Mark Young

Male

Garfield, WA

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Monterey, California
About Me:
Currentl job: a crime mystery novelist. In my earlier life, I was in law enforcement for twenty-six years and a newspaper reporter for six years. Survived that and Vietnam and still sane.
I Am A:
Writer
Website:
http://markyoungarrestingfiction.blogspot.com/
Books And Authors I Like:
"The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway "Try Darkness" series and all his fiction & non-fiction books by James Scott Bell "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers "The Painted House" by John Grisham "The Great Divide" by T. Davis Bunn "In High Places" by Tom Morrisey "The Novelist" and others by Angela Hunt "The Cure" by Athol Dickson "Wish You Well" by David Baldacci Brandilyn Collins' Kanner Lake Series novels and others "City of Bones" and the whole series by Michael Connelly "Betrayal" and others by John Lescroart Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" and "Farewell my Lovely" and others "The Thin Man" and "The Maltese Falcom" by Dashiell Hammett Robert Crais' Joe Pike novels "Piercing the Darkness" by Frank E. Peretti "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hossein "Odd Thomas" and other books by Dean Koontz "First the Dead" by Tim Downs "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski "The Bone Garden" by Tess Gerritsen "The Onion Field" by Joseph Wambaugh "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote "Up In Honey's Room" and others by Elmore Leonard any of Jeff Shaara's fictional history novels "Just As I Am" by Bill Graham (Jerry Jenkins) "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller and The Bible--the book that compares to no other.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Movies: Casablanca, Fugitive, 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies, all the Dirty Harry movies,Untouchables with Kevin Costner, and Heat.

TV: 24, Fringe, Closer, Law & Order, Burn, Leverage, and The Good Wife.

Comment Wall:

Load Previous Comments

  • Jennifer Thomson

    Thanks for your friends request, Mark. You have an amazing background for a crime writer. It will certainly help get your work noticed.

     

    Jun 4, 2011

  • Jennifer Thomson

    Thanks Mark, I've finished the first edit on the Kirsty book. Just one to go after this and it's showtime.

    Jun 4, 2011

  • Sunny Frazier

    Seems we have much in common. Navy vet (Vietnam era), newspaper reporter, 17 years with the Sheriff's Dept. (11 working with an undercover narcotics team). Two books published and several anthologies.

     

    Are you attending Left Coast Crime, Sacramento? 

    Sep 17, 2011