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MARK HODDER
Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of novels, short stories & flash fiction.

BURTON & SWINBURNE
The adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Algernon Swinburne in time gone awry!

CURRENT PROJECT
Demonfall: a tale of inner space!

NOVELS & EBOOKS

The award-winning Burton & Swinburne series, Sexton Blake, a planetary romance, horror, the occult, and more ...

My Novels

BLAKIANA

THE SEXTON BLAKE RESOURCE
My celebration of the most-written about British fictional detective of all time, complete with the most complete bibliography ever published, a timeline, and lots of articles and illustrations.

Blakiana

PATREON

Here’s where, in return for supporting me, you can gain access to loads of exclusive material, including flash fiction, short stories, preview chapters, Sexton Blake scans, developmental material, deleted scenes, and writing advice.

FACEBOOK

I visit Facebook pretty much every day ... and I rant! This is where I let loose about the things I love and the things that I don’t!

My Facebook Accounts

PINTEREST

I have a tendency to save the cover image of novels I want to read but don't yet own. You can see them here, along with Author’s Envy novels and other stuff.

Pinterest

INSTAGRAM

Images of books, of course, but also of various other aspects of my existence, including old family photos, my kids’ drawings, and whatever takes my fancy.

Instagram

MEDIUM

I occasionally post to Medium but haven’t really worked out what to use it for!

Medium

Testimonials

Wired
"I love this series! I urge you to hunt down these books. Even if you don’t like steampunk, you’ll find these stories to be worthy of any science fiction library (SPRING HEELED JACK did win the Philip K. Dick Award [2010] by the way … that should tell you something)."
Clay & Susan Griffith
Mark Hodder writes like Charles Dickens shaken awake by quantum theory or Jules Verne on acid. This is an amazingly satisfying adventure shot through with stunning science, merciless satire, and a genuinely touching story of human impermanence.
Booklist
"The usual superlatives for really clever fantasy (imaginative, mind-bending, phantasmagorical) aren’t nearly big enough for this debut novel. With this one book, Hodder has put himself on the genre map ... The book is incredibly ambitious, and the author pulls it off like an old pro: not only is the setting exciting and fresh, the story is thrilling and full of surprises. Hodder's only problem now is to find a way to follow up this exhilarating debut, which will appeal not only to sf/fantasy readers but also to mystery and historical-fiction fans."
Michael Moorcock
"This is an exhilarating romp through a witty combination of nineteenth-century English fact and fiction. Mark Hodder definitely knows his stuff and has given us steam opera at its finest ... A great, increasingly complex plot, some fine characters, and invention that never flags! It gets better and better, offering clues to some of Victorian London’s strangest mysteries. This is the best debut novel I have read in ages."

About Mark Hodder

Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). He also writes short stories, flash fiction and vignettes. Find out more on his Patreon page. Mark was born in the UK. He has worked as a commercial radio scriptwriter, a freelance copywriter, and as a web content producer for the BBC. Since 2009, he has lived in Valencia, Spain, where he writes full-time. He and his partner have twins, Luca and Iris.