Born in 1963 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, I
studied sciences at school with the bizarre idea of becoming a
parapsychologist. I studied psychology at Sheffield University for,
erm, two years and then dossed about for a couple of years, having
decided that my glittering future lay in graphic design, and moved to
Leeds.
I worked as a graphic designer for three and a
half years before deciding that my still-glittering future lay in
teaching, so I got a BEd at Leeds Metropolitan University before doing
a year's teaching - which convinced me that my
not-quite-so-glittering-anymore future certainly didn't lay in
teaching.
So, together with my then-partner, Mike, I started
up Shout!, a gay paper for Yorkshire, which has been going steadily
since 1995. I've also written a few other bits for the press, but
nothing particularly exciting.
Currently, I'm doing my best to be a writer.
My first paid-for piece of writing was a short
story, Digging Up The Past in the anthology Professor Bernice Summerfield in
2000. Since then I’ve written several more novels, short stories,
magazine article - and even a comic strip!
My latest bit of writing is a venture into
e-publishing with a novella, The Ghosts of
Mercury, released at the end of October
2011 and published by Untreed Reeds as part of series one of a launch of e-novels and
e-novellas.
I'm a graphic designer and an experienced trainer
in using the gay press to help small and community-based gay
organisations to generate as much publicity as possible, having run
training sessions in London, Leeds, Birmingham, Bradford and Newcastle.
Who knows what the future might bring - apart from
some more glitter, obviously.
Mark Michalowski
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