Authors

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.

I write adult fiction for fun.
(Moz Lover stands for Morrissey, not Mozzarella.)

MrM likes to write things familiar but with a twist. Romances, but in unusual settings. Fantasies not covered well by modern fiction. Poetry that is evocotive and deeply personal. MrM likes to paint with words and he hopes you like impressionism.