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Mark Bertrand

Biography

Mark Bertrand is the Best-Selling author of The Dot and has published many other books including Starzel, Love Reincarnate, and A Conscious Thing. A writer by day and a stock market trader by night. A former naval aviator, and his career path includes aerospace and neuroscience. He received a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering and his master of mathematics from Boston University. To balance his left brain with his right, his MBA is from the University of California at San Diego. Finally, to quench his desire for knowledge, his Ph.D. in mathematics was completed at the University of Southern California.

Mark has been a practitioner of Buddhism for more than forty years. He is considered Mahayana and he has studied Alan Watts' and Tich Naht Hahn's writings on Zen. He managed a small abbey in San Diego, California for ten years. Currently, he is a member of the Sangha at the Enlightenment Stupa of Benalmádena, Spain.

Mark is a Colorado native and currently lives in southern Spain. When he’s not writing, he loves to travel or relax on the terrace of his apartment with a cigar and a glass of Ardbeg whiskey, watching sailboats on the Mediterranean Sea. 

Mark challenges conventional thinking in his writing and personal life, as sampled in two of his favorite sayings. “Liberation has no end; therefore, it could never begin.” and, “There are just two types of people: those who believe there are just two types of people, and those who know better.”

Mark challenges conventional thinking in his writing and personal life, as sampled in two of his favorite sayings. “Liberation has no end; therefore, it could never begin.” and, “There are just two types of people: those who believe there are just two types of people, and those who know better.”

You can visit Mark online at his website, www.markbertrand.com, and on Twitter @markbertrand.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
My first non-academic writings began in 1992 when I was a junior engineer in the aerospace industry. Business writing is less intricate than writing novels and short stories. In business writing, the technique is structured and more profit-focused, and not entertaining.
Fiction is far more educational, enjoyable, and it gives the reader a chance to relax, unwind, and enjoy the adventure.
What's the story behind your latest book?
Book two is a story about the experiment and the wedding. Where the Cyborgs have once again raised the bar on augmenting human capability. Why pile on? When it comes to implanting hardware into humans, they’re already a few thousand years ahead of any second. Now there’s a new DNA altering serum? The serum removes anger from the human DNA helix. You may want to duck for this one, but they talked 44 people into testing the serum for them. Then the Cyborgs put them on a spaceship and sent the 44 to a planet as an experiment. You know, to see if they would thrive if they can survive.
The planet was purposefully set up with limited technology. Basically, the 44 will be farmers and live similar to conditions in 1930’s Earth. Except there’s no gasoline. They have fusion power and self-driving carts. Who set up the planet? I’ll give you three guesses. And by the way, those 44 people were all scientists. You know, like the leading scientists in physics, botany, pharmaceutical, medical science, mathematics, and such. Yeah!
Push comes to shove, and you have to agree the Cyborgs have a single mission. The first priority. It’s an unwavering quest and Cyborgs will stop at nothing to fulfill the objective.
Most of the story is about the wedding. So it’s sort of the storyline, with the rest of it told around the lovers.
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Where to find Mark Bertrand online

Website: https://markbertrand.com
Twitter: @markbertrand
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbertrand/

Where to buy in print

https://books2read.com/LoveReincarnate

Books

Love Reincarnate by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 17,040. Language: American English. Published: November 4, 2021. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
In this second of the four-book series, the ninth generation is taking over, and the chosen are about to be married. But time is running out, the planet can’t supply enough food, the binary-star-system is ruining human health, and the reward for living free of anger has not been delivered.

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buddhism 365    dna manipulation    friendship in buddhism    human cyborgs    marriage story    mind awareness    space drama    space romance    tibetan deity    urban folklore