Thunderfoot Press

03/07/2018

Mark reviews the book Understanding Italian Opera for "Ovunque Siamo"

  Understanding Italian Opera by Tim Carter Review by Mark Spano   Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been f…

25/04/2018

Mark recently had a book reading/signing event for MIDLAND CLUB in his hometown, Kansas City MO. Want to see a bit of it? Click this link -- and check out the snazzy vest!

10/04/2018

Speaking of "Sicily: Land of Love & Strife," Chef Jasper Mirabile, our emcee for the US Premiere in Kansas City this week, promoted the film on a cooking segment on a local TV station...

"Sicily: Land of Love and Strife" will be screened at Kansas City's Screenland Armour Theatre Wednesday, April 11. Chef Jasper Mirabile Jr. shares a Sicilian recipe to celebrate the screening and the land where his grandfather was born.

08/03/2018

Mark thoroughly enjoyed teaching a continuing ed. course in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at NC State. PIctured here: Professor Spano! The course revolved around his new feature-length documentary film, "Sicily: Land of Love & Strife."

21/02/2018

Author/filmmaker Mark Spano teaching a continuing ed course at NC State that focuses on his new featuring-length documentary "Sicily: Land of Love & Strife." So many signed up for the course that they had to relocate the classroom!

10/01/2018

Spectacular beauty, epic human struggle, the depth and diversity of culture – these are among the many facets of the island of Sicily that students will discover during a continuing educating cours…

09/12/2017

Mark Spano and Sicillia Canta will host a Tour of Sicily Oct. 13-21, 2018. Sign up now!

09/11/2017

23/10/2017

Terrific reading/signing event at Pomegranate books! Thanks to everyone who came AND to Kathleen for hosting us. Here's Mark with our happy hostesss...

19/10/2017

Attention all WILMINGTON, NC area FB friends: Mark will be at POMEGRANATE BOOKS this Sunday, OCT. 21, 3-4 pm, to read from and sign copies of MIDLAND CLUB -- the page-turning murder mystery that "reads like film noir." We'll look forward to seeing you there: 4418 Park Ave., Wilmington.

08/10/2017

MIDLAND CLUB author Mark Spano is also a filmmaker and proud of his a devotee to his Sicilian heritage. Here, Mark addressed a crowd at Sicilia Canta Canada, a cultural experience in Ontario that connects Sicilian immigrants and their descendants with the broader Canadian community. Attendees came to hear him discuss his new documentary film “Sicily: Land of Love and Strife.” The Canadian premiere will be held in June 2018.

08/10/2017

MIDLAND CLUB author Mark Spano addresses the crowd at Sicilia Canta Canada, a cultural experience in Ontario that connects Sicilian immigrants and their descendants with the broader Canadian community. The Canadian premiere of Spano’s documentary film "Sicily: Land of Love and Strife" will be held in June in partnership with Sicilia Canta and Cinema Insieme, an Italian film club in Ontario.

08/10/2017

Left to right: Angelo Conig, genealogist and author of The Lady of the Wheels, and author and filmmaker Mark Spano, author and filmmaker, discuss Spano new documentary Sicily: Land of Love and Strife during Sicilia Canta Canada, a cultural experience in Ontario that connects Sicilian immigrants and their descendants with the broader Canadian community. The Canadian premiere of Spano’s film will be held in June in partnership with Sicilia Canta and Cinema Insieme, an Italian film club in Ontario.

24/08/2017

MIdland Club has a brand-new cover! What do you think? Like it?

16/08/2017

Exciting News!
http://blueplateprnews.com/2017/08/16/nc-author-awarded-residency-to-turn-his-critically-acclaimed-novel-into-a-screenplay/

15/08/2017

"A little like Theodore Dreiser. Halfway through the book, I realized what it reminded me of. There is a sparseness of imagery that is nonetheless capable of jogging the mind's eye. I loved the economy of the structure. Most fiction today leaves me bored. This was a page turner." --P.Byrne, Amazon Readers Comments 8.14.17, re: MIDLAND CLUB

27/06/2017

The reading/signing event for Midland Club at the Raleigh LGBT Center Sunday was delightful! A good crowd with lots of enthusiasm for the book. Here are some snapshots from the event. THANKS AGAIN to Erin, everyone at the Center, and all the great folks who came out (and bought books)!!!

