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In this solo episode Mark talks about the experience of hiking two different mountainscapes in the Canadian west. The first, Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, British Columbia. And the other, the foothills of Fairview Mountain at Lake Louise, Alberta.
Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word about this episode’s sponsor.
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This episode is sponsored by an affiliate link to Manuscript Report. Use code MARK5 at checkout and save $5.00 off your own personalized report.
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- An Author’s Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
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- Wide for the Win
- Mark’s Canadian Werewolf Books
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
- Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
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


Aside from the fact I spent most of my childhood growing up in the shadow of Grouse Mountain and would regularly climb Mountain Highway through the access gate on to the east end of the mountain, this episode put me back in an old frame of mind I’ve mentioned before. Mainly, while in the trenches of editing my 4th novel I have to periodically stop and say the words, 4th novel. As in I’ve been here before, and the result was 3 other novels that are now available in the wild for anyone to read. Those trips up Mountain Highway do have their parallels in so many other aspects of life, and the views I’ve been able to achieve as a result have been wondrously worth the effort.