Mark David Gerson
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Mind Body Spirit, Self-Help/Personal Development, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, General Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Erotica, Other, Advice & How To, Historical Fiction, Writing & Publishing, Memoir
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Mark David Gerson is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. His nonfiction includes popular titles for writers, inspiring personal growth books and compelling memoirs. As a novelist he is best known for The Legend of Q'ntana fantasy series, coming soon to movie theaters. When he's not writing, Mark David coaches an international roster of both first-time and seasoned writers to help them get their stories onto the page and into the world with ease.
Mark David Gerson's books
From Memory to Memoir: Writing the Stories of Your Life
Transform Your Memories into Memoir!
• Craft rich, compelling stories...regardless of your writing experience or perceived ability.
• Engage, entertain and inspire...with eloquence, confidence and ease.
• Get the stories of your life onto the page today!
From Memory to Memoir will connect you with the stories you remember and, perhaps even more important, with the stories you have forgotten. It will serve up the inspiration guaranteed to get you writing and keep you writing, the tools and techniques guaranteed to help you craft a spellbinding narrative, and the support guaranteed to sustain you from the initial word of your book’s first draft to the final word of its ultimate draft.
The Way of The Fool: How to Stop Worrying About Life and Start Living It...in 12½ Super Simple Steps!
Kick Stress to the Curb! Is stress making you sick? Is anxiety wearing you down? Have the pressures of daily life hijacked your dreams? Let The Way of the Fool show you how easy it can be to renew your sense of purpose and reawaken your zest for life...the life you were meant to live!
The Way of the Imperfect Fool: How to Bust the Addiction to Perfection That's Stifling Your Success..in 12½ Super-Simple Steps
A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Total Success. Master the secrets of the highly successful. Discover how easy it can be to banish doubt, drive out judgment and bust past fear. Learn to trust your intuition, take chances and never give up.
Smash the Biggest Roadblock to Your Success and Live the Life You Deserve!
The Sara Stories (I): Sara's Year
Esther and Sarah share a single passion: to be the best they can be – on an epic scale. That's easier dreamed than done in Jewish Montreal on the eve of World War II. Fifty years later when death takes Esther, her son and her oldest friend must each decide whether Esther's abandoned dreams will defeat them or spur them on to triumphs of their own.
The Sara Stories (II): After Sara's Year
Marc-Allan Cameron hasn't felt alive in 30 years. For Sadie Finkel, it's been more than 50. When life comes knocking, will they let it in?
The Sara Stories (III): The Emmeline Papers
When Emmeline Mandeville spends the final months of her 93rd year reflecting on her eccentric, iconoclastic past, she cannot know how profoundly her reminiscences will weave through the lives of the men and women who find themselves living in her house a decade and a half later.
Organic Screenwriting: Writing for Film, Naturally
Finally! A Book for Screenwriters that Focuses on Creativity, not Rules!
Writing for film doesn’t have to feel like an engineered exercise in story-building. Rather, it can be a story-freeing adventure, one that retains all the magic, wonder and awe of movies and make-believe.
"Organic Screenwriting gives us permission to do what we set out to do in the first place: Tell stories from our hearts."
– Luke Yankee, writer/producer of TV’s Conversations on Craft
Learn to craft engaging, compelling, entertaining stories for the screen, spontaneously and without struggle…whether you’re a seasoned screenwriter or just starting out.
Be the Storyteller You Are…
Go Organic and Write Your Screenplay the Natural Way!
Dialogues with the Divine: Encounters with My Wisest Self
The deeply personal becomes profoundly universal in this compelling journey from fear to fearlessness
Who Is the Divine?
It is that still, small voice that is not at all small.
It is the soul-fired passion that lives in your heart.
It is your Wisest Self.
Let Mark David Gerson’s compelling inner odyssey inspire your own!
"The writings that would become Dialogues with the Divine emerged from an intense yearning...not to write a book, but to face my fears and open my heart. I share them with you here, knowing that my words are your words, my fears are your fears, my strength and courage are yours, as is my wisdom. For we are all one beneath the skin of individuality. We are all one in the divine presence of love."
Includes a guide to launching a conversation with your Wisest Self.
