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Mark Spencer

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Born

in Richmond, Virginia, The United States

Website

http://www.authormarkspencer.com/Welcome.html

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Genre

Fiction, Paranormal, Horror

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Anton Chekov, Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemin ...more

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June 2012

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In addition to his new novel, An Untimely Frost, Mark Spencer is the author of the novels Ghost Walking, Love and Reruns in Adams County, The Weary Motel, A Haunted Love Story, and The Masked Demon, as well as the short-story collections Wedlock and Trespassers and a history book, Images of America: Monticello.

His work has received the Faulkner Society Faulkner Award, the Omaha Prize for the Novel, The Bradshaw Book Award, the St. Andrews Press Short Fiction Prize, and four Special Mentions in Pushcart Prize. Over 100 of his novellas, short stories, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of national and international literary magazines.

Mark is the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, ...more

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Point of view in fiction

Some thoughts on POV from my book FICTION CLUB: A CONCISE GUIDE TO WRITING GOOD FICTION

As with every other aspect of writing fiction, there are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to point of view (POV). There is no limited number of types of narrative voices—there are as many POVs as there are stories in the world. Many have something in common (first person reliable, first person unreliable, th Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Spencer’s books

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	A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House 3.81 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	Ghost Walking 4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 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
	The Weary Motel 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2000	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 Young Gunner's Story: One soldier's experience in the Artillery during the Cold War 3.73 avg rating — 22 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
	An Untimely Frost 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 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
	Fiction Club: A Concise Guide to Writing Good Fiction 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Love and Reruns in Adams County 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1994 — 2 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
	Each Other to Live For: the Ladell and Prentiss Letters 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 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
	The Masked Demon 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	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
	Trespassers 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	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