Author Archives: Mark Hayes

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About Mark Hayes

Writer A messy, complicated sort of entity. Quantum Pagan. Occasional weregoth Knows where his spoon is, do you? #author #steampunk http://linktr.ee/mark_hayes

Cider Lane free sample chapters

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Mark Hayes

You can download or view online a free sample of the first two chapters of the newly reproof Cider Lane: Of Silences and Stars at good reads by following the link below. I hope you enjoy it and come back for … Continue reading →

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New covers

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Cider lane has been reskinned, to go with the reproofing of the text. Very pleased with the new cover .  The back cover will appear here at some point in the next couple of days once the cover is live on … Continue reading →

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Write What You Want

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Mark Hayes

As happens probably too often, on social media I found myself ranting a little over a shared post. Though in this case for once, it was not a post about politics, racism, dyslexia, homophobia or anything else on the worthy, or … Continue reading →

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American politics, a view from outside the ranch

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Having finally at least reached the point where equality between straight and gay was given in that most basic of things, the right to marry the one you love, the GOP in individual states is trying to drag the world … Continue reading →

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Depression, talking about it

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Depression is not a natural subject for me to write about because I have suffered from it more than once in my adult life. It’s not a subject I find easy to talk about in general, less still when it … Continue reading →

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What did the treaty of Rome ever do for us?

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Mark Hayes

With apologies to my Non-British readers. Who will probably read little further than this, this is a post about the forthcoming in-out referendum on the EU that we will be having in Britain in a few months. Which for the … Continue reading →

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its not what you think it is ……

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Mark Hayes

“Reality is not want you think it is, it’s nothing more than a perception your mind is trained to accept. The truth? The truth is far greater than you could ever imagine. That flicker of movement in the corner of … Continue reading →

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Play like a girl, spit out the blood and carry on

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Mark Hayes

There is a culture some parts of the gaming community of bullying and sexism, based on the simple, but entirely wrong, perception. That perception is that girls don’t play video games well. More to the point the perception that they … Continue reading →

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Genocide Watch

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Mark Hayes

One of the joys of doing a degree with the open university is learning new things, and that it makes you seek out further knowledge. The real joy is never the set reading but the further reading you seek out … Continue reading →

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Politics a bit of a rant

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Mark Hayes

(wrote this on my phone a couple of days ago while waiting for my girlfriend in a sports centre drinking a latte and generally passing time. so its a bit of a rant and perhaps not overly insightful , but … Continue reading →

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