Mellon Writes Again!
I am an old cowhand from the Rio Grande. I have never roped a cow and am not particularly interested in learning how to either. The young lady on the left is my daughter dying of shame from having a jackass ham author for a father. The picture was taken at the glamorous Y-O Ranch in the heart of Texas Hill Country.
As the title above indicates, I also have delusions of literary grandeur. Specifically, I am a novelist who supports his family by working as an attorney. My life has been checkered with past experience as a mover, lifeguard/swimming instructor, door-to-door salesman, carpenter's helper, Russian translator, soldier, phone solicitor, collections counselor, and teacher.
This web site has been created for the sole purpose of hyping my writing so I will become insanely successful and wealthy and can congratulate myself for writing my way out of my predicament like G. Bernard Shaw.
Writing Credits
My work has appeared in Aberrations; Chasm; Gothic.Net; Terra Incognita; Anthrolations, the Magazine of Anthropomorphic Dramatic Fiction; the Irish magazine Albedo One; Black Satellite; City Morgue; Aoife�s Kiss; Zahir; Hadrosaur Tales; the English magazines Sutekh�s Gift and Premonitions; and Whispers From The Shattered Forum. A vampire story, Shtriga�s Kiss, has been published in chapbook form by Anxiety Publications. I have also written four novels, The Empire of the Green, Hammer and Skull, The Pirooters and Libertarian in Love (respectively a science fiction novel, a historical novel about World War II, a Western, and a contemporary satire), and a fantasy novella: Escape From Byzantium. A complete bibliography can be linked to below.
I am pleased to announce that my novel The Pirooters has been published by Sundowners,
a division of Treble Heart Books. My gratitude to Ms. Lee Emory, the proprietor of Treble Heart, is inexpressible. A short excerpt
from the book can be found below. To learn more and to order the book, please click on the logo below:
Fiction (purple prose)
Well, partners, here it is, the end of another long and dusty cattle drive. Until spring and the next roundup, Jan and I wish you all the best, and we'll see you again, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise. I hope you enjoyed the site. Anyone sufficiently inspired to contact me (especially literary agents with six- or seven-figure contracts they want me to sign) may use this e-mail address:
artanis_Mark@hotmail.com
Go With My Blessing! 
