"If you saw Mark Damon in a tux at the 55th Annual Academy Awards you probably wouldn't picture him in a toga. If he flashed his dazzling smile at his wife, Maggie, your first thought wouldn't be "Oooh, vampire fangs." But Mark played a beast and a vampire, rode across the desert in a toga as the son of Cleopatra, walked the streets of Toledo as a Spanish king named Peter the Cruel and cleaned up the West as two Spaghetti Western cowboys named Johnny. As an actor he played a hero, a rebel and a fool in over fifty teenflicks, Spaghetti Westerns and swashbucklers. As a producer and film distributor, he was involved in the success of over 350 films. Teen idol, singer, film director, writer and producer, astute businessman, inventor of the foreign film sales business - by 1983, Damon had pursued almost as many careers as a tomcat has lives..." - From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster Twenty-five years later, Mark Damon continues to reinvent himself in the film business. His is a NeverEnding Story.

The Reclusives, a book of intensely hilarious satirical short stories, probes the heads of intellectual loners, from an editor to a professor to a basketball player to an office worker to a hyper-literate pool man. All of these men are lost in the creative words of their minds, trying to live normal lives but realizing their imaginations are where the action is.

In Mark Damon Puckett's chillingly mysterious third book, The Killer Detective Novelist, we re-enter the absurdist worlds we have read about in his first two remarkable works of fiction, The Reclusives and YOU with The Ill-usives. In Puckett's adroit new literary novel, a schizophrenic detective, Mack Harris, befriends a novelist across the hall in his apartment building in Manhattan. After a series of supposed deaths, Mack has to figure out why his reality has been so subverted. Who is Chloe? Who is the Little Man Crunch? In this writer's labyrinth of words never seeming what they are, Mack begins to develop an actual life outside the character he is in the book. And the question becomes: who is in control here, character or novelist? Who, really, is Mack? For that matter, who is Mark Damon Puckett?

YOU with The Ill-usives is two "bundled" books of fiction in one. YOU is a satirical, sometimes absurdist novel about Kit Fisher, a stalker with ADD in 1996 Los Angeles who keeps forgetting whom he's stalking. The Ill-usives, a street fiction novella, is about bi-racial Wig trying to escape the Los Angeles streets and discovering that friends can sometimes become your new family. Both books juxtapose literary and street language humorously as their characters stumble through their L.A. experiences. "Puckett's satire is a $4,000 diamond in a very neat martini," says Todd Duffey, Actor, Office Space.

"If you saw Mark Damon in a tux at the 55th Annual Academy Awards you probably wouldn't picture him in a toga. If he flashed his dazzling smile at his wife, Maggie, your first thought wouldn't be "Oooh, vampire fangs." But Mark played a beast and a vampire, rode across the desert in a toga as the son of Cleopatra, walked the streets of Toledo as a Spanish king named Peter the Cruel and cleaned up the West as two Spaghetti Western cowboys named Johnny. As an actor he played a hero, a rebel and a fool in over fifty teenflicks, Spaghetti Westerns and swashbucklers. As a producer and film distributor, he was involved in the success of over 350 films. Teen idol, singer, film director, writer and producer, astute businessman, inventor of the foreign film sales business - by 1983, Damon had pursued almost as many careers as a tomcat has lives..." - From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster Twenty-five years later, Mark Damon continues to reinvent himself in the film business. His is a NeverEnding Story.