Mark is a writer, editor and bookseller who was born and grew up in Sudbury, spent many years in Ottawa and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
From 1993 until 2006 Mark worked for Indigo Books and Music, Inc. (previously known as Chapters; and prior to that known as Coles) in various roles and regions. In August of 2006, Mark retired from Indigo and began working at Titles - McMaster University's bookstore, which turned 75 years old the year he joined. In September of 2006, after 5 wonder years at McMaster and successfully implementing an Espresso Book Machine into the Titles bookstore (under the "Titles on Demand" logo) Mark moved on to new challenges.
Mark currently sits on the board of directors for BookNet Canada and is president of Canadian Booksellers Association. As an active member of the book industry (both as a bookseller and writer), Mark regularly speaks at conferences, conventions and workshops about books, writing, publishing and the use of Print-on-Demand technology, such as the Espresso Book Machine - McMaster's campus bookstore was the second location in Canada to acquire this technology
Mark is married not only to his writing but also to his beautiful wife Francine. In July of 2004, Mark and Francine were blessed with a little boy, Alexander.Apart from being published in numerous publications (under the name Mark Leslie), as well as having works occasionally appearing on his mother's refrigerator door, (under the name Mark Lefebvre), Mark occasionally writes reviews, conducts interviews and previously edited the non fiction content of Northern Fusion magazine (under the name Mark Leslie Lefebvre). When he took on the role of series editor for the North of Infinity sci-fi anthology series for Mosaic Press, Mark settled on the shorter Mark Leslie. When he's not playing around with his three given names, he can usually be found wandering, awestruck through bookstores or libraries.
Photo by Greg Roberts
"If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write." - Hugh Prather in Notes to Myself
