49 ratings | 25 reviews | avg rating:4.18

more photos (3)

Leo Valiquette’s Followers (31)

Leo’s Bookshelves

to-read (39)
currently-reading (0)
read (52)
dying-earth (2)
epic-fantasy (2)
fantasy (3)
jack-vance (1)
matthew-hughes (1)

Leo’s Friends (95)

Donna Foster

2,391 books | 5,000 friends

Jacqui Castle

342 books | 1,052 friends

Βιβή Κανάρη

475 books | 91 friends

Chris Jiggins

655 books | 28 friends

Michael Compton

975 books | 4,237 friends

Michelle Hauck

714 books | 2,367 friends

Lisa

1,409 books | 654 friends

Conrad Zero

416 books | 5,253 friends

More friends…

Leo Valiquette

Goodreads Author

Born

in Canada

Website

https://leovaliquette.com/novelist/

Twitter

LeoValiquette

Genre

Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction

Influences

David Eddings, Ann McCaffrey, Frank Herbert, JRR Tolkien, Guy Gavriel ...more

Member Since

March 2014

edit data

Leo Valiquette (pronounced "valli-ket") grew up in Eastern Ontario, Canada, 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 mother made that introduction to Star Wars and E.B. White, while his Grade 3 teacher revealed the Shire and Middle Earth a year later. The course was pretty much set after that. Valiquette has several novel projects on the board. His first to be published is a gritty epic fantasy titled Bane ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Leo Valiquette questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Leo Valiquette’s books

Average rating: 3.88 · 51 ratings · 25 reviews · 1 distinct work

Bane of All Things

3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

12 posts
Leo Valiquette's Blog: Small Victories Matter

Ready for my next book?

Howdy, folks. For those of you who are interested, my next and second novel, The Crucible Tree, is now up for pre-orders on my publisher’s website. This is the followup to Bane of All Things.

description

Here is my newsletter post that gets into the details, with the link to the pre-order page on my publisher’s website.

Cheers
Leo Read more of this blog post »

1 like · Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on June 23, 2023 10:01 • Tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-books

View all 12 posts »

Leo’s Quotes

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: inspirational

4502 likes