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One of the most talented writers out there in today's world of books." - Sam Millar Author: Mark SaFranko Clay's wandering eye has finally landed him in trouble. After a devastating accident that leaves him confined to a wheelchair, his many conquests are all he has left. He's spent his life cheating on his wife, and now when he needs her most, will their relationship remain as is? In this gritty and darkly humorous novel, Mark SaFranko up...

Dough Guthrie betreibt eine Website namens Professor Romance, die als Idee aus einer Laune heraus auf einem Barhocker in Hollywood entstand. Nun ist Dough trocken und hat seine Dämonen besiegt. Er leitet ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen, das denen, die verzweifelt Frauen kennenlernen wollen, kein langes Rumgetue verspricht. Als Ghostwriter dahinter verdient Lance Bertovich seine Brötchen und berät zahlende Kunden wie z.B. Norman Bright, der als u...

Für den Hightechmanager Parker Saturn beginnt der sonnige Septembertag in New York etwas ungewöhnlich. Der ihm bis dato unbekannte Kollege Ivan Rubleski aus der Dependance an der Westküste hat ihn zu einer Besprechung in ein Hotel in Manhattan bestellt. Trotz einer quälenden Migräne fühlt Parker sich fit für einen langen Arbeitstag mit anschließendem Geschäftsessen und einer Tour durch die Nachtlokale. Doch es kommt alles ganz anders: Rubleski...

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The short story is the most difficult form. In a great story, every single word is critical" (Mark SaFranko)The ninth dose of THE SAVAGE KICK focuses on "Convictions"... from white lies to the stuff that gets you banged up for 30 years.Featuring crime and confessional stories, SK#9 faces up to the outcomes of defying expectations and authority.Authors featured in this issue are:Mark SaFranko (Interview and "Thirst")Nick Benta ("Patience")Drew ...

In class the nuns hinted at the same thing. What we learned from the Baltimore Catechism was that 'self-gratification, ' whatever that meant, exactly, was a sin against the sixth commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, ' and the tenth commandment, 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.' It was in fact, one of the deadly, cardinal sins: LUST. I tried with all my strength to not give in to temptation, but failed again and again. "This ...

Max Zajack's life is cheap rooms, dead-end jobs, and suicidal fantasies until he meets the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite, and everything goes to hell.Max is a struggling musician and wannabe writer. His life is in a rut until one night, while playing a gig at a local club, he gazes out into the crowd and sees Olivia. Before long, they are sharing a bed and host of dark vices that begin to consume them. Their love turns toxic, sendin...

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Murderers and serial killers...Jilted lovers and outcasts... Broken men and lost women.... Loners. Cutting across genres for more than 20 years, Mark SaFranko has excelled in charting the life of the outsider. This collection includes nine of SaFranko's stories... all shot through with his trademark realism. 'New York Times' bestselling crime author Seymour Shubin ['Anyone's My Name'] introduces the stories, hailing Loners as "a collection of ...

Dirty Work" is the fourth of Mark SaFranko's series of Max Zajack novels and follows the critically acclaimed "Hating Olivia, " "Lounge Lizard" and "God Bless America." "Dirty Work" is the bridge between "God Bless America" and "Hating Olivia." Max has left school and is searching for a steady job that gives him enough sanity to survive...and enough free time to write. Drawing comparisons to both "Factotum" and "Death on the Installment Plan",...

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I was renting a basement, a hovel, really, at an absurdly low rate, on Park Street, but it never deterred any of the women I brought there, and there were quite a few. If the dust that coated everything bothered them, they didn't complain. If the unwashe

You're going to have to do something, Max. I can't handle it by myself anymore, ' she said one morning over breakfast. 'Some of the bills are going unpaid. I didn't want to tell you last month, but....' "I knew what it meant -- I was going to have to come up with a job. A real job. To hell with writing, to hell with acting, to hell with my rich fantasy life of fat, regular royalty checks and reliable agents and all the other pleasant hallucina...