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Leo Valiquette grew up in Eastern Ontario, but had become a regular tourist of Tatooine, Middle Earth, and that barn in Charlotte’s Web by the age of eight. He first trained to work in museums before taking up the pen as a journalist, newspaper editor, and then corporate business writer. This love of the fantastical and the historical, as well as finding the root of a story, fuel his need to create worlds of his own. His first (to be published) novel is a gritty epic fantasy titled
Bane of All Things—available now from American small press Inkshares. A cancer survivor, Valiquette has been contesting with metastasized melanoma since late 2019. Find him at
leovaliquette.com