Mark Morrison ~ an interview and his novel ~ Two Spells

I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME AUTHOR

Mark Morrison

BIO:
Mark was born number seven of eight children in a small town in Ohio. His family moved to Florida where he grew up, met an incredible women, got married and raised four fantastic children, three boys and a girl.
Many years later an empty nest left him to his true calling, storytelling. His first remarkable story is about a heroin whose courage and unrestrained personality, like his daughters, breathes passion and fervor into this adrenaline packed fantastical story.

BANTER – STUFF ABOUT YOU
Q: How would you describe yourself as a color? Think personality here. Are you a light and airy pastel person, or more of a deep, dark, sultry and mysterious color?
A: Deep Blue

Q: Are you a morning person, or a midnight candle burner?
A: Morning person

Q: Tell me one thing about each of the four seasons you like. It can be anything.
A:  Winter = Fireplaces or fire-pits
 Spring  = New life blooming
 Summer = The heat, it's intoxicating and de-toxicating at the same time.
 Fall = Thanksgiving, because that's when I lost three of the most loved people in my life and it always brings back a flood of joyous memories.

Q: Tell me one thing that your spouse does that really endears him/her to you. One thing that annoys you. These can be tiny little things, actually the smaller the better.
A: Her smile

BOOKS – ABOUT THE CRAFT
Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: Dreams start the process.

Q: What do you think is the hardest part of writing a book?
A: Editing.

Q: Would you ever consider a joint project?
A: I already have, so yes.

Q: Are you a sit down and play it by ear kind of writer, or do you need a structured guideline, or maybe a little of both?
A: It flows right from my mind but I'm being taught to create a base outline and then expand upon that for the sake of time.

Q: Have your characters ever taken the story in a different direction than you had originally planned? Do you have a for instance, for us?
A: Yes, absolutely. An example is Percy, who's based on my best friend. He was original only going to be a small player in the story-line but was expanded upon the next of the TwoSpells series to be an incredibly important and wow factor personality.

BOOKS - NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF
Q: What are you working on now? Would you like to share anything about it?
A: I wrote a mid-grade novel while the editing work was being finished on TwoSpells titled Corky. He's the most interesting pig in the fantasy world. And I've completely outlined the next of the TwoSpells series and written about 20% to completion. I feel it's even better than the first.

Q: Do you have a new book coming out soon? Tell us about it.
A: Corky first after final edit and the second of the TwoSpells series hopefully early next year.

Q: How can we find you? Do you have a web page, FaceBook page or any buy links?
A: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079ZBBSPM


BLURB:
TwoSpells is a magical tale about teenage twins, Sarah and Jon, who find out that they're heirs to an ancient, magical realm containing an enchanted library that can transport a reader to anywhere or anytime the author has written into a story. They soon realize that moving through the uncharted inner-sanctums of multidimensional worlds isn't the safest nor wisest of choices.

Both are emboldened with a wondrous mystical gift that no being has ever possessed. But fate intervenes pulling them into an evolving inter-dimensional war between their kind, Irregulars, and treacherous evil forces flowing from parallel universes looking to claim the library's unique magical enchantment as their own portal to besieging and conquering all realms outside their own.

The two must rescue their world from a phantom hybrid alien race controlled by a demented dark-wizard, Jeremy Sermack. They'll either assimilate or be exterminated.

Will they embrace their true identities as Irregulars and become the valiant saviours the prophets envisioned, or will they retreat to the perceived safety of their distant homeland populated with the Regulars?

EXCERPT:
THE FRONT DOOR LAY FLATTENED, hinges bent and twisted and the sliding bolt-lock contorted. The door jam was broken and splintered.

“What is this?” Grandpa roared, waving his walking stick at the mountainous intruders. “Which one of ya’ is gonna pay for all this?”

The dust settled and the two ominous figures stood just outside the doorway, the bright moon blazing behind them. Tattooed across their pale blue foreheads were the numbers thirty-seven and thirty-eight. Each was stuffed into a suit two sizes too small and busting at the seams, barely able to contain their hulking, muscular bodies. Black, wraparound sunglasses hid their eyes from view and Sarah could tell that something strange lay behind them. One muttered into a small microphone curled toward his lips and the other stared straight ahead.

Grandpa rolled up behind them. “Collectors!”

“Collectors?” Sarah whispered to Jon. He shrugged.

“You know why here,” Thirty-seven grunted, flipping one side of his jacket open and exposing a peculiar gold badge attached to his belt. It was a cluster of mechanical gears embedded with astrological symbols and a mechanical winged dragon clinging to a peculiar orbs.

“We do not!” Grandma shouted, leaning on her walker.

“Overdue book,” the other one boomed, holding out a six fingered hand.

“I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about ya’ thug,” Grandma said, rolling her walker closer. “Who’s gonna fix me door?”

The Collectors muttered something in another language to one another.

“We haven’t even been ta’ the bloody library in years,” Grandpa argued. “Ya’ have that written in your records?”

Thirty-seven moved closer, his hand out again. “Special text overdue.”

Sarah and Jon eased backward a little. The tone of its voice sounded threatening.

BUY LINK:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079ZBBSPM

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