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

February 6, 2026 - Taping of One Off Travel Stories podcast

February 18, 2026 - The Book Club, Tallahassee, Florida

March 4, 2026 - Taping of the Phil Young podcast

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

April 23, 2026 - Keynote Speaker, Florida Book Awards Annual Banquet, Tallahassee, Florida

April 27, 2026 - Tallahassee 100 Club, Tallahassee, Florida

May 2, 2026 - Novel in the Neighborhood Bookstore, New Port Richey, Florida

July 17, 2026 - Featured Speaker, Cooks and Books, Freedom Public Library, Ocala, Florida