08/06/2017

Midland Club by Mark Spano is a gritty story of love, secrets, corruption and murder in a small Midwestern town, a story that is told in an exciting and absorbing voice. Meet Richard St. Pierre, a man who spends sleepless nights wondering if Puce, the “Negro homos*xual with no family to speak of,” w...

08/06/2017

"Mark Spano is a great storyteller and the absorbing, clear, and humorous narrative voice will arrest the attention of readers." Thank you, Romuald Dzemo, for your kind review in Readers' Favorite.com. To read the entire review....

Midland Club by Mark Spano is a gritty story of love, secrets, corruption and murder in a small Midwestern town, a story that is told in an exciting and absorbing voice. Meet Richard St. Pierre, a man who spends sleepless nights wondering if Puce, the “Negro homos*xual with no family to speak of,” w...

07/06/2017

https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/midland-club

Midland Club by Mark Spano is a gritty story of love, secrets, corruption and murder in a small Midwestern town, a story that is told in an exciting and absorbing voice. Meet Richard St. Pierre, a man who spends sleepless nights wondering if Puce, the “Negro homos*xual with no family to speak of,” w...

25/05/2017

Who would like a FREE copy of Midland Club? If you will commit to reading it and posting an honest review on Amazon, we'll send you a free copy! Just email your street address to publicist Kim Weiss at [email protected]. Will you do it?

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09/05/2017

MIDLAND CLUB is acknowledged in Chapel Hill Magazine's "Noted" section this month. Thanks, CH Mag!

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03/05/2017

MIDLAND CLUB is now featured on the super-popular book lovers' website Goodreads. Check it out:

26/04/2017

We are delighted to announce that Midland Club is a NABE
Pinnacle Book Achievement
AWARD WINNER for Winter 2017. It's one of only 2 chosen in the Mystery category!!!

13/04/2017

Big News at Thunderfoot Press!

12/04/2017

"S*x and music, the noise of the night, the blare of the screaming brass, the harmony of an urgent dream, and the equally urgent dream of s*x. It, too, screaming for morning, and then the morning after. Silence. It is a quiet freedom from night. The walk back down Linwood is easy..." -- Midland Club, chapter 5.

30/03/2017

A funny thing happened on the way to a book signing. Well, after the signing, actually...

Mark Spano joins the jury for “OUT at the Movies Int’l LGBT Film Fest” March 30, 2017 (Chapel Hill, NC) — Mark Spano, author of the critically acclaimed mystery novel Midland Club and produc…

28/03/2017

One reviewer thinks Midland Club should be more than a book...

"The writer of Midland Club is a filmmaker, a fact that comes through in the clarity and imagery of his writing. He captures in a "noiresque" manner the atmosphere of the period and the location. The story revolves around the death of Puce Bordeaux and the life of Rich St. Pierre, a member of a local patrician family, estranged from his 'clan' owing to his homos*xuality. Rich used to know Puce as a waiter in the Midland Club and is convinced his death was not down to su***de. His tentative investigations uncover a web of intrigue and more than a hint of hypocrisy. The book is liberally spliced with some wonderful description and pithy asides; his description of a club with a crowd that was the only thing passing for Bohemian in town was a delicious summation of tight-knit communities and closed morals for anyone who has ever thought there was more to life. The story rolls along at a good pace and reaches a suitably heightened denouement, leaving the reader with a vague and unnerving sense of ennui regarding the central protagonist's future. It would make a great film." -- Andy E. on Amazon

22/03/2017

Our Winston-Salem reading/signing makes the W-S Journal today!

20/03/2017

25/02/2017

"An old, seemingly friendless Negro homos*xual with no family to speak of, is dead. I am sleepless in a dirty bed wondering if this man killed himself or was murdered. For god sake, I'm no detective. How can I prove anything? I don't know anything. I don't even know where Puce lived." -- Rich St. Pierre, Midland Club

19/02/2017

"If in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns." -- Raymond Chandler on writing mystery novels!