Mark McNease

All things are of the substance of dreams

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    Cover Reveal for ‘Hell to Pay: A House in the Woods (1 and 2)

    December 9, 2023 /

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    New Banner: Mark / M.A. McNease

    December 9, 2023 /

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    Now You Can Leave a Voice Message for Me!

    December 4, 2023 /

    Now you can leave a voice message for me – author, podcaster, publisher. Just CLICK HERE and record, it’s that simple.

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    Video Trailer for ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due’

    November 30, 2023 /
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    I have so much fun making these! A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due, is now available widely. You can get it on Amazon HERE.

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    My Interview by Dawn Barclay of Mystery Writers of America (NY Chapter), On Staying Motivated

    November 19, 2023 /

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    MadeMark Publishing Now on Shopify – That’s Me!

    November 3, 2023 /

    You have to start somewhere. My eBooks will all be on Shopify soon. And I’ll be using my storefront for much more. Stay tuned!

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    Cover Reveal for ‘Dreamshaping: On Shaping Reality and Living Our Dreams’

    October 5, 2023 /

    UPDATE: IT’S PUBLISHED!

    The eBook is up now at Amazon, with the paperback coming out very soon.

    I’ve been working on this longer than any book I will ever write. It first came to me about 18 years ago when I was sitting on a beach on Long Island. One of my goals for 2023 was to finally finish it. Almost there …

    “It’s understandable that we can react with fear to what we think our bodies are telling us. Who doesn’t assume a grave prognosis when we go to the doctor looking for answers? It’s as natural as gasping for that first breath, terrified there will not be enough air left for another, and another, and another until we take our last. But denying our body’s messages, or pretending they’re not speaking to us at all when in fact they may be shouting, is an invitation to harm and frustration.

    Begin to hear your body. Be quiet with it and let yourself learn its language. You are its first and truest friend. You are the one it longs to communicate with. And when it asks you to pay attention, let nothing be more important than understanding what it has told you. When we become the best interpreter of our body’s language, we begin to live in partnership with it, and to trust it will never lead us astray. We may not always like what it has to say, and sometimes what it tells us will be devastating, but we will listen carefully. The answers are there, and in those answers is the opportunity for peace, acceptance and change.”

    From When the Body Speaks, Listen (Chapter 15) 

    Discover this and many other ways we inhabit the dreams we call our lives, how we create them day by day, and how we can begin to experience them as the ultimate lucid dream. No supernatural assistance is required, no surrender to powers outside ourselves.

    Dreamshaping is not wishful thinking: it is wishful doing. In this simple guide, this dreamshaper’s manual, you’ll find chapter after chapter of simple insights: how the body speaks to us, how we make choices that determine our experiences, how we act, often unknowingly, as the architect, landscaper, set designer and director of our own existence.

    Keep reading, and see what simple reflection and observation can reveal about the lives we live, and the lives we create, in which we’re both the dreamer and the dream.”

     

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    My Interview on the Where Do Gays Retire? Podcast with Host Mark Goldstein is Up Now!

    October 5, 2023 /

    My interview on the Where Do Gays Retire? podcast with host Mark Goldstein is up now! CLICK TO LISTEN.

    Shout OUT Lambertville! America’s #1 Halloween town.

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    Mark McNease On Topic (Substack)

    October 2, 2023 /

    My Medicare kicked in yesterday, October 1. It’s oddly exciting, and depressing at the same time. I can finally enjoy national healthcare, but I had to live 65 years to get it (okay, almost 65 years— my birthday is October 28).

    We had dinner with some friends last night who were hosting their friends from Germany. After giddily announcing I was finally on Medicare, I had to explain to them what the excitement was about. Like the rest of the developed world, they have national healthcare. Americans are unique in our effusive celebrations of a Medicare card arriving in the mail. It sorts of says, “Congratulations! You’ll be dead soon.” And boy, do I plan on using it. My first of several October doctors’ appointments is today!

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  • New,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #241: New Pop Smart News Feature, Roller Coaster Realness, and an Interview with Deaf Action Center’s David Hylan

    September 24, 2023 /

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as debut ‘Pop Smart,’ Rick’s entertainment and culture beat; fasten our seatbelts for America’s best roller coasters; and catch up with Deaf Action Center’s David Hylan on the occasion of his upcoming retirement.

    Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.

    Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing

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    Now on Spotify! Five of My Audiobooks

    September 24, 2023 /

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  • New,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #240: Fun Days in Philly, Food Court Faves, and an Interview with Cannabis Activist Alan Robinson

    September 17, 2023 /

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as rundown Mark’s great two-night trip to Philly, list some favorite food court hotspots, and enjoy Rick’s interview with cannabis activist and advocate Alan Robinson.

    Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.

    Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing

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  • New

    Book Reading Notice in the Bucks County Herald. See You There!

    September 12, 2023 /

    It’s coming up fast! Join us for a Halloween-ish reading of my newest book: I, Warlock: The Warlock Wars Book I, at Bucks on Bridge coffee shop in Lambertville. Friday, October 13, 6 pm. It will be absolutely bewitching!

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