Brummet's Conscious Blog

 --World of Writing -- Author J. Mark Hart is an Alabama lawyer with more than thirty years’ experience handling civil litigation and appeals and has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America and Alabama Super Lawyers.  Mark grew up in Birmingham during the Civil Rights and Vietnam eras dramatized in his first novel Fielder’s Choice, and he still resides there with his family.  Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? A: I was an avid reader and dreamed of seeing a book I wrote in a book store one day;   however, being a writer seemed something other people did, so I planned to pursue my other love, which was chemistry.   Later in high school I became interested in the legal process and decided to be a lawyer.   As an adult, I took creative writing classes, and once the idea for my novel came to me, I was driven to write the book and   persevered over the years. Q: What makes a good story? ...