Mark Crockett
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Mark Crockett, Author, Producer, director, Motivational Speaker (born 19--) author of Turkeystuffer and Dealin’ with the Dead was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby East Orange, New Jersey.
His love of writing surfaced at an early age; which his collecting hundreds of comic books and rewriting the characters storylines and replacing their original words with his own.
An accomplished athlete, he attended Rutgers University in 1978 and then to run for the United States Air Force International Track Team. Producing talk shows and commercials at KHYT-FM radio and then later at both KOLD-TV 13 and KVOA-TV 4 as part of the production staff of News shows, he then moved on to PSA’s, talk shows and even worked as a cameraman for remote location shoots for over three years. The whole time, honing his writing skills.
After enrolling in the Creative Writing Program at Pima Community College (Tucson, AZ) he laid the groundwork for what was to become a diverse writing career which included many published short stories, designed original movie poster art and successfully headed his own greeting card company, Gentle Persuasion Romantic Cards.
His first novel, “Turkeystuffer”, is a suspense/thriller set in Phoenix, Arizona; and is published by Strebor Books International/Simon and Schuster in May, 2002.
A member of the Arizona Screenwriters Association he currently (as of 2006) is completing another novel and writing screenplays for two of his books for Paddlefoot Productions.
