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Mark Jamilkowski

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Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels, History

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Saul Bellow, F Scott Fitzgerald, Salman Rushdie, Isabel Allende

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My first novel, The Road to Moresco, explores the dramatic events and emotional upheaval of Maria-Luisa Moresco and her daughter, Chiara as they persevered in the world events of the 1900's. This was a personal story, a work of passion, a work deeply emotional and vulnerable for me to write. Most of the book is true to the events and lives of these real-world women, cobbled together from interviews and recorded historical events. The fiction part is in wending it all together as I imagined it did. In the end I found myself humbled, inspired, awed, and grateful.

I have been blessed with the support and encouragement of friends and family to turn my research of my story of origin into The Road to Moresco, and the critics seemed to agree, with ...more

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Mask of Romulus: Highly Recommended

A New Standard for Historical Fiction Rome and India collide in an epic narrative Power, prophecy, and identity brilliantly entwined Mark Jamilkowski’s Mask of Romulus arrives at a moment when historical fiction is enjoying a renaissance, yet few novels in recent memory have so confidently bridged the gap between scholarly rigor and narrative propulsion. This is a work that not only reimagines the Read more of this blog post »

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H.G. Ahedi’s intergalactic saga, The Fall of Titan, reaches for the narrative scale and thematic ambition found in works like Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga, Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. Its blen ...more
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