Recent Press

“After Everyone Else” was a 2023 winner of the New Generation Indie Book Awards! We are so honored!

#AmWriting Podcast Click HERE

Click the link above to hear about how I write without typing a word, and so much more!

Press on PBS! I was interviewed on the program “By the River” with Holly Jackson. We discussed southern fiction and why there’s no such thing as northern fiction!

QC Life News WBTV

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Queen City Life News with WBTV and Park Road Books discuss newest novels from local artists, like Leslie Hooton and her newest release, After Everyone Else.

BRIT+CO 27 New Books to Read on Your Summer Vacation

Click HERE to see my book on a HOT summer reading list!

NewsWeek June 2022

I am honored to have been featured in this bigtime magazine! Click HERE to read the full story! Can you believe it was right near Meghan and Harry!?

Speaking

Book Clubs: War and Peace Zoom

Ron Block FB Live Event
June 2022

Podcasts

Best of Women’s Fiction

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read

Writing

Moms Don’t Have Time to Write

Essay: Moms Don’t Have Time to Write August

Hasty Book List Essay

Leslie’s Latest

Get in touch

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First Presbyterian Church, Spring 2020: Interview with Leslie Hooton

At Home with Leslie Hooton – Charlotte Mecklenburg Library