Mark Walden

{{short description|English writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Use British English|date=September 2013}} {{Infobox writer | name = Mark Walden | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 3 October 1972 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, Video games designer/producer | language = English | nationality = British | citizenship = | education = BA in English Literature, MA in Twentieth Century Literature, Film and Television. | alma_mater = | period = 2006 to present | genre = Fantasy action, Evil | subject = | movement = | notableworks = H.I.V.E. (series), Earthfall | spouse = Sarah Walden | partner = | children = Megan Walden | relatives =Susan Walden | influences = | influenced = | awards = Richard and Judy's 'Best Kids' books ever 9+ | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }}

'''Mark Walden''' (born 1972) is the author of the H.I.V.E. series of novels. He was a senior producer in charge of developing PlayStation games for Sony before taking up writing full-time.

==Personal life== Walden spent seven years at Bablake School, an independent co-educational day school in Coventry, before studying for a BA in English Literature and an MA in Twentieth Century Literature, Film and Television at Newcastle University.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Mark-Walden/41154149/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706000809/http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Mark-Walden/41154149/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 July 2009 |title=Mark Walden: Biography |accessdate=8 April 2010 |publisher=Simon & Schuster }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-walden/28/120/612|title=Mark Walden – profile|last=Walden|author2=Mark|year=2008|publisher=Linked In |accessdate=9 March 2011}}</ref> Walden has a wife, Sarah, a daughter, Megan, and a cat called Marge. He spent ten years as a video games designer and producer before leaving the games industry to write and become a full-time father.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/profile/131550/2EA7198BAD20EABC2E4B527C8936E93A|title=Mark Walden|last=Walden|author2=Mark|publisher=Friends Reunited|accessdate=9 March 2011}}</ref>

H.I.V.E., published in September 2006,<ref>{{cite book|title=H.I.V.E.|id={{ASIN|0747583706|country=uk}}}}</ref> was Walden's debut novel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstnews.co.uk/discover/interview-with-mark-walden-author-of-hive-i29|title=First News – Interview with Mark Walden|year=2009|publisher=First News|accessdate=8 March 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719014846/http://www.firstnews.co.uk/discover/interview-with-mark-walden-author-of-hive-i29|archivedate=19 July 2011}}</ref> It was selected as a winner in Richard and Judy's 'Best Kids' Books Ever' competition and Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights.<ref name="Walden">{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/authors/details.aspx?tpid=3230|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022073626/http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/authors/details.aspx?tpid=3230|archivedate=2010-10-22|title=Bloomsbury Publishing – H.I.V.E. Author|last=Walden|author2=Mark|year=2009|accessdate=8 March 2011}}</ref> Walden has since produced seven more books in the series, with another, Aftershock, released in August 2011 and the semi-sequel Deadlock, released in June 2013.<ref>{{cite book|title=H.I.V.E. 8: Deadlock|year=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|id={{ASIN|1408815656|country=uk}}}}</ref> Walden describes himself as "the world's laziest man".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.markwalden.net/blog/?page_id=27|title=World's Laziest Man|last=Walden|author2=Mark|year=2009|publisher=markwalden.net|accessdate=9 March 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723202320/http://www.markwalden.net/blog/?page_id=27|archivedate=23 July 2011}}</ref>

==H.I.V.E.== {{main article|H.I.V.E. (series)}}

'''H.I.V.E.''' (aka. Higher Institute of Villainous Education) is a series of young adult fiction novels by Mark Walden. H.I.V.E. is a top secret school in which children learn the skills to become criminal masterminds. Only children who have already been noticed having some villainous skill are accepted to this school. Otto Malpense is a thirteen-year-old criminal genius, who has been handpicked along with others-the smartest, most athletic, technologically advanced kids in the world to be part of H.I.V.E. But once Otto has entered the school, he discovers that it is not all what it seems, and sets out to unfold the mystery behind the school and its organization.

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==External links== * {{ISFDB name|id=Mark_Walden|name=Mark Walden}}

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