Mark Leslie is a writer, bookseller, self-pub advocate and book nerd.

Mark started writing at the age of 13, spending the summer banging out an epic fantasy adventure on his mother's Underwood typewriter. 

His first published story was a YA humour tale that appeared in a small press magazine in 1992. Mark's first horror story "Phantom Mitch" appeared in Wicked Mystic magazine in Oct 1993 later received honourable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #7.

Since that time, Mark has had dozens of stories (mostly "Twilight Zone" styled quiet horror tales) appear in magazines and anthologies.

In 2004, Mark compiled a collection of previously published stories and self-published them in the book ONE HAND SCREAMING, which is available in print and eBook.  This self-publishing venture was done to address the request from people to be able to read Mark's writing somewhere (since many of the stories he had published were only in print for 3 months to 1 year).

Mark also edited numerous speculative fiction anthologies that include NORTH OF INFINITY II (2006), CAMPUS CHILLS (2009), TESSERACTS SIXTEEN: Parnassus Unbound (2012), and OBSESSIONS (2020).

In 2012 Mark's 1st non-fiction book, HAUNTED HAMILTON was released. He has also written and co-authored SPOOKY SUDBURY, CREEPY CAPITAL, TOMES OF TERROR, HAUNTED HOSPITALS, and MACABRE MONTREAL.

Mark's novels include I, DEATH, EVASION and the "Canadian Werewolf" series that includes A CANADIAN WEREWOLF IN NEW YORK, FEAR AND LONGING IN LOS ANGELES, and FRIGHT NIGHTS, BIG CITY.

You can read more about Mark at http://www.markleslie.ca and also sign up for his newsletter there.

Links to Mark's books can be found here:
http://books2read.com/markleslie

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