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Mark LaFlamme 

"Like King at his best, LaFlamme doesn't stop at visual terror. He takes us inside the diseased minds of the most psychologically intriguing characters I've ever seen. We all have our demons, but we keep them inside. Not LaFlamme. He flaunts them in hideous detail."

-- Dave Griffiths, editor, Writer Services

Mark LaFlamme is a crime reporter and columnist at the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine. He has won numerous awards for news writing and in the past two years, his weekly column "Street Talk" has been named the both best in New England and the best in the State. "Street Talk" appears each Friday at www.sunjournal.com.

It is estimated LaFlamme has written more than 200 short stories. In 2004, he began writing novels and by the spring of 2005, had completed two of them. His first novel, "Worumbo," is the story of government experiments with mind control and a newspaper reporter with blossoming psychic abilities.  Worumbo is the name of an authentic, abandoned mill in Lisbon, Maine. Stephen King worked there as a teenager.

"The Pink Room" was completed in spring of 2005 and published later in the year. It is the story of a leading physicist who attempts to use the science of string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead. More about that book, including sample chapters, reviews and other information, can be found at the Pink Room page.

In 2003, Mark was married to the former Corey Saucier, a graphic designer at the Sun Journal on whom he had a crazy, secret crush for seven years. Corey LaFlamme is a striking young lady. When asked how a hyperactive, irresponsible hoodlum like himself snagged such a kind and pretty wife, LaFlamme invariably claims it was hypnotism.

LaFlamme's daughter, 19-year-old Tamara Willette, was recently married and moved to Oregon with her husband Kyle. Tamara, also a writer, stays up until 3 a.m. and has a morbid streak. Paternity was never questioned.

In late 2005, LaFlamme began work on "Delirium Tremens," a novel about a floundering alcoholic who sees dead people whenever he suffers alcohol withdrawal. The concept has been described as "The Sixth Sense" meets "The Lost Weekend."

LaFlamme sleeps until noon and stays awake until dawn. He takes the week-long vacation every year at Halloween and has been known to walk his news beat in costume. LaFlamme is a very disturbed individual.