He grew up in Fulton, New York, spent much of the '90s in Sarasota, Florida, and then jumped over to Los Angeles, California at the turn of the century. He hopes to someday move to Seattle, just so that he can see what that corner of the country is like.

Marcus is the author of Caster's Blog: A Geek Love Story, the tale of one improbable year told as an online journal; and Walkin' on Sunshine, a quantum physics sex farce. His apocalyptic comedy novel The Oblivion Society was a 2008 IPPY Award gold medalist.

Marcus also contributed to the book From Hollywood Experts and Published Authors: Words of Wisdom for Starving Artists, which was a silver medalist in the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

Marcus is the former editor-in-chief of misinformer.com, and is currently a senior editor at Geek Monthly magazine. He enjoys Halloween, tacos, and half-inch video tape with an anti-despooling mechanism.