Boy With Wings named the 2025 Grand Prize Winner for Fiction by Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Boy With Wings named a finalist for Fiction, Cross-Genre by International Book Awards, a finalist for the Hawthorne Prize for Fiction, a winner of the da Vinci Eye Book Award, shortlisted for the Shelley Award for Paranormal Fiction and a finalist for the Readers’ Favorite Award for Historical Fiction

The Avett Brothers’ Bob Crawford’s interview with Mark on The Road to Now podcast

Mark’s article for Electric Lit Magazine “7 Novels About Freakshows and the Price of Being Different”

Mark’s picks of the best books that address the strange for shepherd.com

Mark’s appearance on The Usual Suspects TV show with Gary Yordon

Mark’s appearance on First Coast Living TV show

Tom Flanigan’s interview with Mark for WFSU public radio

December 14, 2025 - AARP Book Event, “From Stories to Shelves,” Domi Station, Tallahassee, Florida

February 6, 2026 - Taping of The Datekeepers podcast

March 10, 2026 - Sunrise Rotary Club, Tallahassee, Florida