Biographical stuff The Mark Pritchard I am with links to documents and more information about various things I've done Here's how you can find me: I'm listed in the San Francisco phone book. Or email me at . Now all the links below look kind of boring, but actually have a lot of stuff behind them. I live in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, which is here. Here are a bunch of pictures of me, and here is my Flickr page. In addition to this website, I blog at The Rumpus.net, at sf.metblogs.com, and occasionally at Open Salon. I'm also the Mark Pritchard on Twitter. I am not on Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn. I'm the author of: How They Scored, a novel about a bunch of straight men talking with each other about their sexual experiences, and about the death of privacy in the age of Web 2.0. » Buy it at Lulu.com as a paperback (I make the most money from you buying the paperback there) or as a download, or from Amazon.com as a paperback or a Kindle edition. Mango Rain, a novel about an American girl who goes to India to open a customer service call center. I'm shopping for a new agent with this manuscript. Make Nice, my first mainstream novel -- set in 1960 and about the Rat Pack, Hollywood, Vegas, the Mob, beatniks, and Marilyn Monroe. » Buy it at Lulu.com as a paperback (I make the most money from you buying the paperback there) or a download, or from Amazon.com as a paperback. Lesbian Camp Girls, a porn novel I wrote as a sort of homage to the trashy porn paperbacks of the late 1970s. » Buy it at Lulu.com as a paperback ($11.99) or a download ($1.50). It must be said: Adults only! Too Beautiful and Other Stories, my first collection of erotic stories (originally published by Masquerade Books in 1999) with additional work in this second edition, published by Cleis Press in 2001. » Buy it at Amazon.com. How I Adore You, my second collection of erotic stories, published by Cleis Press in 2001. » Buy it at Amazon.com. Read my writing: Excerpt from one of my short stories, How I Adore You (erotica) Excerpt from my first unpublished novel, Make Nice, as well as the journal (1.1 MB PDF) I kept over several years while writing the book. Excerpt 1 and Excerpt 2 from my second as-yet-unpublished novel, Mango Rain. You can also read a 2007 interview with me. Short stories: Polar Bear Instrument The Grief Counselor Cleaning Up After the Champion Other writing   I used to do Frighten the Horses magazine. Day jobs: Most of what I've done in the last 15 years has been at software companies; right now I'm a tech writer at a big enterprise software company. Previously I've worked as an English teacher in San Francisco and in Japan, as a delivery truck driver, layout artist, church secretary, bike messenger dispatcher and dishwasher. I used to be in Queer Nation and the Street Patrol. The book Family Values by Phyllis Burke covers a great deal of Queer Nation-San Francisco's most active period, including two protests I had a hand in organizing: The Larry Lea Halloween action: 30 Oct 90, Wall Street Journal: The Devil, You Say? San Francisco Faces Halloween Exorcism 30 Oct 90 San Francisco Chronicle: 'Spiritual Warfare' at Civic Auditorium 30 Oct 90 San Francisco Examainer: Local gays plan rally against televangelist's 'Prayer Army' 31 Oct 90, Associated Press: Prayer Warriors   1 Nov 90 San Francisco Chronicle: 6,500 Christians attend S.F. 'Exorcism'   1 Nov 90 San Francisco Examiner: Prayer Army and 'pagans' tangle ...and the "Basic Instinct" protests: "Basic Instinct" protests "Basic Instinct" arrests "Basic Instinct" screenwriter sides with protesters "Basic Instinct" opening I used to do contact improvisation and other dance and performance art. Among the performing I used to do, I was the semi-regular opening act for a group called The Bobs. I wrote a song called "Be My Yoko" that they recorded. I went to the University of Texas and wrote movie reviews for the Daily Texan in the 1970s I went to Clear Lake High School in the pit of horror that is the Clear Lake (Tex.) area: That woman who killed all her kids? Right there. A 2003 mass murder several months later, they haven't caught anybody several weeks after that, they're still looking. After three years, a suspect in the mass murder was in custody (24 July 06) Woooo, update! Two and a half years later, one of the suspects was convicted in the murder. In the trial, a police detective described a depraved scene at her capture. Another 2003 murder A 2002 murder, tabloid-ready Man attacks brother with chainsaw, and other mayhem Woman strangled with bare hands Just why do I hate the Clear Lake area anyway? I was a terrible Little Leaguer in Edwardsville, Ill. The Mark Pritchards I'm not the British Mark Pritchard who records electronica with Tom Middleton. a different British Mark Pritchard who is a singer-songwriter in the U.K. still another Mark Pritchard from the U.K. who is a conservative member of Parliament an Australian Mark Pritchard who renamed himself Beelzebub or Belzebuub and is the secretive center of a esoteric sect that claims to teach "astral travel" and "tantrism" the Mark Pritchard who lives in the U.K. and still works for BEA, my former employer. We used to get email for each other all the time. the Mark Pritchard who is a TV producer in L.A. and owns the markpritchard.us domain. the Mark Pritchard from Australia who contributed to a book on Borland Special Edition Using Delphi 3. A Mark Pritchard in L.A. who has a video podcast. a "developer of homes" in Austin, Tx., though I went to college in Austin. any of the people on the web called Mark A. Pritchard. My middle initial is A but I never use it. any of the Mark Pritchards who live in the U.K., Australia or other English-speaking lands, where Pritchard is a fairly common surname -- including the U.K. Mark Pritchard who wrote a book on learning to drive

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