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It’s a cliché, but nonetheless true, that the days are long and the years are short. I had an unexpectedly fruitful 2025, and I am grateful to many of those who have encouraged me, prayed for me, and fellowshipped with me on the journey. Many of the seeds I was encouraged to plant in early…
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“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” acronymed to “LWW” by popular scholars, turned 75 this week. Can you believe that C. S. Lewis once told a friend he would be forgotten within one to three years of his death? Hard to believe he said such. He left us in 1963 and we are still…
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“This collection includes columns about faith, fatherhood, football and family that act as a love letter to Southern culture and a reminder that there is much more to it than rednecks and rebels. Humorous, heart-warming, and thought-provoking Mark Wallace Maguire emerges as a refreshing voice from the New South.“ That’s the book description on Amazon…
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The loss of innocence. The agony of youth. The arrogance of the child mind. The grey ghosts of middle age. The workingman’s blues. The placid rest along the road. The warm comfort of being loved. These are the themes that defined this project. In 2022, I wrapped up the final album of instrumental music inspired…
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My dear friend, adopted ‘Big Sister,’ and Queen Kemie Nix transitioned from this plane to meet her Savior and dear friends last Friday, March 22, 2024. Her Memorial Service will take place at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta on April 14 at 2 p.m. My heart is in the coffin with her and I must…
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(plus faves and raves from ‘23) That quote by one of my favorite American writers sums up my hopes for this year in the creative arts. Here’s a look at what I have on the horizon cued up for you good folks seeking new adventures and some of my recommendations from my favorite reads and…
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So, I’ve been hibernating on the public speaking front for the first half of the year (barring a fantastic reading of, ‘The Last Wizard at The End of the World’ at Monarch House in March) as I coax my new novel along and work on a variety of other creative projects. However, in August, September…
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Greetings and Felicitations! Hello good readers and friends. It’s been a fortnight or five since I posted. As I mentioned at some point last year, I let my writing field grow fallow for most of 2022, devoting my creative energies to painting, producing an album and a short documentary. It was great to escape the…
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Worth the click to read about a man whose poetry was as sublime and tragic as his life. https://www.appalachiabare.com/category/resurrecting-forgotten-writers/
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High summer is here and the glories of The South are in full bloom all around me. Tomatoes and plums plucked from roadside stands. Rich, thick zoysia grass glistening with dew in the mornings. Monstrous resurrections of Kudzu hugging the roadsides. The smell of smoke and barbecue drifting through the air. Though I love the…
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I hope your spring has been kind this year and April has not been the cruelest month, to twist a phrase from T.S. Eliot. After the stolid, frozen and dark days of February, spring has been on the slow rise here in Georgia and it is painting a beautiful picture. This year has already brought…
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What’s in a name? Behind the words from The Last Wizard with Hallowell, Sasha, The Torians and more…
Ah, the joy of creating names in fantasy books is one of my favorite parts of world building and writing. In, ‘The Last Wizard at The End of The World,’ I created multiple new places and characters as Cirin and Arestus sailed across the western seas before crashing on Hallowell’s shores. A few of the…
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I’m excited to announce I have three more events coming up in the next few months including an appearance at a summer festival in historic Warm Springs and teaching a class sponsored by the Fayette Library and Georgia Humanities Council. Here is a quick look. Hometown Novel Nights: Journalists With Newnan Carnegie Library Thursday, Aug.…
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Big ups to all the fantastic reviews that have been streaming in for, “The Last Wizard at The End of The World.” I’ve been very fortunate to gained strong reviews from a variety of sources. Click the images below to read more. “The Last Wizard at the End of The Western World” is a wonderful…
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Yes, it is here! After a two year gestation period of stops, starts, re-writes, re-imagining and the countless input of top tier editors, copywriters and friends. “The Last Wizard at the End of the World,” was published by Speckled Leaf Press in October 2020 and is the highly-anticipated sequel to, ‘In Pursuit of The Pale…
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“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears,send me your beers, forget your jeers and sneersand take a dive into a world where joy truimphs over fear” – Wilford Shakespeare, Juliet Caeser. My friends, it has been far too long since I have written a blog post. Thank you for your grace in being patient as…
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“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton If I were more skilled in the ways of numerology I could craft a clever introduction to this post about the double numbered year we are entering or write an endearing piece about decades. Though my knowledge…
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These are the appendices of Alexandria Rising and Alexandria Reborn. The adventure on combining the appendices for the third and final book are underway as it is very laborious in density and allusion. These are not in chronological order so proceed at your own risk for spoilers if you have not read both. Your humble friend,…
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As you know, I love using allusions and easter eggs in my books. In ‘The Alexandria Rising Chronicles,’ I used symbology, names and numerology from the works of T.S. Eliot, Dante, Tolkien, Carroll and even the show, ‘LOST’ as inspiration. When I began writing ‘In Pursuit of The Pale Prince,’ it was a different world.…
