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Mark Jones

Goodreads Author

Born

Cornwall, The United Kingdom

Twitter

Jonesy_Boy

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance

Influences

Daphne du Maurier, Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, John Saul ...more

Member Since

April 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/mark_jones

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Mark Jones was born in Cornwall, UK, in 1977 and has been writing fiction since his teenage years.

So much for the bald facts. I've always loved writing, from the short, melancholy tales and "epic" poems of my youth to the full-length novels I'm working on now. Either way, there's something wonderful about setting characters along a path and waiting for the point when they become so real that they actually tell the story all by themselves. That was definitely the case with my first novel, "Single Minded", and will, I'm sure, happen as I progress with my next work of fiction, which has the working title, "The Beating of Tiny Wings".

I'm fascinated by families and family history - and the secrets that all families hide. These lie at the heart o ...more

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Mark Jones's Blog

Living with Julia

So what am I reading, now that the seven tomes of Potter are all back on the shelf for another year or two?

Well, my cousin Amanda has sent me her book to read … one author to another, you know. She has read part of my book (well, she may have read more if she has downloaded it, but I know I didn’t get very far sending her my unpublished work in instalments.) But now it’s my turn to return the favo