Mark Posey – Mark Posey–Crime, Thrillers, Suspense

The Joy of Not Turning to the Last Page

Leave a Comment / My Books, Suspense / June 22, 2026 / anticipation, book lovers, community fiction, Credible Threat, episodic fiction, fiction readers, independent publishing, mark posey, reading experience, reading habits, serial fiction, serialized novels, serialized storytelling, Stories Rule Press, storytelling, Substack fiction, suspense fiction, The Summer Garden, thriller fiction, weekly fiction

What if waiting for the next chapter isn’t a flaw in storytelling, but one of its greatest pleasures?

In a world built around instant gratification, serial fiction offers something different: anticipation. Readers spend time with characters, speculate about what comes next, and let stories become part of the rhythm of their week. As The Summer Garden continues and Credible Threat: Season One joins it, Mark Posey reflects on why the joy of not turning to the last page may be more valuable than ever.

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Bones of the Priory Is Out Today

Leave a Comment / My Books, New Release / June 18, 2026 / action thriller, Amesbury Priory, bones of the priory, Canadian author, Catholic thriller, dark suspense, gothic thriller, immortal heroine, independent publishing, indie author, mark posey, monster hunter, mystery thriller, new release, novelette, Nun With A Gun, paranormal suspense, revenge thriller, series fiction, short thriller, Sister Jacobine, Stonehenge, Stories Rule Press, supernatural mystery, supernatural thriller, suspense fiction, thriller fiction, thriller series, vigilante nun

A letter from someone who should have been dead for centuries draws Sister Jacobine back to the ruins of Amesbury Priory and the place where her long, impossible life began. Bones of the Priory started as a contribution to a monster hunter anthology, but it quickly became something more personal—a return to one of my favourite characters and the secrets she has spent five hundred years trying to leave behind.

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Why Buying Direct Matters More Than You Think

Leave a Comment / My Books / June 15, 2026 / author business, author income, author websites, book marketing, book publishing, books, direct sales, ebooks, independent authors, indie author, indie publishing, mark posey, paperbacks, publishing, publishing industry, reader community, readers, Stories Rule Press, supporting authors, writing life

Readers often wonder whether buying books directly from an author’s website really makes a difference. The answer is simple: it does. Direct sales help fund editing, cover design, and future books, while creating a closer connection between readers and the authors whose stories they enjoy.

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The Things We Plant

Leave a Comment / Homebase, Reflections / June 8, 2026 / author life, Canadian author, community garden, creativity, Edmonton author, friendships, gardening, gardening metaphor, grief and healing, growth, habits, indie publishing, inspiration, life lessons, lifelong growth, mark posey, patience, personal reflection, planting seeds, raised garden beds, reflections on life, relationships, second chances, Stories Rule Press, storytelling, Substack serial, The Summer Garden, vegetable garden, writing life, YEG writers

Some of the most important things in life begin as something small and uncertain. A packet of seeds. A first chapter. A conversation. Standing in the garden this spring, watching green shoots push through the soil, reminded me that growth is often invisible until suddenly it isn’t—and that the things we plant today may become far more than we ever imagined.

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Something New is Growing

Leave a Comment / My Books / June 1, 2026 / aging protagonists, author update, Canadian author, character driven fiction, community garden, contemporary fiction, Edmonton author, emotional fiction, fiction serial, friendship, grief, heartwarming stories, indie author, life after loss, literary fiction, mark posey, new fiction, personal growth, retirement, retirement stories, second chances, serial fiction, storytelling, Substack, The Summer Garden, writing life

A retired widower. A community garden. A cast of unforgettable neighbours. While Fall From Grace continues to take shape, Mark Posey has also been nurturing a very different story. The Summer Garden is a warm, character-driven serial about grief, friendship, second chances, and the surprising ways people keep growing long after they think life’s most important seasons have passed.

