MARK BOUSQUET

According to Amazon: "Mark Bousquet is the author of over 20 novels, and splits his creative output between genre fiction and kids books. His current focus is on the Spooky Lemon Mysteries (cozy-ish mystery). For adults, he has also written Gunfighter Gothic (weird western), The Haunting of Kraken Moor (Victorian horror), Harpsichord & the Wormhole Witches (space opera), Used to Be: The Kid Rapscallion (superhero), and American Hercules (action/adventure). He is the writer of The Bear at the Top of the Stairs and the Adventures of the Five series for kids.

Mark is a double-graduate of Syracuse University (Bachelor’s in Public Communications and English Textual Studies), and after sojourns to the University of New Hampshire (Masters in English), Purdue University (Ph.D. in American Studies), and the University of Nevada, Reno (where he taught writing and fell in love with wide open spaces), he is currently a full-time member of Syracuse University’s Department of Writing Studies. His academic writing has appeared in collections focused on Marvel Comics’ Civil War, Food in Film, and 19th-century whaling."