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Mark Walden
This is about Mark Walden the creator of H.I.V.E (series) I am creating this so that there will be a page on mark walden. I do not know enough about him so I will put what I find about and I invite you to do the same.

Mark Walden Article
Mark Walden spent ten years working as a video games designer and producer. He recently left the industry to embark on a far more challenging/frightening career…full-time dad. He has a baby daughter and splits his time between writing and looking after her. Whilst working in the games industry Mark helped to create all sorts of different games from football games to dancing games and everything in between. The games required more and more people to create, sometimes Mark headed teams that included over one hundred people working on one game for two years, and Mark became interested in exploring other creative outlets. Writing had always been a hobby for him but it was only when the idea for H.I.V.E. came to Mark that he really dedicated himself to completing a full novel. The inspiration for H.I.VE. came from a very unusual source. Mark says: ‘I was sitting at a friend’s house and we were discussing how his cat Otto looked just like the cat that Blofeld owned in the James Bond movies. That led to me thinking about those kinds of villains in films and literature and how they never really have their origins explained and so I came up with the concept of HIVE to answer the question of how these mysterious characters learn how to take over the world. Obviously my friend’s cat supplied a little help with my central character’s name too…’ When it comes to writing, anything can trigger an idea that drives Mark to the keyboard. He has a very active imagination but the real trick is being able to sort the good ideas from the rubbish ones. His wife Sarah often acts as a sounding board for a new idea and her reaction usually tells him whether it’s worth bothering with. His debut novel is a comedy-thriller set in an elite school where children are trained to be supervillains. Describing the book ins his own words, Mark states: ‘H.I.V.E. seeks to answer the question of how the super villains that we’re all familiar with from movies, books and video-games receive their training. The Higher Institute of Villainous Education is the facility that offers that training and the book details the adventures of one of the school’s newest students - Otto Malpense - as he fights to survive his first term. H.I.V.E. takes some of the traditions of the school-based novel and subverts them. Here is a school where the students are actively encouraged to be as badly behaved as possible, indeed they’re taught how to be bad on a scale that most of them had never previously dreamt possible. H.I.V.E. is not the typical benign, nurturing environment that readers may be used to from other examples of this genre - this is a school whose central ethos is survival of the fittest and where failure can have fatal consequences.’ Before any of this happened Mark was a student at Newcastle University where he studied for a BA in English Literature and an MA in Twentieth Century Literature, Film and Television. More importantly, it was where he met his wife of nearly ten years, Sarah. Please note that this IS a COPY AND PASTED BLOCK OF TEXT. I am putting this here but will remove it before posting the article. If you wish to put it in your own words you can also I will at some time put it in to my words if some one does not. This text came from http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:E9DNYeiPhosJ:www.bigbadread.co.uk/MarkWalden.pdf+Mark+walden&hl=en&sig=AFQjCNHTvwgUiHvd04gN8vuNq2gYYPE9Tw

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Mark Walden is the author of H.I.V.E. (series). To date he has published six books. Before he was a writer was a video games designer/producer.

Personal Life
Little is known about Walden’s personal life but Walden has a BA in English Literature, MA in Twentieth Century Literature, Film and Television. Walden has a wife, Sarah and a daughter Megan.

H.I.V.E
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 is it not all what it seems, and sets out to unfold the mystery behind the school and its organization.

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Pick Me Up
I am creating a page on Pick Me Up. If you do not know what Pick Me Up is visit this page about it. I am basing the article style on the Do Not Open article.

Pick Me Up Article
Pick Me Up is, as the cover states, a collection of "Stuff you need to know". Pick Me Up is arranged into eight categories. These are Science, Technology and Space, Society, places and Beliefs, History, The Natural World, People who made the world, Arts, Entertainment and Media, You and your body and Earth. Each category has 10-40 separate articles. Pick Me Up was created by David Roberts and Jeremy Leslie. The articles within Pick Me Up were written by more then 20 different writers.

Design
Pick Me Up is designed unconventionally, using striking headlines to articles to grab attention. Ex. "Was Beethoven a punk?". It then discusses why some people would think of him as a punk. It will also have several articles per page all related to one topic but not each other. It also uses different approaches to a topic. Ex. Instead of writing several articles about different animals, Pick Me Up discusses what animal is Man's best friend.

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