Mark McDowell is an entrepreneur and investor with a passion for literary fiction. The son of two teachers, Mark grew up in college towns across the southeastern US and planned to study English or history but became mesmerized by the Apple II computer and found himself with a degree in computer science instead. Throughout his decades as a techie, Mark remained an avid fiction reader and aspiring writer. When the Covid lockdowns began in 2020, he finally took up his pen. Mark lives in North Carolina with his wife and has two young adult children dividing his time between Lake Norman and the Blue Ridge Mountains.