Mark R. Trost is an author, an essayist, an editor, a humorist, a communications consultant, a sage, and a smartass.

From 2007 - 2011 Mark R. Trost penned a popular literary blog that exceeded a million hits. He has written a novel: POST MARKED, gathered his work into an anthology: BEER, BUDDIES, BULLSHIT, WOMEN, SEX, & GOD, and collected his Facebook status updates in the book: SOCIAL STATUS.

Mark R. Trost believes the printed word is in evolution.

Mark R. Trost is an evolutionist; he redefines words.

Trost asserts, "with the advent of eBooks, literature has changed. Not since Gutenberg has the written word evolved with such extremity. Storytelling evolved from the pub, to the parlor, to the porch, to the paperback, and from the retold tale to the spoken call in the twentieth century. Now prose is propelled toward the blurted vowelless texted and the media messaged.

Prose is shedding its scope. Gone are the days of lengthy exposition and landscaped plots. The internet has transformed attention spans in extremes television remotes didn't. Sentenced thoughts and concepts evolved into taglines and images: blurbs and bursts.

A visual society. The panoramic novel with the plodded plot is as anachronistic as a kaleidoscope scrim flashing images behind Diana Ross & the Supremes. The scrim remains and the cross cuttings flash but the visuals mute the voices because the strobed static replaces the sound. Soon the lengthy and the loquacious will be spaced on a portioned shelf on the bottom near the librarian's knees."

Mark R. Trost is a revolutionist; he redefines the art form.

Mark R. Trost is an evolutionist and a revolutionist. He changes the way we read. He changes the way we engage. He changes the way we think.

His words have changed the art form.