WELCOME TO THE SITE

So if you found your way to this site I bet you're either a family member, close personal friend or one of the loyal and rabid readers at the Daily Thunder and you're probably wondering what this website is all about. Well don't worry, this post should pretty much give you all the information you'd ever need---or even want to know---about me and The Greenstone Saga.

First things first, my name is J.G. Marking and I love to write. That's probably not a big surprise to you since, you know, my writing is probably what brought you here. What you might not know is that I actually went to school to write, getting my Bachelor's in English from Oklahoma State University and my Master's degree from the University of Central Oklahoma in Creative Writing.

My first book was published in 2005, A Voice Is Calling, and was based off of a Bible study I wrote for my church. The experience of that first publication taught me a lot about what it takes to actually construct a manuscript and about the rigors and inner workings of the publishing industry. If a study of spiritual disciplines is your cup of tea, you might enjoy it. My mom would recommend it to you, but she's a little biased.Daily Thunder, the #1 source for information and occasional (if we're lucky) insight for all things Oklahoma City Thunder on the web. As you might guess, I'm just a wee bit of a basketball fan...atic.

Now that you know a bit about me let's move on to what this site is all about. TheGreenstoneSaga.com is something that I have been working on for a good while now and is pretty much my way of giving you the inside look at what I'm working on, how the novel writing process goes from idea to paper, and as a thank you to everyone who likes reading my stuff, I plan on posting sneak peeks of entire chapters from the first novel that I'm working on, The Gift of the Greenstone, which will be the first installment of my five book, epic fantasy adventure series, The Greenstone Saga.

So if all of this sounds like something you'd be interested in keeping an eye on and you're intrigued to get the first look at everything I'm working on/going through to move a manuscript from the idea phase to the represented and published stage, then welcome! This should be fun.

And stay tuned, because there might be a nice surprise for you in the very near future.

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