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Reading Requires Trust

Leave a Comment / Reading / May 25, 2026 / AI books, artificial intelligence, authentic storytelling, authors, book lovers, books, books and reading, Canadian author, creative work, Edmonton author, fiction, human creativity, indie authors, indie publishing, literature, mark posey, publishing, reader trust, readers, reading, reading life, Stories Rule Press, storytelling, writing, writing community

Reading isn’t just “content consumption.” It’s time. Emotional investment. Trust. You’re handing several hours of your life over to another person and hoping they take you somewhere worthwhile. That’s why stories that feel genuinely human matter more now than ever.

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The Year of the Horse

Leave a Comment / Homebase, Reflections / May 18, 2026 / author life, backyard gardening, building a business, Canadian authors, compost, creative life, creative work, Edmonton authors, gardening, independent authors, indie publishing, life transitions, mark posey, personal essay, physical work, productivity, publishing future, raised garden beds, reflections on aging, resilience, Stories Rule Press, sustainable living, turning sixty, writing life

Some years are quieter than others. Some years are meant for rest.
And some years? Some years hand you a shovel, a wheelbarrow, and a horizon full of work worth doing.

In this reflective new post, Mark Posey writes about turning sixty, building twenty raised garden beds, rebuilding the future of Stories Rule Press, and why this season of life feels less about chasing and more about building — steadily, patiently, one load of compost at a time.

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Sunday Morning Kitchen

Leave a Comment / Day of Rest, Reflections / May 11, 2026

Sunday mornings used to be about sleeping late, catching up, or feeling guilty about everything still left undone. These days, they’re quieter. Coffee in the kitchen. Music playing softly. Conversations that drift between the new, the familiar, and the things you somehow keep revisiting after decades together. Outside, twenty raised garden beds wait for spring planting, which may be ambition or madness. Possibly both.

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Why Shrinking Hit Me Right in the Feels

Leave a Comment / Film & TV / May 4, 2026 / character-driven stories, emotional storytelling, grief and healing, Harrison Ford, humour and heart, mark posey, Shrinking, storytelling, TV shows, writing inspiration

I didn’t expect Shrinking to hit me quite so hard—but somewhere between the laughs and the quiet gut-punch moments, it did. A show about grief, friendship, and trying to do better while carrying everything life hands you… yeah, that’s exactly my kind of story. And watching Harrison Ford bring all of that to life just makes it even better.

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Books Are Usually Better. Usually.

Leave a Comment / Film & TV, Reading / April 27, 2026 / adaptations, Andy Weir, book lovers, books vs movies, fiction, film adaptations, movie lovers, Project Hail Mary, reading habits, science fiction, storytelling, The Day of the Jackal, thriller, writing craft

Books are usually better—at least, that’s the pattern I keep coming back to after years of reading first and watching later. But every now and then, a film breaks the rule…

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Twenty Raised Beds and the Quiet Joy of Starting Something

Leave a Comment / Day of Rest, Homebase / April 18, 2026 / author life, backyard garden, creative process, gardening, gardening and writing, mark posey, mindfulness, optimism, physical work, productivity, raised beds, Saving Grace, spring gardening, Thomas Billings series, tomatoes, vegetable garden, vegetables, weekend projects, writing inspiration, writing life

This weekend, I’m trading the keyboard for lumber, screws, and soil as I builds twenty raised beds in the backyard. There’s a quiet satisfaction in work you can see at the end of the day—and a surprising connection between gardening and writing. Both are acts of optimism: you do the work now, trust the process, and hope something good will grow.

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What We’ve Been Watching Lately (And Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About It)

Leave a Comment / Film & TV, Other Thrillers / April 13, 2026 / 1980s, authentic characters, binge watching, character-driven stories, Cold War, Cold War drama, drama series, mark posey, Soviet spies, spy drama, Stories Rule Press, storytelling, streaming, suspense, television, television review, The Americans, Tracy Cooper-Posey, TV shows, what we're watching

Lately, Tracy and I have been watching The Americans, and it has completely hooked us. Not because of the spy story—although that’s excellent—but because everything about it feels real. The relationships are messy, the choices are complicated, and the 1980s setting feels lived in instead of staged. It’s the kind of show that doesn’t just entertain you for an hour. It lingers afterward and leaves you wondering what you would have done in the same situation.

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