Mark Leslie (author)


Mark Leslie is a Canadian author of horror and speculative fiction. He is the author of the short story collection One Hand Screaming, a collection of short stories and poetry, mostly in the horror genre, the horror novel I, Death, the thriller Evasion and the editor of the science fiction anthology North of Infinity II and horror anthology Campus Chills. Leslie is also the author of Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers, Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained and Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries
Leslie, whose full name is Mark Leslie Lefebvre, jokes that he decided to write under the name Mark Leslie because it would be easier for people to spell and pronounce. Because he has been known in the book industry as Mark Lefebvre he released both his podcast and a series of books about writing, bookselling, and publishing, under his full name.
In 2020, Leslie, Sean Costello and Scott Overton published Strange Sudbury Stories, an anthology of horror stories set in Sudbury.
In 2021, Leslie won the 2021 Kobo Writing Life Indie Cover Contest for Fear and Longing in Los Angeles, which was designed by Juan Padron. In a 2021 interview, Leslie shared that the novel includes a special cameo appearance by Alicia Witt, whose music, empathy, and kindness to the novel's main character, Michael Andrews, helps him reach a pivotal moment in his life. Because Witt is an indie musician and owns access to most of her recorded work, she allowed Leslie use of the song lyrics in the book, as well as audio clips from her songs Already Gone, and Friend in the audiobook version of the novel.
Born and raised in Onaping Falls, Leslie lived in Hamilton, Ontario for twenty years, then moved to Waterloo, Ontario in January 2018.
WWW markleslie.ca

Books

Fiction

One Hand Screaming North of Infinity II Campus Chills Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound I, Death, Evasion Fiction River: Editor's Choice Fiction River: Feel the Fear
  • Active Reader: And Other Cautionary Tales from the Book World
  • Bumps in the Night: Creepy Campfire Tales
  • Fiction River: Feel the Love
  • Fiction River: Superstitious
  • Snowman Shivers: Two Short Humor Tales About Snowmen
Fiction Series: Canadian Werewolf
  • Book 0.5 - This Time Around: A Canadian Werewolf Short Story
  • Book 1 - A Canadian Werewolf in New York
  • Book 2 - Stowe Away
  • Book 3 - Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
  • Book 4 - Fright Nights, Big City
  • Book 5 - Lover's Moon
  • Book 6 - ''Hex and the City''

Non-Fiction

Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores & Libraries Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions
  • ''Macabre Montreal: Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events, and Gruesome True Stories ''

Non-Fiction under Mark Leslie Lefebvre

  • The 7 P's of Publishing Success
  • Killing It on Kobo
  • An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries and Bookstores
  • Wide for the Win
  • The Relaxed Author
  • Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
  • Accounting for Authors

Awards

Fear and Longing in Los Angeles won the 2021 KWL Best Indie Book Cover 2021 Award. The cover was created by designer Juan Padron.
  • Short story "Erratic Cycles" was nominated in category of Best short-form work in English 2000Haunted Hamilton was short-listed in Non-Fiction for the ''Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards 2013''