Mark Neumayer

Mark Neumayer reads all the time. His love of books started at a very young age when he was too sick to go outside and play with the other kids. (He got better!) Mark wrote tons of stuff back in high school (some of it was actually good.) He even edited the school paper. Afterwards, however, he drifted into the world of TV graphics. He still wrote the occasional commercial or promo, but he concentrated on the graphic side of things, working as an Art Director for two different TV stations and...See more

Mark Neumayer reads all the time. His love of books started at a very young age when he was too sick to go outside and play with the other kids. (He got better!) Mark wrote tons of stuff back in high school (some of it was actually good.) He even edited the school paper. Afterwards, however, he drifted into the world of TV graphics. He still wrote the occasional commercial or promo, but he concentrated on the graphic side of things, working as an Art Director for two different TV stations and picking up a regional Emmy Award along the way. He's also worked for a textbook publisher, an environmental activist group and run his own freelance design business. Now he is writing again and quite happy about that. Mark has lived in New York, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Ohio. He currently lives with his wife Theresa and his son Taliesin in North Carolina, where he is working on the next book in the Valda series. You can find him online at ... or follow him on Twitter as @MarkNeumayer. See less