You've entered Mark Ellis Ink, the online HQ of novelist Mark Ellis. 

I’m the author of 45 science-fiction and thriller novels (with more in the offing) as well as being a comics creator.

The fans of my work call me an "Adventurist Extraordinarie" and I try to live up to that!

The goal I strive to achieve in all of my work is to take the reader on epic journeys filled with blazing action, colorful heroes, heroines, villains and grand adventure.

Under my pen name of James Axler, I created and write the long-running Outlanders series. Published internationally by Harlequin Enterprises’s Gold Eagle imprint, it is one of the most successful novel series of the past 25 years.

If you want to learn more about this series, follow this link: Outlanders 

After all these years as James Axler, I'm moving onto new projects, but they will all share my trademarks of extraordinary adventure, bizarre events and of course...beautiful women.

Here's a llnk to an excerpt  from my most recent thriller: Cryptozoica

And lastly but by no means leastly, there's Death Hawk

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Best wishes!

Mark Ellis

(PS scroll down for a message from me written specifically for readers who may be unfamiliar with my past work.)

Thanks for stopping by my site.

Like most creative folks, I can look back with a combination of ennui and shame on a checkered employment history...let's see, in no particular order, I've worked as a phosphate miner, a second-rate bassist in a couple of first-rate rock bands, store detective, resume' writer and a refrigeration engineer.

Rather than delve into the irrelevancies about working as a journalist, a newspaper columnist and a white-collar copywriter and all the other yadda-yadda of a full-time writing career that began over 20 years ago, let's get down to the grue.

I make my living as a creator. I was formerly a comics scripter for various independent publishers and the main writer, conceptulizer and editor of the late (and somewhat unlamented) Millennium Publications.

My credentials in the comic book field include critically acclaimed stints on Doc Savage, The Wild, Wild West, H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu and many others. I’ve worked with comic legends such as the legendary Jim Mooney, Don Heck, Darryl Banks, Adam Hughes and Doug Wildey. I also gave the great (and tragically late) Mike Wieringo his first comics assignment (Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty) in my capacity of editor of Millennium.

Melissa, my wife of 28 years, and I live in Newport, Rhode Island--a friendly seaside community (despite what tourists who've been arrested for public drunkeness might claim) on the rocky New England coast.

We have one child, our daughter Deirdre who lives in Florida with her husband John Pierpoint. Both of them are very successful web-designers. This site is an example of her brilliant work. Thanks, Deirdre!

Melissa and I teach writer's workshops and moderate writer's groups in the area. The longest-lived isNewport Round Table, which meets at the Empire Tea and Coffee House on picturesque Broadway. Melissa is a professional photographer and writer. Check out the links page for her site and those pertaining to our writer's groups.

I've been featured in Starlog Magazine, Comics Scene Magazine, Comics Buyer's Guide and Fangoria  Magazine. I've also been interviewed by Robert Siegel for NPR's All Things Considered.

So now that you've come this far, please take a look around, enjoy the cover gallery, post in the forum if you've a mind to and I hope you visit often!