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.

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.

His first five novels, 'Ransom', 'Rebellion' 'Reiver,' 'Renegade' and 'Resolution', are now available in print and eBook formats. 

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'.