great discipline for someone who treats writing as a past-time rather than as a way to put food on the table. I've had a couple of successes, lots of failures and have finally learnt how to take feedback, whether positive or constructive, gracefully, and in the way it's given.

Mark Arbour writes historical fiction about gay and bisexual characters painted on the canvas of the past.

My mind has always preferred to be elsewhere than the here and now and as a child it was the past, or fiction set in worlds that have never existed, that set me alight and dragged me into libraries and bookshops. Even as a kid I liked creating alternative worlds. My story Terre Nouvelle is set in a world I created in my teenage bedroom to find escape from the grimness of adolescent reality. But creating stories is not the same as generating places in which they might happen, and the creative energy they're drawn from come from deep within. It's from my gayness that I draw it, and so my characters generally live in that alternative place as well as in alternative worlds.

Most of my stories are contemporary explorations of gay men finding themselves and coming to terms with their sexuality, often in the face of family issues. Usually written with a relatively light touch, and with some romantic element. I am based in London (UK), and stories have a British setting, often set in the Midlands or North where my own roots are.