Overview
Mark is well known in the indie publishing world. He has worked with Kobo, Draft 2 Digital, co-written with Joanna Penn, and been on more podcasts than I can count.
Today, I am very excited that he is on Discovered Wordsmiths talking about his fiction book series - Canadian Werewolf. If you're looking for something with some paranormal and a bit of humor, this could be your book.
Of course, with Mark, we also have a bit of comic book talk and some dad jokes. :)
His Book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WPCT941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B08WPCT941&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=70a94688adbf5a55999eb0d24a613081
Favorites
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1302923730/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1302923730&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=dc86deb08a321c978076c72800839c42
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042JSMQ4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0042JSMQ4&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=fdc7b554f7f025d0f352d1bee83746de
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WLRG1L2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B08WLRG1L2&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=ba346c0bd921b1b3b47aff64276f6051
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:00] Mark: Are you working on your author career, but struggling to get that first book published, does the goal of being an author seem too lofty or thoughts of having multiple books and making a full-time living are as fantastical as living in Cinderella's castle. Welcome to discovered wordsmiths a podcast where aspiring authors can be heard.
Join Stephen Schneider is he finds and talks to authors. You may not know, but authors that have gotten their book on the author career path here, what they've done to get there and where they want to go. Now, settle back. It's time for a bit of inspiration and advice. Come listen to today's discovered
[00:00:44] Stephen: wordsmith.
Welcome to episode 94 of discovered word Smiths. And I'm very excited today because I eman talking to mark Leslie. Now, if you are an author, you probably recognize that name. [00:01:00] And mark is well-known in the author community. He has worked with Kobo. He's worked with draft, the digital he's been on just about every podcast out there.
So have him on my podcast. Uh, it was very exciting. If you are an author and know of mark, uh, this'll be an interesting talk because we discuss his fiction books, which you don't hear very often on other podcasts. So keep listening, mark has done way more than just the things you may already know him about.
If you're a reader, like many of the authors on here, mark is probably someone you don't know, but you may be interested in his books. So keep listening. I'm not going to hold you up, uh, with me babbling, because I'm very excited to get to the interview. So here's what. All right. I'm very excited today. Uh, for this episode of discovered wordsmiths.
Cause I have mark Leslie LaFave. Did I pronounce that correctly?
[00:01:55] Mark: That's amazing. I haven't, you know why I usually lock LaFave off? When I write my face,
[00:01:59] Stephen: I [00:02:00] had to go listen to everybody. Else's podcasts that you've been on to make sure I pronounced it correctly using one of those. But a lot of people listening probably already know who you are, but tell us a little bit about you outside of the whole publishing writing.
[00:02:16] Mark: Yeah. So I, I'm a book nerd through and through. I grew up reading Spider-Man comic books. If that's not obvious from what I'm wearing and just reading in general, I just loved books. I was an only child. I spent a lot of time in my imagination making up stories and I loved reading or reading books, reading comics, and still do to this day.
And I always knew I wanted to be a writer. So that was something that was a passion I had from my early teens.