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You can pre-order my poetry book now! 

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Get a preview of my book!

Hello you all,

I'd like to give you a preview of my just published book and I'd like your feedback!

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0759XDDHT&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zcRTzbMR7EDYJ

I hope to hear from you soon,

Mark

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Blessed

Blessed is the boy Who loves the girl And is loved in kind Through heaven and hell.

Blessed is the man Who finds such joy In loving the woman He met as a boy.

Blessed are the children Whose parents are strong, With help ploughing through Life’s rights and wrongs.​

Blessed is the husband Who cares for his wife And receives in return Her love, her life.

Blessed is the man Who is part of a team, Made of loving children And the woman of his dreams.

Mark Kloss

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My upcoming poem book front cover, what do you guys think?

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Game Hunter: My Villains.

I am quite spiritual but I find that people get confused by thinking there is no difference between their spiritual self and their body. The idea is if the body is grotesque, so must be whatever is inside.

In my world zombie-ism is just another affliction causing a terrible disability of mind and function. Those not affected should count themselves lucky and help the zombies as they would a wounded but still dangerous animal that had previously been harmless and warm.

Unfortunately, there are all too many examples of man being frightened into fighting or trying to destroy what they don't like or understand. If we view zombie-ism as an underprivileged minority, I made the bad guys the normals who pay to kill on zombie safaris.    

Yet like all other minorities, our zombies just want to be helped and given rights.

In Closing:

I ended up with a few zombies who have heart and soul and can think and communicate, trapped inside the Prison City of London, fighting for their own lives and those of the whole zombie race until a cure is found, or they die trying.

So the book may be exciting, adventurous and fairly light hearted, but it also has the message that those we don’t understand also have a heart soul and are entitled to rights too. How we should try more, to understand those far less fortunate than ourselves and be more inclined to help rather than attack.

I do hope you buy, read and review my book! Here is the Amazon link for the USA and the UK.

If you need some further whetting of your appetite, here is the book blurb itself:

Enter the dangerous City of London to kill zombies, in the popular Game Hunter TV show and become a celebrity!

Zombies in the deserted ruins of the City of London are an endangered species. Those left are hardly dangerous and TV figures are plummeting. Unless things change the rest will be wiped out and the City rebuilt.  

The Elders have convinced male and female half-zombie teenagers; reluctant Tremayne and confident Red, to find a further five fighters in order to take on seven of the most ferocious zombie hunters in a series of three TV shows.

The final outcome will determine annihilation or possible cure.  

Yet with the fate of their zombie cousins at stake, a missing beloved sister to find, a budding romance, plus intrigue and conspiracy around every darkened corner, just staying alive until the first challenge seems to be a deadly struggle in itself.

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Game Hunter: My Location.

‘Prison planet’ has been a phrase I have come across several times, and it stuck in my mind as a powerful phrase.

I love walking through the City of London, enjoying the many ancient buildings, churches, castles and cobbled streets or lanes. It feels as though you can directly sense the history of man. The City has certainly been a place of death, dark intrigue and historical mischief throughout the years. I find the buildings have depth, they have witnessed so much drama and it’s as though I can feel it.

The area is always very busy with commerce and tourists, and so I imagined it being deserted, painting a whole different picture, with possible danger behind each and every narrow lane and dark ancient building –  especially at night! And so I ended up with the idea of ‘The Prison City of London.’

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Game Hunter: My Zombies.

In the last decade or so zombies have achieved a bit of a resurgence and I saw the popular films ‘28 Days Later’ and ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ the first showed zombies to be fast and viciously dangerous and the second depicted zombies as slow, lumbering and easy to be killed. The rest generally showed zombies in one of these two categories and they were always grotesque!

From this I came up with the idea to have my zombies not so categorised, and so I have fully turned zombies, half-zombies, quarter-zombies and so on, it is not a static state but rather they deteriorate!

The general theme in zombie movies or books is that zombies are evil, without heart or soul and need to be killed or at least escaped from. That was until I read ‘Warm Bodies,’ what a different perspective! The hero and the rest of the zombies aren't nearly so cartoonishly grotesque and they have feelings, heart and internal thoughts! I loved that and so my main characters became these quarter-zombies with feelings.

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Game Hunter: The Inspiration

We are interrupting our current series of blogs to give you a special blog on Game Hunter. The reason for that is TODAY Game Hunter was published!!

I am so chuffed and excited, and I hope you all enjoy the final product as much as I do.

In honour of Game Hunter, I thought I would tell you my inspiration and how I ended up with this story.

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This is important.

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Make a bonfire out of want.

Noor Hindi, from “Filthy Woman’s Guide on How to Hunger,” published in Public Pool (via lifeinpoetry)

Cute.

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Flowers

There cannot be a better sight

Than open flowers’ gentle light, In the morning or deepest night Dancing colours or baby white.

Recovering from the devil’s blight And hungry insects' savage bite, Facing the winds without fright Growing with deceptive might.

Wings of pollen taking flight Rising up to heaven’s height, With nature’s strength to excite The busy bees’ appetite.

Exploding like packed dynamite Hugging ground or shinning bright, The sturdy roots holding tight Fighting for their birth right.

This promise of spring delight Causes my heart to ignite, Dancing, skipping like a kite There cannot be a better sight.

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My Active Imagination.

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My Active Imagination

I believe most children have an active and fertile imagination. Sometimes it gets squashed out of them by parents or the school system, sometimes it just gets lost by the wayside, and for the lucky few it is encouraged and admired. Mine apparently started young, as my mother once told me how she would be entertained for ages, as I talked away to myself about some imagined game while sitting on the potty. Although as you can imagine, I don’t remember those games now, I can just see my young self, weaving my own personal worlds. In the garden, I used to play for hours being a bus driver on my three-wheeler, stopping at bus stops, being late, early or just on time. There would be entire stories about the passengers; those who were running late to a birthday party, those who just rode on the bus for the view and those who tried to get on without paying. I always had a lot of fun with that. When I was about 10, I could spend hours in my bedroom acting out different wars with my toy soldiers; creating the ebb and flow of the battle, the feelings, the blood and smashing defeats or victories. In fact I can still get into that and, though my books are usually lighter, I believe you can see that in some of my poems, such as Force Over Reason, Why did I Stand Tall? and The Message. Though it may seem like normal kid behaviour, I am glad to remember those childish beginnings of my imagination. As a parent, I have always strived to cultivate and not squash the imagination of my children, because no matter the game or idea, that is a child’s best way of expressing his or her own world of fun and interest. For me, writing is an important method of releasing my switched-on imagination. I can never ignore the stories, worlds and ideas wanting to come out. Writing is my way of doing that…just like those games from a wild young boy once were. I want to take you on a journey with my blog, from those young days of my life, up until the present and the release of my books. I hope you enjoy!

Mark.

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