<p>Mark Ellott has retired from his main job as a freelance trainer and assessor working primarily in the rail industry, where he delivered track safety training and assessment as well as providing consultancy services in competence management.</p><p>He writes fiction in his spare time. His fiction mainly consists of short stories across a range of genres, and his stories have appeared in all but one of the Underdog Anthologies published by Leg Iron Books.</p><p>His first five novels, 'Ransom', 'Rebellion' 'Reiver,' 'Renegade' and 'Resolution', are now available in print and eBook formats. </p><p>He has also published two previous volumes of his short stories, 'Blackjack' and 'A Moment in Time', and a collection of Morning Cloud Western stories, 'Sinistré'. </p>
