About
Leslie Kurt

I am an author of horror fiction. I write about the things that fascinate people the most but are afraid to talk about: sex and death.

I have a background as an engineer and a copywriter in a marketing department. 

After being bored with writing ad copy and technical articles, I added "industrial fiction" introductions into technical articles for trade magazines. That is, until a few coworkers didn't appreciate the dramatic fiction.

One day, I was frustrated and needed a creative outlet, so I started writing short stories for fun that quickly turned into erotica. The short stories were then expanded into novellas shortly after. Keep following my journey, as many more novellas (or novels) will come from me soon. I still say I am not an author but a writer. I create characters that come to life for me, and they tell me their story. I merely listen to them and scribe their stories. 

I don’t do this for money but for the enjoyment. It has become a passion and an obsessive hobby. I enjoy creating characters and fictional places, and then I put the characters into one or two scenarios and let them work things out for themselves. I listen to what they have to say and write it down.

I like to keep my stories shorter—the tip of the iceberg. I want my work's readers to read every word and absorb everything. I don't want the reader to get bored and start skimming. I want them to visualize how things see and feel in their heads, not what I think they should be. Reading is, however, a passive but creative activity. My characters tend to be immoral, and my stories push the limits, and I want to make the reader cringe, whether it is erotica or horror. 

Another thing about my books is not to expect a typical ending. I hate nothing more than knowing how a story ends within a few pages of a book because it follows a trope perfectly. I violate the rules of tropes. I don't have a problem killing a character. No character is immune from dying in my stories. People will have risky sex with people they shouldn’t have sex with when they shouldn’t. I enjoy doing this. 

On a more personal level, I was born in northern West Virginia, grew up in Ohio, and lived most of my adult life in the southeastern U.S., most of those years being in Georgia. Currently, I live in far north Georgia, surrounded by mountains. I love college football, with my favorite team being whoever plays Alabama, Georgia, then Ohio State, in that exact order. I do like to deer hunt and occasionally squirrel hunt. I am into traditional archery, and you will see some of that mentioned in my subsequent work.

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