He grew up in Basingstoke but moved to Devon in 2005, where he lives with my wife of 13 years (partner for over 23 years) and twin children. He started taking writing seriously in 2013 and had my debut horror novel ‘Acolyte’ published in 2015. He followed this up with 3 more horror novels, released across a mix of independent publishers and self-publishing, before he decided to try my hand at something new and wrote the first of my children’s books, ‘It’s A Long Way To The Moon’, which was released in the autumn on 2019 by Cranthorpe Millner Publishers. He then wrote a Christmas-themed follow-up called ‘It’s A Long Night For Santa’, which was released the following year. Both of his children’s books star my cute little character called the Little Brown Moth, who is exactly what his name suggests! ‘Long Way To The Moon’ follows him as he tries to realise his goal of flying to the moon one night, with help from a few of his animal friends along the way. ‘Long Night For Santa’ sees him return to help Santa deliver the last of his presents on a foggy, cold Christmas Eve night. These books were very much inspired by his love of Julia Donaldson’s work, as well as the illustrations in the classic Eric Carle stories, like ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Both books are available via Amazon, Waterstones and WHSmiths, and ‘...Moon’ is also available as an audiobook on Amazon. he has also had the honour of having both of them read by BBC children’s presenter Chris Jarvis on Little Radio UK. During the pandemic, He also started podcasting and launched 4 different shows between 2020 and 2023, the first of which, called 'Dead Men Talk', was focused on creativity and was a mix of him talking about his own inspirations and welcoming guests from different fields to talk about theirs. He returned to writing last year with his 5th horror novel, 'Poison In The Well', which was released at the end of December.
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/DMTPodNet
Facebook Book Page (Little Brown Moth): https://www.facebook.com/LittleBrownMoth
My below LinkTree link is a good one too as it lists all my podcasts and Facebook pages together etc so feel free to use that, if you like:
And finally, here is the link to the video of Anita Harris reading 'It's A Long Night for Santa' https://youtu.be/pWa8WT2CgRg?si=-_a8v4JIUZpbLcXY
Here is a link to my children's book Adventures of Larry Lamppost and Friends. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Mark-Lestrange/dp/1739924932/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MZPQCMTP5NYD&keywords=the+adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends&qid=1650891248&s=books&sprefix=the+adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends%2Cstripbooks%2C49&sr=1-1. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Larry-Lamppost-Friends-Lestrange-ebook/dp/B09YDKYGSY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=K92IZ8CWEQDF&keywords=adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends&qid=1650891156&sprefix=%2Caps%2C218&sr=8-1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Larry-Lamppost-Friends-Lestrange/dp/1739924932/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1QWC9BR37CN24&keywords=larry+the+lamp+post&qid=1650890852&sprefix=%2Caps%2C54&sr=8-2 https://ko-fi.com/marksmotivationalpodcast
