Gary Marks Music and Book Updates
A chronological record of album releases, international vinyl reissues, books, press coverage, and other career developments from American singer-songwriter and author Gary Marks.
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2025-2026
Gary Marks’s latest album, Crossroads, was selected by Record Store Day UK/Europe for 2026 as a vinyl release on Lantern Heights Records. It introduced nine previously unreleased recordings by American singer-songwriter Gary Marks to new audiences worldwide, as well as five songs from his first three albums.
He also released four new novels / novellas:
Timshel’s Choice (begun in 1968; completed and released in 2026)
Other updates include:
Major 2026 press and podcast coverage.
Goodreads and Amazon catalogue expansion.
Three International Reissues in February
Gary's first three albums were re-released simultaneously in mid-February in Asia and Europe by two separate record companies: P-Vine Records in Japan re-released Thoughts of Why and Upon Oanda’s Wing. Lantern Heights Records in Europe released Gary’s first album, Gathering.
All three records were pressed on vinyl with their original artwork, lyric inserts, and original mixes.
Late in 2025, Lantern Heights signed Marks to a new album project.
Marks also released a new edition of his 2007 novel Orbiting Chaos
The Dance and the Diamond Sky revised edition was released on this website.
2012-2024
Sony Music rap star Reuben Aziz bought the rights to one of Gary’s earliest works: A Gina Theme.
Lantern Heights Records, a European record company, will soon re-release vinyl copies of one of Gary’s early albums, Gathering, as part of their “classic rock” series. Their worldwide release is scheduled late this year or early 2025.
Gary signed with the Japanese record company P-Vine, to re-release vinyl copies of both of Gary's albums, Thoughts of Why and Upon Oanda’s Wing in Japan, with worldwide export rights, with a release date of February 2025.
2021-2024
Gary focused on his novel writing, creating four new novels:
The Improviser (2024)
Acoustic Punk (2023)
Autobiography of an AI (2021)
2020
In May of 2020, Somewhere Beautiful was published in paperback in a small private pressing. It was a compilation of three short novels: Super Star, (T)here, and Somewhere Beautiful. A second pressing was made, and sold out by the end of 2021.
In the summer of 2020, Gary Marks founded the We Love Hawaii Food Project on Maui, an all-volunteer nonprofit that provided an estimated 4,000 healthy meals to more than 200 Maui families left unemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In December, The Maui News named him one of its four 2020 "People Who Made a Difference."
2019
In 2019 Gary wrote and published three novels: (T)here, One Wild True Moment, and From the Farthest Places.
2017
In 2017, Gary wrote and published his new novel, Beyond Henry.
2016
In 2016, Gary published the novel, My Name Was Don.
Early in 2016, P-Vine Records released the Gary Marks album, Gathering, in Japan and Asia.
2015
In the summer of 2015 Gary agreed to be part of a compilation record released by Numero Group in Chicago.
2013-2014
The spring of 2013 saw the release of two separate Gary Marks recordings: His new rock CD, No Turning Back, was released world-wide. And his third album from 1978, Thoughts of Why, was re-released in Asia by Stella Records in early 2013.
2012
In 2012 Gary's second recording from 1977, Upon Oanda's Wing, was re-released in Japan and other parts of Asia by Stella Records. (Gary's first record, "Gathering," was re-released in Europe in 2006 on the Kindred Spirits label.)
Gary also published his 10th novel, Rain Dreams.
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Note: This page refers to Gary Marks, American singer-songwriter, musician, and author. Not to be confused with Gary Marks, the UNC political science professor, the professional golfer, or other individuals sharing this name.