Leslie had the honor of working with Anna LeBaron to bring her difficult story of growing up in and eventually fleeing a culture of polygamy and blood covenants. This memoir, published by Tyndale House in 2017, has a 4.6 rating out of more than 1,100 Amazon reviews.

Along with five fellow newspaper columnists, aka The Word Quilters, Leslie penned a beautiful gift book for expectant and new mothers. Leslie also served as editor of A Scrapbook of Motherhood Firsts, published by Leafwood (2012).

Six newspaper columnists teamed up to write this spectacular gift book, which contains the origins of Christmas traditions, holiday recipes, explanations of Christmas plants, and personal stories from the authors’ own family gatherings.