My Books

From Poet of the Sphere to The Sound of Mark, from The Eternal Boy to The Dreamer and The Dream, from Too Close To The Sun to Playing God, from The Wolf in Me, The Wolf in You, The Wolf in Us to Vega – The Vampire King, from The Rambler to Poet of the Multiverse, from The Comeback Kid to The Pathfinder, from The Doorman to I’ll Meet You At The Lighthouse, from The Storyteller to The Return of The Wolf, from Scales & George to The Affair, and my new book The Shadow of The Wolf – all my published poetry and stories are all now available to buy from Amazon! Get yourself a copy now! 😎

The Mark Hastings Podcast

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A Journey Through Poetry #44: A Matter Of Time

This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘A Matter Of Time’, from his poetry collection The Pathfinder, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.

#WolfWednesday: The Shadow of The Wolf – Prologue: Mark Mayweather

In this episode, Mark reads the Prologue: “Mark Mayweather” of his new book ‘The Shadow of The Wolf’ – the sixth book in his The Wolf and The Vampire book series, which focuses on the mother, daughter, wife, werewolf Olivia Hunter – published February 2, 2026.

What’s it about?

Two Wolves Collide.

Sister and brother,
Olivia Hunter and Mark Mayweather –
separated from one another all their lives –
are once again drawn together;
however, their reunion does not unfold
as they hoped it would,
and as a result they find themselves
on opposite sides of a life and death struggle
that will expose who they are, what they are,
and what kind of a werewolf they both are.

And witness the reunification
and the reckoning of the relationship
of Olivia Hunter and Vega – The Vampire King.
Will their love survive the battle being fought
beneath The Shadow of The Wolf?

The Shadow of The Wolf is available to buy from Amazon here: https://amzn.eu/d/5p8DJJF

Podcast Episode: The Shadow of The Wolf – Out Now!

In this episode, Mark announces that his new book The Shadow of The Wolf – the sixth book in his book series The Wolf and The Vampire – is now available to purchase in hardcover and as an ebook from Amazon.

You can get your copy of The Shadow of The Wolf, as well as all Mark’s books, from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/05F6tFnY

The Shadow of The Wolf – Out Now!

The Shadow of The Wolf’ by Mark Hastings – the fifth book in his ‘The Wolf and The Vampire’ book series, which focuses on the mother, daughter, wife, werewolf, Olivia Hunter – is Out Now!

What’s it about?

Two Wolves Collide.

Sister and brother,
Olivia Hunter and Mark Mayweather –
separated from one another all their lives –
are once again drawn together;
however, their reunion does not unfold
as they hoped it would,
and as a result they find themselves
on opposite sides of a life and death struggle
that will expose who they are, what they are,
and what kind of a werewolf they both are.

And witness the reunification
and the reckoning of the relationship
of Olivia Hunter and Vega – The Vampire King.
Will their love survive the battle being fought
beneath The Shadow of The Wolf?

Get your copy of ‘The Shadow of The Wolf’ from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/5p8DJJF

My Books Remastered

You can get a copy of my books ‘Too Close To The Sun’, ‘Vega – The Vampire King’, ‘The Return of The Wolf’, ‘I’ll Meet You At The Lighthouse’, and ‘The Wolf and The Vampire Collection’ with their newly updated and remastered covers, as well as all my other books from Amazon now! 😎

A Journey Through Poetry #43: World Between Worlds

This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘World Between Worlds’, from his poetry collection The Comeback Kid, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.

My Poem “The Realms of Possibility”

The more you live, the more you grow,
the more you see, the more you hear,
the more you experience things changing
in profound, considerable, and unexpected ways,
the more you become aware and accustomed
to the insatiably complex nature of the world…
the more you learn about yourself
and the way things are and have always been,
the more you start to understand
and appreciate the things that have happened -
both the good and the bad -
that everything and everyone
has in common with each other…
the more you believe in the power of a person
to be able to change their mind
about what they have always believed,
the more that you realise that people
are not just driven by instinct alone;
because sometimes some people have such
an outpouring of empathy and compassion
for others whom they don’t know
that they even surprise themselves
and their level of charity and generosity
as a result can even surprise and surpass
any and every expectation that they
might have had of their own actions…
the more you do to educate yourself
on what is true and what is false,
on what can be described and what can be proven,
the more you learn that so much
of what we all do and what we have always done
comes down to what we are capable of sacrificing
in order to achieve a sense of purpose in our lives -
and sometimes the price we are faced with
we deem to be too high,
while sometimes some people find
that have no choice but to do what must be done…
the more you do not judge the person next to you,
or the person who is just trying to do their best
to find out why they are who and what they are,
the more that you will see that nothing and nobody
will ever truly fit the model of who they are
sometimes told they are expected to be -
because even those people who attempt
to publicly emulate someone else
behind closed doors everyone is their own self
with their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions
on things and on people, but sometimes
everybody has to keep their own council
on what to say and what not to say;
however, there are some people who
believe that it is their responsibility
to challenge, to argue, and to defend
each and every arena of self-expression,
because there are so many places in the world
where the freedom to say, and to be
who you want to be, is not a guarantee…
the more you accept that the more you know
the more you will be able to make something
that much more interesting and meaningful to you,
the more you will experience a new and a sometimes
more nuanced view of everything and everyone,
and the more that you see the cracks in the facade
of those who portray themselves as someone
and something seemingly untouchable
to the overriding principles and the laws of nature -
those described, as well as those intrinsic
to life as we know it on this planet -
the more you can come to realise that nothing
you can imagine is ever truly
outside of the realms of possibility.

A Journey Through Poetry #42: Where It All Started

This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘Where It All Started’, from his poetry collection Poet of the Multiverse, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.

The Shadow of The Wolf – Coming Soon

On February 2, 2026…

Two Wolves Collide.

Sister and brother,
Olivia Hunter and Mark Mayweather –
separated from one another all their lives –
are once again drawn together;
however, their reunion does not unfold
as they hoped it would,
and as a result they find themselves
on opposite sides of a life and death struggle
that will expose who they are, what they are,
and what kind of a werewolf they both are.

And witness the reunification
and the reckoning of the relationship
of Olivia Hunter and Vega – The Vampire King.
Will their love survive the battle being fought
beneath The Shadow of The Wolf?

Preorder my new book The Shadow of The Wolf from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/5p8DJJF

A Journey Through Poetry #41: Dreams Of The Moment

This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘Dreams Of The Moment’, from his poetry collection The Rambler, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.