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Mark
Alan Leslie has been a writer and editor since 1971, concentrating
on Christian themes since forming The Leslies - Media Consultants
in June 2000. Besides his first published novel, Midnight Rider
for the Morning Star, Leslie has written as-yet unpublished
works, including the devotional Walks with God, the self-help
manuscript Fired? Get Fired Up!, the historical novel The Crossing
and the end-times novel Torn Asunder. Walks with God and Fired?
Get Fired Up! are both available for free on this web site.
Before
starting his media-relations firm, Leslie worked 11 years as
managing editor and then editor of Golf Course News, a trade
publication for the golf industry in the United States, and
Golf Course News International, which covers the industry worldwide.
A
1971 graduate of the University of Maine-Orono with a bachelor
of arts degree in journalism, he was a writer for the Central
Maine Morning Sentinel from 1971-73, |
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news director
for Colby College from 1973-76; city editor of the Lewiston
(Maine) Sun from 1976-86; and wire editor/night editor for
the Portland (Maine) Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram
from 1986-88.
His
feature stories have appeared in Sports Illustrated, GOLF
Magazine, Links, Golf Course Management, Golfdom, Urban Land
Magazine, Environmental Design & Construction, Golfweek
Superintendent News, Golf Course Industry, Club Managers Magazine,
the National Golf Foundation's Golf Market Today, and Cybergolf.com.
In 1996, he was cited for Outstanding Journalistic Achievement
by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America,
and he has won two national writing awards.
A Maine native, he has spoken at regional events and national
conferences on golf and the media. Born again and Holy Spirit-filled
in 1983, he is ordained to preach by the World Bible Way Fellowship
and has taught journalism in an adult education program.
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