Mark Marchetti

Mark Marchetti was born in San Jose, California. He graduated from Los Altos High School and earned degrees at De Anza College and California State University San Jose. As a child he was involved in sports and music activities. He began teaching percussion instruments at the age of fifteen while still in high school. At seventeen he became certified in S.C.U.B.A. diving. He has been a search and rescue diver, dive instructor and commercial diver. Diving has taken him all over the world exposing him to many of the exotic people and places he writes about. He continues to travel and dive on a regular basis. As a young man he was also interested in auto and motorcycle racing. He drove in S.C.C.A. road racing events for a few years but is now content to cruise at slower speeds on his Harley Davidson. After a twenty-eight-year career in law enforcement he continued teaching as lead firearms instructor at the regional Police Academy. He began writing novels around 2008 and published his first novel in 2012. He has always been fascinated by history and legends… especially as relating to the Western United States and Caribbean. Much of his writing is about cowboys or pirates. Mark is an avid hunter and fisherman. He and his wife, Pamela, have four adult children and split their time between homes in Star, Idaho and Catalina Island when they are not traveling.