The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write
THIRD EDITION OF A PERENNIAL CLASSIC! Learn practical, fun techniques guaranteed to get your stories on paper. Weave worlds of wonder beyond your conscious imagining. Discover how to write naturally, eloquently and powerfully without struggle.
Whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting out, whatever your genre or form, this award-winning book will deepen your creative experience and awaken you to new skills, new stories and a renewed confidence in your innate gifts. You'll never feel the same about writing again!
The Legend of Q'ntana: The MoonQuest
In a land where fear rules and storytelling spells death, only one bard's imagination can end the tyranny.
Turning his back on king and family, a reluctant Toshar must embark on a perilous, uncharted journey to restore hope to a savaged land and light to its darkened moon.
Soon to be a major motion picture!
The Legend of Q'ntana: The StarQuest
Travel back in time to the Q'ntana before The MoonQuest. Here, despite the yoke of a ruthless brutality, a legend will not die...of the Heart of the Star and of the Fair One who will rekindle it to return peace to the land.
Soon to be a major motion picture!
The Legend of Q'ntana: The SunQuest
Two Men. A Single Destiny.
When Q’ntana’s first Elderbard dies, he cannot know that he will be called back from the stars centuries later to challenge the fallen Dreamwalker whose evil has terrorized the land for generations. As the two bitter rivals face off in a battle of wits and will that only one can survive, whose vision will triumph?
Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture!
Acts of Surrender. A Writer's Memoir
An Exceptional Telling of an Exceptional Story!
Mark David Gerson never wanted to be a writer, never believed in a world beyond that of his five senses. But when life began to chip away at his identity with a relentlessness that he couldn't ignore, he found himself launched on a spiritual journey that would redefine everything about him – multiple times. It was a journey of surrender that ultimately birthed a timeless fantasy series...and a new life he could never have imagined.
The Book of Message: Writings Inspired by Melchizedek
A book of profound and transformative inspiration celebrated by readers around the world.
This is a book you will return to again and again, each reading propelling you forward on your journey of self-mastery as it awakens you to deeper levels within yourself and to a deeper understanding of the world in these times. Includes a guide to discovering your own Melchizedek-inspired messages.
The Heartful Art of Revision: An Intuitive Guide to Editing
Transform your writing project into the masterpiece it was meant to be! Experience a revolutionary approach to editing guaranteed to give your work its best shot at critical acclaim and popular success.
Birthing Your Book...Even If You Don't Know What It's About
Connect with the book that has been inside you all along and leave with cutting-edge tools to get you focused, started and finished…even if you’re not yet sure what your book is about!
Writer's Block Unblocked! Seven Surefire Ways to Free Up Your Writing and Creative Flow
You don't have to experience writer's block. Ever! You don’t have to sweat over a blank page. You don’t have to wonder where your next word is coming from. You can write – naturally, eloquently and flowingly. Become one of Mark David's many writer's-block success stories: Free up your creative flow today!
The Legend of Q'ntana: The Bard of Bryn Doon
When his remote village is destroyed and his family exiled, a young bard is thrust onto a perilous journey to save Q’ntana from the designs of an evil sorcerer and to return the fabled Stallions of Bryn Doon to their legendary and mystical home.
A gripping journey into the power of storytelling!
“The story never ends…”
Pilgrimage: A Fool's Journey
A Journey of Singular Courage by a True Spiritual Master. When financial disaster forces Mark David Gerson out of his Portland home with everything he owns packed into the back of his car, he launches an open-ended road odyssey that will carry him from the Pacific to the Mississippi and back again, never knowing from one day to the next whether he can muster the faith to keep going.
The Way of the Abundant Fool: How to Bust Free of “Not Enough” and Break Free into Prosperity... in 12½ Super-Simple Steps!
A Step-by-Step Guide to Living a More Abundant & Prosperous Life! The Fool never experiences lack. The Fool never struggles. The Fool wants for nothing. Isn’t that what we’re all seeking? A life that’s free of lack and struggle? A life of effortless flow? A life of ease and abundance? The Way of the Abundant Fool is your passport that life…the life of your most audacious dreams!
“A remarkable, and remarkably simply, program for achieving a life of plenty…on your terms. An extraordinary journey into the heart of abundance.”