Mark Leslie's Blog

Mark Leslie is a writer, editor and bookseller who lives in Southern Ontario. In 2005, Mark joined the blogging bandwagon and started posting random thoughts and musings on writing, bookselling and being a father.

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Careful, careful.....Did It!

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Sometimes when I put Alexander down for his nap (it's usually after rocking him to sleep and holding for about 10 minutes, when I can be...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Who's Next?

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I’m sure not that many people feel sorry for J. K Rowling. (I’m also pretty sure that most people reading this know exactly who J. K. Rowlin...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Every Little Thing

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A funny and interesting woman that I used to work with at Prospero Books in Ottawa used to utter a curse to people. It was an interesting on...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Not The Guy Who Played Luke Skywalker

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I’m starting to get serious about the werewolf novel -- (yes, so serious that I might start using words like genre ). Sure, I’d been working...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Baby Frankenstein

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Today is Alexander's first official day in "day care" -- okay, so he's next door at the neighbour's house (and I'm...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Devil With A Black Hood On

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The other night at about 3 in the morning, I woke to Francine calling my name repeatedly in a panicked voice. I rolled over, and she was dee...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

I, Death

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I didn't get any writing done on my werewolf novel yesterday, but did accomplish a little something. For the past few weeks on the GO t...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Stay At Home Daddy

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When I was young and imagined life as a married man with kids (not sure why I even bothered wasting my time imagining this, since my inabili...
Monday, July 18, 2005

The Shark Has Pretty Teeth Dear

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Despite the fact that I'm on vacation this week, I still got up at 5:30 to try to get some writing done. I'm in the middle of a scen...

DQ Something Different

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I received a reminder from Your Scrivener Press to submit a 100 word bio for the upcoming anthology Bluffs where my story "Being Need...
Saturday, July 16, 2005

Wolfy Wolf

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I was able to make a bit of headway on the werewolf novel last night on the GO train. I re-worked the existing piece into the first several ...

To Slay With Pen Or Sword

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Alexander has caught a wee bit of a cold. This means he's a little more fussy and tired than normal. When that's the case, he's ...
Friday, July 15, 2005

Where Wolf?

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Despite my best intentions, I didn't get more than 5 words written on my new novel project. I did get some notes, outlines, characters s...
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The Night Before Potter

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'Twas the night before Potter And all through retail The booksellers were anxious Not a copy yet on sale Okay, so it's a bad rhyme, ...
Thursday, July 14, 2005

Canadian Werewolf in New York

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With my novel Morning Son currently in the hands of a publisher who'd actually indicated that they liked the synopsis and the first thr...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

The Vanity Project

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This past Saturday, on the day that we were expecting a few people over to celebrate Alexander's first birthday, I had an errand to run ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Birds, Bats & Cats

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It was still dark at a few minutes to 5:00 this morning when I encountered a bat. It greeted me in a swirling chaotic dance as I was stretch...
Friday, July 08, 2005

Karla Who?

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Yesterday the world was rocked with yet another senseless and horrific attack on innocent people. In vain attempts to deal with the "de...
Thursday, July 07, 2005

Endless Night

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How fitting that I should be woken from a deep and restful sleep about 45 minutes ago (yes, another middle of the night meltdown at work) to...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

I'd Like To Introduce You To Del Griffith

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As occasionally happens, there was a cancellation of the westbound GO trains at the end of the day -- apparently an encounter between train ...
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