Marcus Calvert

Who am I?

I’m that guy with the unfettered imagination who doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. Who thinks up storylines like a vampire owing child support or how aliens could be responsible for a zombie apocalypse. Think of me as a compulsive writer who comes up with more ideas than I could ever hope to put to paper/CPU.

When I was 9, I taught myself how to type. By 12, I had banged out my first books off an old Underwood typewriter. Alas, I was told I was gonna be a lawyer. The longer I pursued that pipe dream, the less I wrote.

Then, after not going to law school and graduating with a useless Masters degree, I dabbled in corporate America for a few decades. One day, I realized that I had no business in the normal workplace, chatting about silly stuff with normal people. Granted, I worked with plenty of delightfully strange folks. I just didn’t want to ladder climb or wait 40+ years to retire.

Along the way, I wrote out twisted thing after twisted thing. Then, in 2010, I received a real promotion. Then I met an editor and paid off my student loan. For the first time in my adult life, I was debt-free. That lasted all of 2 months because i delved in the indie author game and never looked back.

From 2011 to 2013, i dropped three anthology collections. By then, people were screaming at me to write a novel. Something about my short stories not being long enough (oy!). I ended up banging out a super villain trilogy series:

I, Villain (2014)

Murder Sauce (2015)

Frag Code (2016)

By 2014 I picked up my entrepreneurial self-confidence. By late 2015, I quit my long-time day job and went full-on. Then my long-time self-publishing firm (under new management) crapped on me, via a mix of lousy customer service and unit price increases. Long-story-short, I release my second edition with Amazon.

Now the goal is create a literary legacy that will long outlive me. Please wish me luck.

To date, there are eleven works of fiction (a mix of novels and short story collections). For writers, I’ve created six prompt books—each with 200 prompts apiece and advice on how to get started as an indie author. To aid both writers and evil GMs alike, there are three “cookbooks” for character creation.

They’re all available on Amazon and Kindle.

I, Villain Series

I, Villain

Murder Sauce

Frag Code

Coin Game

Unheroic Series

Unheroic: Book One

Unheroic: Book Two

Unheroic: Book Three

The Book Of Schemes Series

The Book Of Schemes: Book One

The Book Of Schemes: Book Two

The Book Of Schemes: Book Three

Stand-Alone Novel

Tyrant’s Bane

Batchery Series

Batchery, Volume 1

Batchery, Volume 2

Batchery, Volume 3

Batchery, Volume 4

Batchery, Volume 5

Batchery, Volume 6

The Antagonists’ Cookbook

The Antagonists’ Cookbook, Volume 1

The Antagonists’ Cookbook, Volume 2

The Antagonists’ Cookbook, Volume 3