From SRP author Mark Posey:
If it feels like I’ve been a bit quiet lately, it’s because I’ve been up to my eyeballs in… well, everything. Three years of health curveballs put us way behind, and now we’re trying to catch up. “Trying” being the polite word. The less-polite word involves swearing.
Here’s what’s on my desk right now:
- The 7th Sister Jacobine story — except this one’s not just a short shot of adrenaline. It’s full book length. Jacobine’s stretching her legs, and frankly, she’s terrifying me a little.
- Fall From Grace — the second Thomas Billings thriller. Billings is in even deeper trouble this time, because apparently I like tormenting my heroes.
- Three brand-new Sister Jacobine short stories — each for a different anthology, all due later this year. If you’re keeping count, yes, that’s Jacobine trying to kill me with deadlines.
- A Kickstarter campaign — not for me, but for Tracy’s Born of No Man, the first Once and Future Hearts book. Special edition, artwork, the works. I’ll shout when that goes live.
- Selling books in the real world — we’re setting up to peddle our wares at local craft fairs and farmer’s markets. Books, not zucchini. Unless someone wants to trade zucchini for thrillers.
- Talking erotica — yep, I’m in discussions with an erotica author about publishing with Stories Rule Press. Which makes for some… interesting conversations in the inbox.
So yeah, it’s busy. The good kind of busy. The “stories are getting written and cool things are coming” kind of busy.
Bottom line: I’ve got a stack of thrillers and Jacobine tales headed your way, but if I look frazzled at the farmer’s market, just hand me a coffee and back away slowly.
Mark Posey
SRP Author and thriller writer.
Mark Posey is the author of the award-losing Nun With A Gun thrillers*, a series featuring Sister Jacobine, a nun with a habit of making bad people pay. Readers have called the stories “sharp,” “darkly funny,” and “alarmingly satisfying.” The author calls them “therapy with a body count.” (*No awards were harmed in the writing of this series.)
Mark writes thrillers for readers who don’t mind a little dirt under the nails — stories with emotional weight, lean prose, and characters who rarely do the right thing for the right reason. His work lives somewhere between noir, revenge fantasy, and literary grit, though he avoids calling it any of those because that sounds like marketing.
When he’s not writing fiction, Mark also works as a professional editor and story consultant. His editing blog offers straight talk for indie and traditionally published authors alike — especially the ones who are tired of being told to “find their voice” by people who can’t define what voice is.
He believes in clarity over cleverness, clean narrative over trend-chasing, and that semicolons are fine, but you probably don’t need as many as you think.
He lives in Canada, which explains the politeness, but not the sarcasm.
You can find him online at MarkPoseyAuthor.com, where he blogs about writing, editing, story structure, and whatever else is on fire this week. His books are published through Stories Rule Press, an independent publisher of genre fiction with strong characters and sharp writing.
Mark writes thrillers for readers who don’t mind a little dirt under the nails — stories with emotional weight, lean prose, and characters who rarely do the right thing for the right reason. His work lives somewhere between noir, revenge fantasy, and literary grit, though he avoids calling it any of those because that sounds like marketing.
When he’s not writing fiction, Mark also works as a professional editor and story consultant. His editing blog offers straight talk for indie and traditionally published authors alike — especially the ones who are tired of being told to “find their voice” by people who can’t define what voice is.
He believes in clarity over cleverness, clean narrative over trend-chasing, and that semicolons are fine, but you probably don’t need as many as you think.
He lives in Canada, which explains the politeness, but not the sarcasm.
You can find him online at MarkPoseyAuthor.com, where he blogs about writing, editing, story structure, and whatever else is on fire this week. His books are published through Stories Rule Press, an independent publisher of genre fiction with strong characters and sharp writing.
