About the Author

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

When he’s not writing, Mark attaches “Lefebvre” back onto his name and works as a writing and publishing coach and consultant. As Director of Self-Publishing and Author Relations for Rakuten Kobo between 2011 and 2017, Mark established Kobo Writing Life which represents between 10 and 18% of Kobo’s weekly unit sales, larger than any of the major publishers.

A bookselling veteran for more than twenty years, Mark has worked at virtually every type of bookstore, has sat on the Board of Directors for BookNet Canada and also been President of the Canadian Booksellers Association. He has given talks across Canada and the United States, in London, Paris and Frankfurt on the bookselling, writing and publishing industry.

Mark can be found online at www.markleslie.ca.

Selected Works

Non-fiction paranormal:

• Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers (2012)
• Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Supernatural (2013) – Co-written with Jenny Jelen
• Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (2014)
• Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region (2016)
• Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales about Hospitals, Sanatoriums and Other Institutions (2017) – Co-written with Rhonda Parrish
• Macabre Montreal: Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events, and Gruesome True Stories (2018) – Co-written with Shayna Krishnasamy

Fiction:

•  One Hand Screaming (2004)

•  Evasion (2014)

•  I, Death (2016)

•  A Canadian Werewolf in New York (2016)

•  Nocturnal Screams (Short Fiction Series) (2017/2018)

•  Stowe Away (2020)

Editor:

•  North of Infinity II (2006)

•  Campus Chills (2009)

•  Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (2012)

•  Fiction River 23: Editors’ Choice (2017)

•  Fiction River 25: Feel the Fear (2017)

•  Fiction River 31: Feel the Love (2019)

•  Fiction River 32: Superstitious (2019)