Wow, today's boy bulge is a real beauty! Those eyebrows alone are worth the price of admission!

I have a confession, I am a man. Always have been a man. Always will be a man. Here is a picture of me some of you may not have seen (although looking at myself perhaps I should have picked a model to be my profile Yikes!):

  

I do have one other thing to confess. My author name, Mark Alders is a pseudonym. It is there because it protects my job because of what I write, nothing more or nothing less. Yes, my family know what I write. No, my work does not. I need to pay the mortgage and the bills and it was advised to me to create a name but not to do so to deceive. Mark Alders is more an identity on the internet than my real name (which if you did google my real name--it comes up with so few results it's embarrassing) I am sorry if some find this unacceptable for an author to 'create' a pseudonym for themselves for their own protection...gee, hasn't been going on that long in history anyway, has it?

Anyway, let's move on. 

If you are a fan of my work and buy my books, I love you all for it and I would hope you would continue to support me in the future. After all, writing keeps me in chocolate :) If you have never liked my work, then I suppose what I have just confessed will give you more fuel to spread the fires of your hate. I feel sorry for those people.