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Mark Leslie

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in Sudbury, ON, Canada

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Horror, Thriller, Paranormal

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Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Sean Costello, John Irving, Michael Conn ...more

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Mark is a writer, editor and bookseller who was born and grew up in Sudbury, spent many years in Ottawa and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

As a bookseller, Mark has worked for Indigo Books and Music, Inc. (previously known as Chapters; and prior to that known as Coles) in various locations and roles, at Titles Bookstore McMaster University, and the Director of Self-Publishing and Author Relations for Kobo.com.

Apart from publishing novels and non-fiction paranormal explorations under the name Mark Leslie, having works occasionally appearing on his mother's refrigerator door under the name Mark Lefebvre, and podcasting and consulting about the book industry under the name Mark Leslie Lefebvre for his Stark Publishing/Stark Reflections b ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 934 ratings · 235 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries 3.15 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Campus Chills by Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) , Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snowman Shivers: Two Dark Humor Snowmen Tales 3.46 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions by Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie Unexplained by Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author), Jenny Jelen 2.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturnal Screams: Volume 1: Night Cries 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Active Reader: And Other Cautionary Tales about the Book World 3.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I, Death 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Last week Liz and I took at drive up to nearby Harriston to meet up with the boys (Dan, Danny and John) from the Phantom Faction Podcast.

The interview, which runs about an hour long, was recorded in the Crown Theatre (an allegedly haunted building), in Harriston, Ontario.

We chatted a lot about my co-authored book Haunted Hospitals, but also talked about several of my other books on the

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Description: A cautionary tale about a frustrated writer using a popular self-help book to help him deal with the distractions that keep him from writing.

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“I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.”
― Mark Leslie, Beyond The Pasta: Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian Family

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“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

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“There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”
― Edwin Markham

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“Do the women in my novels get what they want? Yes. Yes, they do, dammit.”
― Julie Strauss

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