Mark Ellott has retired from his main job as a freelance trainer and assessor working primarily in the rail industry, delivering track safety training and assessment as well as providing consultancy services in competence management.

He writes fiction in his spare time. Mostly, his fiction consists of short stories crossing a range of genres, and has stories in all but one of the Underdog Anthologies published by Leg Iron Books.

His first four novels, ‘Ransom’, ‘Rebellion’ ‘Reiver,’ and ‘Resolution’, are now available in print and eBook formats.

He has also published two previous volumes of his own short stories, entitled ‘Blackjack’ and ‘A Moment in Time’, and a collection of Morning Cloud Western stories entitled ‘Sinistré’.