Mark is a writer, speaker, and podcaster with a passion for books, craft beer, parody, earworms, and dad jokes.
Mark writes most of his books under the name Mark Leslie (because, honestly, nobody can spell or pronounce his last name) in genres that include: Thriller, Horror, Speculative Fiction & Weird/Twilight Zone style fiction. He is the author of the "Canadian Werewolf" and "Nocturnal Screams" series.
Mark also compiles local legends, true ghost stories and other paranormal explorations that include HAUNTED HAMILTON, SPOOKY SUDBURY, TOMES OF TERROR, CREEPY CAPITAL, HAUNTED HOSPITALS, and MACABRE MONTREAL.
As a life-long bookseller and book nerd, Mark has been active in the book industry since 1992, is a former President of the Canadian Booksellers Association and former Director of Self-Publishing and Author relations for Kobo, where he launched and headed up Kobo Writing Life.