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. Mark currently works as a writer-editor for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
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. In 2021, he published the start of a new steampunk fantasy series with
The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart from
Lulu.com. At the end of 2021, Mark signed with
Curious Corvid Publishing as one of their new authors for this small, independent publisher.
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. Additionally,
The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart 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.
His latest fantasy novella,
The River of Souls, in collaboration with poet
Ashley Valitutto, was published in 2022 through
Curious Corvid Publishing, winning two
Firebird Book Awards and nominated for two
Indie Book Awards. Additionally,
Forever Avalon was made into an
audiobook, narrated by voice artist Traci Odom, followed by
The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart, narrated by
Melissa Barnes.
In 2023, the steampunk historical fiction
Corsair and the Sky Pirates launched, winning two 2nd Place awards from
The BookFest in Fantasy-Gaslamp and Sci-Fi-Steampunk. Coming soon,
the next book in
The Last Magus series,
Dragonfire and Steel, and the fourth book in the
Forever Avalon series,
The Prometheus Engine!
