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Mark Hayes

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in leeds, The United Kingdom

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https://markhayesblog.com/

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Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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September 2013

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Mark Hayes was born in Yorkshire on the day Julius Caesar was murdered. Though these two events are unrelated and separated by 1926 years, he has occasionally been known to mention the assassination of the great dictator in relation to his birthday all the same. No one, including himself, is entirely sure why he does it.

He now lives in Teeside close to the river and next to a bird sanctuary he has never visited. With a black cat called Boomer who likes to stop him typing by sitting on his lap and demanding attention. It is possibly a reincarnation of a Mongolian Warlord, it would explain the way it occasionally scrambles up Marks back with its claws out.

This does not help the typing.

He writes novels, despite the cat's attention, a full-tim Mark Hayes was born in Yorkshire on the day Julius Caesar was murdered. Though these two events are unrelated and separated by 1926 years, he has occasionally been known to mention the assassination of the great dictator in relation to his birthday all the same. No one, including himself, is entirely sure why he does it.

He now lives in Teeside close to the river and next to a bird sanctuary he has never visited. With a black cat called Boomer who likes to stop him typing by sitting on his lap and demanding attention. It is possibly a reincarnation of a Mongolian Warlord, it would explain the way it occasionally scrambles up Marks back with its claws out.

This does not help the typing.

He writes novels, despite the cat's attention, a full-time job, and doing a degree at the Open University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. (no he is not sure why he is doing that either, but claims it is mainly out of a desire to understand what the hell the people in charge think they are doing with the world.)

In-between writing, reading, and generally failing to study hard enough he has endless obsessions with everything from Music, Star Wars, Batman, Doctor Who, Steampunk, Cuthulu, and comic books, which he calls graphic novels and believes are actually the greatest expression of 21st-century art.

Cider Lane: Of Silences and Stars was his first novel, published in 2015. It's is a contemporary romance thriller of sorts. The sorts which are not really any of those things but is, in fact, an exploration of the lost and the broken on the edge of society, the bruised the battered and the beaten. It is, however, definitely a romance set in the contemporary world and quite thrilling in parts.

It was followed a year later by Passing Place: Location Relative. Which is a paranormal horror science fiction fantasy. Set in a piano bar and grill, with a strange name and a stranger clientele. It is also a story about stories, which contains many stories, and grief, loss, love and the whole human experience. It also has a cat in it. One review said it was a novel that 'Goes everywhere and nowhere.' Mark quite liked that and is going to steal it for a tagline at some point.

The novels are both entirely unrelated, in different genres, and not part of a series. This he feels is a unique approach to writing which ignores the artificial constraints of genre, as opposed to incredibly bad marketing on his part.

His next novel will be The Wells of Time: A Hannibal Smyth Adventure. It bears no relation to either of his first two novels and he has written it as much to avoid writing 'Something Red' the sequel to Passing Place for six months as anything else. Because when you have a working formula the best thing to do is ignore it and write something completely different.

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Average rating: 4.64 · 22 ratings · 9 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Cider Lane : Of silence and stars 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	a scar of avarice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Scar Of Avarice

Well, it’s finally out there.

Though… For reasons I am not entirely sure of the kindle version (edit: Kindle version now live too) is taking some time to go live, however, available in paperback NOW for the tiny price of 4 squids…
And on kindle very very soon for a single squid…
My little novelette A Scar of Avarice…

Note, squids is not a typo, but for those that don’t buy things in cephalopods, p... Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Hayes rated a book it was amazing A Scar Of Avarice: A passing place tall tale of nefarious steampunk by Mark Hayes (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Hayes made a comment in the group Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy — New Steampunk Novella topic " A Scar Of Avarice: A passing place tall tale of nefarious steampunk My new Passing Place / Hannibal Smyth cross over novella is out, "
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Mark Hayes made a comment in the group The Perks Of Being A Book Addict — Promote your book, story, blog or whatever you want topic " New release, my new steampunk Novella. in both paperback and ebook. A Scar Of Avarice: A passing place tall tale of nefarious steampunk "
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Mark Hayes rated a book it was amazing a scar of avarice by Mark Hayes (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A masterpiece ( which is of course exactly what I would say as the writer...) This short novelette is both a mini-sequel to Passing Place and a mini-prequel to my force coming Hannibal Smyth steampunk novel 'A Spider In The Eye' It also has three extr ...more
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This novel grabs you from the first paragraph and never lets go. The old cliche is ‘Once I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down’. Darkest fears is not a book you can’t put down, it’s a book that won’t let you put it down. It takes hold of ...more
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Mark Hayes recommended Darkest Fears (Thieves’ Guild: Bhenykhn Wars 1) (Thieves' Guild Book 5) to A J Hawley Darkest Fears (Thieves’ Guild: Bhenykhn Wars 1) (Thieves' Guild Book 5) by C.G. Hatton (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This novel grabs you from the first paragraph and never lets go. The old cliche is ‘Once I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down’. Darkest fears is not a book you can’t put down, it’s a book that won’t let you put it down. It takes hold of ...more
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Vivid and engaging The core idea behind this fun ride through a near future world is solidly imagined and brought to life vividly , with an engaging story. At times it slows a little and I felt it was missing something, yet if I was pushed I could not ...more
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“You don’t need to lie to me, not about this. Not about anything really. But you can, if you prefer to. I’m not important. You can tell me you tripped, or caught it on a nail, or whatever. And it doesn’t matter, if you want to lie to me, then you can.” “But don’t lie to yourself don’t ever lie to yourself .”
“If you do, lie to yourself that is, if you do. Then you’ll lose yourself to it and that way lays madness.”
― Mark Hayes, Cider Lane: Of silence and stars

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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