YESTERDAY'S BLONDE was published in the UK in 1989 and is now, sadly, out of print.

Being a paperback first novel it received few reviews but those that it did have were very positive including "a comic masterpiece" (Him magazine), "a pearl of a book" (Reporter, Stockholm), "certainly preferable to the sludge and slurry of lust and neurosis usually poured over the memory of poor Norma-Jean" (Time Out, London) "Great fun" (Gay Times, London) "Delightfully amusing, .. well worth reading" (The Pink Paper, London)

Despite efforts by the UK publisher it has as yet to find a publisher anywhere else in the world. New American Library apparently turned it down with the words "Not thick enough. We only publish thick books." It received one review in a San Francisco gay paper who totally hated it but had equally clearly only read the first twelve pages...

Mark's new book (thicker, in the hope of eventually perhaps attracting New American Library interest) was entitled

It is a comedy thriller set on Key West. Brazen Books having ceased publication just as this was finished, and the manuscript having been turned down by the receptionists at various London publishing houses, THE BLUE STILETTO became the first ever commercially available email serial. Sales and response were minimal. Now I know that Stephen King does rather better than me anyhow but I could have told him that publishing on the net wasn't a very good idea....

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