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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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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: 3.63 · 969 ratings · 238 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries 3.14 avg rating — 146 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 — 87 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 3.45 avg rating — 66 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 3.48 avg rating — 44 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) 3.24 avg rating — 33 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 2.86 avg rating — 28 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 3.41 avg rating — 22 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 3.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	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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Book Fairs and Author Scams

I can't tell you the number of scams involved that prey on a self-published author's dreams of seeing their work on display at the prestigious trade shows. There are too many to count.

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And the fact is they have been in operation in plain sight of the publishing industry, for the longest time.

The people running the major book fairs obviously have no problem taking money

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Series by Mark Leslie

Nocturnal Screams (7 books)
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Canadian Werewolf (2 books)
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The Alter Ego Effect: How the World’s Top Performers Use Secret Identities to Win in Sports, Business, and Life

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This was a challenging book to read because most of it wasn't in the author's voice (although there were passages in it that were his), but rather quotes from the various personalities involved with The Simpsons TV show. I suppose it's make the insid ...more
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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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