Mark Tucker

Once upon a time, Mark Tucker walked away from a perfectly good job in a Seattle corporate law office and moved to a picturesque beach town to pursue his creative dreams. In addition to writing fantasy and science fiction with encouraging success, he is a musician, songwriter, audio producer, and developer of computer games. He fancies himself a low-grade amateur scientist, hunting fossils and keeping current with developments in physics and cosmology, and counts among his dearest moments the first time he found the Andromeda galaxy with his telescope. He enjoys travel, the less scripted the better, and collects representative coffee mugs and Hard Rock Café City Tee shirts from the locales he visits. A collection of African and Polynesian tribal masks adorns the walls of his den. He delights in the beauty and temperament of the Hawaiian islands, and plans to settle on Kauai when circumstances permit.

Mark considers The Lord of the Rings the most satisfying fiction he has ever read, and holds writers Philip K. Dick and Jonathan Carroll in awe.

Mark's incurable vices include a fanatical devotion to the band Genesis (to the point of sitting happily for two hours in shorts and sandals in the pouring rain for their reunion concert at the Hollywood Bowl) and an almost religious reverence for Batman. There may be therapy for this, but for Mark it is much too late.

All of Mark's obsessions are creative. He plays guitar, keyboard, and most passionately drums, producing his own and other artists' recordings in an elaborate home studio. He paints in acrylic and draws cartoons. He taught himself computer scripting, and can't be bothered with food or sleep when piecing together a mod for the role-playing game Skyrim or creating an original world with RPG Maker. He loves playing games too, most fondly the Ultima series where ethical choices play a central role. But "making things" in any art form is what truly lights his fire.