Mark Dirschel
I've been a horror fan ever since I was a kid. I think it all started with a movie I watched about a woman who came back from the dead to reclaim a ring someone stole from her while she lay in her casket. I wish I could remember the name of it but that, like so many other pieces of my past, have disintegrated to dust in my mind. My sister and I were both under ten when we saw it and fascinated, we would scream, run to our mother, get yelled at for screaming and then run back to the television - over and over. This went on until my mom hung up the phone and snapped off the TV.
I started writing at about age 7, mostly for school assignments but there were stories I scratched out for my own enjoyment as well. I wrote my first book at age 12, a horror tale of a summer camp haunted by two, severed hands.
Simplicity, a vampire novel, was published in November 2001. It answers the nagging question of what happens to the vampire�s soul when the sun rises and the body is laid to rest. It was picked up by a small publishing company named AmErica House and is available at any on-line site where books are sold.
I was born in New York and spent a good deal of my life moving from place to place. I'm currently living in Massachusetts with my wife and two children, and I work as a Registered Nurse in the psychiatric emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. I�ve written several novels but Simplicity was the first I tried to get published.
