Mark Peter Hughes
Mark Peter Hughes was born in Liverpool, England in the Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, the same hospital as John Lennon. His family moved to the U.S.A. when he was one and most of his childhood was spent in Barrington, Rhode Island.
Mark’s first novel, I Am the Wallpaper, is the the story of a girl who feels unnoticed and ends up being an unwitting online sensation. Soon after its publication he began work on Lemonade Mouth, a novel that taps into his experiences playing in oddball rock bands and trying to change the world. In a style loosely based on the interviews of the fab four in The Beatles Anthology, the five oddball members of the band called “Lemonade Mouth” tell the band’s chaotic story and their own individual stories in their own voices. The Disney Channel adapted Lemonade Mouth into the #1 cable movie of 2011, and the highly-praised book sequel, Lemonade Mouth Puckers Up, came out in 2012.
A Crack In The Sky is Mark's award-winning futuristic adventure of a boy and a mongoose on an overheated Earth at the end of the world. Mark is currently working on the follow-up to A Crack In The Sky, which will be called The Keepers of Tomorrow.
Mark lives in Massachusetts with his wife, three kids, and a dog named Wendel.
More Fun Facts:
… Mark was once kicked out of eighth grade music class for throwing a spitball.
… He plays trumpet and guitar with his band, The Church Ladies.
…He did a commentary about the writing life for National Public Radio. You can listen to it by going to his website.
“Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here.”
“Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.”
“She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.”
“If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?”
“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”
“And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.”
“How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?”
“Bright and wild like fire. Ha. Friendless and alone like a pathetic loser was more like it.”
“I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.”