Mark Wallace Maguire

As a preacher's son, Mark Wallace Maguire spent his childhood crisscrossing the South soaking in the lilting dialects, oral traditions and cultural idiosyncransies. After a brief career in music, he settled behind the desk as a reporter at the Marietta Daily Journal and has spent the last 20 years as fixture in the metro Atlanta media scene. He currently serves as director of Cobb Life magazine and Cobb Business Journal. His writing has been published in many regional and national publications including Snake Nation Review, Reach of Song, Cobb Life magazine, Neighbor Newspapers and The Blood and Fire Review. He has been honored for his writing by several organizations including The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists and The Georgia Poetry Society. In 2005, he was named the Berry College Outstanding Young Alumni of The Year. In 2017, he was nominated for Georgia Author of The Year for his first novel, "Alexandria Rising" which was described as "magical" and "phenomenal." "Letters from Red Clay Country: Selected Columns" was published in 2015 and features the best of his award-winning newspaper and magazine columns. When he's not writing, Maguire produces musical projects inspired by his favorite authors and books as well as painting, gardening and making Star Wars puns with his sons.

Alexandria Rising: Book 1 of The Alexandria Rising Chronicles

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Rand O'Neal, an ambition-less newspaper reporter, is given a single task upon the death of his grandfather: Destroy a mysterious map. What should be a simple errand thrusts Rand into a journey across three countries chased by unknown pursuers into a world he never could have imagined.

Alexandria Reborn: Book 2 of The Alexandria Rising Chronicles

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

COMING SOON!

Letters from Red Clay Country: Selected Columns

Southern Culture, Non-Fiction

For more than a decade, Mark Wallace Maguire has entertained readers across metro Atlanta with his award-winning columns. Now, Maguire’s unique wit, wonder and wisdom are available in this selection of his best pieces, “Letters from Red Clay Country.” Having grown up in cities throughout the Southeast, Mark was imbued with a taste for grits and gravy with a side of sweet tea and eccentricity. This collection includes columns about faith, fatherhood, football and family that act as a love letter to Southern culture and a reminder that there is much more to it than rednecks and rebels. Humorous, heart-warming and thought provoking Mark Wallace Maguire emerges as a refreshing voice from the New South.