ABOUT THE Author:
Mark Bowles is a software architect and executive, as well as a lifelong theater nerd. For over a half a century, has been working on the same yet-unpublished novel: Norton The Third.
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Born in Rockford, Illinois in the late '40s, he attended the University of Michigan and was awarded a B.S. in Computer Science in 1969. After graduating, he moved to San Francisco to seek his fortune, and if you're willing to consider a suitably limited definition of fortune, had achieved his goal when in late 2016, his latest Silicon Valley endeavor set him free. In 1995, Stanford University granted him a M.S. in Management after he spent a year as a Sloan Fellow in the Graduate School of Business.
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Being retired, therefore no longer having a vocation that pays better than fiction writing, he has once again taken up the elusive Norton novel. In the years and decades since he began this journey, self-publishing was invented and perfected. There is no longer any doubt that if he can just finish the damned thing, it will, at least, be published.
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This is expected to happen in early 2017.
