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Mark Kirkbride

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My novel Satan’s Fan Club (formerly The Devil's Fan Club) will be available from Odium Media in 2013.

Sticking around to support my favourite books...

favourite books

Troubles, Sons and Lovers, The Catcher in the Rye, The Cement Garden, The Secret History, Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, Border Crossing, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, The Corrections, Ratner's Star, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, A Handful of Dust, Bright Lights, Big City, Fight Club, Less Than Zero, Crash, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The White Hotel, The Grapes of Wrath, Germinal, The Body, The Sound and the Fury, A Clockwork Orange, The Road, Success, Money, London Fields, Time's Arrow, High Fidelity, Disgrace.

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Andy M. Potter wrote 39 days ago

hiya Mark, send any time. my email is on my auth page. cheers, andy....

Brian G Chambers wrote 39 days ago

Hi Mark I am currently at 26 just having dropped a bit. I wondered ....

Andy M. Potter wrote 39 days ago

Hiya Mark. Let me know when you're ready for reviews. cheers, andy

mark01684 wrote 54 days ago

Hi Mark, Fancy a swap read? Son of Satan. Have you ever thought t....

Andy M. Potter wrote 54 days ago

many thanks for your support, Mark! will look out for SFC. best wis....

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I wrote 303 days ago

Lovely short pitch - undercutting expectations with that 'gratuitous violence' - and a subtle but very effective hook early on in the book ('obviously they did not know what the ingredients were') that keeps you reading on to the meat of the matter. After that, you’re off and running. One of the bes... view book

I wrote 444 days ago

Hi Val, I read Escape tonight and throughly enjoyed it. It shows masterful control, as we wonder if she's in on the deception or not, and I loved the way her dreams dovetailed with his. There's also some really deep thought simply expressed, which is personally what I turn to literature for. I'm ... view book

I wrote 445 days ago

Hi Laura, I read the first chapter tonight. Wow, this is really visceral writing. I liked the word 'killable' and the line about 'supernatural winds and the aroma of death' in the pitch. And I loved the fact they're all in Halloween costumes, then suddenly pitched into their own nightmare. I foun... view book

I wrote 448 days ago

Firstly, what a great title. It carries a lot of resonance. And I like the whole magic=religion analogy, if that's what you intended. The story and the writing seem fine. Just noticed one typo ('but not expected'). But there were a few things I thought you might be able to change to strengthen the b... view book

I wrote 455 days ago

I made a start tonight and am mightily impressed. Firstly, the pitch is fantastic, actually doing the job of getting the reader to want to read the book. And Asphodel's lust for power, for godhead, is extremely well realised, with the necessarily expostion deftly woven into the narrative. I also tho... view book

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