Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing
Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Matty DalrympleReflections on the business of writing and publishing.
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Print Books Aren’t Dead, And Other Myths
While my latest book for authors, A BOOK IN HAND: Strategies for Optimizing Print Book Sales via Signings and Other in Person Events isn’t coming out until November 2026, I am doing a pre-launch event Kickstarter where you can get early acc...
A Ghost In Hand Is Worth Two In The Shadows
Yesterday I stood behind a folding table stocked up to the eyeballs of most browsers with a hearty selection of my books. Behind me were two of my skeletal companions. One sitting and grinning at passersby, his digitally animated eyes movin...
When The Math Said “Skip it!” I Went Anyway
This past weekend I drove up north to Chelmsford (which a little northwest of Sudbury, Ontario) to my old stomping grounds for the first-ever Use Your Own Voice Indie Book Fair. It was a single day event that spanned six hours.
On a piece...
Word by Word, Pound by Pound
I stepped on the scale the morning after I got home from a most delightful trip to St. John’s Newfoundland and the number staring up at me was not that happy number I remember recording at the beginning of August.
I knew it wouldn’t be.
S...
Ambivert, Omnivert, Where Are You?
Yesterday, my friend and fellow writer Terry Fallis shared a fascinating article that offered some insights into where he sits on the introvert/extrovert scale, along with a wonderful look at a delightful writers’ festival called Sunshine C...
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Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a writer, editor, bookseller, speaker & book nerd. He writes fiction, urban fantasy, horror, true ghost stories, and humor under Mark Leslie and books for writers under his full name.
Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels and the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers (www.mattydalrymple.com/). She also writes, speaks, podcasts, and consults about indie publishing as The Indy Author (www.theindyauthor.com/).
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