In this solo episode, Mark shares a few thoughts from the hotel room at World Fantasy Con 2024 in Niagara Falls, New York.

This episode is sponsored by the patrons who support this podcast at https://patreon.com/starkreflections and https://buymeacoffee.com/markleslie.

From Mark's extremely detailed bullet points about what he wanted to reflect on:

1) Coming to WFC.

2) The nature of relationships in the writing world/community

3) Feeling like a real writer (via recent events)

4) But also feeling like a failure - afternoon at Indigo

5)

Links of Interest:

• One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years
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• Shop Local (Canadian Indie Bookstore Lookup)
• Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
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• An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
• The Relaxed Author
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• Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
• An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
• Wide for the Win
• Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
  • This Time Around (Short Story)
  • A Canadian Werewolf in New York
  • Stowe Away (Novella)
  • Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
  • Fright Nights, Big City
  • Lover's Moon
  • Hex and the City
  • Only Monsters in the Building
• The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0