Every year on his birthday since he was 12, Mark Shupe has made a wish that someday he could share his overactive imagination through his writing. And now it begins...On the outside Mark, looks like an everyday accounting clerk who has eaten too much pasta and forgotten to take his anti-hairline-receding medicine. But on the inside, he is a raging cyclone of imagination, romance, angst and awkward jokes. He never tires of his wife saying, "That's not funny."He is not sure whether he is more comfortable atop a mountain peak, a beach at high tide, inside a Van Gogh painting, or browsing the shelves of a comic book shop. He is in all those places more frequently than his salary should allow.A Bachelor of Journalism graduate, Mark gave up a career as a sportswriter (he hosted an international TV show, "Running") to write edgy and tightly-worded audit reports for a ginormous corporation. He and famous author Lana Shupe have Wishlight Cottage, at Sandy Point on Nova Scotia's South Shore, after years of living in Calgary, where Mark managed to walk all 15,000 km of its streets.WishLight Cottage is a place of magic. If you ever visit there, and you really, really should, drop by and say Hi. If you time the tides right, you may even get to sit on the wine and sand bar behind their summerhouse, where only the grandest tales are told.
