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We apparently have a snafu with our author bios. I, too am a Mark Speed who wrote Braden's Voice. I'm working with BookBaby publisher to address this but wanted to let you know this was a glitch somehow when they published mine a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully we can correct soon?
Mark Speed Sorry about the loss of your son last year.
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Hello I notice you are a Nicholas Fisk fan and I am hunting for a Nicholas Fisk book or story that featured a classic English cricket scene. Any ideas? My husband remembers reading this as a child and I am hoping to track it down and get him a copy for nostalgia's sake! Really glad of any help you can offer. Best wishes Jane
Mark Speed Hi Jane. It's about 45 years since I read it*, but it might be that Trillions has a scene like that near the opening.

*which I find really hard to believe!
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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?
Mark Speed A robot on a website asked me for a two-sentence horror story. My mind went blank.
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:D Ohh, I can't wait! I just saw the redesigned cover. It's amazing! It reminds me of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and that short series of Doctor Who books. It looks very good. Very simple. I can't wait to see the others in their new design. I hope you're able to overcome those problems, and are able to get the books on Amazon. The books are amazing, and deserved to be read! :D Good luck! ?
Mark Speed Thanks! The book designer and I spent quite a while in Waterstones looking at covers. Douglas Adams was a major influence, and that's what you're seeing there. Also, I'd had to take some legal advice about not infringing BBC copyright, and had to take that into account. Even though I can write what I write under the so-called 'satire defence', the covers have to be noticeably different. We had to not show the obvious figure of the protagonist on the cover (in the Doctor Who book series, you always see when regeneration of the Doctor you're getting). It's been quite a journey, and I'm so glad you like them! :-D
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When can we expect to see Doctor How back in action again?
Mark Speed Very soon! Hopefully next month! :-D

I finished writing book three - Doctor How and the Alien Invasion - in July 2015, but I've been waiting to get the covers for the whole series redesigned.

As you might have seen, I released the new edition of book one - Doctor How and the Illegal Aliens last week. I'm just trying to get book two - Doctor How and the Deadly Anemones - released with its new cover now, but I'm having a few teething problems with book one on Amazon right now and need to clear these first.
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