Welcome to my site. It’s dedicated to my literary output.

Up until the point I created this site, my work didn’t often make it out of the hard drive of my laptop, or my personal cloud storage, into the public domain. Well, not any more.

I’ve been writing novels. I’ve been writing short stories. It’s a departure from working for the IT department of a large bank, which is where I’ve spent the majority of my adult life.

Don’t get me wrong: it’s not all bad having spent a lifetime working for the corporate bigboys. Without the genuine despair (both for myself and for those around me) I’ve often felt at the end of the day (or, regularly, 10 minutes into a day), there’s no way I would have motivated myself to complete my first novel. I considered the completion of High Barnet a turning point and also a starting point: the novel itself has received mixed feedback from those who have read it, and I’m building on the insight that feedback gave me.

The second novel has followed while I have been out of ‘work’ this year, and I’m working on a third. Short stories come along every now and then. I hope to find ways to bring them all to anybody who’s interested, via this site.

Please do leave comments. I love to hear what people think. My skin is thick, my ears are open and my mind is still not quite set. My fingers are always busy, though, so there’ll be plenty of new content coming this way.

Needless to say, everything on this site is © Marcus Hake 2013 or 2014. But I’ll say it anyway, just to confirm.