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Mark Spencer

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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,
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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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A Haunted Love Story: The G...

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Ghost Walking

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The Weary Motel

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A Young Gunner's Story: One...

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An Untimely Frost

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Fiction Club: A Concise Gui...

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Love and Reruns in Adams Co...

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Each Other to Live For: the...

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The Masked Demon

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Trespassers

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