Mark's News

  • New You Tube Channel: Write A Novel

    by Mark Ballett
    Mark Ballett: Write A Novel. My new YouTube channel, launched January 2023.

  • A Rather Unusual Detective

    by Mark Ballett
    Last Summer Night is done. At least the writing bit is. I'm waiting for a second round of readers to comment and then a few final touches and then ...

  • Abandoned Soon

    by Mark Ballett
    'A novel is never finished, just abandoned,' or something like that, is a quotation that has been attributed to many folk. No matter who actually s...

  • Back To School

    by Mark Ballett
    I have a place on the Faber Academy Novel Writing course which starts at the end of January. Really looking forward to it and to meeting my fellow ...

  • The Simmer Dim

    by Mark Ballett
    The Simmer Dim Last Summer Night Begins, or is it the Simmer Dim? So, after much deliberating I have a good draft of Last Summer Night, the...

  • The Right Words

    by Mark Ballett
    The Right Words The more I write the more I realise that, for me at least, writing is a continuous process of improvement. The first word, or s...

  • Last Summer Night

    by Mark Ballett
    Last Summer Night I am currently working on my second novel, Last Summer Night, which will be published early in 2019. It is a dark comedy abou...

  • Falmouth Maps

    by Mark Ballett
    Falmouth Maps These two maps reveal two very different Falmouths. The one I love to visit and the one I dream about. Both the real town and the...

  • The Falmouth Son Illustrations

    by Mark Ballett
    The Illustrations Having always wanted to be a book illustrator, Celia Turner has drawn these lovely fish for the book cover of The Falmouth So...