SHORT WORKS

(FICTION, POETRY, NON-FICTION)


  • ARTICLE: "Will the iPad Kill the Book Industry?" on The Mark News (Feb 19, 2010)
  • ARTICLE: "Add Value, Not Price" on The Mark News (Feb 9, 2010)
  • ARTICLE: "Self-Publishing Made Easy" on The Mark News (Jan 29, 2010)
  • ARTICLE: "Best Books of Past Decade" on The Mark News (Jan 4, 2010) - Includes special online audio interview of Mark talking about the future of reading.
  • ARTICLE: "All That's Old is New Again" on The Mark News (Dec 3, 2009)
  • ARTICLE: "The Future of Publishing in Here" on The Mark News (Nov 16, 2009) - Includes special online audio interview of Mark talking about books weathering the digital storm.
  • ARTICLE:  "The Lost Children of Academia" in Canadian Bookseller magazine. (Fall 2009)
  • STORY: "Prospero's Ghost"(co-written with Kimberly Foottit) in CAMPUS CHILLS (Oct 2009)
  • STORY:  "Less of a Man" in NECROTIC TISSUE #7 (July 2009)
  • POEM: "Daddy's Girl" in Everyday Weirdness - June 21, 2009
  • STORY: (Untitled Twitter length story) in Tweet the Meat (June 25, 2009)
  • ARTICLE:  "Rallying Cry of the Remainder: I'm Not Dead Yet!" in Canadian Bookseller magazine (June 2009)
  • STORY: (Untitled Twitter length story) in Tweet the Meat (June 8, 2009)
  • INTERVIEW:  Mark's interview with Douglas Smith appears in The Official Movie Companion Book to Douglas Smith's BY HER HAND, SHE DRAWS YOU DOWN. (March 2009)
  • ARTICLE:"Word of Mouth 2.0" in Canadian Bookseller magazine. (Spring 2009)
  • STORY:  "The Shadow Men" in Northern Haunts anthology. (Feb 2009)
  • STORY:  "Captive Audience" in Champagne Shivers magazine (Feb 2009)
  • STORY:  "Switch" in Black Ink Horror magazine (Jan 2009) 
  • ARTICLE:  "What Have You Done for me Lately?" in Canadian Bookseller magazine (Fall 2008) 
  • ARTICLE:  "A Test of Character" Article about author Sean Costello) in Canadian Bookseller magazine (Summer 2008)
  • ESSAY:  "Afterward" in THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE:  Stories and Poetry From Family Caregivers edited by Kathleen M. Banchoff (Summer 2008)
  • ARTICLE:  "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (Podcast Novels) in Canadian Bookseller magazine (Spring 2008)
  • STORY:  "Distractions" (Reprint) in HELP! An anthology of horror, fantasy and SF benefiting Preditors and Editors (Spring 2008)
  • STORY (Reprint): "Browsers" in the anthology BOUND FOR EVIL: CURIOUS TALES OF BOOKS GONE BAD edited by Tom English and published by Dead Letter Press (March 2008) 
  • STORY: "Active Reader" in the Feb 2008 edition of Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror (Entire story available to read online) (Feb 2008) 
  • STORY:  Special Limited Edition Chapbook - "Relic" - written by Michael Kelly, Mark Leslie and Carol Weekes exclusively for August 25th appearance at Bakka-Phoenix Bookstore in Toronto. (August 2007)
  • STORY: "Being Needed" in the anthology BLUFFS, edited by Laurence Steven (May 2006) -
  • POEM: "Electric Fire" in the lit mag HAMMERED OUT # 8, edited by Frances Ward (May 2006) -
  • STORY: "Looking Through Glass" in the anthology STARDUST, edited by Julie E Czerneda (November 2001) -
  • STORY: "Distractions" in the WORLD FANTASY CON 2001 CD-Rom, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (November 2001). Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY: "It Creeps Up On You" (co-authored with Carol Weekes) in the WORLD FANTASY CON 2001 CD-Rom, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (November 2001). Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY: "Mad Crow & Forest Fox" (co-authored with several other authors) in THE RED, RED ROBIN PROJECT, CD-Rom anthology, all profits from sale of anthology donated to the Oklahoma City women's shelter. Brian A. Hopkins, editor. Lone Wolf Publications (April 2000)
  • STORY:  "Requiem" in Darkness Within #2 (Autumn 1999 issue). Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY: Reprint of  a revised version of "Hand in Marriage"  in the onzine ezine Pillow Screams Oct/Nov 1999 issue.
  • POETRY:  "At The Halloween Party" in Crossroads #22/23 (Double issue)
  • POETRY:  "Marriage of Convenience", "With Apologies to E.P." & "Tit for Tat" in Twisted Devotion #1. "WIth Apologies to E.P. was reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "Erratic Cycles" in Parsec Vol 3, No 2 Winter 1998/1999. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "Browsers" in Challenging Destiny #5. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "The Bogeyman Can" in imelod Vol 4, Issue 12. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • POETRY:  "The Devil You Know" & "Halloween Party" in Crossroads #21
  • STORY:  "Treats" -- Crossroads #19. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY"  That Old Silk Hat They Found" -- Strange Wonderland #1. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "From Out of the Night" -- The Darker Woods #2. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming. Second reprint forthcoming in North of Infinity II.
  • STORY:  "Nervous Twitching" & POETRY "Blood Dreams", "Unforgiven Night", "Frost After Midnight", "There is a Low & Fearful Cry" & "Into the Night" in Northwords (Fall 96). "Nervous Twitching", "Blood Dreams", "Frost After Midnight" and "There Is A Low & Fearful Cty" reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • POETRY:  "The Perfect Crime" & " Holiday Demons" in Crossroads #16. "Holiday Demons" reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "Hand in Marriage" -- Crossroads #15
  • STORY:  "But Once A Year" -- Crossroads #11. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "Tricky Treater" -- Crossroads #10. Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • POETRY:  "Wailin Jenny" & "Old Clyde " -- Thin Ice #XV. "Wailin Jenny" reprinted in One Hand Screaming.
  • STORY:  "Phantom Mitch" -- Wicked Mystic" #22 -- (This story, Mark's first published horror fiction, received Honorable Mention in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR #7 (Edited by Datlow & Windling). Reprinted in One Hand Screaming.

  

FORTHCOMING

  • STORY:  "Looking Through Glass" (Reprint AUDIO) - Clonepod podcast