Mark Edward Jones
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Mark Edward Jones

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Literature & Fiction
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Mark Edward Jones retired in 2017 after thirty-three years of working in higher education finance. Since retiring, his writing has won multiple awards in mystery/thrillers, paranormal, and sci-fi stories. In February 2021, he signed a contract with the Wild Rose Press for a novel called Peculiar Activities. The book's release date was October 6, 2021. This manuscript won first place in the mystery category of the 2019 Oklahoma Writers Federation annual contest and was a finalist in the 2020 Page Turner Awards contest. Mark signed a second contract in November 2021 for the second book in the Henry Ike Pierce series, Shadowed Souls, released on Halloween 2022. A third novel called Glass, will be published in 2025. He is part of a group of thirteen authors bringing together thirteen stories for a Friday the 13th anthology released on May 13, 2022. Mark’s short story is A Gentleman from the Darkness and is available on Audible. Gentleman won third place in the 2023 Spring Bookfest Awards for Mystery-Thriller and a portion won second place for flash fiction in the 2021 OKC Writers group. The second in the series, Hell is Empty, was released on January 13, 2023, and is available on Audible. It won Honorable Mention in the Fall Bookfest Awards for Mystery-Supernatural. The last part of this story arc was published on October 13, 2023. A Wicked Fate follows characters first introduced in the other short stories and it won third place in the Bookfest Thriller-Supernatural category of the Spring 2024 contest. The Man in the Fedora, a compilation of these three short stories, is available March 27th in Kindle or paperback format. Mark is dipping his toe in the sci-fi/mystery genre. Tempus Mors or Time Death. The projected publication is 2025. A draft of this story won third place in the OKC Writers Inc. 2023 contest for Adult Book, and a short piece won first place in flash fiction and crème de la crème of the contest. His flash fiction piece called Alone in Warsaw was published in the Autumn 2019 edition of the U.K. Publication, Painted Words. Mark grew up in Duncan, Oklahoma, then attended the University of Oklahoma, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in political science and public administration. He and his wife will celebrate their forty-second anniversary in November 2023 and welcomed their first grandchild in October 2022. Mystery/suspense/international intrigue novels are his favorite reads, and he's found an odd niche with medieval murder mysteries, noting it's interesting to see the lifestyles from other eras and how crimes were solved. His favorite music includes Elvis, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Boz Scaggs (among many others).
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