SNAFU: PUNK’D is just weeks away from publication, and we at Cohesion Press want to heap praise upon our authors and shout their names into the sphere. So… we’re gonna! We’ll be promoting all of our storytellers with an author spotlight that gives insight into their imaginariums (you will never be the same…), a tease of their story, and promotes their other writerly shenanigans as well.

For our second author in this promotional party… MARK RENSHAW, come on down!

Mark is a self-taught writer from a working-class background based in the north-west of the United Kingdom. By day he works in business software development; on weekends, he is a writer of prose, screenplays and produces the occasional short film. 

He has had two short stories, Fear and No Title published in An Eclectic Mix Vol 7, alongside several international competition winners. His sci-fi short story Automatic Drive was published in The Singularity50 anthology, while his short story Ragnarok was included in SNAFU: Resurrection published by Cohesion Press. He is currently working on his debut novel series, a sci-fi comedy trilogy called Cyborn. 

With his screenplay hat on, Mark won Best Short Screenplay at the 2022 Austin Film Festival. He’s also won Euroscript’s Screen Story competition, Shriekfest, and the Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship.  

Mark has written and produced several short films, including The Dollmaker, which has over 24 million views on YouTube, and a mini-series called So Dark. 

For SNAFU: Punk’d, Mark has stitched from both cyberpunk and mythos with his story, BATTLEBORG: A military cyborg who is the last line of resistance makes a final stand against mythical creatures that have enslaved Earth.

You can find Mark online in the links below:

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B0753H1VPV 

Website: www.mark-renshaw.com 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719825/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/markyrenshaw 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-renshaw-559b8a21b/ 

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mark-renshaw.bsky.social 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m_w_renshaw/