Paul's story Endless Vacation won honorable mentions in two prestigious literary competitions: the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Competition and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award.
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Paul Marks, Naomi Hirahara and Darrell James at the Murder in La-La Land Launch Party
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Paul signing books at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Paul Marks at podium with Ashley Ream, Eric Stone, Jeri Westerson and Darrell James
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Author of a variety of stories in genres ranging from noir to straight mystery. Satire to serious fiction. Over twenty published stories, including several award winners. In a previous life have published numerous magazine/periodical articles, plus film work.


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Paul is currently working on:

The Blues Don't Care, a novel featuring Bobby Saxon, his unique character who has appeared in three published short stories (The Good Old Days, Santa Claus Blues and Sleepy Lagoon Nocturne).

As with all the Bobby Saxon stories, the novel takes place in and around Central Avenue, as well as other Los Angeles locations. At the time (mid 20th century), Central Avenue was the heart of Los Angeles' African-American community, featuring famous nightclubs, such as the Club Alabam, where musician Bobby plays as the only white member of an all-black swing band – and that isn't the only Blues Dont Care logodistinctive thing about him. The Dunbar Hotel, next door to the Alabam, the premier "colored" hotel, where everyone who was anyone in the black community – from famous musicians like Duke Ellington, who kept a suite there, to future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall – stayed when they couldn't stay at whites only hotels. As with all the Bobby Saxon stories, he traverses these and other Central Avenue locations as well the greater Los Angeles area.

 

Blues is set on the World War II homefront where Bobby finds himself involved in more intrigue than he can fathom, but the blues don't care about that. Though if they don't it seems everyone else does as they are all after Bobby.




Paul's Latest Work Appears in:

POISON HEART  appears in the Deadly Ink 2010 Short Story Collection available through Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com

CONTINENTAL TILT appears in the Murder in La-La Land Anthology available through Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com

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Listen to Paul's interview on the America's Back on Track radio network.

(The link to this interview has been broken.  We're working to fix it.  Hopefully it will be up soon.  Check back shortly.)


 The host mentions Paul at the beginning in the first 60-90 seconds, but then the actual interview comes about 2/3 of the way in at approximately 36 minutes in,  so you can fast forward to that part.  It lasts about 10 minutes.



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