Mark Teppo

Mark Teppo
Born	May 21, 1968 (1968-05-21) (age 43) Ridgecrest, California, U.S.
Occupation	novelist, short story writer, music journalist
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction, fantasy, Speculative fiction, Music journalism
Literary movement	Urban Fantasy
Influences Michael Moorcock, Colin Wilson, Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Grant Morrison, James Ellroy
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Mark Teppo (born May 21, 1968) is an American author of contemporary fantasy and Science fiction. His work is strongly peppered with references to occult concepts, most commonly those of Hermeticism and Alchemy. Prior to his current tenure as a fiction writer Teppo was a music journalist working both as a staff reviewer and editor for various publications such as Earpollution, Igloo Magazine, Earplug, and OPi8.com.^[1] Teppo is also Chief Creative Officer of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad.^[2]

Bibliography

Mark Teppo posing in a pink rabbit suit in his personal library, reading Colin Wilson's The Occult: A History

• The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin (2007) is an experimental, non-linear, hypertext novel formatted as an internet journal mixed with modern epistolary elements. It was originally published as a monthly serial in the online magazine Farrago's Wainscot, but is now available in an organized form at The Potemkin Mosaic.
• How the Mermaid Lost her Sing (2007) - Stort story in the online publication Strange Horizons.
• The One That Got Away (2008) - Short story in the World Fantasy Award-winning Paper Cities, published by Senses Five Press
• Lightbreaker (2009) is the first in a series of urban fantasy thriller novels published by Night Shade Books called the Codex of Souls. The series follows protagonist L. Michael Markham, an initiate of a Western esoteric tradition in our contemporary world.
• Heartland (2010) is the sequel to Lightbreaker.
• The Lost Technique of Blackmail and De Orso Meo Ad Veneficum (2010) - Short stories in the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede serial anthology issue 19.
• The Mongoliad (2010) - Serial adventure novel in collaboration with Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, "and friends".^[3]
• Angel Tongue (forthcoming) is the third installment of the Codex of Souls series, following Heartland.

References

1. ^ "Mark Teppo (dot) com - Bibliography". http://www.markteppo.com/bibliography.php. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 
2. ^ "Subutai Corporation - Team". Subutai Corporation homepage. http://subutai.mn/team.html. Retrieved 2010-08-30. "Mark Teppo, Chief Creative Officer" 
3. ^ "The Mongoliad". The Mongoliad homepage. http://mongoliad.com/. Retrieved 2010-08-30. "Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and friends." 

External links

• Mark Teppo's Official Website
• Official Website for the Codex of Souls series
• Darkline - Mark Teppo's blog reflections on various occult concepts.
• Mark Teppo Author Interview by Jessica Strider.
• Mark Teppo Of Men and Magick... interview by Jonathan Wood.
• Mark Teppo's LiveJournal
• Mark Teppo at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Teppo, Mark
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Date of birth	1968-05-21
Place of birth	Ridgecrest, California, U.S.
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