Meet Mark S. Bacon, my unexpected guest

Is this the real Mark Bacon? We may never know.

Only yesterdayI spotted a suspiciously unsolicited email from someoneintroducing himself as a ‘fellow writer and a Bacon’. Call me stupid, but I always feel a kind of connection to a namesake of any kind, and so (call me stupider) I threw caution to the winds and opened it. Straight away I liked that he didn’t ask me to read his sci-fi-YA-fantasy novella, as many of my unsolicited emailers do. It also helped that he wrote me a polite letter telli...