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Mark Ryan

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in rinteln, Germany
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H. P. Lovecraft, China Mieville, Neil Gaiman, Carlton Mellick 3

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Mark Ryan comes from the wilds of south England and grew up on a steady diet of Horror movies and weird magazines. Currently he is working on a short story collection titled Not Quite Right and his first full length novel The Barefooted Oarsman.

Maybe i just don’t get this blog thing……

Again I must say a huge sorry for being so quiet on here as of late. There is no real excuse except being lazy and letting life get in the way. TV has picked up with GoT, Penny Dreadful and Preacher all being on. I have been hard at work continuing to write ‘New Fragrance’ and it is shaping up really well, I am over the moon with how it is growing and flowing. Also I have been playing a lot of The

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