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In 2016 Marek got serious about writing. He was the recipient of Honourable and Silver Honourable Mentions for several of his short stories. He submitted manuscripts to agents and publishers and collected rejection emails until he his flash fiction, the Plant, was accepted by Every Day Fiction.

In 2019, he decided that indie was the way forward and published Symbionts, a sci fi collection. During his Creative Writing Master's, he published his fantasy collection, The Sixth Dawn, in 2021. He joined the CIEP to pick up a better editing skillset and, employing what he had learned, he published May Contain Space Pirates Vol 1 in February of 2024.

He's been a warehouseman, a printer, a motorbike assembly line operative, a framer, a pub chef, a cl ...more

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Here's my new release: Silentium - a military sci-fi body horror and homage to the classics we all know and love.

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