Mark Sadler
@marksadler
About
Sadler’s humble beginnings started in a small caravan in his grandmother’s garden in Post War Britain, May 1956.
Lifestarted in the little nursing home in Dudley, and moved to a caravan inhis grandparents back garden, until his aunt and her new husband movedout of the big house. For the next three years the new family inhabitedthe upstairs of the house on the hill in Woodsetton. Young Sadlerquickly learned the joy of discovery through books as his mother, apre-school teacher, read countless stories to him. He was reading at alevel two years ahead of his age by the time he entered school and wonhis first reading prize in his beginning year at St. Nicholas’ Primaryin Codsall, Staffordshire.
The family had bythis time moved to the country, living in a small bungalow in CodsallWood. By the time he graduated from Codsall Comprehensive in 1974 afuture in writing seemed to be taking a clear path. The following yearSadler immigrated to the States on a student visa to attend AmbassadorCollege Big Sandy Texas and participated in journalism and speechclasses, intent on becoming the next big television news anchor.
Asis often the case life got in the way. After hitchhiking from Dallas toLos Angeles a random blind date turned into a serious commitment, andjust four months later, a blushing bride with a blooming belly, led himto Oklahoma City. With a family to care for Sadler went about his wayover the next seven years trying to find a way to support what had nowbecome two boys and a wife unable to work through illness. Writing tooka back seat.
From the factory floors of Robberson Steel tothe sales floor at Intempo Wood Factory, from employment counselor todebt collector, he finally found a permanent position at RetailMerchants Collection Service. Debt collections led to career that hasnow spanned over thirty years and has remained the one constant in hissoap opera of a life. There were times, as the boys became teenagersthat the opportunity came to write.
One day in 1980,picking up a copy of a new publication, OKC Sports Fan Forum, henoticed that there was no soccer mentioned, typical of just about anypublication in Oklahoma that was so entrenched in football, basketballand baseball. When he called to complain to the editors he was offeredthe opportunity to write an editorial column covering the progressionof soccer in Oklahoma as America faced the hosting of the World Cup.
When2007 rolled around it found Sadler remarried and living in Tucson,having moved there in 1993. His two boys were now young men withchildren of their own, and a third son from his third marriage startinghigh school. With a little extra time on his hands he once again tookup the skills that had engrained themselves in him during high school,and took on the task that he knew one day he would succeed in; it wastime to write a book.
Inspiration hit, as it tends to do,at one in the morning. Armed with bludgeoning thoughts he turned on thecomputer and let the words flow. Several months later he enrolled in aclass at Pima Community College and under the tutorial of Meg Fileslearned how to control the form of the words until Blood on His Handswas born.
The search for an agent for a new unpublishedauthor proved daunting, nay impossible, and so along with one in everythree books written this year Sadler decided to self-publish. Seekingthe services of print on demand publisher Infinity Publishing theproject went ahead. The novel should be available for ordering by earlyMay 2009.
Sadler lives with his wife in Tucson, where he is working on his next novel
