Hi, I'm John T. Leonard

So, what’s the story of how I became a writer...?

It really all begin in late 2016 when I was off work after having had carpal tunnel release surgery on both hands.

During my recuperation, I met with a friend at The Sussex pub in London’s Covent Garden, and through conversation we discussed what each of us was watching on TV.

I said that I was watching a great series called Californication, starring David Duchovny of The X-Files fame, which, if you don’t know, is about a successful writer enjoying the spoils of his labour.

I also happened to mention that I had begun a project some ten years earlier that was regrettably never finished, and possibly now lost forever. My friend then suggested that maybe I should begin a new project. Now, this got me thinking, and within a day I had a complete story arc, and ten days later I had over three hundred pages that would eventually become the semi-autobiographical Settling the Score.

As my writing progressed, and being a huge superhero and sci-fi geek, loving the Marvel, DC, and Star Wars franchises, I fulfilled an ambition in creating an original superhero in my Heart of a Lion saga.

I also suffer, sometimes overwhelmingly, with anxiety, and I find that my writing is a perfect distraction when it comes to keeping that anxious mind distracted.

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