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.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

HNT - Memories Upon Which A Life Is Built

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I'm a fan of social media and quite enjoy the fact that I'm able to connect with so many people as well as connect with friends who ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

With Great Influence Comes Great Responsibility

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I haven't been blogging much lately because I'm been channelling much of my creative input full steam ahead into a book project (nea...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

HNT - Mark Van Dyke

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A couple of weeks ago when I was on vacation, I didn't shave for a few days. It happens sometimes when I'm on vacation. I decide to ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A Smudge of Eink

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I have long been a fan of the artefact known as a book. However, I've also been rather excited by advancing technologies that would al...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

HNT - Warrior Dash Barrie 2011 Postmortem

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I completed my first Warrior Dash this past weekend with two of my buddies. It took place near Barrie at the Horseshoe Resort on July 9, 20...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

No Longer My Truck

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I sold my Dad's truck the other day. Funny, isn't it? I've owned the truck since 2003, yet I still think of it as Dad's Tr...
Friday, July 08, 2011

Dashing Warrior

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This weekend, a couple of buddies and I will be running in the Warrior Dash . It's a 5K (3.24 mile) run with various obstacles ( Arach...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

HNT - 7 Lucky Years

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Today is my son Alexander's 7th birthday. I am so proud of my wonderful little boy, so delighted with each and every moment I get to s...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Creating His Own American Dream

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I just read a cool blog post written by Kevin J. Anderson . I had the pleasure of meeting him last year at EerieCon in Niagara Falls, New Y...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

HNT - Sue Retires

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Yesterday was a strange and sad day. Sue Hockeridge, one of my Textbook Buyers at the McMaster bookstore , retired. Sue had been working...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Dad's Truck

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Today is my Dad's birthday. He would have turned 74 years old today if he were still alive. Every year on or near his birthday, I...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)

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Two recent book-world headlines are kicking around in my head lately, but ultimately the same theme emerges. I'll get to that in a momen...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Man In The Wall

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Now that the re-telling of the silly Darth Tater Spud Wars series is done, I'm back to doing silly one-off HNT posts. (If you missed th...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Giving eBooks The SAME Value As Books

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There's an interesting post on MobyLives regarding an unscientific survey conducted by Nathan Bransford .   What should an e-book cos...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Those Little Things

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Sometimes it's those little things that make such a big difference. The other day I had printed off a Google Map for some books that ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Active Downloads

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Following the successful experiment with releasing my short story SPIRITS direct to digital, I thought I'd continue to play around with...
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