Mark Piggott, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1982, beginning a 23-year career. He served on four aircraft carriers and various duty stations as a Navy Journalist before he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He retired from active duty in 2006. He currently works as a writer-editor for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mark and his wife, Georgiene, live in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three children.
His first novel, Forever Avalon, was published in 2009, followed by his second novel, The Dark Tides, in 2014. The Outlander War: Book Three of the Forever Avalon series from Austin Macauley Publishing was released in 2020. Additionally, Forever Avalon was made into an audiobook, narrated by voice artist Traci Odom. In 2021, he published the start of a new steampunk fantasy series with The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart from Lulu.com, and made into an audiobook, narrated by Melissa Barnes.
At the end of 2021, Mark signed with Curious Corvid Publishing as one of their new authors for this small, independent publisher. His fantasy novella, The River of Souls, in collaboration with poet Ashley Valitutto, was published in 2022. In 2023, the steampunk historical fiction Corsair and the Sky Pirates launched along with the sequel to The Last Magus, Dragonfire and Steel. In 2024, his first YA fantasy, Gwen Iver and Pendragon’s Puzzle, hit the bookshelves, followed by The Prometheus Engine: Book Four of the Forever Avalon Series.
His novels have won a slew of awards over the past years. The Outlander War won second place for fantasy in the 2021 Firebird Book Awards, The Last Magus won first place for steampunk, and in 2022, Forever Avalon won second place for fantasy. The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart also won the Grand Prize for Fiction in the 2022 Authors Marketing Guild Indie Book Awards and 3rd Place in Fantasy-Myths and Legends in The BookFest 2022 Book Awards. The River of Souls won two Firebird Book Awards and was nominated for two Indie Book Awards in 2022. Corsair and the Sky Pirates added two 2nd Place awards from The BookFest in 2023 in Fantasy-Gaslamp and Sci-Fi-Steampunk, the 2024 ASB Indie Book Award for Steampunk, and a 2024 Book Excellence Awards Finalist. The Last Magus: Dragonfire and Steel win two awards in 2024, including a Firebird Book Award for Steampunk and The BookFest First Place for Fantasy – Magic, Myths and Legends. In 2024, Gwen Iver and Pendragon’s Puzzle won the Golden Wizard Children’s Book Prize and was named as a finalist in the Canadian Book Club Awards for YA Books.
He has a variety of short stories published, including The Publishing Room, Crystal Peake Publishing, Ravens and Roses Publishing, and through Curious Corvid Publishing in the Magpie Messenger and their anthology, the Corvid Grimoire.
Stay tuned for new fantastic stories from the imagination of Mark Piggott, including a new fantasy series, A Dance of Darklings and Demons, and more sequels to his incredible stories, including Corsair and the Temple of the Heavenly Chariot, The Last Magus: Demon Song, and Arcadia Dawn: The Final Chapter of the Forever Avalon Series..
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Mark Piggott | Fantasy & Steampunk Author 
Nicely arranged and executed wordpress site! As to your list of fantasy movies, I’d move Highlander up the list a peg or two.
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I appreciate the comments! I don’t know if I’d consider Highlander a guilty pleasure movie. It has a strong cult following for the franchise where as my choices are very eclectic in nature. I consinder the original movie a classic and the others after that a waste of time and energy.
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