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  <name><![CDATA[Mark Jeffrey]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Mark Jeffrey is an author and serial entrepreneur.  He is the author of the award-winning Max Quick series of YA scifi books: &quot;Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant&quot; and &quot;Max Quick Book Two: The Two Travelers.&quot;  The podiobook version of 'Pocket' (available for free at www.podiobooks.com) has received over 1.7 million downloads to date.  He is working on the first novel in the upcoming &quot;Bondsman&quot; series as well as the third Max Quick book.

Read all about THE MAX QUICK SERIES here: http://markjeffrey.typepad.com/max_quick

Connect with me on MAHALO.COM here: http://www.mahalo.com/member/Markjeffrey

In addition, Mark has co-founded three online media companies, the most recent of which was sold to Barry Diller’s IAC in 2004. His first project, The Palace, was backed by Time Warner and Intel and had an audience of over 10 million users, and was selected as one of ‘The Best of 1996′ by Entertainment Weekly. Mark has been named as one of Hollywood’s ‘50 Creatives To Watch’ by Variety magazine, one of the 'Digital Coast 50' by Silicon Alley Reporter, and one of the “Heroes of Multimedia” by Entertainment Weekly.  Mark is currently CTO of Mahalo.com, Inc. a new search engine backed by Sequoia, Newscorp and CBS.

Mark resides in Santa Monica, California.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Anne Rice, Stephen R. Donaldson, Phillip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip K. Dick, Carlos Casteneda, Zecharia Sitchin, Madelaine L'Engle, Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, Richard Matheson, Neal Stephenson ]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>07/20/1967</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Max Quick Book Two: The Two Travelers]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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