Born on January 7, 1962, a New York Times bestselling author, Mark Cheverton grew up in Southern California, going through high school, and college. After college, Mark taught high school physics and math for many years. While teaching, he earned a Master's degree in Physics and conducted research on planetary atmospherics. After moving to the east coast, he started doing research for a Fortune 100 company in the fields of machine vision and additive manufacturing. His first book, The Algae Voices of Azule, was released in 2012, followed by the sequel shortly after.
He left his scientific research job to pursue writing as a full time occupation. His path to becoming an author is not a normal one. The Crystal Tear was never successful, but he wrote another book, called The Faces of the Finder. That was also failure (according to his website), selling maybe 3 copies (him, his mom and his brother). He then wrote three more books, all gigantic flops. But then came Minecraft.
After writing 5 fairly terrible books, he wrote the first of his Minecraft novels. Cheverton wrote this because his son was cyber-bullied, and writing Invasion of the Overworld was an attempt to teach him why it wasn’t his fault that he was bullied. The book was incredibly successful, landing him an agent and a publisher.
In 2014, he released the first book in his Gameknight999 Minecraft series - Invasion of the Overworld, followed by Book 2: Battle for the Nether, and Book 3: Confronting the Dragon. This series made it to the New York Times bestseller list in February, 2015 and has been published in over 21 countries and translated into 10 languages across the globe. The Mystery of Herobrine has been released followed by his third series, called Herobrine Reborn. In 2016, Cheverton's 4th series, Herobrine's revenge will be released followed by his 5th series, the Birth of Herobrine later in that year.
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