Mark Nunn

I was born in Jacksonville, Florida on January, 22 1956 on my mother's birthday and we've fought over the cake ever since. Vanilla or chocolate, angel or devils food. Since I had no choice but to share the cake while living under my mother's roof I succumbed to vanilla cake and frosting, sometimes with a goodly amount of raspberry jam spread between each delicate layer. Yuck! After awhile it became sadly apparent that with the combination of our ages, there was more candles than cake so we went our separate ways.

Being a child of the "Golden Age of Television",while I ate my vanilla-raspberry cake, I watched the one-eyed monster and began to understand story structure. Half-hour shows were "short-stories". Short story writers like Rod Serling and Richard Matheson who penned many screen plays also began writing half-hour shows. Television exposure provided the importance of character, story and the art of moving the story forward. Who likes to sit at the stop light when you're driving your new Corvette. You only had limited time to put your point across yet be entertaining.

Writing novels became a way of expanding the basics of what television and film taught me. The essential substance of story and character was life. The collision of lives on other lives and the sum total of the experience produced drama. My current writing style and interests are based on the intersection of my experiences growing up, being married for thirty seven years, raising children and inheriting six grand children. My characters are based on amalgams of everyone I've ever known. The difference is that I can control it. I can make life and take it away. What more could you want?