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Mark Lind-Hanson

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I am a guitarist and composer as well as a writer. My sequel (separate from my coauthor Kevin Donohue's DeathCo, Mongoose Moon, & Waiting For Shiva) to Third Eye Patch is Bus Of Fools (Pub 8-18-13) Bus is intended to be general fiction, light humor & romance, while keeping a few characters from Patch.
The others (all written solo) are As I Was Telling You While Sleeping, a collection of short stories, a few of which make up a basis for Bus of Fools, Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way (a psycho-dramatic tragedy), and the Julian Plectrum series. set in medieval England:
If I Should Live So Long, Many Worlds Since I Left Home, and Oh What Will You Give Me; Fistfight at Judas Gulch is a Western humor fantasy which takes place in the Calif
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Mark Lind-Hanson Many of my characters are, actually, lightly based on people I know. However, situations are generally juxtaposed, and several people in fact might si…moreMany of my characters are, actually, lightly based on people I know. However, situations are generally juxtaposed, and several people in fact might simultaneously inspire the characteristics comprising one character. It's usually a conscious decision. Often people I don't really know (at all) help to make up a character, and I don't see how a writer can actually work in describing human nature if there is not a background from people he knows making up some basis of his work. But where it is conscious usually it's in good taste or good humor and all effort is made to not upset people I really respect. Actually I would be rather happy if certain friends read a character whose attributes were partly based on their own, recognized it, and laughed. Conversely- if someone had treated me badly, they well ought have done better else-wise I wouldn't have need write about them! And those people sometimes (as characters) perhaps end up worse than they actually are, in the fiction, but again, then - that's their own fault. I think there's always some element of using your relationships with others to create characters, there need to be reference points you understand in order to describe the psychology of a situation.(less)
Mark Lind-Hanson I think I was always headed towards writing, although my immediate and first ambitions were to work in music (and my general focus in life will always…moreI think I was always headed towards writing, although my immediate and first ambitions were to work in music (and my general focus in life will always BE music) However at this time I live in a circumstance which makes travel to and from musical situations rather not a possibility. In the interim I decided to do what I can do without a need for a "steady ride" And writing does not necessitate the need for it. I can write from wherever I am however, using electronic means.
My books are actually things I conceive as being things I would like to read myself. I feel books ought to be an escape. Real life, as we all know, is bad enough. So my books to a great measure are intended as escapist fantasies. My last trilogy is just such a thing- headed in the medieval period of England. The next one is set in the California Gold Rush. And there are other ideas I am working on, which involve parallel, fictional realities. These are fantasies and as such they indulge quite a bit of poetic license. But so long as I have an international readership (which is growing) I am going to keep producing material fulfilling what I see as a means of leaving, at least for a few hours, the worries of modern economy.(less)
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Flight of the Oberon

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In Remembrance -- Christine Mandell 1958-2023

 


The recent passing of my former esteemed violinist and musical partner (1985-88) Christine Mandell on the 4th of November 2023 requires some sort of public statement, and gracious acknowledgement from me... While for the past two months I have been getting the logistics and preparations done to re-release our 1987 cassette only album "Home Delivery- Elmtree Street" as a CD,  I only learned of

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and some other laws, which at this time I dare not name. By means whereof the honest widows may without danger play at the close buttock game with might and main, and as hard as they can, for the space of the first two months after the decease of their husbands. I pray you, my good lusty springal lads, if you find any of these females, that are worth the pains of untying the codpiece-point, get up, ride upon them, and bring them to me; for, if they happen within the third month to conceive, the child should be heir to the deceased, if, before he died, he had no other children, and the mother ...more
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Majenta Hello, Mark! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!

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