Mark Stay is a novelist and screenwriter. His Witches of Woodvilleseries is published by Simon & Schuster, and his new film Unwelcome premiered at the Sitges Festival, and was released by Warner Bros. in 2023. Nautilus, the #1 Amazon Prime TV series about the young Captain Nemo, was based on his treatment.

Mark Stay got a part-time Christmas job at Waterstone’s in the nineties (back when it still had an apostrophe) and somehow ended up working in publishing for over 25 years. He would write in his spare time and sometimes those writings would get turned into books and films.
Mark was also co-presenter of the Bestseller Experiment podcast, the award-winning podcast* which has inspired writers all over the world to finish and publish as their books. Born in London, he lives in Kent with Youtube gardener Claire Burgess and a declining assortment of retired chickens.

*Winner of Best Books podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards, 2023.