In college, Marek was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
[1] Over the course of his career, Marek was also employed at companies like World Publishing, and Dial Press.
As Marek remarked in an online profile, he has been responsible for editing "well over 300 books".
The novel received praise from several major publications such as The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Marek's second writing, Here is my Hope: A Book of Healing and Prayer: Inspirational Stories of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was co-written with Randi Henderson and was published in 2001.