Mark Ellis

Profile Information:

Hometown:

Newport RI

About Me:

Okay, my name is Mark Ellis, AKA James Axler.

Rather than delve into the irrelevancies about working as a journalist, a newspaper columnist and a white-collar copywriter and all the other yadda-yadda of a full-time writing career that began over 20 years ago, let's get down to the grue.

I’m the author of 46 suspense and science-fiction novels (with more in the offing) as well as being a comics creator. Under my pen name of James Axler, I created and write the long-running Outlanders series, published by Harlequin Enterprises’s Gold Eagle imprint, now in its 12th year of consecutive publication.

I make my living as a creator. I was formerly a comics scripter for various independent publishers and the main writer, conceptulizer and editor of the late (and somewhat unlamented) Millennium Publications.

My credentials in the comic book field include critically acclaimed stints on Doc Savage, The Wild, Wild West, Star Rangers, The Justice Machine and many others.

I’ve worked with comic legends such as Jim Mooney, Don Heck, Darryl Banks, Adam Hughes and Doug Wildey. I also gave the great (and tragically late) Mike Wieringo his first comics assignment (Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty) in my capacity of editor of Millennium.

Melissa, my wife of 28 years, and I live in Newport, Rhode Island--a friendly seaside community (despite what tourists who've been arrested for public drunkeness might claim) on the rocky New England coast.

We have one child, our daughter Deirdre DeLay who lives in Florida with her husband John Pierpoint, both of whom are very successful web-designers.

Melissa and I moderate two writer's groups--one at The Writer's Circle In Warwick, RI and the other at the Empire Tea and Coffee House here in Newport, on picturesque Broadway.

Melissa is a professional photographer and writer. We co-wrote the Everything Guide To Writing Graphic Novels and she is authored The Everything Guide to Photography (2nd Ed.) and The Everything Ghost-Hunting Book.
We also teach writing workshops in our area.

I Am A:

Reader, Writer, Editor

Website:

http://MarkEllisInk.com

Books And Authors I Like:

Richard Prather, Edward S. Aarons, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, Rex Stout, Stephen Marlowe, John D. MacDonald, Donald Hamilton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harlan Ellison, James Robbins, Douglas Clegg, RE Howard, HP Lovecraft, Lester Dent, Philip Atlee, Ian Fleming, Robert Culp, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton...so forth and so on.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

Movies...too many to list.

TV shows: Stargate Atlantis, Lost, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Breaking Bad, Heroes, Ghost Hunters, Destination Truth, The Naked Archeologist, History's Mysteries, UFO Hunters, Torchwood, Dr. Who, Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, Boston Legal, Smallville, The Simpsons, King of The HIll and Family Guy, as ashamed as I am to admit it.

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