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“A funny and sex-addled, fame-intoxicated look at teen magic. Refreshingly honest! I loved it.”

—Will Ferguson, 2012 Giller prizewinner and three-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour

“Mark Leiren-Young is one funny guy, as you might expect from a winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and a great writer, to boot. Driven by humour, hormones and the heart, Leiren-Young takes you on a side-splitting coming-of-age journey that lays bare not only the secrets of magic, but the magic secrets of growing up.”

—Terry Fallis, Leacock Medal Winner for The Best Laid Plans

“Mark Leiren-Young tops his Leacock Award-winning debut, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, with this relentlessly funny and ridiculously honest book. A must read.”

—Ian Ferguson, Leacock Medal winner for Village of the Small Houses

“Mark Leiren-Young is a natural storyteller, a peer of writers like Stephen Leacock, W.O. Mitchell, Jack Douglas and W.P. Kinsella: quietly hilarious, effortlessly moving and always surprising. Like them, he makes it look easy.”

—Spider Robinson, three-time Hugo Award winner, co-author of Variable Star with Robert Heinlein

“Free Magic Secrets Revealed is a very funny story of the adolescent pursuit of love and self-worth through magic, music, and weird comic books. Leiren-Young’s memoir reads like a cross between Wayne’s World and The Prestige—not to mention Marathon Man, for the extremely brilliant yet disturbing facial surgery chapter.”

—Grant Lawrence, broadcaster and author of Adventures in Solitude, winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

“There is only one thing worse than amateur theatre, and that’s amateur magic theatre, but Mark Leiren-Young’s sleight-of-hand humour leaves you smiling for more.”

—Jackson Davies, Canadian actor, author and honorary Sergeant of the RCMP